We support manufacturers, engineering firms and R&D teams through the four decisions that determine whether a product reaches the market: whether it is free to exploit, whether there is demand to sustain it, what it costs to make at volume and how it scales without breaking the operation. A team with over 40 years of experience developing industrial products and systems, from Barcelona.
They fail when tooling is commissioned for a solution that was already patented. When a plant is sized for demand nobody actually measured. When the real unit cost appears with the first production run and there is no margin left to redesign. And when the product works so well that installed capacity cannot keep up, and growth turns into a cash-flow problem.
All four are sequencing errors, not engineering errors. That is why we work in closed phases and in this order: freedom to operate first, then demand, then the operating account, and only then scale-up. Each phase ends in a deliverable and an explicit decision to continue, redesign or stop. Stopping in time is also a result.
Each phase has a defined scope, its own deliverable and a price fixed before it starts. You can contract one, several or the full cycle.
Global search of existing rights and a freedom-to-operate assessment by territory. It establishes whether the development can be made and sold, not merely whether it can be registered.
Read onDemand sizing with field data: channel, units, repeat purchase and seasonality, tested against short pilot runs in real points of sale.
Read onBill of costs and unit cost at volume, process CAPEX and OPEX, break-even point and a full operating account. This is where it becomes clear whether the project has margin.
Read onTransfer to production, tooling, pilot runs, homologation and supply chain. In your own plant, with an industrial partner or under licence.
Read onNo phase ends in a presentation. It ends in a document your committee can read, challenge and file.
Prior-art map, bill of costs, operating account and industrialisation plan, with sources and assumptions on the surface.
Demand measurements and pilot-run results, not desk estimates.
At the close of each phase, a written recommendation — continue, redesign or stop — with the reasoning that supports it.
Every deliverable is documented and dated, so the decision remains auditable months later.
In capital equipment the critical phase is cost; in consumer products, demand; in components subject to standards, homologation. Before we start we agree where the risk in your project sits, and that is where the work concentrates.
See the sectorsEngagements are covered by an NDA signed at the first meeting, so we publish no client names and no figures. Detail on projects comparable to yours is shared in a meeting, under agreement.
How we scope an engagementA thirty-minute conversation is enough to establish which phase your development enters at and what it would take to close it. We sign the non-disclosure agreement before you describe anything.