Wednesday, September 30 thru Whenever You Ship, 2026
On complete, turn-key hardware product development. Concept to production. No middlemen in the price.
Elsewhere: $185,000 plus a deck
Use case, requirements, who the users are and what they say, a first cost model, and an honest go / no-go. Typically 4 to 8 weeks.
Sometimes the right output is a recommendation not to proceed. We would rather tell you in week four than in month fourteen.
Elsewhere: $310,000 plus a partner's lunch
Concepts become an architecture. The hard parts get de-risked on the bench. We settle how far we take it: embedded module or the full turn-key product. 8 to 12 weeks.
Cost model and program plan included. No extra charge for the bad news.
Elsewhere: $890,000 and a change order
Engineering-led. Detailed design, alpha units become beta units, built and tested in rounds. Working hardware in stakeholders' hands between rounds. 3 to 9 months.
$399,900 without a design freeze. Same price with one. Freeze is included.
Elsewhere: "handed back to your team"
Vendors selected, tooling kicked off, pilot units built on the real line. We stay through first production and hand over a package your team can run. 3 to 6 months.
The part most firms are weakest at. The part where a program is won or lost.
Prices shown are typical for the phase. Yours is scoped and written down, with deliverables and dates, before it starts. Every phase quoted on its own. Stop between phases and keep everything.
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Vendor audits, DFM, tooling review, pilot builds, line support. A documentation package a contract manufacturer can run without calling us.
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Most product development is sold the way luxury goods are sold. The engineers are a fraction of the invoice. The rest is everyone standing between them and you. We took those people out of the building, and the price came with them.
The usual way
Our way
The person in the kickoff is the person doing the work. Has shipped products before. Owns the plan, the risks and the weekly review.
One enclosure. Tolerance-stacked, mould-ready, drawings to Y14.5.
Illustrative. The ratios are real. The enclosure is made up.
Good engineering shouldn't be a luxury. Same senior engineers, same tolerance analysis, same pre-compliance bench. We just don't wrap it in a pitch.
Honesty is our policy and, this week only, also our marketing. We say no more often than clients expect. Not to the work: to the schedule that can't hold, the feature that sinks the cost target, the vendor who is cheapest for a reason.
Everyone should get to ship. You own everything: native CAD, schematics, source, tooling, vendor relationships, and the phone number of the person at the moulder who actually picks up.
Big Sale
0% account managers
while supplies last (they won't run out, we don't have any)
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Sale Price
$a phone call
Your net cost: a stalled design, a failed test. We can help.
Sticker price for a first call. Forty-five minutes. Actually free, but the roll only came in $3.
Penny
Pincher
As low as we can go
Not everyone needs the whole program. Sometimes it's one piece: a board that won't pass EMC, a usability study before submission, a lid that closes on unit ten thousand. Start wherever the problem is.
$2,900
Before the first prototype, not after the first failure.
$4,900
Per part family. Moulding, casting, sheet metal, machining. Marked up in red.
$7,900
On our bench, before the lab. Certification holds fewer surprises.
$9,900
Drivers, board support, version control from day one. Written to be read.
$12,900
Altium or KiCad. Power, sensing, wireless. Bring-up on our bench.
$18,900
To IEC 62366-1. Cheapest on a foam model, dearest after a 510(k) review.
$3,900
Our rig, a written plan, a report with the raw data attached.
$6,900
Sketch, foam, print. Sits on a desk for a week to see how it wears.
$29,900when you buy 3
Three build rounds, each with a test report. Mix or match the disciplines.
Typical prices. Each piece gets a written scope and a fixed number before we touch it.
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With any Discover phase. If the numbers don't work we will say so, in writing, and point you somewhere better.
Limit one per program. Cash value: about a year of your life. Good thru forever.
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Moulders, PCBA, cast urethane, soft tooling: passed through at cost, invoices attached. We are paid for engineering, not for forwarding email.
Not valid with any other markup. There isn't one.
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Native CAD, schematics, source, test data, the BOM with second sources noted, the changelog. Two years from now, when someone asks why the wall is 1.8 and not 2.0, the answer is in the file.
Not a coupon. Just the policy. No need to clip.
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The fine print
We are not cheap. We are not marked up. NU is a small, senior product development firm. Industrial design, mechanical and electrical engineering, embedded software, human factors, prototyping and manufacturing transfer, done by one team that stays with the product until it ships. The flyer is a joke. The prices are how we actually sell.
Every phase is quoted on its own, scoped to what the program needs. You see the deliverables, the price and the dates before it starts. You can stop between phases with everything produced so far in your hands. Weekly reviews, a shared risk register, and no surprises in the invoice.
For regulated products we run design controls from the first phase: 21 CFR 820 and ISO 13485 practice, risk management to ISO 14971, usability to IEC 62366-1, electrical safety and EMC support for IEC 60601 and 61010. For everything else, the same habits with less ceremony.
We show work early and ugly. A breadboard on a plank, a foam block with tape on it, a spreadsheet with the wrong answer in it. If you want a firm that only shows finished things, we are the wrong fit, and we will say so in the first call.
Prices effective until you ship. We reserve the right to limit quantities and have never once had to. Photographs are of real workbenches, not necessarily ours. Void where prohibited, which is nowhere, because it's engineering.
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No spec, no deck, no budget figure required. Describe the problem and where you are with it. A real engineer reads it and replies within two working days, usually with a few questions and a suggestion for a first call.
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