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[ SERVICES ]
One team that covers the whole object, not one layer of it.
Most engineering vendors sell one discipline and hand you the integration risk. We hold all five, so the electronics, the enclosure, the chemistry and the software are answerable to the same engineers — and nobody gets to say the problem lives in someone else's scope.
[ COMPETENCIES ]
Five disciplines, held by the same team.
01Electrical & Embedded
Boards, firmware and power for instruments that have to take a real measurement, not just switch on.
WHAT THAT INCLUDES
•Schematic capture and multi-layer PCB layout
•Analog and mixed-signal sensor front-ends
•Embedded firmware, RTOS and bare-metal
•Power architecture, battery and charging systems
•Wireless connectivity and low-power design
02Mechanical & Industrial Design
The physical object: how it holds together, how it is handled, and whether it can actually be made.
WHAT THAT INCLUDES
•Enclosure, housing and mechanism design
•Parametric CAD and design documentation
•Thermal and microfluidic system design
•Tolerance analysis and material selection
•Design for manufacture and assembly
03Life Sciences
Instruments and consumables where the chemistry and the hardware have to be designed against each other.
WHAT THAT INCLUDES
•Consumables and microfluidic chip design
•Analytical and diagnostic instrument development
•Sterile bioassay development and transfer
•Assay-to-instrument integration
•Sample handling, storage and cold chain
04Software, AI & Analytics
Everything above the hardware: what runs on it, what it sends, and what the data is worth once it lands.
WHAT THAT INCLUDES
•Device, control and acquisition software
•Data pipelines and instrument telemetry
•Custom dashboards and operator interfaces
•Applied ML and analytics on instrument data
•Cloud backends and remote device management
05Automation & Test
The rigs that prove the thing works — in development, and then on a production line.
WHAT THAT INCLUDES
•Benchtop test rig design and instrumentation
•Production test fixtures and end-of-line test
•Laboratory automation and robotic handling
•Validation, verification and measurement systems
[ ENGAGEMENT STAGES ]
Every stage is one question we get paid to answer.
Open the one that sounds like your situation. We come in at any of them, and we say which one you're in out loud — including when it's earlier than you'd hoped.
[ 05 STAGES ]
You have a target user and a hypothesis. Nobody has checked yet whether the physics, the cost, or the regulatory path kills it.
WHAT WE DO
Literature and patent survey • competitive teardown • architecture options • preliminary cost modeling
YOU GET
A technical approach, costed and de-risked, that stands up in a grant application or an investor deck
TYPICAL DURATION
2–4 WKS
FITS MODEL
Milestone
DISCIPLINES TYPICALLY IN PLAY
Varies by domain
One subsystem decides whether the product exists at all. It gets isolated and measured before anything else is designed around it.
WHAT WE DO
Benchtop rig design • instrumentation • assay or sensor characterization • test data and analysis
YOU GET
Data that says yes or no, and the measurements to back it either way
TYPICAL DURATION
4–10 WKS
FITS MODEL
Milestone
DISCIPLINES TYPICALLY IN PLAY
Automation & Test, Life Sciences, Electrical
The physics work. Now it has to become a thing a person can hold, charge, clean, and not break — and that a stranger can operate without you in the room.
WHAT WE DO
Enclosure and PCB design • firmware • mechanical and fluidic integration • bench validation
YOU GET
A working unit, a bill of materials, and a build you can put in front of users and investors
TYPICAL DURATION
8–16 WKS
FITS MODEL
Either
DISCIPLINES TYPICALLY IN PLAY
All five
One unit on your own bench proves very little. A small build in the field finds the failures that only appear at N greater than one.
WHAT WE DO
Small-batch build • field instrumentation • failure analysis • design revisions
YOU GET
A revised design, field data, and an honest list of what actually breaks
TYPICAL DURATION
10–20 WKS
FITS MODEL
Fractional
DISCIPLINES TYPICALLY IN PLAY
Mechanical, Electrical, Software
A design only your engineers understand is not a product. This stage makes it somebody else’s to manufacture, repeatably, at a known cost.
WHAT WE DO
Design for manufacture • tolerance analysis • documentation • supplier and contract-manufacturer support
YOU GET
A manufacturing package and a production partner ready to run it
TYPICAL DURATION
6–12 WKS
FITS MODEL
Either
DISCIPLINES TYPICALLY IN PLAY
Mechanical, Automation & Test
[ OPERATING MODELS ]
Either take a milestone off the roadmap, or take the roadmap.
How the work is structured, staffed and reported is a separate decision from what stage you're in.