It's not expensive. What does a week of a good hardware engineer's time cost? It's not even necessarily that expensive: $3K-$5K is a good budgetary range if y

It's not expensive. What does a week of a good hardware engineer's time cost? It's not even necessarily that expensive: $3K-$5K is a good budgetary range if you don't have any pre-compliance test and engineering capability because you might need 2-3 trips to a certified test lab to pass. If you have experience in your product space and good pre-compliance testing, you can definitely be one-and-done for less than that.