{"id":86643,"title":"Jiga: The White Box Manufacturing Platform 🦾","tagline":"Source high-quality, cost-competitive custom parts faster by partnering directly with vetted manufacturers","body":"# **What is Jiga?**\n\nJiga is a sourcing platform that enables engineers to get quick quotes and place orders with manufacturing suppliers, maintaining full transparency and direct communication to the manufacturer who actually make the parts.\n\nWe are proud to help the best engineering teams in the world bring their products quickly from idea to production, including blue-chip accounts such as Tesla, NASA, Apple, KLA, Siemens, and others.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=86643\u0026key=user_uploads/371504/9cf849f6-bf2d-49a5-b221-c7917443aae7)\n\n\n# **Why We Built Jiga?**\n\nMechanical engineers often face challenges when sourcing custom parts, such as managing messy email threads and maintaining spreadsheets of quotes and quote requests.\n\nThese inefficiencies often lead to miscommunication, delays, and increased costs, making the procurement process time-consuming and frustrating for both sides.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=86643\u0026key=user_uploads/371504/07a793ad-c2e1-44a7-8dc8-e526f2c001e6)\n\n\nOn the other hand, many digital manufacturing services provide instant quotes but completely hide the manufacturer from the engineers, making it very hard to collaborate on complex parts. Imagine you are an engineer that spent weeks on designing a part on your 3D software, you need to talk to the machinist and explain them the small nuances in your design. Otherwise, they will get it completely wrong and valuable time and money will be wasted.\n\nWe call it \"The Black Box Problem\".\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nJiga platform offers a transparent way to connects engineers directly with vetted suppliers, **facilitating** efficient collaboration and communication.\n\nBy eliminating the middleman, we reduce support expenses, enhance scalability by empowering suppliers to manage support, and create strong network effects through collaborative workflows.\n\nWe use AI under the hood to automate all the manual tasks that engineers (and no one else, really) want to do: matching the right suppliers, monitoring production processes, finding and reporting discrepancies, extracting data from engineering and procurement documents, following up, mitigating delays, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=86643\u0026key=user_uploads/371504/351fb1a7-cd48-4be2-b6cb-8e78c4edf995)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=86643\u0026key=user_uploads/371504/8f6b2e32-00fb-47a5-82fb-7a3c3d3c735a)\n\n# **How to Get Started?**\n\nIf you are ready to ditch the black box:\n\n* Sign up: \u003chttps://jiga.io\u003e\n* Talk to us: [founders@jiga.io](mailto:founders@jiga.io)\n* Follow our engineering content on LinkedIn: \u003chttps://www.linkedin.com/company/jiga3d/\u003e","slug":"MXT-jiga-the-white-box-manufacturing-platform","created_at":"2025-01-07T15:36:26.015Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:55:14.720Z","total_vote_count":21,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MXT-jiga-the-white-box-manufacturing-platform","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=86643\u0026key=user_uploads/371504/9cf849f6-bf2d-49a5-b221-c7917443aae7","company":{"id":23440,"name":"Jiga","slug":"jiga","url":"https://jiga.io","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c19e5f223f5e07fad692fb4bea179778c08b018.png","batch":"Winter 2021","industry":"B2B","tags":["B2B","Manufacturing","Supply Chain"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/23440"}}