Designing and building the off-world businesses of tomorrow - today.

A global innovation firm focused on space.

We help organizations across the private, public, and social sectors create and realize groundbreaking solutions. Our work fundamentally transforms businesses and helps our clients outpace disruption by capturing new opportunities, at times before the competition is even aware they exist. From the C-suite to the front line, we partner with our clients to build and launch real solutions.

 
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Systems + Space

Systems thinking, innovation, and rapid prototyping applied to problems off-world.

It’s not science fiction anymore. With launch prices over 93% lower than just 16 years ago and lift capacities of over 60 tons regularly flying into space, a new frontier 
is now open for business. To effectively extend existing businesses off-world, or to capture entirely new opportunities in space, organizations must utilize more than just aerospace engineering – you must have a new interdisciplinary mindset for solving problems that incorporates design thinking.


It has taken almost 20 years to realize the power of human-centered design, but now the most successful companies on Earth utilize design to transform businesses at scale. We bring our world-class talent in strategy + human-centered design and innovation to help our clients actually realize their space centric opportunities. Our magic lies in creating new economies, products and services for humanity across planetary boundaries.

 
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New Ventures

We help build businesses beyond Earth’s surface for the new space economy.

We partner with organizations to build businesses for the new space economy. Our experts are thinkers and do’ers that have built startups, R&D labs, corporate programs, and disruptive products and services at scale which have both succeeded and failed. We leverage that real world, first hand experience to create successful new products, services, and businesses here on Earth and among the stars. 

For enterprises to succeed on Earth and off-world, a radically new set of capabilities is required: new types of talent, a flexible and innovative operating model, and a dramatically different culture. We partner with clients to create these new space focused enterprises from scratch or help them recover a project or program.

Our magic lies in creating new economies, products and services across planetary boundaries, creating new industries or extensions of existing ones. These problems are human, industrial and perhaps extra-terrestrial which require us to think beyond sectors.


 
 
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Habitat & Infrastructure Design

You can not engineer elegance and simplicity into a human experience – it has to be designed.

We leverage years of Earthly experience in the design of public transit systems, disaster response housing, and urban planning to create new off-world solutions. From orbital platforms to complexes and facilities on the Moon or Mars, we blend current technology with multidisciplinary design processes to create spaces for human beings living far from the surface of our home planet.

 
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Product Design

Physical product design and problem solving for the extreme environments of space.

Our design experience extends through to product design for extreme environments. From disaster relief to the Internet of Things, we have created award winning products and have over 80 years combined experience working in Earth’s most elite design & management firms. Our build and test labs provide the environment for off-world product development.

 
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Experience Design

Considering user experience and human centered design is NOT just for software.

Human centric ‘interfaces’ to software, vehicles, structures, services, and society overall should not be limited to just Earthly applications or just digital initiatives. The rigors of space travel, new work environments, and complex new processes for space exploration demand a thoughtful approach to these new human interactions. We bring decades of experience from Earth’s most elite design firms building software and physical products that have delighted users to space based problems, leveraging cutting edge technology as the enabler.

As some of the early pioneers of what is now known as experience design, we bring our deep and highly sought after expertise to off-world problems in the hopes of propelling humanity smartly into the future. We design software, products, services, and experiences that leverage the power of design for safer space applications.


 
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Our Work & Insights

 

INDUSTRY OPPORTUNITIES
Reports

For the first time in human history we can now expand business into the vastness of space. What are the first industries that should expand off-world? What are some of the businesses that could thrive in the merging space economy? What disruptions from businesses in space will affect industries on Earth? Our experts have created some thoughtful and easy to digest reports to help business executives get up to speed without getting lost in engineering and science.

PRODUCT CONCEPTS & DESIGN
Design

More than just white papers and reports – our experts are world class designers, technologists, and strategists. We engage clients across the spectrum from turn-key missions, product development, and service design to bespoke solutions. We create innovative solutions for our clients, but also partner with others to realize our own inventions and businesses. Lostin has best been described as a combination of the Eames Studio + Area 51 for hire.

MISSION PLANNING
Services

From closed door workshops, to actual Mission Control rooms, to media relations – Lostin can provide turn-key operations for your programs and missions. We have access to extended networks of subject matter experts allowing for us to flex as programs grow in scale or our client’s needs change.