About Shift Sight
Triple Bottom Line Beginnings
Shift Sight was founded in 2016 as a triple-bottom-line tech startup: a business that prioritizes people and planet, treating profit as a means to exist rather than an end.
Our purpose was to create repairable, durable (20+ year life) electronics to displace harmful technology that is increasingly marketed to children.
Shift Sight transitioned to a boutique engineering firm in 2018 after being unable to secure investors willing to back such an industry-threatening and ambitious goal. The environmental impact from cradle to grave (electronic waste) only grew in the following years as trillions of dollars continue to be invested in unnecessary connectivity, artificial obsolescence, disposable designs, and surveillance capitalism.
Despite our changes, our triple-bottom-line principles remain intact: we provide our clients with durable and repairable solutions. Shift Sight has declined to take projects that would cause unnecessary burden or harm to people or planet.
Our purpose was to create repairable, durable (20+ year life) electronics to displace harmful technology that is increasingly marketed to children.
Shift Sight transitioned to a boutique engineering firm in 2018 after being unable to secure investors willing to back such an industry-threatening and ambitious goal. The environmental impact from cradle to grave (electronic waste) only grew in the following years as trillions of dollars continue to be invested in unnecessary connectivity, artificial obsolescence, disposable designs, and surveillance capitalism.
Despite our changes, our triple-bottom-line principles remain intact: we provide our clients with durable and repairable solutions. Shift Sight has declined to take projects that would cause unnecessary burden or harm to people or planet.
Pandemic Focus
Starting in 2020, Shift Sight provided solutions and electronic assemblies to customers that were working in areas adjacent to the COVID-19 pandemic. These products: 1) improved air quality in commercial and industrial settings; 2) removed potentially infectious aerosols in medical settings; and 3) addressed unique problems in the health sciences.
As it became clear that governments are unable or unwilling to provide clear, concise information (along with providing tools for people to protect themselves), Shift Sight gradually moved from being pandemic-adjacent to pandemic-centric.
Now, in 2022, we are exclusively focused on personal protection related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Information is being provided openly. Products that impact personal safety are being sold at-cost.
Children remain the priority. Shift Sight embraced the goal that the planet must be inhabitable for future generations; now we act to protect the children that would inherit that planet.
As it became clear that governments are unable or unwilling to provide clear, concise information (along with providing tools for people to protect themselves), Shift Sight gradually moved from being pandemic-adjacent to pandemic-centric.
Now, in 2022, we are exclusively focused on personal protection related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Information is being provided openly. Products that impact personal safety are being sold at-cost.
Children remain the priority. Shift Sight embraced the goal that the planet must be inhabitable for future generations; now we act to protect the children that would inherit that planet.
Sustainable Development Goals
Shift Sight supports the following UN SDGs.
Shift Sight focuses on providing STEM outreach to schools and students. This STEM approach is unique us, as it emphasizes durability, repairability, and the limits of what the Earth can support.
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Page last updated 2022-04-22