funded by work
Non-seeded by choice. The bank account is fed by engineering services, so every hour spent on the X40G has to earn its place.
the studio // non-seeded
small,
independent
AfterCore is a hardware studio owned by the work it does. No committee approves the roadmap — the bench does, one measured revision at a time.
cad · pcb · materials · prototyping
one roof, one team
manifesto
we are a small, non-seeded hardware studio. no committee, no roadmap theatre — just parts that get lighter every revision.
AfterCore funds itself with engineering work and spends what is left on the bench: fixtures, alloys, machine time. The mouse is where that shows first, but the method — CAD, PCB, materials and prototyping under one roof — is the actual product.
how the studio runs
four rules that
survived revisions
Each one costs us something in convenience and buys back honesty.
in-house or it does not ship
CAD, PCB, materials and prototyping stay in the same room. Hand-offs are where weight and honesty both get lost.
parts before decks
Every revision ends in a physical part with measured numbers. A rendering is a guess with better lighting.
one open channel
Email and phone, answered by the people who design the parts — no forms, no funnel, no sales team in between.
connect
say it straight
Briefs, partnerships, testers — the channel is open and the reply is real.
// phone
+39 388 892 9341led by tristano rigoli · linkedin
contact the studio// product
see where the method lands
The X40G — forty grams, magnesium shell, FLARE switches, PAW 3950 at 8 kHz.