How Government Policy Dismantled Manufacturing in Australia and Canada
Explore how deliberate government policies led to the decline of manufacturing in Australia and Canada, reshaping their industrial landscapes over decades.
How to Finance a Micro-Factory: A Practical Capital Stack for Early-Stage Manufacturers
Learn how to finance a micro-factory with a practical capital stack for early-stage manufacturers and build a viable business without conventional venture
Unit Economics for Hardware Founders: What Software Metrics Don't Prepare You For
Hardware founders face unique unit economics challenges that differ from software metrics, including direct materials, labour, and manufacturing overhead
Manufacturing in Southeast Asia: What Thailand and Vietnam Actually Offer Foreign Founders
A practical look at the incentive programs in Thailand and Vietnam, what foreign founders need to do to incorporate in each country, and where the programs are genuinely useful and where they fall short.
Part 2: Sovereign Industrialisation Programs. Why Governments Are Paying Startups to Make Things
This is the second article about Sovereign industrialisation of Western countries with a focus on Australia, Singapore, South Korea and Canada. Here I go into some depth around the Government programs to incentivise creating manufacturing businesses in these countries. Australia: The National Reconstruction Fund and What Sits Around It Australia&
Part 1: Sovereign Industrialisation Programs. Why Governments Are Paying Startups to Make Things
A look at the programs governments are running to rebuild domestic manufacturing and what a founder needs to know to access them. Something changed in the way governments think about manufacturing around 2020 and the shift has not reversed. What changed was not political fashion but lived experience: a pandemic
How LLMs and AI is Changing the Design to Build Workflow
This article is a deeper look at how AI handles CAD generation, floorplan and layout recognition, materials estimation, and quantities takeoffs. While LLMs have excellent capabilities there are some areas where these models have some disadvantages as compared to traditional human analysis of plans and CAD files. In the first
Introducing Reindustri - when AI Designs the Machine
Mapping how AI is being used to design the next set of machines AI is no longer just augmenting industrial engineering, in the most advanced labs and startups today, it is actually already doing the engineering work such as generating chip layouts, simulating material failure, navigating autonomous vehicles in real
Automation plus the Physical World will be the Next Industrial Revolution
The Second Industrial Revolution Won't be Just Software Subscriptions A platform for founders, investors, and builders navigating the convergence of AI, capital markets, and physical production. The greatest capital allocation opportunity of the next decade is not software. It is the reinvention of how things get made — and