Vision Translation
Collaborative product briefs, line planning, feasibility work, and development roadmaps that carry your team's insights into action.
Clarity. Perspective. Impact.
Outdoor product development guidance from concept to commercialization.
DGx Solutions helps translate inspired product vision into practical, tested development cycles that deliver on your team's insights, standards, and goals.
Services
Experienced support for ambitious outdoor product teams.
Technical Development
Footwear and hardgoods partnership across materials, components, lasts, outsoles, tooling, construction, tech packs, sampling, and field testing.
Development Rhythm
Practical calendars, milestone reviews, vendor coordination, field test feedback loops, and readiness checks that maintain project momentum.
Program Economics
Cross-functional modeling for cost, margin, forecast, SKU, and investment tradeoffs so the program is quantified and understood.
Embedded Leadership
Senior product creation support and practical AI-enabled workflow design that complements the capability already inside your team.
Best Fit
Useful when the product vision is strong and the cycle needs experienced hands.
New Category or Platform
For brands moving into footwear, hardgoods, or a new construction where early technical choices shape the whole development path.
Between Senior Hires
Embedded product development leadership when the team needs experienced direction, review, and momentum without adding a full-time role.
Sample to Production Push
Support translating fit, wear-test, costing, factory, and stakeholder input into practical next steps before commercialization.
Approach
Inspired product vision, carried through the real development cycle.
DGx Solutions sits at the intersection of product leadership, technical development, and practical AI-enabled workflow design, helping teams connect creative intent with tested product decisions, supplier realities, and launch goals.
- Product briefs that preserve the team's insight and intent
- Development calendars built around real product milestones
- Vendor and factory communication grounded in technical context
- Testing feedback translated into practical next steps
Deliverables
Concrete help, shaped around the stage of the project.
Briefs & Roadmaps
Product briefs, line plans, development calendars, feasibility reviews, and milestone planning.
Technical Reviews
Tech pack review, materials and component guidance, last/outsole/tooling consultation, and fit feedback.
Testing & Validation
Wear-test plans, sample evaluation, user feedback synthesis, product risk review, and next-step recommendations.
Vendor & Factory Support
Factory communication, OEM coordination, costing tradeoffs, production readiness, and commercialization support.
Economic Modeling
Program-level cost, margin, forecast, SKU, and investment models built with cross-functional input.
Experience
Operator-level experience across technical footwear and mountain products.
20+
Years in performance outdoor product
Outdoor brands
Business Unit Director, R&D Manager, OEM development, and ski boot development roles at leading global outdoor brands.
Experience spans Black Diamond, Oboz, climbing footwear, hiking footwear, ski boots, climbing helmets, harnesses, ice tools, OEM partnerships, business strategic planning, product roadmaps, factory execution, and hands-on manufacturing work across CNC, 3D printing, welding, fabrication, and CAD.
Momentum climbing shoe series
Aspect Pro and Method climbing shoes
Vapor 2 helmet
Hydra ice tool
Black Diamond ski boots
Oboz hiking footwear
Ready When You Are