Senior-level electrical architecture and wiring harness design for hardware startups. Monthly retainer or fixed-price project packages. Pause or cancel anytime.
Ongoing engineering support on retainer, or scoped project packages for larger deliverables. Choose what fits your team's needs — or combine both.
A senior electrical systems engineer in your back pocket. Ongoing support for the questions, reviews, and specs your team needs — without a full-time hire.
Pause or cancel anytime. No long-term commitment.
Major deliverables with fixed scope, fixed price, and a clear timeline. For architecture overhauls, full harness designs, and system integration specs.
Fixed-price based on scope. Fully async.
A senior EE costs $150k–$200k/year plus benefits, equity, and overhead — and you may not have enough work to keep one busy full-time. PulseSpec gives you senior-level expertise on demand: use the retainer for ongoing support at a fraction of the cost, bring in project packages for the big deliverables, and pause when your workload slows down. You get the expertise without the overhead.
Every engagement is scoped, quoted, and delivered as a fixed-price package. You pay for outcomes — architecture documents, validated designs, and production-ready specifications — not hours.
A comprehensive evaluation of your vehicle or system electrical architecture. Identifies risks, validates design decisions, and provides a clear roadmap for production readiness.
End-to-end harness design for startups transitioning from prototype wiring to a production-ready, manufacturable system. From topology to BOM to manufacturing docs.
Hands-on production experience across the full electrical systems stack — not just theory, but designs that have been built, tested, and shipped.
Whether you're building the next EV platform, electrifying marine vessels, or scaling clean energy hardware — PulseSpec brings the electrical systems expertise your team needs.
Electric vehicles, motorcycles, trucks, and micro-mobility platforms. Full vehicle electrical architecture from concept through production.
Solar electric systems, battery management, inverter integration, and energy storage platforms for residential and commercial applications.
Electric propulsion systems, onboard power management, and marine-grade electrical architecture for vessels and offshore platforms.
Early-stage hardware companies transitioning from prototype to production. Getting the electrical architecture right before you scale saves months and significant cost downstream.
No open-ended retainers. No hourly billing. Every engagement follows a clear process from scoping to delivery.
Submit a project brief describing your system, challenges, and what you need. We'll respond with questions and a clear scope — no calls needed.
You receive a fixed-price proposal with clear deliverables, timeline, and acceptance criteria within 48 hours.
Engineering work begins. You get progress updates and access to working documents throughout the engagement.
Final deliverables with a recorded walkthrough and written summary. 30 days of async follow-up included. No loose ends.
PulseSpec was founded by Niklas, a senior electrical systems engineer with over 20 years of experience across the automotive EV, marine, offshore energy, and solar industries.
From designing vehicle electrical architectures and power distribution systems at EV startups to leading field engineering teams on offshore platforms, Niklas brings a rare combination of hands-on production experience and systems-level thinking.
PulseSpec exists because too many hardware startups hit the same avoidable problems: architectures that don't scale, prototype wiring that can't be manufactured, and electrical systems that weren't designed for production. These problems are expensive to fix late — and straightforward to prevent early.
Every PulseSpec engagement is handled directly by Niklas. No project managers, no junior engineers, no handoffs. Senior-level expertise from first call to final deliverable.
If something isn't covered here, reach out and ask directly.
The retainer gives you ongoing access to a senior electrical systems engineer for $4,000/month. Submit requests one at a time via Trello — schematic reviews, component selection, power budget checks, vendor evaluations, spec questions. Most tasks are delivered within 48–72 hours. Submit unlimited requests per month, pause billing anytime, and cancel with no long-term commitment.
The retainer is for ongoing, shorter-cycle engineering tasks — the kind of questions and reviews that come up regularly as you build. Project packages are for larger, self-contained deliverables like a full architecture review or complete harness design. Many clients use both: the retainer for day-to-day support, and a project package when they need a major deliverable.
Anything that a senior electrical systems engineer would handle: schematic reviews, connector and component selection, power budget analysis, cable specification questions, vendor comparisons, quick design checks, BOM reviews, interface specification questions, and more. If a request is too large for the retainer format, I'll let you know and we can scope it as a project instead.
Billing cycles run on a 31-day period. If you use the service for 20 days and then pause, you'll have 11 days of service remaining to use whenever you're ready. This way you only pay for engineering support when you actually need it — no wasted spend during quiet periods.
PulseSpec provides electrical systems engineering for EV and automotive startups, clean energy companies (solar, energy storage), marine electrification, and general hardware startups transitioning from prototype to production.
A full review of your vehicle or system electrical architecture including power budget analysis, interface specification review, risk assessment with prioritized recommendations, and architecture documentation with block diagrams.
Each engagement begins with an async scoping brief to define deliverables. You receive a fixed quote based on complexity — no hourly billing, no scope surprises. You pay for outcomes, not hours. If the scope changes during the project, we discuss and re-quote before proceeding.
Yes — this is a core specialty. PulseSpec helps hardware startups transition from prototype wiring to production-ready harness designs, including connector selection, DFM review, BOM generation, and manufacturing documentation packages.
An architecture review typically takes 2–3 weeks. Wiring harness design packages run 4–8 weeks depending on complexity. Exact timelines are confirmed during the scoping phase.
Absolutely. PulseSpec works best with Seed to Series B hardware startups that have a working prototype and are preparing for production. Getting the electrical architecture right at this stage saves significant time and cost downstream.
Tell me about your system and what you need. I'll respond within one business day with initial thoughts and next steps — typically an async scoping brief at no charge.