FEATURED PROJECTS

• Compressed air energy storage (CAES)
• Energy tech startup acceleration
• A natural-gas-compressing vehicle engine
• Bioreactor R&D

TESTIMONIALS

Czero is one of the best companies I have worked with for analysis and simulation; including dynamic modeling, CFD and FEA. Their deep expertise and comprehensive quality system ensure accurate results. Czero's project management is excellent, providing clean concise information on progress, schedule and budget. Czero is a go-to source for projects ranging from analysis and simulation to prototype product development and testing. They deliver strong solutions to the challenges faced by Offshore and Subsea markets.

—Horst Moll
Former First Chief Engineer - Aker Solutions

We chose Czero since they have a stellar reputation for innovation and expertise in the automotive industry. They also have a proven track record and prior history with the original inventor [of Onboard Dynamics natural gas refueling technology]—who is on our team—that has already resulted in huge successes in meeting critical milestones and performing to expectations.

—Rita Hansen, CEO
Onboard Dynamics, Inc.

We turn to Czero as a pool of engineering talent for our diverse client companies. For seed-stage companies, having access to specialized, high-quality engineering resources on an as-needed basis expedites development of better products without increasing burn rate due to recurring engineering costs. Czero has been a valuable strategic partner in helping FACTOR[e] startups advance technologies quickly while staying lean during their crucial first two years.

We know Czero’s agility, creativity and process. We trust their team. We’ve seen their technology insights and the business value of what they deliver. Czero’s significant pre- and post-investment contributions to VIP and ColdHubs are great examples. We look forward to continued partnership with Czero on FACTOR[e] startup ventures.

—Morgan DeFoort,
CEO, FACTOR[e] Ventures

Czero has been an invaluable and integral part of our program.  From component and subsystem design to detailed system performance analysis, Czero’s integrated engineering approach has allowed us to develop elements quickly to meet the very ambitious schedule challenges imposed by our U.S Department of Defense contract.

—Scott Frazier, Co-founder and CEO
Bright Energy Storage Technologies

I have a >$1M US Department of Energy research effort for which I was understaffed and lacking specific subject area expertise. Czero was able to engage last minute to displace a well-known automotive engineering company at a fraction of the price.

Over a year into the project, Czero has continued to be responsive and trustworthy; their engineering performance has contributed significantly to an increase in project funding from the sponsor.

As the project principal investigator, selecting Czero as an engineering services company has been one of the best decisions I have made.

—Chris Hagen, Assistant Professor
Energy Systems Engineering
Oregon State University – Cascades

The engineers on the Czero team were proactive problem-solvers from our first introduction. They quickly applied the full breadth and depth of their engineering team’s impressive intellect to determine the most efficient and cost effective system to maximize the energy-harvesting capabilities of Brown’s concept.

They were remarkably objective in their trade studies to find the best solution, favoring a simpler mechanical solution over their greatest strength: advanced hydraulics. They walked us through potential failure modes of each system, and educated the team about the pitfalls of component scalability. In addition to their technical solutions, Czero did an excellent job conveying their thought process and analysis to the Brown team with clear graphs, diagrams and presentations, which streamlined decision-making.

Czero added tremendous value to the Brown project and was a pleasure to work with. We look forward to putting our heads together on future projects.

—Tom Derecktor, CEO
BluSource Energy

As we move from R&D to commercialization, Czero is providing top-notch engineering support to our team, transforming our ideas and concepts from prototype designs to viable commercial products. Czero really digs into the requirements before starting the design process, enabling us to easily collaborate on design options that optimize our product designs to meet market demand and ensure customer satisfaction. Without hesitation, we recommend Czero to anyone wanting to accelerate R&D and product development.

—Steve Witt, CEO
OptiEnz Sensors

Everyone on the team agrees that our experience working with Czero was overwhelmingly positive.

—Alice Lux Fawzi, project manager for Tidal Energy Converter R&D
Department of Engineering
Brown UniversityUniversity

Czero’s work with us to fully understand the requirements of the end product for the new reactor engine system has been instrumental in developing a completely new, innovative system. From these requirements, they were able to quickly come up with multiple concepts for vetting against the tough project objectives, which include not only technical feasibility but also aggressive cost targets. The in-depth simulation and analysis of the various concepts that Czero did ahead of time has built tremendous confidence we are going down the right path.

– Devin Halliday, Principal Investigator
Gas Technology Institute

With extensive experience in engine systems design, Czero played a vital role in helping Logimesh expedite concept-to-prototype development and testing of our award-winning Logimote™ engine health monitoring platform.

—Bill Gillette, President & CEO
Logimesh Technologies, LLC

We have worked with Czero in the past on fuel blending technology design challenges. They were quick to respond and used sophisticated engineering analysis tools to quickly determine what the problem was where others failed, and came up with a cost effective solution for us. I will work with them again and highly recommend them.

—Justin Bzdek, President
Symbios Technologies
former Vice President R&D, Blue Sun Biodiesel

We at K-MALT strive to provide high-quality equipment for the brewing and distilling industry. Czero was the right partner to help us design our custom grist bin and bag intake station. They found the perfect balance between a properly engineered solution, a cost effective solution, and an aesthetic solution.

—Bryan Hermann, Technical Director
K-MALT

Czero understood our test objectives very quickly and communicated systematically to define the test procedure, scale model details, and test fixture that fulfilled all test requirements quickly and safely.

They creatively utilized off-the-shelf items in the scale model to keep its cost low and provided a clear, concise report—including useful insight—within a week of test completion. Helix is very pleased with the service provided by Czero.

—Roy Cottrell - Engineering Manager
Helix ESG

They're brilliant, creative and fun to work with. Where else are you going to find an engineering firm you can say that about?

—Deane Little - CEO
New Sky Energy

Guy understands technology development from the back-of-the-napkin stage to the product launch stage. I've never met someone who is more capable of keeping the end-product vision in his mind during the early stages of engineering.

—Sam Jaffe - CEO
Panea Energy

The true sign of individual or organizational dynamism is the willingness to take risks. It signals real confidence in capabilities and know-how, the flexibility and creativity to explore and test new solutions, and guts to do what it takes to deliver under real economic and technical uncertainty.

Czero epitomizes those characteristics and combines them with old-fashioned integrity and reliability. Needless to say, their engineering and technical capabilities are superb.

As a young company commercializing real black-box technology, we've entrusted Czero with taking responsibility for critical design and engineering tasks for which there are no precedents, i.e. it has never been done before. They have delivered, under demanding time and resource constraints, and set a very high bar.

Culturally and otherwise, they are an ideal partner for young startups who need deep-dive, blank-slate engineering solutions. I would recommend them to anyone.

—Richard Kinsman, President & CEO
CO2 Nexus Inc.

Guy and Czero were an insightful and very technically proficient group that were instrumental in helping us develop our technology. They were very quick studies to understand the fundamental challenges we faced and design/build solutions around them. Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Good Value.

—Doug Henston - Former CEO, Solix Biofuels

Czero provided a custom engineering solution to our need to convey conceptual functionality. Their approach was creative, effective, high quality and fast. Highly endorsed.

—Rick Dunagan - Partner
Symbiotic Solutions

To work with Guy is nothing short of a privilege. He consistently has an ability to bring out the best in any team that he leads. Stemming from his excellent credentials and his strong analytical aptitude, he consistantly translates complex technical situations into plain English to allow multidisciplinary group to function together seamlessly.

—Nick Rancis - Co-Founder and Principal
Tierra Verde Consulting LLC

I was extremely impressed with how quickly Czero understood the needs and intent of the bearing housing design and how responsive they were in completing the drawing package.

—Scott Taylor - Vice President of Engineering
TMA Global Wind Energy Systems

Czero’s ability to work with our engineers in developing innovative, ground-breaking technology has been a great benefit to the SuperTurbo development. We have placed a lot of trust in Czero’s ability to deliver and have not been disappointed. They are a top-shelf organization.

—Tom Waldron - Executive VP
VanDyne SuperTurbo

Czero took our initial rough concept for a special drill and added their in-depth expertise to greatly improve the drill’s capabilities. They constantly challenge themselves to evaluate different ideas and then go with the most promising solutions.  Czero excels at assisting its clients, and in this case went above & beyond to mentor an aspiring engineering student.

—Alan Campbell
Perry Campbell