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Echoslate helps hardware development teams scope projects, catch blind spots, and estimate with confidence. The proposal is a prediction. Make it a good one.

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The problem

Estimation is where projects succeed or fail.

A 40-person consultancy writing 10 proposals a month spends up to $28K on losing proposals alone. But the document isn't the real problem. The real problem is upstream: scoping.

You don't know what you don't know

Your team knows how to design a compressor mount. They may not know that choosing R-600a refrigerant triggers ATEX compliance for adjacent electronics, which doubles the EE estimate. That's not a pricing error. It's a scoping failure.

Every estimate starts from scratch

Past proposals sit in folders. Institutional knowledge lives in people's heads. When the senior engineer is quoting three projects in one day, something falls through the cracks.

The proposal goes in a drawer

You spend days building an estimate. The project starts. The estimate is never referenced again until something goes wrong and someone asks "what did we actually quote?"

How it works

From RFP to managed program.

Echoslate walks your team through a structured scoping process. AI reviews the architecture. You make every decision.

Upload the RFP

Echoslate extracts structured requirements, flags ambiguities, and identifies gaps the client didn't address. You confirm or override every assumption before moving forward.

Assemble scope

Work packages organized by subsystem. Your firm's library packages where they fit. AI surfaces implied requirements the RFP didn't mention — regulatory cascades, cross-subsystem interactions, long-lead items. Questions, not directives.

Estimate effort

Per-package hours by role, calibrated from your past projects when available. Where the archive is thin, AI estimates with visible reasoning. Where the basis is insufficient, the tool says so rather than guessing.

Refine against constraints

The baseline lands at $800K when the client has $300K. Reshape the scope: remove packages, defer phases, adjust trade-offs. Every change recalculates live. The tool shows consequences, not just numbers.

Manage through phase gates

The estimate persists as a project record. At each gate, update work package status, revise remaining estimates, track variance against the original. Every completed project improves the next one.

What's different

A scoping tool that also produces documents.

Not the other way around.

AI reviews your architecture. It doesn't replace your architects.

After you select your scope, Echoslate surfaces considerations you may have missed. Regulatory implications. Cross-subsystem interactions. Long-lead items. These are questions, not directives. You dismiss or accept each one.

Your library gets smarter with every project.

Standard work packages accumulate as your firm uses the tool. Future proposals pull from proven packages with historical effort data. The library is your institutional knowledge, built from actual work.

Estimates persist through the project lifecycle.

At each phase gate, update status, revise remaining estimates, add scope discovered during execution. The tool computes variance against the original. Every completed project feeds the corpus.

Novel projects decompose into known capabilities.

A smart oven with refrigeration and IoT isn't one unknown project. It's thermal management + IoT + consumer regulatory + custom enclosure — capabilities your firm may have done separately across a dozen past projects.

Built for

Teams that design and build physical products.

Today

Hardware consultancies

15–200 person firms doing contract product development. Mechanical, electrical, firmware, industrial design. Phase-gated delivery.

Expansion

Internal R&D teams

Engineering teams at product companies, estimating programs for budget approval. Same estimation problem, different context.

Expansion

Custom engineered systems

Venue technology, test rigs, specialty equipment, defense subcontracts. Engineering, procurement, installation, and commissioning.

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