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I heard you earned a nice new contract. Are you hiring now? No, we are not hiring additional employees. Techshot is right-sized. As one of our twenty or so projects wraps up, another typically kicks off. [permalink] A lot of your case studies depict work for government agencies. Do you work with universities and commercial companies? Yes, we have completed many projects for institutional and commercial customers. Contrary to what you might think, we typically are allowed to freely discuss our government work. It's our commercial customers who actually are far more secretive about what we do for them and often do not allow us to discuss their projects, or even publicly disclose that we are working with them. Therefore, far fewer commercial case studies get approved for dissemination. [permalink] Do you provide manufacturing services? We always build a few of whatever we design. However, if you need high-volume manufacturing services, we work closely with many excellent contract manufacturers and can recommend solutions providers in many industries. [permalink] How much will it cost to design and build my device/system/product? Everything we take on results in something that is the first of its kind, and the cost will be driven totally by your requirements. Our fees for design/build projects typically range from $50,000 to more than $5 million. If your requirements are well established, we provide fixed price cost estimates. If you want us to conduct a feasibility study first, or just explore various solutions to your need, we can work on a time and materials basis. [permalink] I live in Canada, do you work with international customers? Yes, we currently work with customers throughout North America. [permalink] Who owns the intellectual property rights to things you invent for commercial companies? Our customers retain the intellectual property rights to technologies we invent for them. [permalink] Will you work for free if I give you equity in my company? No. [permalink] You've done a lot of work for NASA, are you interested in my project; it's not going into space? Absolutely! NASA is an important customer, but we also take on many, many terrestrially-based projects. [permalink] You've been very successful winning Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts and grants, will you write my proposal for me? When you win, you'll get all the engineering work from me. In most cases, no, we will not write your proposal for you. That being said, we have created a program that would be a good fit for select customers. For $100,000 up front, we will design and build your technology demonstrator/prototype, write an SBIR proposal, and submit it to an appropriate funding agency. If the proposal is successful, you'll have earned an award for as much as $100,000 (which may be matched by Indiana's 21st Century Research and Technology fund) and will have the chance for us to submit a Phase II proposal that could be worth up to an additional $1 million. Altogether, your upfront investment of $100,000 could result in awards totaling more than $1.1 million, you would have in hand at least two complex prototypes/first articles and you would own the intellectual property rights to it all. [permalink]

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