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Queenstown, Aotearoa New Zealand · Engineering & Education

Senior engineering support, from our mountain base in New Zealand.

We are the hands on leadership that's here to help you transform your hardware business into its next phase.

30 minutes, no charge, no pitch deck.

Twenty years across sectors including

  • Advanced Manufacturing
  • Aerospace
  • Automotive
  • Formula 1
  • Medical Devices
  • Sporting Goods
  • Secondary Education

What we do

Better products, stronger businesses, and practical technical education.

We bring real-world manufacturing, product development and commercial experience into two areas: helping hardware businesses grow, and helping schools deliver education that connects with industry.

For businesses

We help hardware and manufacturing companies solve the problems that slow down growth. From unclear product direction and weak internal systems to manufacturing challenges and gaps in technical leadership.

Our work can include fractional engineering leadership, product and manufacturing strategy, operational improvement, commercial support and helping teams take new technologies from concept into production.

For schools and educators

We help schools turn current industry practice into practical technical education.

Working alongside teachers, we develop programmes, build teaching capability and give students hands-on experience with modern tools, materials and problem-solving methods. The result is learning that connects more clearly with further study, apprenticeships and real work.

One practice, multiple sectors

The same people, the same standards — applied in two places.

Division 01

Professional Services

Fractional engineering leadership, systems and delivery improvement, and integration support for businesses in transition. Senior hands on your hardest problem, for as long as it needs and no longer.

  • Fractional engineering leadership
  • Teams & operating systems
  • M&A and post-merger integration
  • Product & manufacturing support
  • Business Development & Product Market Fit

Division 02

Education

Hands-on 3D printing workshops for technology teachers, run by engineers who use the machines commercially. You leave knowing why prints fail — and with jigs and teaching aids ready to use with your class.

  • Half-day Intro to 3D Printing
  • Full-day Classroom — Technology Teachers workshop
  • In-school delivery on your machines
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How the practice is built

Senior attention. The right expertise.

Every engagement is led directly by Amos or Jeremy, so the people you meet at the start remain closely involved throughout the work.

Queenstown attracts a particular kind of person. People come here for the mountains, trails, rivers and some of the best outdoor access in the world; but many also bring serious experience from engineering, manufacturing, design, technology and business. Over time, we have built a trusted network from the high-performing people who have chosen to make this place home. When a project needs specialist expertise, we bring in exactly the right person and work together as one team.

You get senior attention, unusual depth and a group of capable people who genuinely enjoy solving difficult problems; all coordinated from one small place at the bottom of the world, often forgotten on the map but remarkably well connected.

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Portrait of Amos Breyfogle, Principal for Advanced Manufacturing and Strategy at Pivot Innovation, standing on a Queenstown lakeshore with snow-capped mountains behind

Amos Breyfogle

Principal — Advanced Manufacturing & Strategy

Amos works best where a good technical product is being held back by the gap between engineering, manufacturing, and the market. He has spent more than a decade leading technical teams and helping companies turn complex technology into practical products, operations, and clear commercial stories. His background spans advanced manufacturing, industrial 3D printing, product development, and sales engineering, with experience across global teams and high-performance industries like aerospace, high-end automotive, and Formula 1. He loves talking with teams to learn who they are and how they work, working out what is actually slowing them down, and helping them clear the blockades to get things moving. When he is not nerding out about manufacturing, you can find him playing disc golf, mountain biking, fishing, or surfing.

Portrait of Jeremy Platt, Principal for Product Development and Education at Pivot Innovation, standing by a New Zealand river

Jeremy Platt

Principal — Product Development & Education

Jeremy makes complicated things easier to understand by putting them in people’s hands. A product designer, maker, and educator, he combines CAD, 3D printing, tooling, carbon fibre, and composite fabrication with a long background in science education. His workshops are practical by design. Teachers and teams do not just hear how something works. They use it, test it, and leave knowing what to do next. Jeremy brings the same approach to every project: start with the real problem, make the learning tangible, and build capability that lasts. He spends his free time in the backcountry searching out new rivers to packraft, mountain biking, and surfing.

2Principals accountable on every engagement
14Specialists in the wider network we draw on
20 yrsAverage industry experience at principal level
GlobalDelivery — We help your business grow everywhere

Start here

Tell us what's not working. We'll tell you what we'd do about it.

No proposal, no discovery phase, no obligation. Just a proper conversation with someone who has probably seen your problem before and will be straight with you about whether we can help.

Education enquiries
  • 30 minutesStraight to the problem
  • Amos@pivotinno.comWe reply same day

Based in Queenstown, onsite anywhere globally, or remotely at a moment's notice.