Have an idea to bring to life, or a technical problem to solve, and don’t know where to start?
Bring us the idea or the problem. Websites, apps, data, and AI on one side. CAD, printing, and fabrication on the other. Thirty years of engineering and data experience, and one consultant to call. No engagement is too big or too small.
Two business owners. One has a picture of a product. The other has a spreadsheet that runs the shop and breaks every Monday.
Week one. A working call and a written recommendation: prototype path, rough cost, open questions.
Week two. The picture becomes CAD. First parts come off the printer farm while any control software takes shape.
Week three. A revised part, a working version, and a plan for production. You own the files.
Week one. A working call about who touches the spreadsheet, what breaks, and what version one must do.
Week two. A clickable prototype, then a working tool on your real data, tested by the people who will use it.
Week three. Fixes from that feedback, hosting set up, and someone to call when it needs changing.
The digital example shows Kalonji, a web application designed and built by Tonbo Solutions.
Bring the idea in whatever form it exists. We turn it into CAD, write the software it needs, and run it through the 3D printer farm so you are holding a part within days.
How prototyping works →Build a first version people can use, or fix the one you have. Then we host it, keep it updated, and watch its security so you have one number to call.
What we build →Data is our love: creating it, managing it, and making what you already collect useful. That includes the systems and networks it lives on.
Data and infrastructure →What AI really is, how the major providers differ, where it would pay off in your daily operations, and a pilot that proves it before you spend.
Where to start with AI →You do not need a spec, a drawing, or a budget to start. A bracket that keeps breaking and a two-year systems upgrade begin with the same call; the method scales, the first conversation does not change. You can take the recommendation and build anywhere. Most clients ask us to keep going.
A conversation about the problem, the people who have it, and what a first version must prove.
A short written plan: what to build first, how, what it costs, and what we still need to learn.
CAD and printed parts, a clickable app, a dashboard on your real data, or an AI pilot. Something you can hold or use.
What the first version taught us goes into the second. Usually two or three rounds.
Files, code, documentation, and a plan for production or launch. Or we keep running it for you.
Tonbo Solutions is the consulting firm you hire. When an engagement needs a real part, we bring in Tonbo Tech, our fabrication arm, so a prototype can move from printed plastic to machined metal to a wired assembly without a subcontractor and without the weeks that adds. You still have one point of contact.
Need a printer and supplies of your own? Ask us, or visit tonbotech.com.
Before a two-year hardware and software refresh, we inventoried every device and its location, turned that into an audit the client could plan against, and helped bring the new equipment in as it landed.
We designed and built a custom site, host it, keep it updated, and watch its security so the owner never has to think about it.
An owner asked. We explained how the models work, compared the major providers on cost, privacy, and fit, and walked his daily operations to find the two places it would pay off first.
An owner brought us a single rendered image of a product. We built the CAD, ran the first parts off the printer farm, wrote the software it needed, and revised until it was right.
I spent thirty years building networks, IT services, data platforms, and analytics programs for companies with whole departments to do it. Most firms have the same problems and none of the departments. Tonbo Solutions exists to close that gap: senior engineering judgment, a shop that can make things, and a bias toward showing you something that works before asking you to commit.
Jawanza Lamar Founder, Tonbo Solutions
Two sentences is enough. A sketch or a screenshot is a bonus. We reply within two business days with a first take.