A self-balancing two-wheeler platform is looking for its partner overseas.
A Beijing engineering firm holds the chassis, the control system and 33 granted patents for a gyroscopically balanced two-wheeler. Two rounds of prototypes are built. A 20-month plan to a production-intent vehicle is written. The seat beside it is open — a joint venture, a licence, or a vehicle built to your brand.
Not an idea. An engineered platform.
The firm was built by two engineers with a combined 45 years in product development at Motorola, ZTE and a Chinese aerospace research institute, and nine published engineering and project-management books between them. Since 2017 they have been granted 33 Chinese patents around one problem: a two-wheeled vehicle that holds itself upright — a gyroscopic balance system, steer-by-wire, an auxiliary support mechanism, a battery-switching architecture, and the vehicle structures that carry them.
Two prototype rounds have been built and ridden. The firm is roughly 30% held by an investment vehicle connected to one of China's largest electric two-wheeler manufacturing groups and a Shenzhen-listed company — which is where the production capacity behind this mandate comes from.
What they do not have is the other half: a brand, a Western design language, a home market and the capital for the overseas side. A previous partner in the United States took the plan to the workshop stage and did not complete. The plan, the responsibility matrix and the prototype are ready to run again.
Three ways to take it. They are open to all three.
The shape of the deal is decided in the workshop, not on this page. These are the doors that are open.
Joint venture
You bring a brand, a home market, industrial design and the capital for the overseas side.
They bring the platform, the patents contributed into the venture, the engineering team and the factory network behind them.
Licence
You bring your own chassis, design and vehicle programme.
They bring the balance and steering system as a licensed subsystem, with engineering support to integrate it.
Built to your brand
You bring the brand, the styling brief, home-market testing and the order.
They bring the platform beneath it, the prototype programme and contract manufacturing through the group behind them.
The work is already divided. On paper.
From the existing responsibility matrix — what the seat asks of a partner, and what the firm keeps.
- Industrial design — sketch, exterior and interior rendering, the look of the vehicle
- Funding and budget for the overseas side of the programme
- Testing and homologation in the destination market
- Import, customs and registration at home
- Technical support and after-sales in the home market
- Mechanical, mold and vehicle-layout engineering; dynamics simulation
- Electrical, hardware, algorithms and software
- Self-balancing, steering, autonomous and remote-control systems
- Prototype build, assembly, debugging and reliability testing in China
- Chinese customs clearance and delivery of the prototype
Twenty months from handshake to a vehicle you can ride.
Sixty-seven scheduled tasks with owners and dependencies already exist. Here is the shape of them.
Two workshops, the cooperation agreement, acceptance criteria, budget and team.
~3 monthsIndustrial design, vehicle layout, surface data, clay model, Class-A freeze.
~7 monthsFull BOM; chassis, gyro, support, control and steer-by-wire parts sampled.
~5 months, overlappingMolds, trim, assembly, paint, then the balance system tuned on the finished vehicle.
~4 monthsReliability testing, then field testing, with problem analysis alongside.
~4 monthsPreparation, Chinese export clearance, the vehicle lands with the partner.
~3 weeksThe seat is for someone specific.
- An electric motorcycle brand with design and a market, without chassis engineering of its own.
- A powersports or mobility OEM looking for the rider-assist feature its rivals have shown as concepts and never shipped.
- A tier supplier or robotics company that wants the balance and steering system as a licensed subsystem.
- A mobility investor ready to build the overseas company around an engineered, patented core.
- A rider-assist or accessibility player — markets where a bike that never falls over is the product.
Six steps on the Trail. Names appear at step four.
You tell us who you are and which seat you're looking at.
Your part: one formWe confirm you are who you say, and tell the firm a real party has stepped forward.
Your part: nothingSigned both ways, on the record.
Your part: one signatureNames, patents, prototype footage, the full plan and responsibility matrix.
Your part: readTwo sessions with the founders — the first two tasks of their own plan. SilkNet in the room, both languages.
Your part: show upThe seat is defined, the paper is signed, the 20 months begin.
Your part: signMandate holders engage SilkNet on a fixed mandate fee plus a success fee on signing. Expressing interest costs a partner nothing. If you later want SilkNet to run your side of the deal, that is a separate engagement, agreed up front.
Raise your hand.
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