Your Outsourced
Hardware Design
Department.
We embed with funded B2B and B2G hardware startups, taking your hardware solution from proof of concept to manufacture-ready.
Industries we work in:
Companies we have worked with:
Selected work.
Slamcore
Vision-based spatial intelligence hardware for material handling equipment.
Cappsule
An AI-powered guardian for care environments, passive monitoring without cameras or wearables.
Infinite Product Solutions
A machined muzzle device family, brakes, flash hiders, adapters and redirect systems, designed as one coherent product line.
Defense Aerospace
Airframe and chassis design for an unmanned aerial platform, delivered under NDA for a European defense technology company.
Embedded design and engineering capabilities for startups that can't wait six months to build one in-house.
Funded B2B & B2G hardware startups
Seed to Series B teams building industrial, medical, defense, robotics, and infrastructure solutions. You have a working principle and need it to become a manufacturable solution.
Industrial design & mechanical engineering
Concept, CAD, DFM, prototype, and engineering documentation, everything between a working PCBA and a tooling-ready release package.
Monthly retainer, embedded team
Not a fixed-bid project shop. We work the way an internal team would, in your Slack, your PDM, your weekly review, at a fraction of the cost.
Every discipline your hardware needs, under one roof.
One embedded team, one monthly fee. Scroll through what sits inside the contract, from first sketch to release package.
05 capabilities
- 01 / 05
Industrial Design
Form language, ergonomics, material & finish, brand-aligned solution identity. Sketch through to photoreal hero shots.
Form studiesCMF specPhotoreal rendersBrand alignmentLearn more - 02 / 05
Mechanical Engineering
Production-grade CAD. Tolerance stack-ups, fastener strategy, FEA, GD&T drawings.
Learn more - 03 / 05
DFM & Prototyping
Part consolidation, supplier-aware design, prototype build management. We work with your shops or coordinate ours.
Learn more - 04 / 05
Engineering Support
Ongoing CAD updates, doc control, change management, ECO/ECN handling. The boring-but-critical layer of a real solution.
Learn more - 05 / 05
3D Rendering & Animation
Photoreal product visuals and motion built from your engineering CAD, for fundraising decks, board updates, trade shows, launch reels, and sales collateral before the first prototype lands.
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Our Collaboration Process
- 0120–30 min
Intro call
We learn the solution, the stage, and what's blocking you. No pitch, no slide deck, just a conversation to see if we're a fit.
- Solution & stage review
- Where you're stuck
- Honest go/no-go
- 022–4 weeks · fixed fee
Design Sprint
A starter project scoped to one clear deliverable, a concept and CAD, a DFM audit, or an enclosure design. Its job is to prove how we work and earn trust before any ongoing commitment.
- One clear deliverable
- Fixed fee, no lock-in
- Shows how we work
- 031 session
Sprint review
We present the work and map the next 90 days together, what to build, what to validate, what to leave alone for now.
- Walk through the work
- 90-day roadmap
- Decide together
- 04Fixed monthly retainer
Partnership
We scope the real workload with you, then send a proposal for a fixed monthly retainer, no time-tracking games. From there we're your embedded design and engineering team: continuous design, DFM, and manufacturer coordination across every revision. Plan long, contract short: roadmap the quarter, stay month-to-month.
- Workload-based proposal
- Fixed monthly fee
- Month-to-month, cancel with notice
Our clients' experience working with us.
"The Lucent team did great work with the industrial design requirements we asked for and came up with strong concepts. Easy to work with and incredibly responsive."
"The quality of Lucent's work speaks for itself, and we could not be more impressed by their dedication and expertise."
"Lucent and Dominik are absolutely fantastic. They've helped us massively and really grown our product. A fantastic extension to have on the team."
"Couldn't be more pleased with their work and communication."
"The Lucent team did great work with the industrial design requirements we asked for and came up with strong concepts. Easy to work with and incredibly responsive."
"The quality of Lucent's work speaks for itself, and we could not be more impressed by their dedication and expertise."
"Lucent and Dominik are absolutely fantastic. They've helped us massively and really grown our product. A fantastic extension to have on the team."
"Couldn't be more pleased with their work and communication."
Common questions.
- After an intro call and a paid design sprint, we assess the real workload your solution needs over the next quarter and send a proposal for a fixed monthly retainer. No time-tracking, no hour blocks, a single monthly fee for the embedded team.
- You do. Every engagement starts with a mutual NDA and an IP assignment so all CAD, drawings, renders, and engineering output transfer to you on delivery. We retain the right to show finished work in our portfolio unless you ask us not to.
- CAD: Fusion 360. Renderings, animations, and visualization: Blender. Communications: Slack or Teams, whichever your team already lives in. If you have a PDM or file system in place, we work inside it.
- We did for years and still do occasionally. Our focus today is B2B and B2G hardware, industrial IoT, defense, robotics, medical, infrastructure, where engineering rigor matters more than retail packaging.
- Eventually you should. Until then, it comes down to time and cost. An in-house team that does what we do is, at minimum, a mechanical engineer, an industrial designer, and a 3D artist, three full-time salaries, plus months of recruiting, before anything ships. In most cases the workload doesn't fill three people at full capacity, so you're paying for idle time. Going freelance or part-time gets you cost back but costs you consistency, alignment, availability, and continuity through churn. A retainer with us gives you that senior capacity in weeks, at a fraction of the cost, with the same team carrying your solution context the whole way.
- Remote-first across Europe and the Americas. Most clients are in EU, US East Coast, and Israel. We overlap working hours daily and run async at the edges.
- Yes. We hand off a tooling-ready release package and can manage the supplier conversation through DFM, FAI, and pilot run if you don't have a supply-chain lead yet.
Let's design your next solution, together.
Tell us where the solution is and what's blocking you, we'll tell you honestly whether a retainer makes sense, or what we'd do instead.