Operator lens
Experience across semiconductor technical leadership, foundry strategy, manufacturing, commercialization, and executive-level hard-tech decisions.
Pressure-test the hard-tech story before you commit capital, credibility, or product focus.
TIGRE gives investors, acquirers, boards, founders, and technical executives a senior technical-commercial second opinion on what is real, what is missing, and where the plan is most exposed.
Technical Depth. Commercial Results.
Pressure-Test a DecisionWhy buyers trust TIGRE
Independent technical-commercial judgment for high-stakes decisions.
Technical depth
Comfort close to the device, process, manufacturing path, test evidence, qualification burden, and failure mode.
Commercial consequence
The point is not technical criticism. The point is what the evidence means for product focus, customers, capital, valuation, and credibility.
Use TIGRE when
The decision is too technical for generic advice and too important for guesswork.
Capital is about to move
An investor, acquirer, or board needs an independent read on whether the technical story supports the business case.
The product story needs sharper definition
A real technology needs a clearer product wedge, customer reason-to-buy, or fundable proof plan.
The milestone needs validation
The next step is a test chip, demo, pilot, or process claim, and the team needs to know whether it resolves the right uncertainty.
Where TIGRE fits
More integrated than an expert call. More technical than generic strategy. More accountable than an AI summary.
Versus big consulting
Use TIGRE when a large team would add process but the decisive risk sits close to the technology.
Versus expert networks
Use TIGRE when the issue requires synthesis across technology, manufacturing, customers, and capital, not a one-hour opinion.
Versus internal review
Use TIGRE when internal incentives, founder optimism, or deal momentum may be distorting the judgment.
Versus academic review
Use TIGRE when novelty is not enough and the question is product, adoption, manufacturing, or investability.
Versus AI research
AI is leverage. TIGRE is judgment. Bring the AI summary, market scan, diligence list, deck, or roadmap. TIGRE tests the assumptions, prioritizes what matters, and turns the material into decision-grade judgment.
Versus doing nothing
Use TIGRE before weak assumptions become sunk cost, public commitment, or avoidable board-level risk.
Three ways to use TIGRE
Choose the lane that matches the decision.
Investor & Acquirer Diligence
Second opinions before capital, acquisition effort, partnership momentum, or deal credibility is committed.
Founder Commercialization Reset
Convert a real invention into a clearer product wedge, proof plan, and fundable commercial story.
Market & Right-to-Win Strategy
Decide which technical growth markets deserve focus and why the company can win in that market.
Who hires TIGRE
Senior judgment for high-consequence hard-tech choices.
Investors & acquirers
Technical diligence and second opinions before capital, acquisition effort, partnership momentum, or deal credibility is committed.
Boards & executives
Plain-spoken technical-commercial readouts before a product, partner, funding, acquisition, or strategy decision becomes expensive.
Founders & CEOs
Commercialization reset when the invention is real but the product wedge, customer logic, proof plan, or capital story is still unclear.
Advisory partners
A specialist semiconductor and hard-tech judgment layer inside a broader diligence, market strategy, transaction, or growth effort.
Example engagements
What TIGRE helps clarify.
Investor diligence
Technical-commercial memo on whether a semiconductor startup's claims support the investment thesis.
Founder reset
Product wedge, proof plan, and funding narrative for a real invention that needs a clearer commercial story.
Board readout
Plain-spoken recommendation before a product pivot, partnership, acquisition effort, or capital commitment.
What you get
Decision products, not vague advice.
What is real
Technical claim integrity, evidence quality, and what the data actually proves.
What is missing
Manufacturing, qualification, customer, capital, and execution gaps that the story has not resolved.
What breaks
Failure modes likely to matter before investment, acquisition, product focus, or credibility is committed.
What to test next
Decision-grade questions, proof points, and milestones that reduce real risk.
What needs evidence
Claims that need stronger evidence before they are treated as bankable, manufacturable, sellable, or defensible.
What to do
Proceed, pause, re-scope, stop, fund, partner, focus, or change the story.
Stay sharp
Get TIGRE Decision Briefs.
Short notes on semiconductor diligence, hard-tech commercialization, foundry risk, milestones that need stronger evidence, and technical-commercial failure modes.
Next step
Send the material that is driving the decision.
A deck, memo, diligence list, AI summary, test-chip plan, product roadmap, customer notes, or short problem statement is enough to start scoping.