Engineering and management consulting that moves hardware from prototype to qualified production.
We combine hands-on engineering — design, test, thermal, manufacturing — with the management discipline to scale it. Most firms do one or the other. We do both.
Funded teams stall between a working prototype and qualified production — strong on vision, short on the discipline that gets hardware built, tested, and shipped.
Big rounds raised, then a wall between prototype and manufacturable, qualified production.
Ambition outpaces test strategy, design maturity, and manufacturing readiness.
The senior engineers who know how to qualify hardware are retiring — and hard to hire.
The result: a widening gap between what hardware teams are funded to build and what they can actually execute. That gap is what we close.
Sold individually as entry points, designed to compound — a diagnostic leads to a project, a project to a retainer.
Support from early concept through design, prototyping, testing, and production readiness — moving an idea to something that can actually be built and qualified.
Test strategies, verification plans, procedures, test-stand specification, and failure investigations that reduce technical risk and satisfy qualification.
Assessments, program roadmaps, risk management, and fractional engineering leadership — senior judgment for teams that can't yet justify a full-time VP.
Workflows, documentation systems, organizational structure, ISO 9001 / AS9100 readiness, and vertical-integration strategy across the lifecycle.
Secure knowledge bases and focused AI tools that improve information retrieval and documentation — built to augment engineers, with IP and ITAR posture protected.
The same path in every engagement, whatever the entry point — from complexity to clarity.
Define goals, constraints, stakeholders, and the current technical state.
Evaluate product, process, risk, schedule, and organizational gaps.
A practical plan with priorities, milestones, owners, and measurable outcomes.
Hands-on technical leadership through execution and key decisions.
Tighten processes and capture the gains so they stick after we leave.
Product stuck in prototyping, no clear path from test to production, engineering structure still forming.
Repair-station and test-stand specification, and “drop-in” technical leadership during scale-up.
Process optimization, ISO 9001 / AS9100 readiness, and full-service design from PDR to production.
Start small, scale the relationship. Each entry point opens into the next. Pricing is scoped to your program — reach out for a quote.
A fast diagnostic of process, test, or design risk. The low-friction first step.
A defined deliverable — test plan, design package, production-readiness review.
Ongoing fractional SME oversight and “drop-in” technical leadership.
Process, DFMA/CAD, and test-safety training for your team.
A boutique that can field a principal-plus-principal team on serious engagements from the start.
Start with a no-charge intro call. We’ll tell you honestly whether we can help — and where to focus first.
Tell us a bit about your program and we’ll get back to you to set up an intro call.