Service 01 · Reverse engineering · UK
You get files you can manufacture, certify and own, rebuilt from hardware that arrived with none. The part might be end-of-life with no source. The product might be an import that needs a UK or EU regulatory file. Either way, we recover the underlying engineering.
Bethnal Green, East London · KiCad reconstruction · IP boundaries advised before we start
When teams call us
Both come up again and again, and both move quickly once we start. You leave the first conversation knowing the route and the likely cost.
Case A · Obsolescence
You still depend on a controller, instrument or sub-assembly. The supplier may be gone, or the part end-of-life. We recover the schematic and bill of materials, then design a drop-in replacement that keeps the system running.
Case B · Market entry
You want to sell an imported product in a new market. You need the engineering behind its conformity files. In the UK that means UKCA marking or the Radio Equipment Directive. Overseas it might be a submission such as South Korea. We reverse engineer the product to the level of detail those files demand.
Deliverables
The result stays portable and yours, because we work entirely in open tools such as KiCad. Design-and-source escrow can be arranged through an independent UK escrow agent, so continuity is assured.
How it runs
We spend 30 minutes on the hardware, the constraint and the deadline. Then we say plainly whether reverse engineering is the right route.
Before any work starts, you get a written scope. It names what we recover, the IP boundaries we have checked, and the test that defines success. The cost is fixed in the same document.
We rebuild the schematic, BOM and layout, then verify the reconstruction against the physical board on our bench.
You receive the files, test evidence and a written summary. Design-and-source escrow can be arranged where continuity matters.
Questions
Yes, that is the typical case. It is an obsolete or undocumented board with no Gerbers, schematics or BOM. We recover the schematic and bill of materials, and the board layout where needed. We then validate the reconstruction against the physical hardware.
Yes. We reverse engineer the product to produce the engineering documentation behind regulatory and market-entry submissions. For example, the detail needed to support entry into a market such as South Korea.
Reverse engineering for interoperability, repair, obsolescence management and regulatory documentation is well established. We work only on hardware you are entitled to, and we advise on IP boundaries before any work starts.
You receive a documented set of outputs.
Design-and-source escrow can be arranged through an independent UK escrow agent, so continuity is assured.
Start here
Send a photo of the board, a note on what it does, and what you need recovered. The fastest route is a free 30-minute consultation with the engineer who would run the work.
We reply within one working day. For anything urgent, the consultation booking is the quickest route.