{"id":93193,"title":"Normal - Vanta for Hardware","tagline":"Automated hardware testing \u0026 compliance, saving 50x the time","body":"LLMs have made building hardware easier, proving it's safe to sell is still hard. We automate hardware certification: from drones to robots. Cutting compliance hours for teams 50x.\n\n[normalfactory.com](https://www.normalfactory.com/?utm_source=yc)\n\nhttps://youtu.be/51bFkdSyNvA\n\n**The Problem:**\n\n* **Certification are critical, non-core work** - Teams (often the Chief Engineers) spend days parsing standards\n* **It’s not clear what you actually need** - Compliance can be opaque, often requiring expensive consultants to decipher\n* **Labs take long to book** - Third party labs can be unresponsive without insider connections\n* **You can’t sell without them** - Not having the right certifications is gating \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=93193\u0026key=user_uploads/924433/aec806d9-2cec-478e-ba2b-439ce1457d93)\n\n**What We’re Building:**\n\n* **Certification roadmap to sell:** Clear, market‑specific path (what to test, in what order, and why)\n* **Automated lab bookings \u0026 logistics:** We handle scheduling, sample coordination, and paperwork end‑to‑end\n* **Live test tracking:** Visibility into progress, blockers, and results\n* **Technical file generation:** Auto‑assembled technical files and audit packs ready for submission\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=93193\u0026key=user_uploads/924433/3465b07b-7851-4f77-a0d8-52a840973ea9)\n\n**Who We Are**\n\nEngineers of both software and hardware! We’re Waterloo grads, previously working at AI labs, published in Nature for pulsed power research, and going extremely viral on the internet.\n\n**OUR ASK: Do you know of any hardware teams looking to spend less time on compliance? Please connect us!**\n\nWe’ve helped teams go from 0 to fully certified in weeks. We are now serving hardware teams for FCC / CE / UL / ASTM at [normalfactory.com](https://normalfactory.com?utm_source=yc) or [founders@normalfactory.com](https://mailto:founders@normalfactory.com)!","slug":"OF7-normal-vanta-for-hardware","created_at":"2025-08-20T17:07:25.899Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:48:32.371Z","total_vote_count":29,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OF7-normal-vanta-for-hardware","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=93193\u0026key=user_uploads/924433/f9ac96c9-fd1d-4a22-9678-f4039a1af5e8","company":{"id":30697,"name":"Normal","slug":"normal","url":"https://www.normalfactory.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a6cbae55e86532c01c20d7392309f9280f190548.png","batch":"Summer 2025","industry":"Industrials","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Hardware","Manufacturing","Industrial"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30697"}}