Attention Engineers, Prototypers, and Project Managers:

• Have you been looking for a manufacturer who can help you turn your idea into a finished part, but no one seems to be interested? 
• Are you having a hard time finding someone who will take the time to work with you to refine your design so it can be made faster and less expensively— someone who is just as comfortable with a professional drawing as with a napkin sketch?
• Have you struggled in the past to find a manufacturer who can run a small order without an incredibly long lead-time and expensive setup costs? 
• Have you ever received a part back from a shop that still needs tighter tolerances and therefore more machining?  Are you frustrated that you can't seem to find a shop that can do it right the first time?

If so, then your searching is finally over and here’s why:

We created ARI Skunkworks to help our first company, Aerial Robotics, Inc., with R&D because we needed to iterate on designs faster than we could get parts made. Specifically, we needed systems and people that could 

• hold 6-micron tolerances
• make complicated designs without complicated setup, and
• have the ability to make both small and large parts.

We were having a hard time finding machine shops that wanted to do our one-offs or even a small run at a price and timeframe that would work for us.  Sound familiar?

Most companies we contacted were deep into production work and found it difficult to get our work done.  And no one really wanted to help us make our designs easier to manufacture.  Most wanted complete designs and no one had the desire to brainstorm and participate in the design process.  Their response was usually,

"Dude, where's your drawing?"

So we decided to put together our own in-house prototyping capabilities so we could not just build our parts, but also with the extra capacity (and there is a lot of extra capacity) build and design parts for you so you can finally get your parts machined accurately and when you want them. Enter...