Hardware Cost-Down · Paid on Results

We cut hardware costs.
Or we don't get paid.

A cost-down firm operating on a different model. We embed engineers, supply chain, and logistics operators trained at SpaceX, Tesla, and Zipline into your hardware build. You only pay us when we've verifiably saved you money.

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01 / Offer
We work for free
until we save you
money.

Most consultants bill by the hour and hope you see value. We don't. Send us your costed BOM, your quotes, and whatever specs or CAD you can share. If we don't think there's cost to pull out, we walk — no fee, no pitch deck, no hard sell. If we do, we charge a share of what we save you, confirmed in supplier quotes or shipped parts.

No Savings / No Fee
02 / Results

What we've
delivered.

Recent engagements across connected home goods, aerospace, city infrastructure, and electric vehicles.
−30%
Landed Cost Reduction
City Infra · Full BOM 08 Weeks
−50%
Freight Cost Reduction
Drone Scale-Up 06 Months
−40%
Part Cost Reduction
EV Startup · Body Panels 03 Months
03 / Fit

Is this
for you?

We're built for hardware companies that are shipping real product, where unit cost has become a board-level conversation.

Not sure? Reach out anyway. We'd love to keep you in our network — if the timing's not right today, it might be six months from now.
● Good Signals What We Look For
S.01

You ship hardware.

Real BOMs, real suppliers, real quotes to work with.

S.02

Unit cost moves the business.

Every cent of unit cost has a meaningful impact on margin, runway, and the pace you can scale.

S.03

You have inputs we can review.

BOM, supplier quotes, forecasts, and CAD. We start from what you have.

S.04

Someone internal owns margin.

But doesn't have the bandwidth to run the sprint themselves.

04 / Process

Five steps, end to end.

From "here's our BOM" to "here's verified savings" — what the work looks like, in order.

Step 01

Free Assessment

We look at your BOM, quotes, and CAD. If there's nothing to unlock, we stop — no fees.

Step 02

Agree & Baseline

Lock scope and fee structure, then document the cost we're measuring against.

Step 03

Dig In

Should-cost models, engineering analysis, and supplier research to find where money's hiding.

Step 04

Execute

Run negotiations, redesigns, and sourcing changes. You approve everything before it lands.

Step 05

Confirm & Ship

Savings verified in supplier quotes or shipped parts. You get a clean record of what changed.

06 / Featured Work
Featured Example
● Connected Home Good / Confidential
REF / CONF-HOMEGOOD-001
Featured · Connected Home Good

150 components, redesigned for cost.

A mechanical and electrical cost-focused redesign of a confidential consumer hardware product. Same product, same user experience, same form factor — reworked underneath to hit a lower BOM cost. We respected the ID and kept what was working. We went deep on what wasn't. Chargeable weight cut in half through packaging redesign. Minimal requalification on the manufacturer side, lightweight effort from the internal team.

−50%
Full BOM · & −50% Chargeable Weight
Mechanical & Electrical Redesign
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Batch 01 · Capital Deployed
Batch 01 · Open for Interest
07 / Capital
A Different Track

For a select few, we also deploy capital.

Most engagements are the standard contingent cost-down described above — our team, your hardware, paid on verified savings. No capital deployed. That's the right fit for most hardware companies, and how every conversation starts.

OLV Capital is different. For a small number of hardware startups each year, we deploy $50,000 of engagement capital alongside the work — funding the cost-down up front, recovered from the savings we create together. Same team, same process, same contingent fee model. Different capital structure.

● OLV Capital Selective
$50K
Engagement Capital
0%
Equity
4–6
Per Year
2026 Intake ● Open for Interest
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07 / Start

Send us your BOM.

No deck, no hard sell. Just a direct review of your hardware — ideally a costed BOM plus CAD, specs, or samples — and a straight answer on whether we think there's cost to pull out.

Response within 72 hours · No obligation