Some AI assembly required: This startup wants to make US manufacturing easier than following an Ikea manual
Briefly

BuildOS uses artificial intelligence to generate step-by-step assembly instructions and determine assembly order from CAD files, replacing a manual workflow of screenshots and PowerPoint assembly guides. The tool targets complex machinery manufacturing where existing documentation processes are time-consuming and error-prone. Dirac secured nearly $11 million in funding from Founders Fund and Coatue and announced a partnership with Siemens to deliver AI-generated build guides to industrial customers. Dirac was co-founded in 2023 by Fil Aronshtein and Peter Weiss and operates as an 18-person team. The company declined to disclose whether it uses a foundation model or a proprietary model.
You know that paper instruction book that tells you how to build something?
It turns out everything around us also needs assembly instructions.
Some dude gets a CAD file over email, takes hundreds of screenshots manually, figures out what order to do the assembly, then takes all those screenshots and throws them together into a 100-page PowerPoint,
It's super manual, and super tedious.
Read at Business Insider
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