Reducing HW dependency, accelerating time to market

Our Client’s Backstory

Our client is a global leader in consumer wellness innovation, utilizing advanced smart device technology to enhance user well-being. With over 1 million active customers and a workforce of thousands, the company manages a large ecosystem spanning hardware development, sales, and consumer experience.

The Challenges

Global memory shortages and rising component costs were threatening both the product's profitability and its path to market. Depending solely on the existing hardware platform meant accepting unsustainable unit costs and ongoing hardware components supply risk. The client needed a fundamentally different hardware approach, without risking product launch timeline or degrading the experience their customers expected.

Key challenges included:

• Memory shortage mitigation: Persistent global supply shortages made key memory components unavailable and expensive.

• Cost-driven redesign: Redesigning core product functionality onto a lower cost hardware platform without degrading product performance or user experience.

• Rapid time-to-market: The transition to new platform had to happen fast, on a fixed go-to-market schedule with no room for extended development cycles.

The Result

By delivering a fully re-platformed system in under 9 months, Klika gave the client a production-ready, cost-optimized product with no dependency on constrained hardware components and a clear path to market.

Cost reduction

55% cost reduction per product's unit made the device the most competitive hardware option available to the client

Supply chain independence

Removed an ongoing business vulnerability, giving the client a stable, long-term hardware path insulated from global supply market disruptions.

Accelerated time to market

A full product delivered in 9 months, enabling the client to launch a competitive alternative on schedule without compromising core functionality.

The Result

By delivering a fully re-platformed system in under 9 months, Klika gave the client a production-ready, cost-optimized product with no dependency on constrained hardware components and a clear path to market.

Cost reduction

55% cost reduction per product's unit made the device the most competitive hardware option available to the client

Supply chain independence

Removed an ongoing business vulnerability, giving the client a stable, long-term hardware path insulated from global supply market disruptions.

Accelerated time to market

A full product delivered in 9 months, enabling the client to launch a competitive alternative on schedule without compromising core functionality.

The Result

By delivering a fully re-platformed system in under 9 months, Klika gave the client a production-ready, cost-optimized product with no dependency on constrained hardware components and a clear path to market.

Cost reduction

55% cost reduction per product's unit made the device the most competitive hardware option available to the client

Supply chain independence

Removed an ongoing business vulnerability, giving the client a stable, long-term hardware path insulated from global supply market disruptions.

Accelerated time to market

A full product delivered in 9 months, enabling the client to launch a competitive alternative on schedule without compromising core functionality.

The Result

By delivering a fully re-platformed system in under 9 months, Klika gave the client a production-ready, cost-optimized product with no dependency on constrained hardware components and a clear path to market.

Cost reduction

55% cost reduction per product's unit made the device the most competitive hardware option available to the client

Supply chain independence

Removed an ongoing business vulnerability, giving the client a stable, long-term hardware path insulated from global supply market disruptions.

Accelerated time to market

A full product delivered in 9 months, enabling the client to launch a competitive alternative on schedule without compromising core functionality.

The Result

By delivering a fully re-platformed system in under 9 months, Klika gave the client a production-ready, cost-optimized product with no dependency on constrained hardware components and a clear path to market.

Cost reduction

55% cost reduction per product's unit made the device the most competitive hardware option available to the client

Supply chain independence

Removed an ongoing business vulnerability, giving the client a stable, long-term hardware path insulated from global supply market disruptions.

Accelerated time to market

A full product delivered in 9 months, enabling the client to launch a competitive alternative on schedule without compromising core functionality.