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Engineering built on first principles.

A UK consultancy delivering vehicle, manufacturing, and software programmes by the engineer doing the work. No account managers. No handoffs.

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Ben Godfrey
Founder & Director

Founder of Godfrey Engineering Ltd. Automotive design engineer specialising in motorsport suspension, chassis development, and custom software solutions.

More than a decade designing vehicles for demanding applications. Motorsport suspension systems, EV battery containment, automated manufacturing equipment, supercar powertrain programmes. I started Godfrey Engineering to cut out the layers that stand between the client's problem and the engineer solving it.

Mission · Values · Goals
Mission
Precision engineering, directly delivered. Short loops between the problem and the engineer. No theatre, no dilution.
Values
First-principles rigour. Written-down assumptions. Production-grade documentation on every deliverable. Field validation over simulation alone.
Goals
Become the default consultancy for hard engineering problems across motorsport, automotive, manufacturing and software. Ship tools that outlive the brief.
Why this consultancy
01
Direct access
You speak to the engineer who solves the problem. No account managers, no dilution layers, no knowledge lost in translation.
02
Scoped honestly
Engagements are sized to the actual problem. We won't pad the scope to fill six months if the answer takes six weeks.
03
Written-down assumptions
Every analysis has a documented boundary condition. Every recommendation has a written reason. You know exactly how certain the answer is.
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Multi-discipline
Mechanical, structural, thermal, controls, and software from one source. No coordination overhead between separate specialists.
Things we don't do
Staff augmentation. We work on deliverables, not seat-months.
Catalogue engineering. If the answer comes from a parts list, you don't need us.
Secret-sauce black boxes. Every model, assumption, and tool we use is disclosed.
Ongoing retainers for non-technical work like account management, weekly status theatre, or project management of your own team.

If your project needs any of the above, we can recommend people who do it better than we would.

Timeline
Q1 2025
Founded
Godfrey Engineering Ltd incorporated in England & Wales. Founder Ben Godfrey opens the consultancy after a decade in motorsport, automotive design, and production-engineering.
Q2 2025
First motorsport programme
Rear kinematic rewrite for a national-level LMP team.
Q3 2025
Manufacturing expansion
First EV battery containment test rig shipped to Tier-1 OEM.
Q4 2025
Software discipline
ChainSolve development begins. Two-year programme.
2026
Launch year
ChainSolve v1.0 ships Summer 2026.

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