Brands & Partners
Since 2018, Phil Burt Innovation has quietly become the go-to partner for brands that want more than marginal gains — they want transformative ones. We work behind the scenes, often under NDA, with leading companies across cycling, performance wear, medical tech, and beyond. Some partnerships we’re allowed to talk about.

Others we’ll never mention. And honestly? That’s part of the fun. Because when your ideas are a step ahead of the market, secrecy is a feature, not a flaw.
Redefining Comfort with Endura
One of our first public collaborations became a movement. In 2017, a chance conversation between Phil and Jim McFarlane, founder of Endura Cyclewear, turned into a five-year design partnership. Together, they launched the Ergonomistry Project, reshaping how cyclists think about comfort.

From reengineering pads and chamois to designing under garments, gloves, socks, and even the new MTB shoes, the goal was singular: Make comfort the key to performance. Not just lightness. Not just aero. But products that let riders ride — longer, stronger, happier. The result?

Multiple 10/10 reviews. Industry awards.
And a reputation for redefining the standards of contact-point design.
The Saddle Revolution with Fizik
In 2018, legendary Italian saddle maker Fizik brought Phil in to solve a problem:
They’d arrived late to the short-nosed saddle game — and needed to make up ground, fast. Together, we helped conceptualize and refine what became the Argo saddle — now a cornerstone in Fizik’s lineup. But the innovation didn’t stop there. Phil played a pivotal role in developing Adaptive, Fizik’s game-changing 3D-printed saddle tech. Then came the next frontier:

One-to-One Custom Saddles — using real-time pressure mapping to create fully personalized, 3D-printed saddles that respond to each rider’s unique profile. The outcome? World-class performance. World Tour–level trust. Even Tadej Pogačar, arguably the greatest cyclist of his generation, rides an Argo Adaptive 1-to-1 saddle. But it’s not just for the pros. Everyday riders have reported the same life-changing comfort — and Phil still delivers these custom sessions personally, with clinical precision.
And Then There Are the Projects We Can’t Talk About…
Phil has worked with numerous global brands — in cycling, wellness, sportswear, and health tech — helping visionary teams turn big ideas into breakthrough products. You won’t always find our name on the packaging.
But you’ll feel it — in that product that just fits, performs, or solves in a way nothing else ever has. If you're wondering how something got so smart, so specific, or so right… There's a good chance we were involved. Want In? We don’t do press releases. We don’t do off-the-shelf.

We do quiet breakthroughs that make your brand the one everyone else is chasing. If you’re building something that doesn’t exist yet — or reinventing something that should —
we’re listening. But only if you know where to look.