From a free newsletter to multi-engagement technical partnerships. Pick what matches where you are — and skip the rest.
Long-form fireside chats, war stories, and post-mortems on what kills first hardware projects. Not gated lead magnets. Not sales content. The actual reasoning, with names filed off.
Currently being built out. Drop your email and Randy will tell you when the first pieces land.
Self-paced. Written and recorded by Randy, based on patterns he keeps seeing across thirty-plus engagements. Not a bootcamp — a reference manual in video form, organized by decision, not by topic.
The waitlist is open. Early access and a founder-only price for the first fifty seats.
You bring the product idea, the constraints, the money you have, and the questions you haven’t been able to answer. Randy listens, asks, pushes back, and then builds a custom 4–6 page roadmap: architecture, component choices, risk areas, engagement estimate.
You also get thirty days of email Q&A (five questions) after delivery. If you book a Fractional engagement within sixty days, the $497 is credited.
Randy embeds in your project as the technical co-founder you don't have. The unit is $6,000 per engagement — one block of 40 focused hours, delivered over approximately 4 weeks.
The Clarity Call determines how many engagements your project needs. Each engagement is contracted separately with its own scope of work.
No bleeding out from someone running up hours on Upwork. One number, one engagement, one deliverable.
If a sensor takes longer than expected to integrate, that's on Randy — not your invoice.
If Randy finishes in 30 hours instead of 40, you still get the full deliverable for $6,000. You’re paying for the result.
Each engagement is its own SOW. End after any block — no obligation to continue.
Each new engagement starts with a fresh deposit.
Projects with significant technical uncertainty — novel sensor platforms, unvalidated approaches, never-done-before integrations — are quoted at a 50% premium. The bucket (standard vs. exploratory) is determined transparently during the Clarity Call, not surprise-billed later.
SBIR support. Applied R&D. IP and patent work. Ground-truth data collection for AI/ML. Sensor integration research. Problems where the answer to "has this been done before" is honestly no.
Engaged by inquiry. The first conversation is free — Randy will tell you quickly whether it’s a fit for him or whether you need a different kind of partner.
Book a Clarity Call. If your project isn't a fit for AVA Labs, Randy will tell you that on the call — and point you somewhere that is. Either way, you walk away with a written roadmap.
