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One deep teardown every month, with real numbers from real factories. Price and lead-time signals when they move. And a standing offer: send me your quotation and an engineer will read it back to you.
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A single product or industry, taken apart: how it is actually made, where the margin sits, what a fair price looks like at 100 / 1,000 / 10,000 units, and which step in the process is where quality quietly dies. Written from work I have personally done, not from other people's articles.
When lithium, copper, resin or freight rates move, you hear it here first with the direction and rough magnitude — so you know whether to lock a price or wait, and whether a supplier's "raw material increase" is real.
The part members use most. Send a quotation, a spec sheet or a supplier message and get an engineer's read on it: where the padding is, what is missing, what to push back on. Answered in a monthly round-up so everyone benefits from the pattern.
When a supplier or a practice turns out to be a problem — name, pattern and evidence — members see it. Shared as it surfaces, not on a schedule.
Every past teardown, every Q&A round-up, all checklists and templates. Your membership is a library, not a newsletter.
No upsells, no courses, no "mastermind". If a month goes out with something you cannot use, tell me and I will fix it or refund that month.
Who it is for
The arithmetic is unglamorous. $15 a month is $180 a year. A single avoided mistake — a tooling fee that was never real, a shipment that misses spec, a 30-day delay that costs you a selling season — is usually worth more than the whole year.
But the honest version: if you are placing one exploratory order and nothing more, buy the Playbook instead. A subscription only makes sense when you are going to keep buying.
That independence is the whole point. I am paid to be right, not to close your order.
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