EV × DESIGN-TO-VALUE

EV cost-out starts before the supplier sees the print.

Every gram of aluminum, every wire run, every weld bead drives EV unit economics. We teardown the architecture before it’s frozen — and share in the savings we engineer out.

The intersection

EV margins live and die at architecture freeze.

Post-launch cost reduction is 3× harder than pre-freeze design-to-value. We sit in the room with engineering — not after the supplier quotes land.

Architecture-level teardown

Reverse-engineer the entire BOM before tooling cuts. Identify $5K+ design-to-value plays at the system level.

Should-cost per design alternative

When engineering proposes 3 designs, we cost all 3 from raw material to finished good — engineering picks with full cost transparency.

Supplier qualification in parallel

While engineering finalizes the design, we’re already pre-qualifying suppliers across the regions that win on landed cost.

What this looks like in practice

Rivian — pedestal charger architecture

$1.9M

Design-to-value teardown on $9.3M of charging-station architecture. 20% architecture-level cost reduction unlocked before tooling. Rivian paid only from the verified savings.

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SAVED · DELIVERED $1.9M PAY-AS-YOU-SAVE · ZERO UPFRONT EV · Design-to-Value
Adjacent paths

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Pay-as-you-save · EV

Send 5 ev parts. We’re paid only from the savings we find.

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