Hi,
In our last Issue we gave you a sneak peak for our first service dedicated to open source hardware, and the opportunity to sign up early!
We already conducted a round of Simple Start consultations and still have some in the works! Thank you very much for the great response and jumping into the cold water with us!
As newsletter subscribers and Smander discord members you always get the important news first.
And now the official launch day is finally here.

We present our first service launching October 1st.:

Simple start

Smander offers the first simple compliance consultation service for open source hardware.

(tl/dr. click here)

The Barrier of entry to CE has always been very high, in terms of financial commitment but also on project maturity / development stage and documentation to provide.

It is quite common for a lot of projects to get canceled/pivoted because of certification issues at a quite late stage, because you just could not get the needed guidance early enough in the process.

The big corporations can afford a service that accompanies them through all development stages, and we think Makers and small businesses should get the same.
The trouble is you´d already have to make severe financial commitments in a very early stage, before you are even sure you project can actually be turned into a viable product.

We found most people need these three things before the prototype is even physically produced:

• Clear information about which rules apply to your open source product.
• A call with a real human to get your questions answered.
• Guidance on how to proceed to bring your product to market

For a fixed affordable price exclusively available to open source products.
No guesswork or individual quotation shenanigans.

Find all the details here:

https://early.smander.com/simple-start/

There is also a lot of development currently going on in terms of infrastructure needed to provide all the planned services.
Simple Start is just the tip of the iceberg, and the one we can already provide before finishing all the bigger infrastructure projects.

We had many requests to start as early as possible, and we listen.

Simple start puts your project right in the ideal stage to move on towards full certification via GetSmandered.
It is also the most cost effective way to gain knowledge about the full extent of work/investment needed to bring your specific product to market.
Which also benefits you in conceiving your next project!

For non open source projects we also provide classical CE-Productcoordination.
If that is interesting to you, contact us via CE@Smander.com

thank you very much fro your continued support.

please share our mission with whoever might be interested.

greetings

Clemens
Smander.com