Product Development for Denver Founders, From North Jersey
Design, prototyping, and manufacturing hand-off for Denver inventors and hardware founders, done by mechanical engineers in North Jersey. You keep 100% of the IP. Prototypes ship to you; reviews happen on video.
Who develops products for Denver founders?
RMA Engineering develops products for Denver founders remotely from North Jersey: mechanical engineers on staff design the product, build the prototypes in our own workshop, and hand off to manufacturing, while you review every stage on video calls and hold every prototype in your hands a few days after it is built. We have done this for more than ten years, hold a BBB A+ rating, and answer every inquiry within 12 hours.
The workshop is closed to visitors on purpose. Nobody walks past your prototype on a shop tour, because there are no shop tours, and that policy is part of how client IP stays protected. It also means working with a Denver founder is the same engagement as working with one across the river: drawings, CAD, and prototypes move to you; you do not have to move to them.
Why do Denver founders work with an engineering firm in North Jersey?
Because Denver's outdoor, fitness, and consumer hardware ideas need mechanical engineering and prototyping that local capacity does not always cover at a first-product budget, and a remote engineering firm with fees starting around $2,000 is a better fit than a large studio's minimum. The engagement runs on video and by shipment: prototypes arrive in three days by ground or overnight by air, and every file is yours.
What kinds of Denver products fit RMA?
Outdoor and sporting hardware with mechanical content (mounts, clamps, enclosures, mechanisms), home and kitchen products, and consumer products headed for injection molding or machining. Products that must survive cold, UV, and impact are a natural fit for material selection and DFM work; see material selection for product design for how we approach it.
What does RMA deliver?
Every project ends with files you own: 3D CAD in STEP and native formats, 2D drawings with dimensions, tolerances, materials, and finishes, a bill of materials, manufacturing specifications, and assembly instructions, plus the physical prototypes built along the way. Fees are hourly and per deliverable; they start around $2,000, and basic products typically run $6,000–15,000 through design and prototyping to a manufacturing-ready package. No royalties, no equity, no licensing back to us.
How does remote product development from North Jersey actually work?
Four steps, none of which require a visit.
- Free 30-Minute Design Review. A video call with an engineer. Bring the sketch, the render, or the prototype you have. You leave with a scoped design stage and a fee estimate.
- Design. CAD reviews on screen-share, drawings delivered as PDFs, decisions recorded in writing. Typical design stage: 4–12 weeks.
- Prototyping. Built in our workshop, shipped to you. Ground shipping from North Jersey reaches Denver in three business days; overnight when a review is waiting, and the two-hour time difference keeps afternoon reviews easy. Proof-of-concept builds run $100–2,000; production-intent builds $5,000–30,000+.
- Manufacturing hand-off. A production-ready package that any molder or machine shop can quote, with tooling ($5,000–50,000) and first runs (8–16 weeks) planned with you, domestic or overseas.
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What do Denver founders ask us first?
Denver founders start the same way everyone does: a Free 30-Minute Design Review with an engineer, on video, this week. Bring what you have.