Hardware startups
Ten parts is a quantity, not a negotiation
The design review that ends with "how fast can we get ten of these?"
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What makes this slow today
- Prototype quantities are the ones nobody wants to quote, and the conversation starts with a minimum order
- The process that suits version one is rarely the process that suits version four, so the supplier changes as the product does
- Cash is decided in the same meeting as the design, and you do not have a price yet
What you get instead
Every line below is something you can check by using the product, rather than something you have to take our word for.
No minimum-order conversation to have
Quantity is a field you type. One part prices the same way a hundred do; setup is amortised across whatever number you enter, so the per-unit price falls as you scale rather than as you negotiate.
A price in the meeting, not after it
The part is measured and priced in the browser, so you can put a real number next to a design decision while the decision is still being made.
The same file survives the change of process
Print version one, machine version four. Eight processes sit behind one quote surface, so moving from a printed prototype to a machined bridge run is a change of process, not a change of supplier.
Every matching workshop quotes at once
You are not calling shops. One upload-free measurement fans out across every workshop whose rate card covers the process and material you picked.
The processes this usually means
All eight are quoted through the same surface, so none of these is a separate supplier relationship.
Questions we get asked
Drop in your file and see the number
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