Translating your user stories of need into technical challenges engineers can solve.

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Every need has a story. Every story sets a bearing.

The story captures the environment where the solution will exist, including users, objects, temperature — maybe even MRI interference if in a hospital setting. These empower decision making at the concept stage and are essential to make products belong.

We then craft a need definition from the story, capturing all that a solution must perform. This is both a document and an LLM skill.

From the need, concepts take shape.

Following techniques for ideating, we'll craft several alternate solutions. Through simulation and early prototypes they are reduced to a single concept. Feasibility, manufacturability and economics are tested at this phase.

We thrive on this phase — years of experience, grounded systems engineering theory from INCOSE and fast prototyping make this process possible at a cost-effective rate.

Concepts mature into solutions.

From the concept to a solution, several solution refactoring steps take place. Early certification results, manufacturer capabilities and part-reduction efforts bring a concept to a real-world product.

Community Projects

Submit your idea as a community project! The top ranked needs will be opened as a tech challenge in our Discord, where many can collaborate in bringing it into reality as an open hardware product.

*While there are no design charges applicable here, our solutions for assuring product quality in open hardware products are available as a service.

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