At NorthSky Design, we partner with people and organisations who are building real, physical things – and need help doing it smarter, faster, and with less risk. Whether you’re a founder with a prototype, an SME scaling production, or an investor trying to get a quicker return on your investment, we work where commercial ambition meets physical products.
We work with founders who are serious about bringing a physical product to life. Whether you’re bootstrapped or freshly funded, we help navigate the minefield of design, prototyping, manufacturing, and launch.
Our clients typically have:
We bring speed, clarity, and real-world experience – helping you avoid costly missteps and get to market faster.
We support growing, owner-managed businesses – often in the £1m–£15m range – that are manufacturing physical products and investing in innovation. Whether you need to streamline production, develop your next product, or rethink your approach entirely, we offer a hands-on, strategic partnership that goes beyond product design.
Typical challenges we help with:
If you’re looking for transformative impact – not just incremental changes – we’re the partner for you.
For investors backing physical product businesses, we provide critical manufacturing and product development insight that can accelerate timelines, reduce risk, and unlock value. We work alongside analysts, portfolio leads, and boards to help investments move efficiently through the development pipeline – and avoid stalling at the design or production stages.
We offer:
Whether pre-acquisition or mid-growth, we act as a strategic extension of your team.
While our expertise is grounded in physical product innovation, our approach is flexible by design – meaning we can adapt to a wide range of industries. We focus on projects where we can bring real commercial value through design, strategy, and manufacturing insight.
Here are some of the sectors we’ve worked in — and areas where we know we can make a difference:
If your project involves a physical product and a business-critical outcome, we’re interested. We’re less about industry labels – and more about solving real problems with smart design and strategy.
