Teague

In short

Teague turned 100 in 2026, having started in 1926, and today it works from Seattle on hardware first: aircraft, robots, vehicles, space habitats, along with the screens and controls that go with them. It pitches itself to companies building new hardware, and its services run from concept and design language to mechanical engineering and full-scale mockups. That mix of physical and digital work puts it at #2 on our Seattle list.

Recent case studies read like a defence and aerospace portfolio. For Shield AI it built a 45%-scale X-BAT model, nearly 500 pounds, that rises from horizontal to vertical in 60 seconds and assembles with two people and one tool. Starlab got a full-scale, reconfigurable station mockup at NASA's Johnson Space Center for astronaut training. Noble Machines' humanoid robot was designed to look like a tool, not a coworker, with its interaction design shaped alongside the body.

Companies building physical products that carry software, especially in aviation, defence, robotics and mobility, will find engineers, industrial designers and interface designers under one roof; Boeing, Collins Aerospace, Amtrak and Segway are quoted on its site. A business that needs a marketing website, a SaaS dashboard on its own or a quick brand refresh is outside what Teague is set up to do.