Research-grade engineering, embedded in your team. We build the rigs, demonstrators, and experimental hardware that prove your concept works.
On your team for a defined stretch — a deadline, a milestone, a blocked problem. Then we step back.
e.g. fundraising sprint · design-review prep
Your standing engineering capacity, month to month — an ongoing technical office.
minimum 3 months
We've engineered in the hardest conditions in the field, at some of its most demanding institutions. Whatever your hardware problem, the odds are we've faced harder.
We work with research teams, deep-tech startups and growing companies that have hit a hardware problem and need it solved properly. When the engineering is what's slowing you down, you get the engineers it needs — working as part of your team, for as long as you need. It's co-development, not a contractor who delivers and disappears. No full-time hire needed.
We work out what your problem needs, and solve it as part of your team.
Every project starts with Discovery — a paid, fixed-scope first step where we identify the technical requirements and map the risks with you: what the hardware has to do, how many engineers it takes, and which specialisms it needs.
From there it's co-development — the right engineers work embedded in your team, building the prototypes and demonstrators the project calls for and validating them through simulation and test, so the evidence is there before you commit to fabrication. We work on a fixed fee, for as long as the project needs, and update the plan as the work develops.
Engineer working at the intersection of research and applied engineering. I founded C2E to help researchers and technology builders move from concept to evidence without being slowed down by engineering uncertainty.
My background is experimental. Before C2E I worked at Renaissance Fusion (private fusion technology), at ALBA Synchrotron (large-scale research infrastructure), and completed an experimental PhD in aero-engine tribology in collaboration with Rolls-Royce.
Rolls-Royce had identified stator contacts as a fuel saving technology. It was early stages of research and no one had provided laboratory results before in representative in-engine environment. The concept was solid; the evidence needed.
SolutionProf. Matthew Marshall · PhD supervisor, aero-engine tribology research
"Julian's project brought significant challenges, and also delivered transformative impact. He met these challenges admirably, creating a research approach that both achieved the desired outcomes, and provided a platform to develop this topic area in the long-term."
C2E has joined the Parc Científic de la Universitat de València, offering specialist engineering capacity to research teams, startups and deep-tech companies. C2E also received second prize at the Impulsa Startup Demo Day.
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Read & try the tool →One conversation to assess fit. We'll tell you directly whether we can help and what that looks like.