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If your idea is too early, we'll tell you. If it's ready, we'll quote it straight. No padded retainers, no surprise change orders.
Founded in 2016, Glad Designs exists to give small businesses and inventors access to the same engineering rigor a big company gets — without the overhead.
Glad Designs LLC, founded in 2016, is a mechanical engineering firm dedicated to designing new products, innovating existing ideas, and bringing concepts to tangible goods for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
We provide all of the resources and knowledge necessary to design and manufacture new products — tailored to inventors looking to take their ideas from a vision to a real product on the shelf. We'll help you through every step of the way to turn your dreams into a reality.
Glad Designs is owned and operated by Josh Gladfelter. Josh earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University, and his knowledge of manufacturing, mechanical design, and Computer Aided Design stems from 10 years of experience in entrepreneurship, mechanical design, 3D printing, new product development, and robotic automation.
His background spans consumer products, industrial extraction equipment, and mobility accessories — meaning whatever you're building, he's probably solved an adjacent problem before.
Work With JoshIf your idea is too early, we'll tell you. If it's ready, we'll quote it straight. No padded retainers, no surprise change orders.
Every part is modeled with the manufacturing process in mind. We don't draw things a shop can't build.
STEPs, drawings, source files — you walk away with the deliverables. No vendor lock-in, no "trust us" handoffs.
Documents that survive contact with reality — drawings, BOMs, manuals — so your manufacturer, attorney, or customer can actually run with what we hand off.
Whether it's a single 3D-printed prototype or a full production-ready design package, the conversation starts the same way: tell us what you want to build.
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