Capabilities - Robotics, capital projects, family offices
Technical leadership and advisory
The seat beside the decision, when nobody in the room is an engineer.
What that means in practice
- Standing technical advice to a robotics company: architecture, and what to build rather than buy
- Subject matter expert on capital projects, where the engineering decision is buried inside a budget and a schedule
- Technical review for private family offices weighing an engineering business or an infrastructure commitment
- An independent read on a design, a roadmap or a vendor proposal, from outside the reporting line
- Research support on the one question a decision is actually waiting on
- Practice and service-line build-out: offers, delivery frameworks, hiring plans
- Merger and acquisition integration of engineering organizations
- Depth
- Advisory seats rather than delivery seats: a robotics company, capital projects where the engineering question sits inside a budget, and family offices with no engineer in the room.
- Who I bring in
- Independent engineers, capital project managers, and operators who have run a build rather than financed one.
- Scoping this
- If a decision is about to be made by people without an engineer in the room, scope this early.
Where I write about this
The newsletter follows what is changing here: one drawing, one decision worth revisiting, one tool used in anger, and what I am seeing across the network. Research worth reading gets cited when it changes a decision.
Adjacent
Rarely just one domain.
Most engagements touch three or four. These are the ones that usually come with it.
- R&D and special projects Feasibility, prototypes, hard problems
- RF, electromagnetics and analog Circuits, antennas, spectrum
- Semiconductor and programmable logic VLSI, ASIC, FPGA
- Embedded systems and device drivers Firmware, kernel, board bring-up
- Hardware manufacturing and supply ODM, DFM, certification
- Industrial automation and controls Robotics, SCADA, OT
- Software engineering Systems, automation, quality
- Cloud and infrastructure architecture Hybrid, containers, automation
- Security engineering Architecture, identity, testing
- Governance, risk and compliance Audit, frameworks, fractional CISO
- Water, power and energy systems Treatment, generation, infrastructure