80+ Years Combined Experience | IRD-Approved R&D Provider | Member of Plastics NZ | Own Supply Chain in China and NZ | Clients in NZ, AU and USA | 100% of Your IP Is Yours
Is Your Physical Product Idea Worth Pursuing?
Get a definitive answer before you spend a dollar on design or manufacturing.
Most physical products fail not because the idea was bad. They fail because nobody gave an honest technical assessment before the money started flowing. The Pro-Dev Verdict is a 60-minute session with our founder. A full written feasibility report delivered within seven business days. Your product is evaluated with input from the full Pro-Dev team, with over 80 years of combined experience across industrial design, engineering, compliance, and manufacturing. Everything you need to make a confident decision before development begins.
It is the most important investment you will make before committing to full product development.
The Pro-Dev Four
Form
You know within three seconds whether you want to pick something up. So does your customer. If your product does not look like something worth owning, they will not buy it no matter how well it works.
Function
It has to work the first time, the hundredth time, and the thousandth time. In the real world, not a lab. If it fails in the field, no amount of good design saves your reputation.
Cost
Imagine getting form, function, and compliance exactly right then discovering nobody can afford to buy it because the unit cost is too high. It happens more than you would think. Economics are not a final check. They are a design input from day one.
Compliance
NZ, Australia, and the USA each have their own safety, certification, and labelling rules. You can have the best product in the world and still be unable to sell it legally. This is discovered far too late by far too many founders.
Most physical products don’t fail because the idea was bad
It’s rarely because the idea was bad. It’s because one of four things was ignored. At Pro-Dev we call them The Pro-Dev Four and we design for all of them simultaneously, from the first sketch.
Most firms optimise for one or two. We design for all four from day one because getting three right and missing one is the same as getting none right.
At Pro-Dev, we design for all four from the very first sketch. Because getting three right and missing one costs you everything the other three achieved.
© Pro-Dev 2026. The Pro-Dev Four is a proprietary framework developed by Pro-Dev Limited.
Here is what you get when you book The Pro-Dev Verdict.
Two decades of experience leading physical products from napkin sketches to factory floors across New Zealand, Australia, China, and the USA. Pro-Dev brings together expertise across industrial design, engineering, compliance planning, and manufacturing under one roof. Not a consultancy that has read about this. One that has done it, repeatedly, at scale.
Value: $800Delivered within seven business days of your session. Your product is evaluated with input from the full Pro-Dev team, with over 80 years of combined experience across industrial design, engineering, compliance, and manufacturing. A structured professional document covering every dimension of your product's viability. Where we can give you numbers, we do. Where we cannot, we tell you exactly why and what it will take to get there. Yours to keep regardless of whether you proceed with Pro-Dev.
Value: $3,500To get a factory quote you need production-ready CAD files. Those files cost $5,000 to $15,000 before a single manufacturer will give you a number. Based on two decades of direct factory relationships and over 80 years of combined team experience across real production environments, we give you a meaningful cost estimate in your written report, so you know whether your product economics make sense before the meter starts running.
Value: $800Every market has its own safety, certification, and labelling requirements. Most founders discover these after production has already started, when fixing them is expensive. We make sure you are aware of what to plan for at the design stage, so compliance never becomes a costly surprise.
Value: $5,000+What type of prototype you need first, what it will realistically cost, and what it needs to prove before you commit to production tooling. Most founders build the wrong prototype at the wrong stage. We make sure you do not.
Value: $2,500Based on your product concept, what manufacturing approach makes sense, what materials and processes are likely, and any fundamental design considerations that need to be resolved before production is viable. Not a full DFM review but enough to know what you are working with before development begins.
Value: $2,500If your product has a fundamental problem, we will tell you. If it is viable, we will tell you exactly what the right next step is and what it will realistically cost. We turn down projects that are not right for us. So when we say proceed, we mean it.
Value: $5,000All values shown are approximate consulting equivalents for reference only.
© Pro-Dev 2026. The Pro-Dev Verdict is a proprietary offer developed by Pro-Dev Limited
How it Works
Three steps. Seven business days. A definitive answer.
What Sets Us Apart
One partner for the full journey
Most firms handle one stage then hand you off. Pro-Dev handles everything from concept to your customer’s door, with one team and one point of accountability.
Design and engineering built for manufacture
Our designers and engineers work together from day one. Every product must feel right, look right, and be manufacturable at the right cost. We do not trade one for another.
Our supply chain in China and New Zealand
We have spent over a decade building direct, long-term partnerships with proven factories in China and New Zealand. These are not broker introductions. Our own network, our own people on the ground. We manufacture in plastics, metals, rubber, wood, fabric, silicone, glass, and more.
Your IP stays protected
Our supplier agreements are written for offshore manufacturing and enforceable in Chinese courts. You own all IP, tooling, and design files - always.
Compliance planned early
We identify compliance requirements at the design stage, not after tooling is cut. We have managed compliance for consumer, medical, and industrial products across NZ, Australia, the US, and Europe.
Support after launch
Some firms stop at design. Some stop at launch. Pro-Dev stays with you through feedback, improvements, and everything that follows.
We Can Make Virtually Anything
We do not limit ourselves to a narrow set of industries or product types. Our manufacturing network covers a wide range of materials and processes.
- Plastic
- Metal
- Rubber
- Wood
- Fabric
- Silicone
- Glass
- Multi-material assemblies
What Our Customers Say
International Clients
Based in New Zealand. Working Worldwide.
We work with clients in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States, and are open to enquiries from anywhere in the world. Our process is fully remote-friendly with documented scopes, structured updates, and clear communication regardless of your time zone.
We are happy to work within your preferred legal framework and sign your NDA or supplier agreements if that is what you need. Getting the working relationship right matters more to us than insisting on our own paperwork.
We Work Best With
Clients who want a partner that stays with them after launch: feedback, continuous improvement, warranty support, and ongoing manufacturing management
Companies who want door to door logistics managed as part of the overall service: you pay one amount, we handle everything from factory to your door
- Entrepreneurs and inventors with a product idea ready to develop
- Startups that need a full product partner, not just a designer
- Established companies launching a new product line or entering a new market
- Businesses bringing an existing product to NZ, AU, or the USA
- Companies who already have a prototype and want to take it to manufacturing
- Anyone who has had a bad experience with fragmented development and needs one accountable partner
Your Idea Is Protected from the First Conversation
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