Some faults don’t show up in a report. They show up on the bench, at 2 a.m., when the board does the thing it isn’t supposed to do — once every forty-two minutes, only when it’s sightly warm, and of course when nobody’s looking.
That’s the work Hard Probe is built for.
After 25 years in hardware design, firmware and hardware security, I’ve seen the same pattern too many times: a team stuck on a problem that no datasheet, no simulation and no vendor support line can close, because the answer isn’t in the documentation. It’s in the physical device. You have to go in with a probe and find it.
Hard Probe is not an abstract consultancy. It’s hands-on bench work on real hardware, by one person who does exactly this. No theoretical audits. No slideware. Findings you can act on.
What Hard Probe does
Hard Probe Debug — Diagnosis and root-cause analysis of complex, intermittent or hard-to-reproduce HW/FW faults. For R&D teams that have run out of ideas, production lines fighting a yield problem, and post-market failures that need a diagnosis, not a guess.
Hard Probe Cybersec — Security assessment of hardware and firmware: physical and logical penetration testing, reverse engineering, post-incident analysis. For product developers and companies with compliance obligations (NIS2, IEC 62443, RED, EN 303 645, CRA). No checklist theatre: the device is opened, probed, and attacked the way a real adversary would.
Hard Probe EMC (coming — Phase 2) — Pre-compliance support and EMI debug for RED and FCC, with hands-on assistance during testing. Not available yet, but on the roadmap for teams who’d rather find the emissions problem before the lab does.
Who it’s for
Hardware and firmware engineers, R&D leads, CTOs, electronics companies — anyone who has a device on a bench that isn’t behaving, or a product that has to prove it’s secure before it ships.
If you already know exactly what’s wrong and just need extra hands, you probably don’t need me. If you’ve been staring at the same fault for two weeks and the vendor keeps telling you it’s “within spec,” that’s where this starts.
The first conversation is a free, 20-minute qualified discovery call. If it’s a fit, we go to a prepaid technical session and I put the device on the bench.
That’s the whole idea. Competence gets demonstrated by facts and actions, not declared in a brochure.
If you’re evaluating a collaboration and want to know whether I have the specific equipment for your use case, get in touch. The first step is a short, qualified discovery call — if it’s a fit, the device ends up on the bench above.
