Most of what I've learned running manufacturing at SpaceX, Astra, Amazon Kuiper, and Grounded didn't come from slide decks. It came from standing in front of the part, watching the line stall, and figuring out what to do about it by Friday.
This blog is the place I write that down. Short, practical, opinionated — written for the operators building the next generation of hardware, and the CEOs who have to defend the burn rate that funds them.
What you'll find here
- Field notes from active engagements (names redacted, patterns kept).
- Pricing, COGS, and unit-economics breakdowns that actually hold on the floor.
- What AI + modern software are — and aren't — good for in a real manufacturing line.
- The occasional strong opinion, loosely held, about the space economy.
“The factory is the product. Everything else is a deliverable that points at it.”
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