ventures/red-castle

Red Castle — Industrial IoT Venture

Overview

Red Castle is an edge-first industrial IoT consulting and platform business, built on 13 years of controls engineering experience combined with 4 years of cloud engineering expertise. The target market is small-to-mid manufacturers who need OT/IT integration without enterprise price tags or cloud vendor lock-in.

3-Phase Bootstrap Approach

• Phase 1 (Months 1–3): OT/IT Integration Consulting — revenue generation, market validation
• Phase 2 (Months 4–9): Edge Monitoring Platform — recurring revenue, infrastructure buildout
• Phase 3 (Months 10–18): GPU-Powered AI Features — premium tier, predictive maintenance

Documents

Strategic

• STRATEGY.md — Overall strategic direction and positioning
• recommended-approach.md — Detailed 3-phase execution plan
• business-models.md — All business model options evaluated
• financials.md — Revenue models, projections, economics
• go-to-market.md — 90-day sprint, customer targeting, pitch
• risks-and-constraints.md — AWS non-compete, risk mitigation

Market Research

• competitive-analysis.md — Market research and competitive landscape
• msp-competitive-landscape.md — Detailed MSP and remote support competitor analysis

Technical

• technical-stack.md — Infrastructure overview, tools, deployment architecture
• virtual-plc-implementation.md — Complete technical implementation guide for virtual PLC platform

Quick Reference

Target Market: Small-to-mid manufacturers ($10–100M revenue)
Initial Capital: $500–1,000
Target Revenue (Month 3): $20k–45k
Target Revenue (Month 18): $35k/month recurring

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Last Updated: February 2026