Pre-design evidence
Test the manufactured market before architecture freezes and before the client funds avoidable custom development.
FOR PRODUCT STUDIOS / ENGINEERING TEAMS
Use finished-hardware research behind your own client relationship.
Before a brief becomes another PCB, enclosure and prototype cycle, test whether a manufactured base already exists — with enough OEM and software leverage to adapt.
WHY STUDIOS USE IT
White-label friendly
Your client relationship stays yours. The research can sit behind feasibility, strategy or early engineering work.
No catalogue dump
Hard rejects remove commodity junk, weak “smart” gadgets, dev boards and products with no real software or customization surface.
Exact verification questions
Listing claims become supplier questions around SDK/API access, firmware, MOQ, sample terms, compliance and customization.
Low-risk first step
The first three-device signal check is free. The $349 full pass is only offered when the evidence justifies it.
WHAT YOU GET / 48 HOURS
$349 / ONE BRIEF
A decision pack, not sourcing theatre.
Ranked shortlist, supplier/listing evidence, software leverage map, OEM/ODM signals, economics sanity check, reject reasons and exact next questions.
10-device ranked shortlistBest matches plus why weaker options were rejected.
SDK / API / firmware evidenceWhat is claimed, what is missing, and what needs supplier confirmation.
MOQ / price / sample sanity checkEnough commercial signal to judge whether adaptation is worth pursuing.
Decision memoAdapt, verify further, or stop and build custom.
START SMALL
Send one non-confidential client brief.
I’ll return a free 3-device signal check first. If there is no credible manufactured path, I’ll say so and stop there.
FREE3-DEVICE CHECK → $349 FULL SCOUT IF JUSTIFIED
Email the brief ↗
No call required. One problem, target customer and rough target price is enough to start.