I believe that they have been identified earlier in this thread. I believe BassboysLLP, Erniepower and Bowhunter15 are all engineers and they are all working together on this. I'm very new to the site and don't know everyone else who is involved's background, but there may be more. There appears to be lots of experienced guys involved.
I'm not involved in it; other than somebody who is hoping to get in on the best platform designed by experienced saddle hunters. My background is in business with a specialty in marketing and brand management. Before my current profession, I was an assistant brand manager (my particular job involved understanding and managing the consumer's expectations). I believe the consumer's input is very important in product development.
However, in this particular case, I haven't heard the guys mention that they're going to build a "product". They're trying to make the perfect saddle hunting platform and I don't think it's for commercial gain. I think they're just trying to get the best platform possible. The way I see it, the rest of us are lucky that they're considering making some for us. I'm sure they're more than happy to hear our input so that they can tweak the design(s) and get the best platform possible, but sometimes there's too many chiefs and too few indians.
I'm not trying to devalue your opinion or anything, just saying that I think we should all be patient and wait and see what the guys come up with and go from there.
Maybe I'm on the wrong track with this, if so, somebody let me know!
And I really hated that job and was terrible at it so I'm very likely on the wrong track haha