Why I built FounderPath

I've spent decades around hardware design and manufacturing, and I kept seeing the same thing: good founders running out of money because nobody gave them real numbers.

They priced development from a single agency quote, guessed at tooling from forum threads, and found out about certification costs after the product was done.

The information exists. It's spread across lab fee schedules, supplier price tiers, distributor catalogs and the memory of people who have shipped products.

FounderPath pulls that together into a line-item budget you can get in ninety seconds, with every source shown.

No vendor pays to be in a range. The goal is simple: walk into every quote knowing what it should cost.