<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Rick:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It&#39;s your birthday.  How about you tell me if it&#39;s later today or tomorrow morning after 10am?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">-- Tom</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div></div><br><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM Rick &lt;rick@mavrix.one&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial">Rick Mislan, PhD, </span><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial">Founder, CTO</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial"><img src="cid:ii_198760cf53e557ae4821" style="max-width: 99%;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial"><a href="http://mavrix1.com/" target="_blank">mavrix1.com</a></div></div><div><br></div></div> <br><p>On July 31, 2025 at 3:41:35 PM, Thomas Pownall (<a href="mailto:tpownall@cadxservices.com" target="_blank">tpownall@cadxservices.com</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite"><span><div><div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I need to figure out how to get Joel off my payroll and onto yours, depending on how long this is going to take to get squared away.  It&#39;s been more than 3 months, and I freed time up in my schedule.  I&#39;m using my money to fund things at my end right now.  As such, I need to know where this is going.</div><br>I have a lot of options at the moment, and not enough information to make a choice.  I have enough effort and money invested that I&#39;m definitely going to do something with this, the only question is what and with who.<br><br>I would appreciate it if, as a starter, if you could find something that you need done that I could have Joel do, since it seems like you&#39;re not ready to commit to firmware that doesn&#39;t exist yet.  He has a background in manufacturing environments which are highly controlled; he worked at Intel, so he&#39;s used to some pretty onerous procedures.  As someone who has worked on transportation systems where human safety is at risk, he&#39;s familiar<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span> with strict regulations.  <br><br>It sounds like you guys are getting away from making a product and moving towards a manufacturing floor (electronics and mechanical), or at least that&#39;s what I took away from our last discussion.  It also sounds like you&#39;re at the point of wanting to establish a business, which means establishing the underlying infrastructure.  That&#39;s going to require some oversight documentation.  I could have Joel prepare the outline (not necessarily the exact procedures) of a company -- it&#39;s a lot of block diagrams and charts, and is the kind of documentation you need for both ISO and AS9100.  <br><br>If you&#39;re going after military business, you&#39;re going to need this kind of process / documentation control.  It takes a while to build the skeleton and then even longer to fill it in.  Right now, it sounds like you have some people with skills and an opportunity, now you need the structure to support both if you&#39;re going to try to sell this.<br><br>My original quote included setting up a MRP system that understood the structure; I don&#39;t have a clue if you have any able bodies who could do that or if you&#39;re going to just buy some horrendous MRP system which takes forever to configure and set up.<br><br>If you&#39;re truly saying you need to have that all in place before we start doing design work, that&#39;s 100% backwards of what you&#39;ve been telling me for months -- but we can help you with that side of it.  It&#39;s not our favorite kind of work, but we do know how to do it.<br><br>What this all boils down to is that we&#39;ve been feeling your sense of urgency for months, but there&#39;s been no official start and I can&#39;t figure out how to help you.</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Regards,</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Thomas Pownall</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">CADX Services, Inc.</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Tel: 585-624-1491 X101</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Fax: 585-582-1101</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:tpownall@cadxservices.com" target="_blank">tpownall@cadxservices.com</a></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Web: <a href="http://www.cadxservices.com" target="_blank">http://www.cadxservices.com</a></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">***********************************************************</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">**************** Confidentiality Statement ****************</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">***********************************************************</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">message. 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