Expert engineers, wielding AI as an instrument. We accelerate the work you already do, complete the work you couldn't justify, and reach the work no one knew how to start.
Augmented Engineering is the practice of applying artificial intelligence to real engineering, under the hand of engineers who have shipped silicon, boards, and firmware.
A single engineer, augmented, can hold an entire design in view at once, cross-checking every net, every part, every rating, at a depth and speed that used to be impossible, unaffordable, or simply unknown.
It is in knowing exactly what to ask, how to verify the answer against a primary source, and when the answer is wrong. That is engineering discipline, and it does not come from a chatbot. It comes from decades at the bench.
Where augmentation changes the equation for hardware development.
Reviews, correlations, documentation, and release packaging that consumed days now take an afternoon, with more eyes on the details, not fewer.
See how →The exhaustive cross-check, the second-source BOM, the full simulation sweep, the diligence you always wanted but could never bill for.
See how →Problems left unsolved because the path was not obvious. Augmentation turns “we can't” into “here is how.”
See how →Concrete engineering work, delivered augmented. Every output is checked against the datasheet, the netlist, or the measurement before it leaves.
Schematic against datasheet, netlist against layout, pin against package, verified against the source rather than from memory.
A bill of materials cross-referenced against footprints, distributors, stock, pricing, and second sources, so the mismatch is caught before the board is fabbed.
Generate, verify, and correct centroid / CPL files against the real footprints and rotations, so assembly lands every part where it belongs.
Atomic, complete, and verified. Gerbers, BOM, centroid, drawings, and documentation assembled into one package that passes every check, or does not ship.
A working design turned into a clear, rigorous document, architecture, theory of operation, and results, written to be read by engineers.
Multi-source, fact-checked, cited investigation into a part, a standard, a topology, or a market, with the sources attached.
Down to the device. SPICE across corners and supply rails, ASIC analog translation, bias points, headroom, and stability, the physics under the schematic, not a black box. This is the depth that separates augmented engineering from a search engine.
Augmentation without verification is just confident error. Every claim is checked against a primary source, and nothing is called done until it has been driven end to end and observed.
The datasheet, the netlist, the measurement. Never a guess dressed up as a fact.
Driven and observed before it is declared working. If a check fails, you hear the output.
A veteran engineer stands at every gate. The AI extends the reach; the judgment stays human.
MCG LLC is led by engineers who have spent careers bringing products from idea to silicon, schematic, board, firmware, and the analog physics beneath. Augmented Engineering is how we bring that experience to bear faster, deeper, and on problems that used to be out of reach. The tools are new. The discipline, knowing what is true and proving it, is not.
Four decades of hardware, from home-computer silicon to modern mixed-signal boards. Meet the engineer, and the track record, behind the work.
Bil Herd BioHardware architecture, PCB design and layout, and engineering-grade prototyping, all of it now augmented for speed and depth.
MCG CapabilitiesShort, practical writing on how augmented engineering gets applied to real hardware work.
Cross-checking a design against its sources, and a real example: automating a verified manufacturing release package with our assembly partner Worthington.
Read the article →Designing around parts you can actually get: availability-driven design that checks live stock, lifecycle, and second sources before the schematic is locked.
Read the article →Tell us what you are building and where it is stuck. If augmentation can move it, we will tell you how. If it can't, we will tell you that too.
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