{"id":105450,"title":"ProvenMetal - Fast-turn, American made PCBs","tagline":"Ship hardware just as fast as software","body":"We're Johnny and Will - founders of ProvenMetal (YC S26). We assemble the fastest circuit boards in the US, out of a garage in Dogpatch, San Francisco.\n\nSend us your design files and get assembled boards back in days instead of weeks.\n\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/TH0XImuvNbc\u003e\n\n**The Problem**\n\nHardware companies - start-ups and large manufacturers alike - need speed to survive, and right now they wait weeks for circuit boards.\n\nThat time is lost to quoting, design review, part procurement, and assembly - bottlenecks we're automating.\n\nAt the same time, the reshoring wave is driving demand to manufacture critical infrastructure - drones, robotics, defense, energy - domestically.\n\nBut the capacity to assemble boards domestically, quickly and at scale, isn't there. Decades of offshoring hollowed it out, and what's left is slow and expensive.\n\nThe supply chain needed to revitalise American electronics manufacturing hasn't been built yet. We're building it.\n\n**What We Do**\n\nWe're removing the bottlenecks that stand in the way of fast domestic PCB manufacturing.\n\nSend us your design files, get instant quoting and rapid design review.\n\nWe source every component, assemble in San Francisco, and X-ray every board - delivered in days instead of weeks.\n\n**The Founders**\n\nWill Carkner (CTO) - Electrical Engineer, previously shipped the PCB testing pipeline at Lumindt.\n\nJohnny Doyle (CEO) - Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineer, previously built IoT building management systems.\n\n**The Ask**\n\nIntros to drone companies that need hardware fast.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=105450\u0026key=user_uploads/3677443/8207a1f2-8f6c-41a2-ade8-66fa8d5f7c59)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=105450\u0026key=user_uploads/3677443/75079b59-06bb-49f5-898f-dff57e93579a)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=105450\u0026key=user_uploads/3677443/eeabd5ee-fa61-411c-97da-519125e27c0d)\n\n","slug":"RQo-provenmetal-fast-turn-american-made-pcbs","created_at":"2026-07-13T16:18:44.326Z","updated_at":"2026-07-22T13:41:37.550Z","total_vote_count":28,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RQo-provenmetal-fast-turn-american-made-pcbs","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=105450\u0026key=user_uploads/3677443/eeabd5ee-fa61-411c-97da-519125e27c0d","company":{"id":33017,"name":"ProvenMetal","slug":"provenmetal","url":"https://provenmetal.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/450cf955a0b5a1e301afe718484dd30ffb22fb67.png","batch":"Summer 2026","industry":"Industrials","tags":["Hardware","Manufacturing","Electronics"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/33017"}}