By choosing STEP Labs as a partner, our OEMs can leave the acoustic work for the specialists at STEP and focus on their business. STEP Labs’ partners can work with us to design new products from scratch or upgrade existing products to surpass the voice quality of their competition. All of our partners have the option of capitalizing on our acoustic engineering services, our acoustic product design services, and our marketing services, each described below. If you have a headset, car-kit, hands-free device, or if you are a maker of another device that would benefit from multi-microphone, voice isolation solutions, we welcome you to consider joining STEP’s Partner Program. If we agree to work together, your product will benefit from our partner program in many ways: Best voice isolation technology on the market with STEPvoice Improved sound quality with STEPsound’s volume-adjusting output speaker with noise-cancellation Engineering and acoustic design collaboration to improve product performance Product differentiation via the box top “STEP OnBoard” logo Industrial design collaboration to improve product appeal Market Development assistance The Partner program’s standard financial model is a nominal upfront Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) Lab fee for each product and a per unit licensing fee for STEPware software. All other resource use and collaborations are on a ‘contributor pays their own costs’ basis.