Insights
Notes from the workshop floor.
How we think about building and shipping real hardware, ODM product development, in-house manufacturing, and the AI-augmented team behind it.
The Seam Problem: Where Hardware Products Actually Fail
Every part of a hardware product can pass its own review and the product can still fail. The failures live in the seams, the handoffs between disciplines and between vendors that no single team owns.
Read →Design It, Build It, Drop-Ship It
A US security-systems company handed us a concept for a connected industrial controller. Eight months later we were drop-shipping tested, provisioned units straight onto their production line. Here's how, and why it matters.
Read →The Four Files That Let One Engineer Run an ODM
Everyone's writing about how AI will change hardware. Almost no one shows the operating system that makes it real, four plain markdown files that let one engineer and a swarm of agents run a whole product.
Read →Nearshore Isn't a Buzzword When You Own the Line
"Where do you manufacture?" used to be the last question a hardware buyer asked. Now it's the first, and nearshore only means something if you own the line.
Read →What AI-Augmented Engineering Actually Looks Like Here
Everyone says they use AI now. Here's the concrete version, where agents actually sit in how we design, build, and ship hardware, three years in.
Read →The Age of the AI-Augmented Generalist
After twenty-two years as a design consultancy, ARG now runs as a full ODM. Here's what changed, and why I think the knowledge silo is dissolving.
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