Hardware & IoT

Artifact

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Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Artifact is a collaborative IDE for hardware engineers - accelerating every step in the engineering lifecycle:

Design → Procurement → Manufacturing → Integration → Test → Sustainment

We've raised $3.5M to build an integrated, verifiable AI copilot with an intuitive UI that reflects how hardware actually gets built. Every artifact is auto-generated and traceable to a single-source of truth.

We believe hardware engineering should be rigorous, deliberate, and system-aware. We work directly with customers solving the world's hardest technical problems to modernize how complex hardware is engineered.

If you're interested, send your resume & contact info to: careers@artifact.engineer

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Product details

Artifact is a collaborative, version-controlled, and multi-layered ECAD tool. It organizes interdependencies between sub-systems and generates harness drawings, pin-tables, and BOMs real-time.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-27

Product & workflow

Design, manufacturing, and procurement teams collaborate on the system design in parallel.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-27

Customers & use cases

Collaborative ECAD tool for electrical systems. Version-controlled multi-layer canvas for automotive, aerospace, robotics & mission-critical hardware design.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-27

Founders & team

Antony Samuel

Founder/CEO

Antony Samuel is an electrical engineer with eight years of experience developing avionics and software for complex aerospace systems. Most recently, he was the Avionics Lead at Hermeus, where he built the team and infrastructure behind the avionics for the world’s fastest aircraft (Mach 5). Now, as co-founder of Artifact, Antony is building next-generation design tools to accelerate hardware engineering, with a focus on avionics and electrical system design.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Corbin Klett

Founder/CTO

Corbin Klett is an aerospace engineering PhD from Georgia Tech, where he applied cutting-edge control theory research to robotic systems. After spending a couple of years in industry working on design and embedded software for a high-speed aircraft prototype, he cofounded Artifact. The team’s current focus is on building software tools that accelerate hardware engineering workflows, specifically in the area of electrical and avionics systems design.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
4team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedLos Angeles, CA, USA
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Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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