Full Service
Hardware Engineering

We design and build hardware products across medical devices, IoT, consumer electronics, and industrial equipment. ISO 9001/13485 certified with 30+ years of experience in rapid prototyping and full development.

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60-Day Sprint Prototype

Need Proof of Concept Fast?

Validate feasibility, demonstrate to investors, or test market fit with a working prototype in 8 weeks. Fixed scope, fixed timeline.

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Buildative Strike Team

Breakthrough Corporate Red Tape?

Your dedicated external engineering team using our proven Buildative methodology—build first, design second. We help corporations innovate at startup speed, outside the bureaucracy.

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Full Development

Ready to Build for Market?

Complete design and development from requirements through production. Design controls, regulatory support, tooling, and manufacturing readiness.

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Team Augmentation

Need Engineering Help?

Extend your team with our mechanical, electrical, or firmware engineers. Flexible engagements from months to years, seamlessly integrated with your processes.

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Full-Spectrum Engineering Capabilities

Our team covers every discipline needed to bring medical and IOT devices to market.

Industries We Serve

From medical devices to IoT products, we bring hardware innovations to life across multiple industries.

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Wireless connectivity (WiFi, BLE, Zigbee), cloud integration, mobile apps, and sensor systems. We've built the
full stack from firmware to backend.

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Industrial design, user experience, and manufacturing at scale. From smart home devices to wearables, we understand what it takes to ship products consumers love.

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Rugged designs for harsh environments, complex control systems, and integration with existing infrastructure.
Built to last and easy to service.

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From Concept to Working Devices

Sprint prototypes that proved feasibility. Full developments that reached market. See how we have helped medical device companies succeed.

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"Watching them build rough prototypes in week one instead of spending months in CAD was uncomfortable at first. But when we had working hardware demonstrating our concept by week two, we realized Buildative is how innovation should work. We deployed their strike team twice more that year."
- VP of Innovation,
Fortune 500 Industrial Company
"We started with a sprint to prove our concept worked. Eight weeks later, we had a functional
prototype that helped us raise $3M. Now they're building our production design—same team, no
hand offs, just results."
- CEO, Medical Device Startup

After using Elson Studio our business skyrocketed! Their amazing team has helped empower our marketing team to build faster and better. We're super pleased with Webflow and it's truely streamlined our operations.

Steven Lee, Mailchimp Inc
San Francisco

Why Companies Choose Expertise Engineering

Fast When You Need It

Our 60-day sprint model proves concepts fast. Whether you're a startup validating feasibility or a corporation bypassing bureaucracy, we deliver working prototypes while others are still in meetings.

Autonomous When Politics Get in the Way

Large companies choose us as their external innovation partner because we operate outside internal constraints. No committees, no politics, no quarterly review cycles—just engineering.

Full-Service When You're Ready to Scale

Many clients start with a sprint and return for full development, tooling, and manufacturing support. We already understand your product, your market, and your goals—no ramp-up time.

No-Nonsense Engineering

When you just need an extra engineer to help with a side project, we are there for you, work directly with our engineers.

15+ Engineers

MEs, EEs, and firmware specialists. All in-house team.

30+ Years

Combined medical device experience

ISO 13485 / ISO 9001

Quality systems for medical devices

7,000 sq ft

Fully equipped San Diego facility

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