Polymath Industrial is a Montana-based engineering shop building hardware, firmware, and software for the people who run the world's machines.
Most industrial problems don't fit cleanly inside one trade. Polymath spans embedded firmware, full-stack software, electronics and controls, industrial IoT, fabrication, and mechanical design — so a project goes from blank page to deployed system without being handed off five times.
Production firmware for industrial sensors, controllers, and edge devices — the layer between physical machinery and the software that supervises it.
Operational software the floor actually uses — ERP, MES, dashboards, and field tools. Built lean, deployed on infrastructure you own.
Control panel design, build, and labeling under a UL 508A certified Manufacturer's Technical Representative — so the panel ships with a UL listing label, not a promise.
Turn idle, opaque equipment into instrumented assets. Edge collection, time-series storage, and dashboards that answer the questions your operations team is actually asking.
In-house machining, welding, and assembly so prototypes become field-ready hardware without waiting on three external vendors.
Drawings and CAD work suitable for manufacturing, certification, and regulator review — not just for the designer's own reference.
We take on contract engineering work for industrial customers who need more than a consultant and less than a 50-person firm. We do best when the problem is concrete, the goal is operational, and the customer wants the result deployed — not a slide deck.
Polymath runs lean by working with local contractors when the project warrants it. We're building a roster of people we can call — welders, machinists, programmers, electronics techs, CAD designers — who do good work and live close enough to show up.
Alongside contract work, Polymath develops in-house industrial products.
A safety interlock for bifold and hydraulic industrial doors that detects panel tilt and structural failure before the door can fall — protecting people, equipment, and aircraft underneath.
Built around a multi-sensor architecture with redundant tilt measurement, a hardened outdoor enclosure, and a multi-tenant cloud portal for fleet operators and installers. UL / FCC / CE certification in progress through an ODM engagement.
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Polymath Industrial LLC was founded on the idea that the boundaries between trades — programming, electronics, machining, welding — are an organizational accident, not a feature of the work itself. The problems that show up in real industry don't respect those lines, and the customers paying to solve them shouldn't have to either.
Polymath is based in Superior, Montana, in the Bitterroot range of Mineral County. The shop sits at 30 Mullan Road. Customers and contributors are within an hour of Missoula and a day's drive of most of the Northwest.
The company is led by David Grillot, a full-stack engineer with two decades of work across embedded systems, industrial software, and manufacturing operations.
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