Proof of Usefulness Report

Tangent Design Engineering

Analysis completed on 2/20/2026

+451
Proof of Usefulness Score
Industry Mainstay

Tangent Design Engineering is a verified, established engineering consultancy (founded 2005) with significant real-world utility in medical, cleantech, and IoT sectors. While the underlying business is robust (est. 50-125 employees), the submission quality is critically low, featuring hyperbolic claims ('most people have used my product'), vague audience definitions ('everyone'), and confusing metrics ('marketcap: 17000000'). The score reflects the strong foundation of the business, heavily penalized for the lack of specific evidence and poor response quality in the submission.

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Score Breakdown

Real World Utility+200.0
Audience Reach Impact+40.0
Technical Innovation+112.5
Evidence Of Traction+75.0
Market Timing Relevance+80.0
Functional Completeness+5.0
Subtotal+512.5
Usefulness Multiplierx0.88
Final Score+451

Project Details

Description
Tangent Design Engineering Ltd. Is a Calgary, Alberta based engineering firm that has been in business for 16 years helping companies create and optimize new technologies and products to maximize their market impact. Tangent’s services include product-market fit analysis, ideation and concept development, applied research and development, contract product engineering services, and manufacturing. With more than 30 multidisciplinary engineers and designers, Tangent can tackle tough and engineering challenges that result in revolutionary products in the medical, cleantech, ag tech, industrial sensing and control/IoT, transportation and oil and gas sectors. Tangent’s strength is in our product development process. Dubbed “The Framework”, Tangent continuously refines our execution and design processes to constantly improve our results. Our ISO 13485 and ISO 9001 compliant development process can take projects from the earliest conceptual stage through to manufacturing, or any stage in between. We work closely with our clients to ensure excellent communication and information exchange, which is a key driver of positive outcomes in challenging development environments. Tangent’s clients range from early stage entrepreneurs with little to no engineering team to large scale enterprises that may have hundreds or thousands of engineers. We are flexible, accountable, and agile enough to fit easily with any sized group and any scope of work. We are currently working on exciting projects utilizing machine learning at the edge, wireless wide area mesh networking for data acquisition, novel ultra-wide dynamic range flow sensing, wearable medical sensing technology, clean hydrogen production, industrial system design, laser based toxic gas detection, and a number of other advanced technologies.

Algorithm Insights

Market Position
Strong market validation with clear user adoption patterns
User Engagement
Documented reach suggests active user community
Technical Stack
Modern tech stack aligned with sponsor technologies

Recommendations to Increase Usefulness Score

Document User Growth

Provide specific metrics on user acquisition and retention rates

Showcase Revenue Model

Detail sustainable monetization strategy and current revenue streams

Expand Evidence Base

Include testimonials, case studies, and third-party validation

Technical Roadmap

Share development milestones and feature completion timeline