Idea to part,in six measuredsteps.
Every phase has an artifact you can hold, a decision you can sign off on, and a price tag we can quote in advance.
Iterate cheap, ship right
Five prototypes in two weeks beats one CAD review in two months.
Artifact
Sketch
Phase 01
Ideas
The first conversation. We listen without filtering — whether the brief is a napkin sketch or a 200-page spec, no idea is too small or too insane.
- Discovery call notes
- Aligned problem statement
- Initial budget bracket
Artifact
Spec
Phase 02
Requirements
We document and categorize the design into three buckets — Form, Fit, and Function — and lock the engineering constraints that downstream decisions will inherit.
- Form/Fit/Function spec
- Acceptance criteria
- Constraint matrix
Artifact
CAD
Phase 03
Sketches
Hand sketches, parametric concept models, photo-realistic renderings. Cheap exploration first; commit only after the right path is obvious.
- Hand sketches
- Concept CAD
- Photo-real renderings
Artifact
Phase 04
Prototyping
Print, machine, stamp. Test in hand. Revise. We assume the first prototype is wrong and budget for the third one to be right.
- SLA / SLS / FDM prototypes
- Machined prototypes
- Test rig & report
Artifact
Mill
Phase 05
Engineering
FEA, tolerance stacks, DFM review. Every decision is optimized for the lowest unit cost at the required reliability — not the lowest CAD-cost.
- Production-grade CAD
- FEA report
- GD&T drawing package
- DFM review
Artifact
Ship
Phase 06
Manufacturing
Supplier selection, tooling, first-article, ramp. Our LA network keeps short-lead-time work nearby; our offshore partners scale it.
- Qualified supplier list
- First-article inspection
- Pilot run · low-volume ramp