Hardware, software and AI R&D studio
Friendly engineers for the hard parts of your product.
Vantage Strategies is a small research and development studio. We've built working technology across AI, electronics and product design. License it, or bring us in to build it with your team.
- You talk to the people who build it
- Try our technology before you license it
- Hardware, software and AI under one roof
Work with us
Three ways to work together
Pick the one that fits today. Many people start with one and end up enjoying all three.
Build on technology that already works
Skip years of R&D. Try a technology from our register, then license it on terms that fit your product.
Get a prototype working
We roll up our sleeves alongside your team, from firmware and circuit boards to the cloud and AI.
Get a friendly second opinion
An independent look at your architecture, code or technical plan, explained in plain English.
One team, whole product
We work in every layer, so the pieces fit
A connected product is a stack of very different crafts, and the trickiest problems show up where two layers meet. We love working across all of them.
AI you run yourself
Language models on hardware you control, with sign-in, usage limits, code review and voice control built around them.
Tools for teams and servers
Shared workspaces for people and AI assistants, plus monitoring, security scanning and safe deployment.
Devices and sensors
Firmware for depth, thermal and bus-connected sensors, clean audio and lighting control.
Faster hardware design
Circuit boards and mechanical parts designed with AI help and checked by an engineer.
What we've built
Technology you can use today
Every entry in our register is working technology we built ourselves.
Private AI gateway
One secure front door to the AI models you host yourself.
Private code review assistant
Helpful review comments on every pull request, from a model you host.
Hands-off monitoring and security scans
Health checks and daily vulnerability scans, with nothing to install.
Mechanical parts from code
Enclosures, brackets and mounts generated from code.
AI-assisted circuit board design
AI drafts the board. An engineer checks every revision.
Plug-and-play sensor node
Connect common sensors and set them up over the bus, with no new firmware.
Stories
Picture what this could do for you
Short, illustrative stories about teams like yours.
Thermal sensing for animal care
How a care facility could notice important moments automatically, day or night, without cameras that identify anyone.
Calm days for a two-person IT team
How a small IT team could keep machines across many sites healthy and up to date, without installing agents or opening firewalls.
Hands-free AI help at the workbench
How engineers who split their day between the bench and the keyboard could keep their AI coding sessions moving.
Why people like working with us
Small studio, big curiosity
We speak human
No jargon and no hard sell. Just clear, honest advice from people who love this stuff.
We build things ourselves
From circuit boards to cloud services, our advice comes from things we've actually made.
Privacy comes first
Your code, data and models stay where you want them. That's how we design everything.
Lab notes
Ideas from the workbench
Why every private AI model needs a front door
Running your own model is the easy part. Knowing who uses it, and keeping things fair, is where teams get stuck.
Designing hardware as code
Describing parts and boards in code makes hardware revisions faster, easier to share and easier to trust.
Looking after machines you can't install software on
Lab equipment, older servers and locked-down devices still need care. Here's a friendlier way to think about it.
Let's make something great together
Tell us a little about what you're building. We'd love to hear about it.