Services
The teams that improve fastest aren’t guessing — they’re running structured experiments.
Let’s make your team one of them.
We offer four services and training in the field of efficient experimental and testing techniques. They are listed as a ladder of increasing complexity, so you can pick the smallest service that answers your question.
And don’t worry if you can’t decide — every one of them starts with the same free 30-minute call.
Where to start
- When you are not sure the numbers themselves can be trusted
Best for
- Explaining data that disagrees with itself — between operators, instruments, or shifts
- Establishing whether the process itself is moving, or whether what you’re seeing is measurement noise
Reviewing your measurement system before you experiment is what separates a good experiment from an excellent one. We’ll quantify how much your measurement system affects your results and recommend how to improve it. Formally, this is a gauge repeatability and reproducibility (Gauge R&R) study. In plain terms, we work out how much of the variation you’re seeing comes from the process, and how much comes from the instrument, the method, or the person taking the reading.
- When your team knows the suspects but not which to test
Best for
- A fast start on one process you need to make a decision about
- Teams that can list the suspected variables — and just need help deciding which ones matter most
Jumpstart is for teams that need to get started, and fast — usually because they already have a good idea of what’s affecting their process and need help turning it into a sound experiment quickly. It’s three two-hour sessions: we narrow your team’s list of suspects to the handful worth testing, design the experiment around what you can actually run, and interpret the result together. You run it; we design it and read it.
New to Blueprint? It’s the free experiment-design tool this runs on — take a look. You don’t need an engagement to use it.
- When the question is clear and you want the design right
Best for
- A defined question on a process already running
- Known constraints, and data you can collect
A short, focused engagement on a process you already run and want to improve. We help you frame the decision and design the experiment around your constraints, then stay close while it runs and deliver an analysis written for decision-makers. It works for any process in any industry — from marketing to biotech, and everything in between.
- When the question itself still needs shaping
Best for
- New systems with no prior test data to lean on
- Getting it wrong is expensive, slow to undo, or both
For decisions where the parameters are not clear yet and the cost of getting it wrong is substantial. We work alongside your team from framing the question through to the final call. We have done this for brand-new ride systems, spacecraft, and R&D programs where nobody had run the experiment before, because nobody had built the thing before.
Every engagement runs the same four phases.
Discovery
We talk through the decision you need to make, the factors you can control, and what has already been tried. No commitment. This is a rigorous intake conversation resulting in an honest answer about whether this is the right tool.
Experiment Design
A design that fits your constraints and balances statistical power against what is operationally possible. You receive a run matrix, a pre-analysis plan, an operating procedure, and no ambiguity about what is being measured.
Execution Support
We stay close while you run it. If something looks wrong — in the data, the execution, or the environment — we catch it before it invalidates the result.
Analysis & Decision
We surface the effects that matter, separate signal from noise, and hand back a recommendation in language your team can defend to the people who ask.
Workshop & training
Or teach a team to fish.
Teams that sustain innovation don’t outsource how they experiment — they build the skill in-house. The curriculum is kept current for the integrated, multi-system problems engineering teams face today.
Hands-on training so your engineers, scientists, technicians, and operators can design and read experiments themselves. It’s the same course engineers and scientists at Northrop Grumman, NAVSEA, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have taken. Once your team can run efficient experiments on its own, momentum builds — and the breakthroughs that set you apart start coming from inside your own walls.
What to expect
- In person or virtualOn site with your team, or live online.
- No statistics background neededWe start from the ground up.
- Tailored to your projectsWorked examples from the processes you run.
- Live software demosReal examples, analyzed live on screen.
- Any industryWherever there’s a process to improve.
- A schedule that fits yoursWeekly, every other week — your pace.
What you can count on.
Whichever service you pick, and whether we work together for six hours or six months, you can expect these same four things to hold:
Evidence-Based Recommendations
01We recommend what the data supports and avoid decisions made on intuition alone. Rather than debate hypotheses, we prefer to test them and let the results drive our next steps.
Straightforward Claims
02Experiments sometimes return an unwelcome answer, or no significant effect at all. That’s a result, not a failure, and we’ll say so plainly.
Building Capability, Not Dependency
03We can help run your experiments and tests at every phase, but we thrive when we’re mentoring teams and increasing your organization’s capabilities. Every service we offer has that as a guiding principle.
Clarity Over Corporate-Speak
04All our services are dedicated to providing results in clear, concise language that decision-makers can act upon. We don’t deliver reports that require interpretation — they are a sign of weak understanding.
Engineers and scientists from these organizations have trained with Ray
“Thank you for all of your help and teaching with this course, it is seriously helpful and you present very complex material in digestible pieces. I am very stoked for the next course!”
“You are masterful at delivering tasty packets of knowledge, even with a firehose.”
“You can tell he is passionate about this topic and wants others to understand as well. He's a very good speaker as well.”
Need help deciding?
Describe the problem in your own words and what outcome you’re after. We’ll get back to you with the next steps we recommend.