Product Development Consultancy

From product concept to investor-ready reality.

Paximi is the product development practice of Samuel Archibald, an engineer who takes founders from a promising idea to a working, physical product — and to the manufacturing plan and documentation that make investors take it seriously.

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Samuel Archibald · Principal

The Practice

One engineer, accountable for the whole product.

Most early-stage hardware ideas die in the gap between a concept and a thing you can hold. Agencies quote six figures to cross that gap; a single freelancer usually covers only one discipline. Paximi exists for that gap: one senior generalist who works across electronics, firmware, software, and mechanical design, and who has an eye on manufacturability from the first sketch.

The result you walk away with is not a slide deck. It is a functioning first version of your product, a realistic plan for producing it at scale, and a technical narrative you can put in front of investors with confidence.


Services

Three ways we work together.

No. 1

Prototype & Product Development

Hardware and software engineering that turns your concept into a functional first version — something you can demo, test with users, and hand to an investor.

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No. 2

Manufacturing Consulting

Design-for-manufacturing review, sourcing guidance, and production planning, so the prototype you fund is one that can actually be built at scale.

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No. 3

Investor & Technical Documentation

The engineering story behind your product, written for the people deciding whether to fund it: architecture, bill of materials, roadmap, and risk.

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Method

How an engagement runs.

i.

Discovery

We define what "investor-ready" means for your product: the demo it must perform, the questions it must answer, the budget and timeline it must respect.

ii.

Design & Engineering

Electronics, firmware, software, and enclosure design in short iterations, with working checkpoints you can see and hold along the way.

iii.

Build & Validate

A functioning prototype, exercised against the scenarios that matter — demo-day conditions, not lab conditions.

iv.

Package the Story

Manufacturing roadmap, cost model, and technical documentation that let an investor's diligence go smoothly instead of stalling the round.


Electronics Firmware Software Mechanical Manufacturing Documentation

Have a product idea worth building?

Tell me where it stands and where you want to take it. Every engagement starts with a conversation, not a contract.

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