Engineering muscle, without the full-time hire
Maybe you're moving fast on a product, but a senior hardware engineer is a big, early commitment. I give startups that experience on demand: momentum on the roadmap, the hard problems solved, and a product carried toward production. All from someone who has actually shipped consumer hardware to mass manufacture.
Where startups get stuck
"We need senior engineering, but can't justify a full-time hire yet."
"We have a design, but is it actually ready to verify and manufacture?"
"How do we keep momentum without making an expensive mistake?"
What I offer is speed with a structured process: experienced engineering that keeps the roadmap moving and heads off the costly mistakes before they're baked into tooling. You get the reach of a senior hire, scoped to exactly what you need right now.
A technical partner, scoped to your specific needs
Bring me in for the whole journey, or for the specific stage you're at right now. Most startups already have a design in motion, so verification and manufacturing prep are common entry points.
Product Development
PartnershipThe full managed journey in scoped, gated phases, with a network of specialists brought in as the product needs them.
Product Development →Design Verification
Prove the design performs, is safe and is compliant before you commit to tooling, with analysis, simulation and structured testing. Catch expensive compliance or performance issues while they're cheap to solve.
Design Verification →Manufacturing Preparation
Get a proven design ready for efficient volume manufacture: DFMA, production CAD, a drawing pack with GD&T, and liaison with your chosen factory in the UK or overseas.
Manufacturing Preparation →Contract Engineering
Retained or day-rate capacity when you just need a safe pair of senior hands on a defined brief, remote or on-site, slotting into how your team already works.
Contract Engineering →Proven experience making products that have shipped at volume
The biggest oversight most startups make is not knowing the difference between a design that works and a product that ships economically at scale. I've been at both stages, having taken consumer products from concept through to volume manufacture, and been in the drawing room and on the factory floor. That means the decisions I make early are made by someone who has seen how they play out in production, so momentum now doesn't mean racing ahead with risks that might cause you a redesign later.
Need to keep your product moving?
Book a free intro call and tell me where the product is and where it's stuck. I'll tell you honestly how I can help and what the right engagement looks like.