GroundControl Launches: Vertical AI for Highly-Regulated Manufacturing
GroundControl recently launched!
"AI-Powered first article inspections"
TL;DR: GroundControl has onboarded 70+ manufacturing facilities as customers throughout the US. Their core product automates lengthy, complex, and regulated quality documentation in aerospace manufacturing.
Founded by Mehul Shah, Matthew Noseworthy & Nick Warren
How They Started
Nick and Matt co-founded their last startup (InspectAR) with Mehul's brother before being acquired by Cadence ($CDNS). Mehul spent the last decade in his family business, where they built PCBs for every advanced system on Earth: rockets, satellites, aircraft, fighter jets, and more. They noticed despite building for innovation, manufacturing operations were antiquated and bogged down with manual processes.
First Article Inspection Reports (AS9102s) were creating a bottleneck in quality. Parts would be built and ready to ship, just waiting on paperwork. Their facilities were doing 15 reports a day, 8 hours per report. The worst part? Even if the part was built exactly to spec — if a single typo was found by the customer, the report would get rejected and payment delayed until the report was fixed.
What They Built
GroundControl's core product automates first article inspection reporting for regulated manufacturing. Quality teams can balloon drawings and automate inspection report generation in minutes, instead of days.
Their Vision
Today, over 70 facilities across the US generate almost 1000 reports a month on their platform. This is just the beginning. They will continue to build for quality, and upstream towards operations, engineering, and sales to empower manufacturers with AI. GroundControl will embed itself across the global supply chain, from Tier 4 suppliers to OEMs with vertically integrated manufacturing.
Learn More
🌐 Visit www.gndctl.com to learn more.
🚀 If you know anyone in regulated manufacturing (aerospace, automotive, medical), or their customers (OEMs like Lockheed, SpaceX, Anduril, etc.) they would love to chat. Reach the founders here or 408-390-4460.
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