Think. Build. Invest.
RMBG builds hardware and software with AI agents paired to senior engineers. After two decades in cybersecurity, none of it ships unreviewed.
Three ways we engage. Most of our work moves through all three.
We scope before we build. Technology foresight, requirement workshops, and roadmaps that account for what manufacturing, compliance, and security will actually demand of you later.
AI agents pair with senior engineers to move from prototype to production faster than a traditional team can staff up. Every commit is reviewed, and security is a gate rather than a final audit.
When we believe in what you are building, we will trade some or all of our fee for equity and co-build with you. It aligns us with the outcome instead of the hours.
How we build
We use AI agents throughout delivery because they genuinely compress timelines. We also spent two decades in cybersecurity, building an award-winning IoT security device and taking it to mass production. That is exactly why we do not ship what an agent wrote without reading it.
The speed is the easy part. The judgement about what to check is the work.
How we approach securityAgents draft; senior engineers approve. Nothing reaches a branch that a person who understands the system has not read.
Threat modelling, dependency and secrets scanning, and a review of anything touching auth, crypto, or customer data. Before merge, not after launch.
We track what was agent-generated and what was hand-written, so your team inherits a codebase it can reason about.
Scaffolding, migrations, test coverage, and integration glue move fast. Architecture and security-critical paths stay deliberate.
A sample of shipped work across hardware, IoT and platforms. Client names are withheld, but the systems are real and in production.
Cybersecurity
Our own product: an award-winning device protecting travellers on untrusted networks. Taken from concept through certification to mass production and worldwide distribution.
Shipped to 125+ countries, with retail in the US, Europe and Japan. $3M raised.
Connected wellness
A flexible, patented consumer device with a companion app: hardware bring-up, firmware, a Bluetooth link, and on-device personalisation driven by usage signals. The data involved is intimate, so privacy was an architectural constraint rather than a policy page.
Patented hardware, working firmware and a companion app delivered from concept to a production-ready device.
Hospitality
A procurement system for hospitality operators, connecting venues to suppliers with catalogue, ordering, and reconciliation in one flow. Now a leading solution in its category.
Operating at scale across hospitality venues.
How we scale
A boutique firm should not mean a small bench. We combine agentic delivery with a senior core team and a global network of specialists, which is how a team our size takes on hardware, firmware, cloud, and security at the same time.
Time zones become an advantage rather than a tax: work moves overnight, and when a product goes into manufacturing we have people who can stand on the factory floor.
Agents take the mechanical engineering load: scaffolding, migrations, test coverage, refactors, integration work. Directed by engineers, reviewed on every commit.
The people who own the architecture and the security decisions, and who stay on the engagement from scoping through production.
Near-shore and offshore engineers and domain experts across Europe, Asia and the Americas, including hardware people near the factories that build your product.
It is why we are comfortable being handed a problem with no obvious precedent.
We run our own R&D alongside client work, on connected hardware, sensing, and secure device architecture. Some of it has become patented intellectual property, including hardware now shipping in consumer products.
The rest becomes leverage: a sensing approach, a firmware pattern, or a security model we have already proven, so a client problem starts from something working rather than from a blank page.
Strategy, engineering, and capital across AI, hardware, software, and security.
We help you navigate the technology landscape, find the opportunity worth chasing, and scope it properly before anyone writes code or cuts a PCB.
RMBG is a boutique advisory and engineering firm in Amsterdam. For over a decade we have helped companies turn ideas into products that ship: prototypes, firmware, hardware, AI systems, and the commercial strategy around them.
Our clients range from global corporations and mission-driven NGOs to ambitious startups, across consumer electronics, industrial hardware, AI, and sustainability.
More about RMBG“You can't build great hardware over Zoom and Alibaba. You, or someone you trust, has to be there, on the factory floor.”
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