About
Bring your ideas to life.
byitl is short for bring your ideas to life. It's the name of the company, the work, and the test we run on anything we ship — if it doesn't take a half-finished board and make it a real, fitted enclosure, it isn't byitl.
Why this exists.
Every hardware founder hits the same wall right after the PCB rev: the board works, and now there's no case for it. AI 3D generators don't know what a USB-C cutout is. CAD freelancers on the usual marketplaces don't ask about connector heights or antenna clearance. The shops that do understand it are agencies quoting $38K–$190K for a multi-week engagement — built for a Series A team, not a founder with a working prototype and a deadline.
byitl exists to be the thing in between: someone who actually builds this stuff, who'll turn your board files into a print-ready enclosure in 72 hours, flat fee, no retainer.
Under the hood, that speed comes from a parametric template library, built up board class by board class (ESP32, RP2040, STM32, and more as they're added). Each new project starts from a verified base instead of a blank canvas — the 72-hour sprint is the current way that library gets delivered, and it gets faster as the library grows.
What we stand for.
- Fit, not vibes.
- A rendering that looks right and a part that actually clears your antenna and seats your USB-C connector are different things. We verify against your board photos before anything ships — plausible doesn't count.
- Speed with a real deadline.
- 72 hours, one revision included. If we miss it, you don't pay. We'd rather lose the engagement than ship a missed promise.
- Ownership.
- You own the design IP once the engagement is paid — full transfer, no lock-in. You get the editable STEP, not just a render. Your files stay yours — NDA on request.
- Hands-on, not outsourced.
- Every board that comes in gets modeled by someone who's actually wired up an ESP32, debugged a dead servo, and printed the part that didn't quite fit the first time.
The founder.
Lester Privott is the founder of byitl. He's a software and data engineer by trade — years spent building data platforms and AI systems for healthcare and consumer tech — and a hardware tinkerer by habit: ESP32 builds, servo-driven mechanisms, parametric CAD, and a 3D printer that runs more than it sits idle.
byitl is where that habit became the business: founders ship a working board, then lose weeks to an enclosure that should've taken three days. Lester builds those enclosures himself, board by board, in Charlotte, NC.
If you reply to a byitl email, Lester is the person who reads it — and the person who opens your Gerbers.
Got a board that needs a case?
PCB to enclosure in 72 hours. $1,500 flat, fully refundable if we miss the deadline.
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