Customized to your business

We use iterative client engagement to build an understanding of the required design intent. Our iterative design methodology
is based upon a cyclic process of prototyping, testing, analyzing, and refining a product or process. We assess and test design
iterations to help optimize and refine features and performance. This process is repeated until the end goals have been met.

The end user is the center of our design process. This promotes deeper exploration of the design process including:

• Successive iterations advance the development process quickly
• Enables deeper understanding of the product needs
• Allows broader analysis of outcomes
• Fosters sharing and collaboration with customer

Start with a deep dive.

Our “user-centric design” allows us and our clients to understand the project from different perspectives. We strive to understand current and future
states for a new product/process concept. This approach often uncovers much more than a technology-centric approach and simplifies the process
for creating real world solutions.

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Make the right connections.

Our design process allows us to identify who and/or what might be the right partners (e.g., tech vendors/integrators) for developing a solution. We
do not sell products, only services. This allows us to keep the user at the center of the design process.

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Find the best solution.

We work with your innovation team and development partners to create and deploy right-sized solutions. We function as a third party keeping the
design centered in the process to reduce bias that often creeps into innovation projects.

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Support your development team.

If requested, we can assist in your launch and scale-up and continue to support your overall deployment to refine it as potential issues arise.

Craig Shore is an innovation intermediary. He has founded or cofounded multiple startups and developed products in a broad range of areas for
over 25 years, turning technologies into products and products into markets.

His experience spans fields from biobased products to multifunctional composites, production equipment and control system to sound and
vibration isolation systems. He develops products and the means to create them with the end user in mind, using an open innovation approach to
bridge the chasm between R&D and production.

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In 2001, he founded Creative Composites to focus on biocomposite research, development and manufacturing. The company developed numerous
products, including variable density composites and biobased lubricants. Craig was the lead for developing products, the manufacturing equipment
and the control systems. The variable density composite technology was sold became the core to a high performance acoustic door. The biobased
lubricants were spun into a new company and are now manufactured and sold to railroads around the world.

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In late 2016 Craig founded Perihelion Solutions. As an Innovation Intermediary his goal is to help connect companies with technologies and
services that will help them take advantage of emerging technologies, or create some of their own. His broad range of skills transfer to almost any
setting, able to see the broad picture and troubleshoot to develop specific tools to provide solutions.

(641) 990-1221

craig@perihelionsolutions.com

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grinnell, Iowa 50112