Senior engineers who build plans that ship.
Boutique advisory for hardware startups ready to scale. We carve order out of chaos, making hardware and software move as one.
pronounced "neat"
Inspired by the Icelandic word for "useful." Neat, useful, precise: exactly how we work.
We're engineers who led hardware programs at some of the biggest names in tech and hardware: Meta, Microsoft, Fitbit, Toyota.
Most teams know hardware, or they know software.
Almost no one knows how to build both into one product, so plans fall apart in the gap between them. That gap is where we work.
Senior operating leadership is expensive and slow to hire.
to hire two senior program leads full-time.
before anyone starts fixing or building anything.
for a problem that's often seasonal, not forever, and a wrong hire takes 18 months to unwind.
The way companies staff work is changing.
Full-time is fading
Companies no longer want senior program staff on permanent payroll for work that comes and goes. They want the expertise, not the headcount.
They want plans that can pivot
A consultant's deck goes stale the day they leave. Companies want a plan that keeps working after we leave, and adapts with the AI tools they already use.
We're built for that future
We arrive when a program needs it, write the plan, and leave it running. No hire to justify, no fixed cost, and nothing that breaks the moment we're gone.
The same senior caliber, at a fraction of the cost.
A boutique advisory engagement. We come in for weeks, not months, write an end-to-end plan, and leave it built to be modified with your own preferred AI as things change.
Weeks, not months
- Diagnostic and roadmap
- Operating cadences installed
- A plan you modify with your own AI
See it through
We start with a focused engagement to get the plan right. Many clients keep us on to see it through, staying involved as the roadmap is executed.
Every engagement is scoped to the program, not the calendar.
Come in. Write the plan. Leave it runnable.
A new program starts
and the company needs it planned right, fast.
We write the plan
end-to-end hardware and software as one system.
Advisors review it
our executive advisors pressure-test every plan before handoff.
We leave it runnable
a step-by-step plan the team can edit with their own AI.
Tell us what you're building.
No two programs are stuck in the same place. Every engagement starts with a conversation about yours.
Prefer email? hello@nyttlabs.com