Four closed phases, in an order that is not accidental.
Each phase answers a question that costs money if it is answered late. The order exists so that the cheap questions get answered before the expensive ones.
The sequence is the method.
A third-party patent is discovered for a few thousand euros in phase 01, or for the price of a mould in phase 04. A demand error is corrected by changing the commercial plan before manufacturing, or absorbed through the warehouse afterwards. A miscalculated unit cost is fixed by redesigning the part, or carried for the entire life of the product.
That is why we do not start with the prototype. We start with what can stop the project outright, continue with what determines its size, and only once those two are settled do we talk about tooling, lines and suppliers.
Each phase can be contracted separately. If you already hold a sound prior-art report or your own market study, we enter at the appropriate phase and take the earlier work as given. We do not charge to repeat what is already done.
Each phase ends in one of three answers.
The risk in that phase is bounded and the project moves to the next one with updated assumptions.
There is a specific obstacle — a blocking claim, a cost outside range — and we identify what would have to change to clear it.
The project does not hold up against the available data. We write that down, with the reasoning, and the engagement ends there.
Scope and deliverable of each.
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Before you invest, know what you are allowed to make.
Phase 01 · Technical and legal viability
A global prior-art search positions your development against everything already published and registered. It establishes whether freedom to operate exists, which patent families constrain the design and where genuine novelty remains. It is the cheapest phase of the project and the one that avoids the most expensive mistake.
- Prior-art report
- Blocking map
- Protection route
- Decision record
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How much sells, to whom and when.
Phase 02 · Demand sizing
If the solution is free to exploit, the next question is how many units the market absorbs and at what rhythm. Installed capacity, tooling and the working capital you must finance all follow from that figure. Getting it wrong does not delay the project: it sizes it wrongly for good.
- Demand sizing
- Channel map
- Pilot results
- Decision record
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What it actually costs to manufacture.
Phase 03 · Operating account
We design the production process and cost it down to the last component: unit cost at volume, investment in tooling and line, operating cost and break-even point. This is the phase where it becomes clear whether the project has margin, and it is far better to find out here.
- Operating account
- Bill of costs
- Location analysis
- Decision record
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From the operating account to the production run.
Phase 04 · Transfer to production
The final phase turns the project into an available product: tooling, pilot runs, homologation, supply chain, selling price and route to channel. In your own plant, with an industrial partner or under licence, according to what the cost analysis recommended.
- Industrialisation plan
- Supplier panel
- Pricing policy
- Launch plan
Growing without breaking the operation.
A launch that works creates a problem of its own: demand that installed capacity cannot absorb, working capital that tightens with every order, and a lead time that starts to stretch. This is the point at which many good projects deteriorate.
When it arrives, we help explore collaboration with an industrial or financial partner and prepare funding rounds that let you exploit the opportunity rather than merely administer it. That conversation rests on the same documents produced across the four phases, which is precisely what a technical due diligence asks for.
Tell us where the project stands.
A 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.