★ Hardware · Live ★

    You build the software. We build the hardware.

    Bring the app or the AI service you already have, and we design the device it lives in: a badge, a snap-on, a room unit, a shape nobody has made yet. Built on the Neato Sona platform, with pairing and updates already solved, so the device and your app work together from day one. Don't have the software yet? We build that too.

    What you bring, what we bring

    You bring the software, or just the idea. We bring the device, the connection, and the run.

    • Your software stays yours

      Your app, your models, your backend. The device is the front door to it: a press, a voice, a moment, delivered to your code.

    • The connection is done

      Pairing, reconnection, background transfer, firmware, and over-the-air updates are already built. The phone or a hub does the thinking, so the device stays light and lasts all day.

    • The electronics

      The same board as Neato Sona, so a run in one shape is a head start on the next. The Smart Badge is the next shape in development.

    • Your name on it

      Printed or etched during assembly, with a custom box. Your software behind it.

    Also included

    • Start from Sona. Already have software? We can take Neato Sona as it is and customize it to work with your app, the way the Ninja Concepts edition works with Ninja Notes.
    • One process. Talk, spec, brand, build, ship. New shapes add a design phase under NDA and a minimum set per design.
    • API and MCP into your systems. Whatever the device captures lands where your software already lives.
    • Software too, when you need it. We build Neato's own apps too. If the idea needs both halves, we build both halves.

    Who this is for

    • Anyone with an idea

      No software team, no hardware experience, just the idea. Bring it. It starts with a conversation, and we can build both halves.

    • Software teams that need a device

      You have the app. Your customers want a button to press instead of a phone to unlock.

    • AI services that want a wearable

      Turn a voice or assistant product into something people carry on a lapel, a lanyard, or a wrist.

    • Field, floor, and front-desk products

      Where a phone in the hand is the wrong form factor and the software still needs to hear the room.

    • Brands with a shape in mind

      A badge, a room unit, a snap-on. Designed with you under NDA, built to order.

    The same insides. Any shape you can wear.

    The snap-on ships today. Every other shape runs on the same electronics and the same software.

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    The snap-on, shipping now

    The snap-on

    Lapel, lanyard, or wrist. All-day battery, one button, magnetic mount. Runs from 100 units.

    Inquire about a custom wearable

    Built by Mark and Mike Hilton in Houston

    Custom AI Hardware is one of the things we make, in software and hardware. The same two brothers built all of it.

    See everything we make →

    Imagine it. We'll build it.

    Tell us the idea, in a sentence or a sketch. We'll tell you what it takes.