From a sketch on a napkin to 100 working boards

You bring the idea. We do the schematic, the PCB, the firmware, the test rig and the first production run, and because a lot of the work is AI-assisted it takes less time and costs you less than it used to. An engineer checks every step.

Send us your idea How it works

The bit nobody tells you

So you've got an idea for a product and you've maybe got a prototype on a breadboard, or an Arduino and a pile of jumper wires, and it sort of works. And then you find out how far that is from a board you can actually sell. You don't know which parts are going to be in stock next month. You don't know if the footprint in the library is right. You don't know whether the firmware will survive a brown-out, or how you're going to test 100 of them without sitting there with a multimeter all week.

What costs the money on a small product is the engineering between the idea and the board, and that's the bit we've spent the last couple of years speeding up.

We're not claiming the AI designs your product for you. It doesn't, or at least not on its own. It takes a lot of the slog out, and then an engineer who has been doing this for decades goes over all of it. You get the speed of the tooling and somebody who knows what a bad board looks like.

What you get

One team, one quote per stage, and you own everything at the end.

Concept and costing

We turn your idea into a spec and a costed parts list, before anyone draws a line of copper. You know roughly what each board will cost before you commit.

Schematic and PCB

AI-assisted design, then an engineer finishes and reviews it. Every part is checked for availability and against problems we've seen before.

Firmware

Bare-metal or FreeRTOS on STM32, RP2040, ESP32, AT32 and others. USB, CAN, Wi-Fi, BLE, sub-GHz radio, bootloaders and field update.

Test and production

A test jig and self-test firmware so every board that leaves is known good. Then we get your first 100 built.

Enclosure

Parametric 3D-printed enclosures generated from the board outline, so the case changes when the board does.

Connected devices

If your product talks to the internet we can give you a device registry, heartbeat, data logging and a remote command queue from day one.

How a project runs

Five stages. You can stop after any of them and walk away with the files.

1. Napkin

You tell us what it needs to do. We write it up as a short brief, pick the main parts and cost them against what's actually in stock. Usually a few days.

Brief and BOM estimate

2. Design

Schematic, PCB layout and first firmware. AI-assisted, with an engineer reviewing every step. You can see the design as it progresses.

2. Design

3. Prototype

Five assembled boards, brought up on the bench, firmware running. Things get found here. That's the point of it.

3. Prototype

4. Test

A test jig and self-test firmware, so you're not relying on someone plugging it in and looking at an LED.

4. Test

5. Build

Up to 100 boards assembled, programmed, tested and boxed if you want. Past 100 we'll help you hand it over to a volume manufacturer with everything they need.

The full process
5. Build

Got an idea sitting in a drawer?

Send us a paragraph about it. We'll tell you honestly whether it's a good fit and roughly what it'd cost, and it doesn't cost you anything to ask.

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