End-to-end product development services, concept to production

A product development partner is one firm that owns the whole program, research, industrial design, mechanical and electrical engineering, prototyping, testing and the manufacturing hand-off, rather than one discipline inside it. The practical difference is accountability: when a prototype fails, one team fixes it instead of a design studio, an electronics contractor and a factory each pointing at the other.

Ask four questions. Can they show finished products in your category, not just renders? Do the engineers who would do your work join the sales call? Do they quote stage by stage with a cost range for each, or one opaque number? And do you own the native CAD, PCB and firmware files as they are produced? A firm that answers all four cleanly is rare, and it is the whole selection test.

For one product, outsourcing is almost always cheaper. A full in-house stack, industrial designer, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, firmware developer, DFM lead, costs well over $500,000 a year in salaries, and you need each of them for only a few months. Hiring in-house starts to pay once you are running several programs a year.

LA NPDT develops physical products in fixed-price stages. Stage 1, Review/Analysis + Plan, is a fixed $800. A whole program typically costs $11,300 to $36,800 for a basic one-part product, $28,300 to $66,800 for a simple product, $49,300 to $111,800 for a moderate product, and $86,800 to $175,800 for a complex product.

Ranges cover labor only. Regulated medical devices, connected products with app and cloud backends, and large automated or industrial systems often run above Class D, because certification, regulatory documentation and software sit outside these ranges. Our team quotes them stage by stage after Stage 1. Single stages start at $800 (Stage 1) and $2,000 (Concept Design for a basic product).

Yes, and a large share of our work is exactly that: CAD that will not manufacture, a prototype that failed testing, or a factory quoting a price nobody expected. We start with Stage 1, Review/Analysis + Plan, a fixed $800: we review the existing files, tell you plainly what is reusable, and quote the recovery stage by stage.

You do. Every engagement transfers full ownership of the deliverables, including native CAD, drawings, PCB files and firmware source, so you are never locked into one vendor to build your own product.