THAT THING YOU WANT TO BUILD?HERE'S HOW, AND WHAT IT COSTS.

Describe your hardware idea or upload a sketch. Get a verdict, a costed BOM at 100, 1,000 and 10,000 units, and the three gates on your path to production. Two minutes. First inspection needs no signup.

FORM CIBB-01[See Rule 1(1)]

Feasibility assessment request

1.What is it? Describe your hardware idea.

Or try one:

2.Sketch (opt.)
Add detail (optional, sharper verdict)
3.Who is it for?
4.Target retail
5.Market

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Inspector J. Tanikella

Inspector: J. Tanikella

23 years building hardware.

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Serial No. 2026-08-26-0151

Physical time tracker. Form factor: size of a stubby pen, ie. a long aluminium cylinder. The side displays currently selected client, project and time using dot matrix display that's invisible when not on. There are two dials — small rubber rings around the entire cylinder towards the end. The first dial rotates through clients, the second through projects.  Button on the end starts and stops tracking. Charging over usb-c, sync with phone over bluetooth.

BUILDABLE WITH CHANGES

Global · US$90,000–170,000 for enclosure fixtures, ring/end-cap moulds, display alignment jigs, test fixtures and pilot validation.

Serial No. 2026-08-15-0150

Autonomous boats for commercial and millitary applications

HEAVY LIFT

Global · $6,000,000-$18,000,000 for hull molds/jigs, welding or composite fixtures, harness boards, test stands, HIL rigs, and dockside acceptance equipment; excludes $8,000,000-$25,000,000 of autonomy, trials, and certification NRE.

Serial No. 2026-08-10-0149

Screenless ring-format sleep and HRV tracker with 7-day battery, inductive charging case, and companion app. Titanium shell, no subscription.

HEAVY LIFT

Global · $250-350

Serial No. 2026-08-09-0148

Solar-powered soil moisture and nutrient probe with LoRa connectivity for smallholder farms. Buried sensor spike, weatherproof head unit, 5-year battery target, syncs to a village-level gateway.

BUILDABLE WITH CHANGES

Global · $95,000-170,000 for probe molds, enclosure tooling, overmold tooling, RF/test fixtures, calibration fixtures, and pilot validation equipment.

Serial No. 2026-08-07-0147

long range rf radio with 2mm antennna not big super compact but high range.

NOT VIABLE

Global · $25,000-70,000 for RF test fixtures, enclosure tooling, production programming and validation; this excludes major antenna-development NRE.

Serial No. 2026-08-06-0146

A screen less ai friend for kids

HEAVY LIFT

Global · $250k–600k for industrial design refinement, injection tools, audio/radio fixtures, pilot builds and core compliance testing; excludes AI/cloud development and ongoing inference.

Serial No. 2026-08-05-0145

A tool that can measure the level of water in a rainwater well and send it back over wifi.

BUILDABLE WITH CHANGES

Global · US$45,000–90,000 for enclosure tooling, test fixtures, sensor calibration fixtures, production jigs, and packaging tooling.

Serial No. 2026-08-05-0144

Basically a roomba with an iPhone or camera attached to it for raves

BUILDABLE WITH CHANGES

Global · $300-600