Yes. Your team retains complete ownership of all design files — schematics, layout source, Gerbers, BOM, assembly drawings, and any associated firmware — at every stage of the engagement. 

Yes. Every engineer on every project is based in the United States. We do not subcontract design work to offshore teams. Our office and R&D lab are in the St. Louis metro area.

We work primarily in Altium Designer and have project experience with Cadence Allegro, OrCAD, and KiCad. If your team standardizes on a specific tool, we deliver source files in that tool's native format.

Often that is the best engagement model. We frequently come in to handle a specific layer of the problem—RF section, power stage, high-speed digital block, EMC remediation, signal integrity review, or legacy redesign—while your team owns the broader product. We are comfortable working as an extension of your engineering organization.

Yes. Scoped engagements—design review, signal integrity analysis, power integrity, thermal analysis, failure analysis, and legacy redesign—are a regular part of our practice. These typically run on shorter timelines and fixed-scope SOWs.

Yes. Every layout is reviewed for design-for-manufacture and design-for-test before release. We coordinate directly with your CM on stackup, panelization, assembly drawings, and first-article inspection. If you do not yet have a CM, we can recommend partners we have worked with for similar volume and complexity.

We have delivered military-grade electronics including rugged and submersible power systems. ITAR and security requirements are handled case by case—let us know on the discovery call and we will scope appropriately.

Both. In-house firmware engineering is one of the reasons our boards transfer cleanly to production—the layout and the embedded software decisions are made by the same team. If you only need the board, we will design just the board.

Yes. Legacy and obsolete board redesigns are a regular part of our work. We replace end-of-life components, obsolete processors, and deprecated wireless modules while preserving form-fit-function, then re-validate against the original requirements.

Schedule depends on complexity, layer count, certification scope, and how complete the requirements are at kickoff. A focused single-board design with clear requirements typically lands in 8 to 16 weeks from SOW to release for prototype build. Scoped engagements (design review, SI/PI analysis, thermal review) are usually 2 to 4 weeks. Complex multi-board or formally-documented medical or military systems take longer. We give you a real schedule in the SOW, not a slogan.

Engagements are scoped per project based on complexity and deliverables. After the discovery call we deliver a fixed-scope SOW with milestones and pricing so your team can budget cleanly.