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Forerunner recently launched!
"Forerunner collaborates with engineers to accelerate development of defense tech, satellites, and rockets."
BLUF - Forerunner automates repetitive hardware engineering tasks, helping hardware teams speed up design iterations and stay aligned. The AI-powered Slackbot integrates with software like Confluence and GitHub, enabling engineers to efficiently access the latest data (“What’s the current thrust on our Methalox engine?”), run calculations (“Solve for mass flow rate on the cold gas thruster”), and update files (“Update SRB design thrust with new test data”).
With Forerunner, engineers can focus on what matters: designing and building hardware systems.
Founded by Yash Kadadi & Will Nida
Who the founders are
Meet Yash and Will! They’re lifelong aerospace nerds. They’ve launched liquid biprop rockets and built CubeSats at Stanford, and deployed hardware and software at SpaceX (Starship and Starlink), Anduril (Altius), and NASA (ISS operations).
Why this matters
The world is on fire, and we desperately need to fly the next generation of autonomous weapons, satellites, launch vehicles, hypersonics, and eVTOL aircraft.
However, inefficient engineering software is slowing us down. The founders personally experienced the frustration of digging through hundreds of slides of primary structures analysis, setting up Excel hand-calcs with equations from Roark’s, and missing flight deadlines.
To accelerate the development of critical aerospace and defense hardware, automating slow, tedious workflows for engineers is needed.
How to solve this
Forerunner automates repetitive tasks in aerospace engineering.
Today, Forerunner can:
- Update turbopump design specs in Document A by querying and synthesizing test results from Documents B and C.
- Size the mass budget for a comms satellite using techniques in The New SMAD. Generate compliant test plans based on Air Force Space Command procedures.
- Analyze assembly instructions for an arming fuse and generate an inspection plan for QA.
- Track system-level requirements for a loitering munition; when new wingbox subsystem specs are uploaded, Forerunner flags and corrects any inconsistencies with system requirements.
Learn More
🌐 Visit tryforerunner.com to learn more.
🤝 The founders would like to chat with any engineering leads at aerospace, defense, and hardware companies!
📧 Email Yash here if you or your friends are building cool hardware!
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