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An Collaborative, AI-native IDE for Hardware Engineers
Artifact is a collaborative IDE for hardware engineers - accelerating every step in the engineering lifecycle: Design → Procurement → Manufacturing → Integration → Test → Sustainment We've raised $3.5M to build an integrated, verifiable AI copilot with an intuitive UI that reflects how hardware actually gets built. Every artifact is auto-generated and traceable to a single-source of truth. We believe hardware engineering should be rigorous, deliberate, and system-aware. We work directly with customers solving the world's hardest technical problems to modernize how complex hardware is engineered. If you're interested, send your resume & contact info to: careers@artifact.engineer
Artifact is a collaborative, AI-native ECAD tool designed for hardware teams to design electrical systems with version control, multi-layer views, and real-time collaboration. It focuses on generating harness drawings, pin-tables, and BOMs while linking to existing CAD workflows and providing cross-system traceability.
Artifact provides a collaborative, version-controlled ECAD environment with multi-layer design views. Users build a parts library, define pinouts and metadata, draw system schematics, and auto-generate harness drawings. It runs electrical rules checks, project rules checks, and supports management of design history with snapshots and releases. The platform bidirectionally links to external CAD systems, exports BOMs/pinouts/drawings, and offers navigation across nested design blocks with traceability of nets and components, all while enabling ITAR/CUI-compliant deployments and API-based integrations.
Who it’s for: Hardware engineering teams designing electrical systems for aerospace, defense, automotive, robotics, and other mission-critical applications needing collaboration, traceability, and compliance.
Customers: Aerospace/Defense organizations (under NDA)
The site mentions 16+ companies, 116k+ wires, and $3.5M raised, plus mentions of aerospace/DoD customers and NDA contexts, indicating traction and funding activity.
Antony Samuel is an electrical engineer with eight years of experience developing avionics and software for complex aerospace systems. Most recently, he was the Avionics Lead at Hermeus, where he built the team and infrastructure behind the avionics for the world’s fastest aircraft (Mach 5). Now, as co-founder of Artifact, Antony is building next-generation design tools to accelerate hardware engineering, with a focus on avionics and electrical system design.
Corbin Klett is an aerospace engineering PhD from Georgia Tech, where he applied cutting-edge control theory research to robotic systems. After spending a couple of years in industry working on design and embedded software for a high-speed aircraft prototype, he cofounded Artifact. The team’s current focus is on building software tools that accelerate hardware engineering workflows, specifically in the area of electrical and avionics systems design.
We're building CAD software for electrical system design
Artifact builds a single-source-of-truth electrical design tool with AI-assisted datasheet parsing, part libraries, and design checks to link low- and high-fidelity diagrams and auto-generate manufacturing drawings for hardware engineers designing complex electrical systems.
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