Services
From idea to impact
Four services under one roof, with engineering and surface science side by side. What prototypes your part is what runs the production lot, so nothing gets lost in a handoff that never happens here.
Services at a glance
Design & Prototyping
Sketch to physical device in days to weeks.
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Proof of concept to a design that survives manufacturing.
Jump to section →Hardware & Instrumentation
The instruments that run, test, and characterize your consumable.
Jump to section →Contract Manufacturing
Pilot and mid-volume production you can put your name on.
Jump to section →01. Design & Prototyping
Get something you can hold
Most microfluidic programs stall because the first physical part takes a quarter to arrive. Ours take days, because every process that makes them is in one building.
We work from a sketch, a CAD file, or a conversation about what the assay needs to do. Geometry and chemistry are developed together from the first build, because a channel that machines beautifully and then fouls on contact with your sample is not a prototype, it is a rework. You get a real device to test, not a rendering to approve.
What this includes
- Laser and CNC machining
- Pressure-sensitive adhesive bonding and multilayer assembly
- Functional coatings and optical windows
- Chips, inserts, cartridges, and test coupons
- Custom fixtures, jigs, and test setups
From sketch to physical device in days to weeks.
02. Contract Development
Make it work, then make it makeable
A device that performs once on a bench is not a product. Development is the work of turning a result you got into a result you can get every time, at volume, on someone else's line.
We iterate on geometry, materials, and surface chemistry together, because in microfluidics they are not separable problems. Moving a channel wall and changing a coating get decided in the same review, rather than negotiated between two vendors with different deadlines. Then we pressure-test the design against how it will actually be built.
What this includes
- Design and rapid iteration of consumables
- Surface chemistry integration
- Device architecture and system integration
- Design for manufacturability and risk analysis
- Characterization and test method development
Build. Test. Learn. Improve. Repeat.
03. Hardware & Instrumentation
The instrument that runs the consumable
A flow cell is only as good as the thing driving fluid through it. We kept needing instruments to develop and qualify our own consumables, so we built them. That turned into a capability customers now come to us for on its own.
Flow controllers, automated test benches, characterization rigs, and the software that runs them. Because the consumable and the hardware around it are designed in the same place, the two are specified against each other from the start rather than reconciled at the end.
What this includes
- Custom fluidic instruments and test rigs
- Pump, valve, pressure, and flow control
- Sensor integration and data acquisition
- Instrument control software and user interfaces
- Automated characterization and QC benches
- Fixtures and jigs for development and production
Built alongside the consumable, not bolted on afterwards.
04. Contract Manufacturing
Production you can put your name on
We manufacture the parts we developed, in the same building, with the same people. The design that passed validation is the design that ships. There is no technology transfer step to lose things in.
Cleanroom production, lot-level traceability, and QC protocols written around your assay rather than a generic checklist. Surface treatment runs on the same line as fabrication, so a coated part is not a subcontracted step with its own lead time and its own excuses.
What this includes
- Cleanroom production environments
- Modular workflows for R&D support, pilot, and mid-volume runs
- Lot-level traceability and material certification
- Custom quality control built around your application
- Documentation and change control
Entirely US-based, in San Diego.
How it runs
What engaging us actually looks like
Work runs on time and materials against an agreed estimate, at rates set before anything starts. You see where the hours went.
- 01
Scope
A technical call, then a written scope: the work, an estimate of the effort, the rates, and a target date.
- 02
Prototype
First physical parts in your hands, with the metrology to say what they are.
- 03
Develop
Iterate geometry, materials, and chemistry until the result is repeatable.
- 04
Verify
Characterize against your spec and agree the QC that production will run.
- 05
Manufacture
Pilot lot, then ongoing supply with traceability and change control.
Let's build something together
Quick-turn proof of concept, or an end-to-end product. Tell us what you need to make.