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Catapult has an innate ability to understand the needs of their clients, the expertise to provide impactful solutions, and the flexibility to pivot as needed in real time. It's not only the services they've provided to ASME ISHOW, but the services/consultations they've provided to our annual ISHOW cohort of social entrepreneurs as well. Anywhere from re-design, refinement of DFM specs, BOM analysis, to providing marketing assets, package design, and instruction manuals, Catapult's breadth of knowledge and capabilities help deliver top notch services to their clients.

James Creel
American Society for Mechanical Engineers

The best part of Catapult is how quickly they worked with us to create a polished and effective product. They asked the right questions, demonstrated a high level of cultural competence, and helped us work within a tight timeframe to create something we are proud to use as a part of our programs.

Madeline McGill
The Rural Utah Project

Catapult has a lot of engineering experience on projects for low resource conditions. Working with Payan was very helpful for us because he had a rapid prototyping site in Kenya. This allowed us to understand what was available in-country and directly test the device in pit latrines. People in Catapult are also easy to work with when development goals shifted. If there were questions that arose with deliverables or payment, they were resolved quickly.

Jocelyn Tsai
North Carolina State University

Catapult Design and Burro worked together in an effective, timely, smart, systematic, and practical manner. The result is fantastic and promising: a roaster that reduces firewood use by 56% while increasing output/hour by 89%. And a manufacturing and distribution and sales system in place.

Lawrence Kent

Catapult exceeded our high expectations time and again, demonstrating nimble flexibility to adapt our plans to new insights, and consistently going the extra mile to provide Burro the expertise and high-quality outputs we needed to bring the Elephant to life. We got far more from our partnership with Catapult than we had ever hoped possible, and the results will benefit thousands and thousands of rural households across Ghana and beyond for many years to come

Whit Alexander
Burro, LLC

Catapult Design actually took the time to come to Rwanda to talk to all of our micro franchisees and myself to understand the challenges we were facing with the previous product. Their communication and proactive thinking allowed a smooth transition for the prototype to be built. Thanks again for all your help

Henri Nyakarundi, ARED
(African Renewable Energy Distributor Ltd.)

Working with Catapult Design and the Autodesk suite of software served as a catalyst for the product development, market research, and even branding ideas that One Degree has been developing over the last few years. Thanks in large part to the support that our Product Team received from this project, we should be on pace to launch several new products and improve hundreds of thousands of lives in communities that lack access to electricity.

Gaurav Manchanda
One Degree Solar

I consider Catapult Design a critical and invaluable asset to our organization. I am continually impressed with the Catapult team, their creative insights, strategic guidance and co­-design ethos. Catapult consistently delivered a high­ degree of client commitment, innovative ideas and hands-­on support. I recommend the team in the highest terms possible.

Iana Aranda Asme
Engineering for Change

Catapult understood the constraints of working in our market due to past experience. This saved us time and resources. Instead of educating potential partners as to the parameters of our community and market, Catapult’s prior experience working in emerging markets enable them to get up to speed quickly for our project. This enabled us to work together quickly and efficiently.

Gary Zeiff
President and Founder of Dissigno

We had an extremely fruitful collaboration with Catapult to design handwashing stations.

Clair Null
Innovations for Poverty Action

Catapult was essential in our ability to provide solar power to Nyange Health Center in a culturally sensitive, inclusive manner. If it wasn’t for them, we would not have known the key questions to ask to ensure that the system addressed the needs of the health center. Our mission includes providing technical support to projects developed by people living in developing communities. We have been able to maintain our mission through our collaboration with Catapult.

Dr. Wendy Leonard
The Ihangane Project

Overall, working with Catapult was the highlight of my year.

Chris Murphy
Living Goods

We were able to jump into details with Catapult almost immediately due to [their knowledge and understanding of our target clients through] past experience.

Jacob Winiecki
Simpa Networks