Accelerate Hardware Products
Developing hardware products is less about building and more about learning what to build.
Solve hardware product problems in weeks instead of months.
The problem
A hardware product team is stuck on a problem that has held up the product for months. A date that money depends on keeps getting closer.
The real issue is Building before Learning. Teams approach functional proving as if they are building for mass production. Every test becomes a rebuild of the whole product, so each lesson costs months and lakhs of rupees. Nobody is being careless. It is the order their training taught them.
The solution
The solution is to Learn before you Build. You have to understand why something is not working and what would actually make it work. That helps you fix it in weeks instead of months.
The work, with the numbers
A farm automation product had been in development for 46 months. I led the team that had it working in 4 months.
Kneading dough to hand-kneaded quality. My team built and tested 6 concepts and proved the winner in 15 days.
Cutting a vegetable to any required size at speed. The second part of the cutting operation kept failing: the vegetable slipped to the side instead of being cut. Two attempts to solve the problem changed nothing; the third worked and finally the mechanism reached 90% cutting effectiveness.
Want to solve your hardware product problem?
We can learn what will solve your hardware product problem by running a Concept Sprint.
A Concept Sprint is an agreed number of short make-test-learn cycles on your problem, run with your own engineers. Each cycle tests only one thing with the least that has to be built, and ends with a clear decision on what to test next. Your team stops rebuilding the whole product for every test, which is where the months go. Your team keeps the work and learns parts of the method while running it. A Concept Sprint starts with a free 45-minute diagnostic call.
Akshay Akoode
13+ years of experience. 9+ years in innovation. 39+ innovations across six domains: farm automation, food automation, industrial machinery, automotive, high-end cycling and sports broadcasting.
I am working towards a future where hardware product ideas in India become sellable products within a year.
My mission is to help Indian hardware product teams learn their way through problems in weeks.