Rick:

It's your birthday.  How about you tell me if it's later today or tomorrow
morning after 10am?

-- Tom



On Mon, Aug 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM Rick <rick@mavrix.one> wrote:

> Can we chat later today or tomorrow morning?
>
>
>
> Rick Mislan, PhD,
> Founder, CTO
>
> mavrix1.com
>
>
> On July 31, 2025 at 3:41:35 PM, Thomas Pownall (tpownall@cadxservices.com)
> wrote:
>
> 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's been
> more than 3 months, and I freed time up in my schedule.  I'm using my money
> to fund things at my end right now.  As such, I need to know where this is
> going.
>
> 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'm definitely
> going to do something with this, the only question is what and with who.
>
> 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're not
> ready to commit to firmware that doesn't exist yet.  He has a background in
> manufacturing environments which are highly controlled; he worked at Intel,
> so he's used to some pretty onerous procedures.  As someone who has worked
> on transportation systems where human safety is at risk, he's familiar
> with strict regulations.
>
> 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's what I took away from our last discussion.  It also sounds like
> you're at the point of wanting to establish a business, which means
> establishing the underlying infrastructure.  That's going to require some
> oversight documentation.  I could have Joel prepare the outline (not
> necessarily the exact procedures) of a company -- it's a lot of block
> diagrams and charts, and is the kind of documentation you need for both ISO
> and AS9100.
>
> If you're going after military business, you'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're going to try to sell this.
>
> My original quote included setting up a MRP system that understood the
> structure; I don't have a clue if you have any able bodies who could do
> that or if you're going to just buy some horrendous MRP system which takes
> forever to configure and set up.
>
> If you're truly saying you need to have that all in place before we start
> doing design work, that's 100% backwards of what you've been telling me for
> months -- but we can help you with that side of it.  It's not our favorite
> kind of work, but we do know how to do it.
>
> What this all boils down to is that we've been feeling your sense of
> urgency for months, but there's been no official start and I can't figure
> out how to help you.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas Pownall
>
> CADX Services, Inc.
>
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