Answers “could we build that?” with “yes — but let me check the math first.”
Strongest where digital and physical meet. CAD and CNC are his native languages: design it precisely, make it exactly. Enough software development to ship when the idea demands it.
The seam between screen and shop floor — model it to the tolerance, then route it on the machine. Software when the idea demands it, never for its own sake.
Builds things that sound impossible, but turn out kind of extraordinary. Usually doesn’t mention it. Extraordinary output, minimal fanfare.
The in-progress ones are becoming something better. The waiting ones have a plan.
Before yes or no: the loads, the tolerances, the budget. He thinks slowly because he’s thinking all the way through.
Every build has a weakest link. He finds it on paper, long before it finds you in the real world.
CAD down to the tolerance — design it exactly so the machine can make it exactly.
CNC, by hand, or a little software when the idea demands it. Then it actually stands up.
Products for real people solving real problems — and the scrappy internal tools built when nothing off the shelf quite fit.
01The thinking step, built into an app — structure the problem before you build the thing.
Reggie’s own habit turned into software: never start a build without checking the math first. Preamble is the preamble — it walks you from a weird sketch and a vague deadline to the loads, the tolerances and an honest answer to “could we build that?” Designed precisely, shipped when the idea demanded it.
Off the clock, the same brain that names the problem cuts the joinery. Done, in progress, and a few that are waiting for the right idea.
02A bike that sounds impossible on paper — and then exists.
The kind of build he does and barely mentions. Every gram argued for, every tube’s load run twice, the whole frame engineered to the edge of what will still stand up under a real rider. Extraordinary output; he’d rather show you the cut list than talk about it.
Hand him the thing nobody’s sure can be built. He’ll check the math, find what breaks first, and make it stand up. And if the job is bigger than one pair of hands — there’s a whole studio behind him.