We help engineering teams move faster and build better physical products.
Senior product development experts who design delightful, robust, and manufacturable hardware way faster than you can hire.
Our Skillset
köl is a hardware product development firm that specializes in augmenting existing engineering and design teams. We’re creative mechanical engineers with an eye for good design. Our clients include startups, mature organizations, and product development firms that need high quality team members yesterday. We have extensive experience in medical device development, health and wellness products, consumer goods, and industrial robotics
How We Work
We Integrate seamlessly with your team
We use your preferred collaboration tool to stay in tune with your team: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Chat – whatever it is, we’re there on day 1.
We know when to lead and when to follow
Is your team unsure of what to do next? No problem, we can listen, learn and recommend actionable next steps.
Just want us to turn the crank on some CAD? That’s cool too. Every team’s needs are different – we’re here to help identify and fill the gaps.
We actually give a sh*t.
We don’t just tell you how to get it done – we’re right there with ya in the trenches.
We’re transparent
You don’t have to guess what we’re up to. We provide daily written updates, and publish a burndown chart.
We’re remote first
We believe that focus and deep work can unlock great insights and even better products. Through being remote first, we enable our engineers and designers to architect their own work environments, where they can be happiest and most productive.
We still like to hang in person – every 6 months we do an offsite someplace fun.
We show up
Although we’re remote first, we also understand the importance of meeting face to face, and being hands-on at critical junctures in the project.
We’ll meet with you in person at project kickoff, major milestones, engineering builds, and whenever else it makes sense for us to be directly alongside your team.
Contact Us
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