Have you considered teaming up with someone affiliated with a university?
Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I considered that and I don’t consider affiliation to be a major problem, since I can think of 2-3 places that would probably like to have me publish their name in conjunction with a technical article. If you think of it, they don’t have much to lose, it spreads their organization/business name for free so it’s like free advertising, it’s likely to boost their reputation, it could lead to funding, and so on.