Ian Copeland
Griggs
Inventor · Engineer · Founder
Staff Opto-Mechanical Engineer · ex-GoPro · 30+ U.S. patents in optical systems, camera hardware & precision mechanical design.
An invention studio with hardware DNA.
Founded by Ian Copeland Griggs — engineer, patent holder, and operator who has shipped products at GoPro, Western Digital, Jaunt VR, Pacific Biosciences, and Juicero. ICG Labs is where that experience gets applied to building what comes next.
Invention Studio
ICG Labs is the vehicle for deep invention work — from early-stage IP development to full product builds. Not a consultancy. Not an agency. A founder-led studio.
Across the Stack
Optical systems. Consumer hardware. Mobile platforms. Web apps. The lab doesn't pick a lane — it follows the problem wherever it leads.
Selective Engagements
A small number of outside engagements per year — due diligence, expert witness, advisory, and R&D leadership — where the work is genuinely interesting.
Patents & experience.
30+ U.S. patents across optical systems, mechanical design, and consumer hardware — filed at companies that shipped real products at scale. Click any drawing to inspect it.
Patent Gallery
Company Track Record
Products I shipped.
Hardware that went into millions of hands — action cameras, mounts, VR rigs, and biotech instruments.
2017Jaunt VR
Jaunt Next-Gen VR Camera
Mechanical Engineer
Led mechanical design on Jaunt's next-generation cinematic VR camera — nearly production-ready when the company wound down.
2013Pacific Biosciences
PacBio RS II
Manufacturing Integration
Built and calibrated the RS II single-molecule DNA sequencer from prototype to production line.
Software I'm Building
The other half of the stack — consumer apps, creator tools, and autonomous-AI experiments, shipping in production and in the lab.
Live products with real users.
CourtFinder
Autonomous agent that finds and books open courts from city systems, end to end.
Utilities that automate the unglamorous work.
AI Lead-Gen + CRM
AI lead prospecting, email drafting, and a lightweight CRM in one.
QR Campaign + GPS Map
Campaign QR codes with embedded GPS and a live traffic-map overlay.
Social Media AI Engine
Automated social-content pipeline — HTML → headless Chrome → Vercel at scale.
Redline
Drop-in website feedback widget — pin comments to any element on a live page.
Parallel bets, one goal: autonomous AI that turns a goal into shipped work with less and less human input.
Halo
Hierarchical Autonomous Learning Orchestrator
A project/task UI for human + AI collaboration — a fractal Goal → Plan → Execute loop at every level.
Mint
Monetize Identified Niche Trends
Fully AI-native goal-tree — a DAG neural net that finds and monetizes niche trends, running $0 → $1M ARR.
Claw
Multi-step tool-use agent framework built on OpenClaw, running on VSP.
Relay
Autonomous cross-platform collaboration — Cursor, Claude Code, and OpenClaw working as one team, coordinated through Linear.
Working with Ian.
Two ways to work together: bring me in for a select engagement, or build something with me.
Due Diligence & Expert Witness
For investors, acquirers, and legal teams. Patent-landscape and IP-validity assessment, technical team evaluation, and expert testimony on opto-mechanical systems, camera hardware, and consumer electronics.
Advisory & R&D Leadership
For founders and teams building hardware. Ongoing technical advisory, fractional R&D leadership, or an embedded EIR role — from someone who's actually shipped at GoPro scale.
Building Together
Co-Founders & Founding Team
I'm not only taking engagements — I'm building. If you're a potential co-founder, GTM partner, or founding-team member who wants in on autonomous-AI products or hardware ventures, I want to meet you.
Ian Copeland Griggs.
Ian is a mechanical and opto-mechanical engineer with 15+ years shipping real hardware at companies including GoPro, Western Digital, Jaunt VR, Pacific Biosciences, and Juicero. He holds 30+ U.S. patents across optical systems, mechanical design, storage devices, and consumer electronics.
At GoPro, he was a Staff Opto-Mechanical Engineer working on next-generation camera systems — the kind of role where your name ends up on a lot of patents and your work ends up in millions of pockets.
Today he runs ICG Labs as a founder-operator: building digital products, developing new IP, and taking on selective engagements where the technical depth actually matters.
Career
Expertise
Let's start a conversation.
Working on something interesting in hardware, deep tech, or AI — or need due diligence, expert witness, or advisory support? Worth a conversation.