Amodo Design

Amodo Design is a hardware engineering company headquartered in Sheffield, UK, building what they describe as the 21st century's most important technologies. The company was incorporated on 1 February 2022 as Amodo Design Ltd, with co-founders Tom Milton (CEO) and Andy Graham (CTO) going full-time in early 2023. Graham is notably the youngest ever Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in its 175-year history, achieving the distinction at age 26. The company operates as a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy with a team of approximately 30 engineers spanning mechanical, electronic, firmware, and software disciplines. They have completed over 73 projects in under three years, working with clients including four of the world's top ten universities (Cambridge, Oxford, MIT, Sheffield), as well as ARIA, RAND Corporation, and numerous deep tech startups. Amodo's work is guided by the philosophy of differential technology development: deliberately accelerating the development of safety-enhancing technologies to ensure human flourishing. Their current focus spans four fields. In AI safety, their hardware team works on securing advanced AI systems, having demonstrated the flexHEG (Flexible Hardware-Enabled Guarantees) architecture with Ulyssean and working to implement tamper-responsive AI server infrastructure at scale. In biosecurity, they partner with the University of Sheffield on automated RNA vaccine production systems, Oxford University on next-generation respiratory PPE, and RAND on building-scale biodefense systems. They also work in humane tech and accelerating science, developing new hardware tools that enable scientific breakthroughs. Amodo was selected as one of nine ARIA (Advanced Research and Invention Agency) Activation Partners, alongside organizations like DeepMind and Convergent Research, tasked with developing new scientific equipment and prototype inventions. The company was awarded Startup of the Year 2023 at the Sheffield Business Awards. They have doubled in size year-on-year since founding and plan to continue that trajectory in 2026.