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Short, high-impact engagements across high-performance sport and industrial manufacturing. Each case study covers what was done, how, and what it changed.

01

Sports data analytics

From sensor data to race-winning decisions

Sensor-data pipelines, insight extraction, and a multi-agent AI system over a knowledge base for high-performance sailing.

SailingData engineeringAI agents
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02

Techno-economic analysis

Costing the strategy before you tool it

Benchmarking two competing product strategies on technical and economic terms — component count, material cost, unit economics and SWOT — to make an expensive tooling decision on evidence, not instinct.

Techno-economicsCost modellingSWOT
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03

Product development

Engineering products from first principles

From concept to a validated, standards-compliant flushing valve — a calibrated hydraulic model, rapid 3D-printed prototyping, and a hands-on DOE against the EN 14055 standard.

HydraulicsDOERapid prototyping
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04

Quality & certification

Engineering Olympic-grade quality assurance

A complete metrology and quality-control system — GD&T, inspection fixtures, statistical measurement validation — that made Flying Sardine a certified Olympic equipment supplier.

MetrologyGD&TOlympic certification
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R&D accelerated. Decisions de-risked.

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