AI strategy for the physical world.
We help companies turn connected devices, smart sensors and autonomous machines into real business advantage.
From connected to intelligent.
We’ve been building connected products since before anyone called it IoT. Along the way we’ve taken home cameras to tens of millions of homes, helped put autonomous robots into stores and commercial buildings, and worked on sensors small enough to swallow.
What we learned is that the technology rarely sinks a project. The trouble comes when a promising pilot meets real customers, real operations and real costs. That’s the stretch where we help. We work with leadership teams to decide where AI and connected products will pay off, which partners to bet on, and what it takes to get from a successful test to a business that scales.
Our Approach
From opportunity to scale.
From connecting an existing product to automating work with machines, the same four decisions separate the projects that pay off from the ones that stall.
Opportunity
Some of the biggest wins come from products and operations that aren’t connected at all today. Connecting a product can reveal how it’s really used and open new revenue. Putting machines on repetitive work, the way autonomous floor cleaners did in retail, frees people for work that needs a human. We help you find where that value is, and where it isn’t.
Business Model
Connected products open the door to subscriptions, services and data businesses, and they also add ongoing costs. We help you decide how you’ll make money before you commit to how you’ll build.
Ecosystem
Very few companies build a connected product entirely on their own. You’ll lean on outside suppliers for chips, cloud services, manufacturing and sales channels, and a poor choice early on can take years to unwind. We help you pick partners you can count on as you grow.
Scale
A pilot with fifty units teaches you very little about running fifty thousand. We help you work out the unit economics, service model and operations that still work when you’re shipping in the thousands or millions.
Good strategy here saves years. We help you get the big decisions right early, so your team can spend its energy building.
Our Services
Strategic advice for connected products, AI and physical AI.
IoT & Connected Product Strategy
Where connecting your product creates value, which platforms to build on, and how to turn data and services into revenue.
AI Strategy & Roadmaps
Which AI use cases are worth funding, whether to build or buy, and how to measure the return.
Physical AI & Robotics Strategy
Where automation and robotics fit in your operations, and how to move from a first deployment to a full fleet.
Technology & Ecosystem Advisory
Independent views on technologies, vendors and partners, technical due diligence, and security for connected products.
Know where to invest first, and what can wait.
What sets us apart
Strategy grounded in the field.
We’ve spent decades taking connected and AI-driven products from first idea to global markets. The advice we give comes from having done it ourselves.
Connected Devices at Scale
At Avaak/Arlo, we created the home video-monitoring category with easy-to-install, wire-free cameras backed by cloud software and services. Powered by emerging AI, the products shipped tens of millions of units worldwide.
Physical AI in the Real World
We helped identify the opportunity behind Brain Corp’s BrainOS platform and grow it into the world’s largest fleet of autonomous mobile robots working in stores and commercial buildings.
AI at the Retail Edge
From smart checkout to loss prevention, we’ve helped bring AI into retail at scale, with tens of thousands of systems installed at the world’s largest retailer.
Medical-Grade Sensing
Our engineering roots run from the PillCam, a swallowable camera that images the digestive tract, to high-performance AI computing, so we understand what’s realistic as well as what’s possible.
We’ve also advised global leaders in aerospace and defense, energy and industrial automation, semiconductors, heavy-duty engines and biopharma, and we’ve been working hands-on with AI since the 1990s.
Don’t just plan your future. Shape it.
If you’re weighing where connected products or AI fit in your business, we’d be glad to talk.
At LinkedObjects we are:
STRATEGISTS. THINKERS. INNOVATORS. OPERATORS.
Let’s talk about what’s next.
Contact us: info@linkedobjects.com