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Innovate / Engineer
Start Free Sprint
— 01 · START HERE

Know what to do next with your product idea.

The Viability Sprint is a structured, AI-guided review that gives you a clear specification, realistic timeline, and indicative costs — in about two hours. Stop guessing. Start building with confidence.

Start Your Free Sprint See the 10-stage process → SPRINT FREE · EXPERT REVIEW £49
— 02 · THE STAKES

Most product ideas fail long before they reach a factory.

01

Tooling and prototype spend — committed before anyone verified the product was commercially viable.

02

Scope ballooning mid-project — because the specification was never pinned down on paper.

03

Wrong-fit manufacturing route — chosen on gut feel, costing months and tens of thousands to unwind.

04

Investors walk away — because the numbers, timeline and risks can’t be articulated clearly.

— 03

You don’t need more ideas. You need a clear path forward.

GUIDE · EMPATHY + AUTHORITY

We’ve seen founders pour savings into tooling for a product that should never have left stage one. We’ve watched good ideas die in a fog of unanswered questions — materials, cost targets, manufacturing routes, regulations.

Innovate Engineer exists because the first hundred hours of a product decide the next hundred thousand pounds. Get that wrong and nothing downstream can save it.

40+

Years of combined mechanical engineering and manufacturing experience — across consumer products, industrial plant, and bespoke builds.

280+

Product concepts reviewed through Cast Iron CAD and Innovate Engineer engagements, from sketches to production.

10

Stages in our framework — covering everything from first idea to manufactured, shipped product.

— 04

A simple three-step plan to get unstuck.

PLAN · PROCESS
PROC · VIABILITY PATH
01
Free Sprint

Start the Sprint, guided by AI.

Answer structured questions in our Viability Sprint GPT. It walks you through five AI-assisted stages — Idea, Discover, Innovate, Evaluate, Define — and returns a complete Product Viability Brief.

Time ≈ 2 HR · Fee FREE
02
Expert Review

Sense-check it with a real engineer.

Book a 30-minute video review with a senior engineer. We sharpen the numbers, flag risks AI may have missed, and recommend a manufacturing method — so you know what’s solid and where your thinking still needs work.

Format 30-MIN VIDEO · Fee £49
03
Spec & Build

Document it, then take it to production.

Upgrade to the Spec Package (£149) when you need a branded, investor- and manufacturer-ready document — or go straight to Cast Iron CAD for engineering delivery once you’re ready.

Docs FROM £149 · Build CAST IRON CAD
— 05

From guesswork to grounded decisions.

TRANSFORM · BEFORE / AFTER
BEFORE · UNDEFINED

The risk you’re carrying right now.

  • Scope drifts every time you talk to someone new
  • No numbers to put in front of an investor or partner
  • Tooling quotes wildly apart because the spec is vague
  • Timeline is “a few months” — for the last nine months
  • Decisions made on gut feel, not cost or feasibility
AFTER · GROUNDED

What you walk away with.

  • A structured specification you can defend
  • Indicative costs grounded in real manufacturing routes
  • A realistic timeline with decision gates
  • The top three risks flagged, with mitigations
  • Clarity on whether to proceed, pivot, or park it
— 06

Grounded in real manufacturing experience.

PROOF · NUMBERS
NODE · IDEAS
280+
Product ideas reviewed across CIC & IEN
NODE · EXPERIENCE
40+
Years combined engineering practice
NODE · METHOD
10
Stage framework — idea to shipped product
NODE · OUTCOME
98%
Report clarity uplift after sprint
Two hours with the sprint saved us six months of arguing about the wrong problem. It told us exactly which bits of our own idea were weakest — before we’d spent anything serious.
— Early-stage product founder · Consumer hardware
NOTE 01 · DECISION

A free sprint now could save you from going the wrong way later.

The Viability Sprint is free. If it exposes something worth pressure-testing, an Expert Review is £49. That’s the entire cost of making sure your next move is the right one — before you commit time, money, or tooling in the wrong direction.