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Engineering studio · New York

Hardware, from prototype to production.

We're the engineering team physical-product startups bring in when the prototype works and the product has to ship — controls, firmware, electronics, mechanical, energy and AI, under one roof.

AI assistant trained on our work · an engineer follows up · or send a brief

12
years building cyber-physical systems
1
granted patent: air-filter life from measured airflow, not run time
2
control-systems conference papers
10
hardware startups advised through a connected-devices accelerator
8.5K
engineers and investors in a hardware community we organize, across 30+ cities

Selected work

Systems we've designed, built and run.

Every one of these is a working machine with a control loop at its heart. Poke at them — the drawings are live.

Open control enclosure with a DIN-rail power supply and controller, a pneumatic manifold, and brass solenoid valves on gas distribution blocks.

Gas  Food-grade R&D facility

Industrial Gas Router

A modular system that stores, mixes, analyzes and vents industrial gases, with real-time leak detection across 50+ valves.

50+
valves under real-time safety control
10
refrigerated mixing chambers
4
industrial gases distributed
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1:10 scale model SUV on a roller chassis dyno, towing an instrumented trailer robot with exposed controller boards and wiring.

Tow  Automotive range-extension R&D

Electric Pusher Trailer

Control algorithms for an electric trailer that extends a vehicle's range without hurting its handling, developed on a 1:10 scale rig.

1:10
scale model SUV and chassis dyno for empirical modeling
3-axis
decoupled force sensing in the tow hitch
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Vent  Smart-HVAC startup

Decentralized Climate Control

A room thermostat with no room temperature sensor: motorized smart vents estimate each room's temperature from duct readings.

100+
sensors across 8 zones
−75%
server latency, through memoization
+20%
device battery life, through HIL modeling
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All 8 projects W

What we do

One team for every layer of a physical product.

Most hardware delays happen at the seams — firmware waiting on boards, boards waiting on enclosures, nobody owning the control loop. We own the seams.

Ctrl Controls & mechatronics Feedback control that holds a physical system on target: modeling, tuning, motors, sensors and actuators. Fn Firmware & electronics Firmware, boards and wiring that run on the device, from microcontroller to harness. Shift Mechanical, CAD & production Enclosures, mechanisms and fixtures, from CAD through jigs, tooling and small-batch assembly. Alt HVAC, buildings & power Heating, cooling, building automation and high-voltage power for buildings, vehicles and process equipment. Cmd Software, dashboards & connectivity Backends, APIs and dashboards that connect devices to people: telemetry, tuning, alerts and access control. Tab AI systems integration Practical AI wired into products and operations: local models, retrieval, agents and machine learning on sensor data.

Free tools

Answers in three minutes, not three meetings.

The same checklists and models we use on client projects. Free, no sign-up, results on screen.

Score

Production readiness score

3 min · 0–100 + top risks

Open Cert

Certification map

2 min · FCC, CE, UL, UN 38.3…

Open Cost

Unit cost & NRE model

live · landed cost vs volume

Open Batt

Battery life calculator

live · duty-cycle model

Open

How it works

Start small. Scale when it's working.

  1. 01

    Ask or send a brief

    Free. Tell us what you're building and where you're stuck. We reply in writing within one business day.

  2. 02

    Readiness sprint

    A short, fixed-scope review of architecture, BOM, DFM and compliance. You leave with a roadmap and a quote — keep both either way.

  3. 03

    Build together

    Project, retainer, CTO on demand or an engineer embedded in your team — whatever shape gets you to production.

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