Guides
What we know, written down.
Everything below is the same reasoning we apply on a live project, published rather than kept as a sales asset. If you are trying to work out what a stage costs, whether a design is ready, or whether a factory is real, start here.
What it costs and how long it takes
Designing for manufacture
Design for manufacturability
Wall thickness, draft and radii, tolerances, material choice, fasteners and assembly, surface finish, and the tooling and certification path.
PCB prototyping
Schematic and layout through fabrication, assembly, firmware and test, and the decisions that keep prototype electronics transferable to production.
Rapid injection molding
Aluminium against steel, soft tools against production moulds, what each costs, and when the process is the right one.
Getting it built, and by whom
Prototype manufacturing
From design package to first article. Choosing a process, vetting a manufacturer, and the mistakes that derail a build.
How we verify a manufacturer
The five check due diligence framework we run on every Chinese factory. Legal identity, commercial profile, compliance evidence, production capability, transaction consistency.
None of this replaces an engineer reading your files.
The guides tell you what to look for. The audit tells you what is actually true of your design, at a fixed price agreed before we start.
Start with the audit