A hardware lab, not a broker.
Neat Labs is a US-registered hardware engineering lab built around embedded systems, UAV, and IoT product design. We exist because too much hardware outsourcing works like a relay race — a different vendor for schematic, layout, manufacturing, and firmware, each one handing off to the next with less context than they started with. We run all of it as one team.
Qualified hardware engineers, not account managers.
Every design that leaves Neat Labs is done by qualified hardware engineers — not assembled by a project manager farming pieces out to whoever's available. The people speccing your components are the same people who answer for the board when it comes back from fabrication.
No relayed messages or filtered specs. Conversations happen directly with the engineer responsible for the design.
Multi-layer BGA, impedance-controlled aviation boards, and field-deployed IoT — designs that survived contact with manufacturing and end users.
Industry-standard tooling, by default.
We work in Altium Designer, KiCad, EasyEDA, and Eagle, and design to IPC-7351, IPC-2221, and IPC-356A standards as a baseline, not an upsell. Manufacturing and sourcing run through JLCPCB, PCBWay, and LCSC.
Primary client geographies
From first prototype to overflow capacity.
We work with companies in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and Germany building products around embedded systems, drones and UAVs, and connected IoT devices — from early-stage hardware startups validating a first prototype, to established companies needing overflow design capacity or a second opinion on an existing board.
NDA-protected by default.
Hardware IP is usually the most defensible part of a product. Every engagement at Neat Labs is covered by a non-disclosure agreement as a default part of how we work — not something you have to ask for or negotiate into the contract.