Services
Comments-only documentation reviews and public-sources research, for rover teams and for field-robotics and rover start-ups. These are documentation reviews, not engineering sign-offs.
Public, non-controlled information only.
Scope is agreed in writing first. Payment comes before work, by invoice, in USD. Prices below are fixed for the stated scope.
Design Report Review
An outside read of one draft of your design report (for example a PDR, CDR or SAR) before you submit it. We look for missing required sections, requirements without values or verification, numbers without units or sources, and places where sections disagree with each other.
- One document, one draft, one round of comments.
- Comments only. Your team writes and edits everything; we do not write, edit or submit any part of it.
- You get prioritised comments tied to pages and to the official guideline you are writing to, a comment log in Excel, and one 30-minute video call.
- No promise of a score, a pass, or acceptance by organisers or judges.
Check that your competition rules allow a paid outside review. For URC 2027: Rules 2027 3.b.ii limits advisors to academic-level advising. Please confirm with your faculty advisor that an outside comment-only review is acceptable to your team before you book.
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Model Check
A first-order cross-check of one engineering model you built yourselves, as a Python script or a spreadsheet (for example a mass and power budget, traction or sinkage, tip-over, torque or battery sizing), with written comments.
- Checks on units, equation forms against cited public references, input ranges, edge cases and stated assumptions.
- An independent first-order hand calculation for an agreed number of outputs.
- A report in PDF, a check log in Excel, and one 45-minute video call.
- We do not state that your model is correct, or that it is fit for safety-critical decisions or matches hardware.
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Requirements & Verification Review
A fixed-scope review of your requirements and verification matrix before a design review, a customer review or a grant milestone, in about 7 working days. We look for requirements that cannot be measured, have no verification method or evidence, or do not trace to a parent requirement.
- Each requirement marked OK, Gap or Unclear on measurable value, verification method, evidence, trace to parent and owner.
- A graded matrix in Excel, a findings report in PDF, and one 60-minute readout call.
- We check how requirements are written, traced and verified, not whether your values or designs are correct.
- A signed written statement that nothing you share is export-controlled is needed before the invoice.
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Technical Research Report
A cited answer to one technical question, built from public sources only: published papers, public standards, public agency and company documents, and open-source project documents. Anything we could not confirm is marked UNCONFIRMED.
- One question, agreed in writing before work starts.
- A report in Word with a PDF copy, a source table in Excel, and one 30-minute scoping call.
- A cited summary of public sources, not a design recommendation and not legal, regulatory or export-control advice.
Illustrative example of a question: what the public literature says about wheel designs for loose soil.
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How it works
- Email us at hello@emberwavelabs.com with what you need checked, your deadline, and your organisation and country.
- Scope first. We agree the document, the guideline or standard, the size and the delivery date in writing.
- Payment before work. You receive an invoice in USD. Work starts when payment and your files have arrived.
- Delivery. You receive the agreed PDF, Word or Excel files. Each service includes one call, as listed above.
What we do not do
- No engineering sign-off. All reviews are documentation reviews with first-order comments, not engineering sign-offs.
- No writing or rewriting of your documents, and no review of CAD, drawings or hardware.
- No export-controlled data, and no work for military or defence end users or sponsors. We cannot accept US-person-only or ITAR flow-down terms. Companies, and teams with a company sponsor, sign a short "not controlled" statement before any file is sent.
- Before invoicing we confirm the payer's name and country and run a standard sanctions screen.
EmberWave is not affiliated with any competition organiser. Where our comments differ from the official competition rules or guidelines, the official documents win.
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