American manufacturers lose an estimated $285,000 annually to poor quality for every $10 million in revenue. At the same time, the industry is losing the engineers who know how to prevent those losses. Nearly 4 million manufacturing jobs will need to be filled by 2033 as experienced workers retire, and almost half are expected to go unfilled. Much of the expertise required to review complex engineering drawings exists only in the heads of senior engineers who are leaving the workforce.

We're both engineers who grew up watching this firsthand. After more than 200 conversations with manufacturing engineers, quality engineers and machinists, we're building software that captures that expertise by automatically reviewing engineering drawings against ASME standards and company-specific rules before they ever reach the shop floor.

We're building the largest repository of engineering judgment in the world. We tailor each company's checks to their own standards, the kind usually mastered by only a handful of senior engineers. We turn that knowledge into software every plant can use the same week.

With success, the physical things the world depends on get built 10x faster, and a retiring generation's expertise is never lost.