The Manufacturing Intelligence CompanyJul 31, 2026
Automated drawing review
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Hera is an automated drawing review tool for the engineers who sign off on mechanical drawings before parts get cut. Every custom metal part starts as a 2D drawing that has to be checked against ASME/ISO standards and GD&T requirements before it goes near a machine, and today that review is done by hand, usually by the most senior engineer in the building. Hera ingests a drawing and checks GD&T callouts, tolerance stack ups, and title block requirements against ASME Y14.5, relevant ISO standards, and the shop's own design intent , returning each flag with the specific clause or internal SOP behind it so reviewers can trust and audit the output.
The launch matters because the people who catch these mistakes are aging out of the workforce, and a single missed datum or unreachable weld can scrap a part worth tens of thousands of dollars. According to the founders, Hera is already live in three plants running roughly 60 real drawings a week, aimed at OEMs and suppliers in aerospace, semiconductor, medical device, pressure vessel, and custom machinery work. The pitch to buyers is straightforward: turn a multi-day senior-engineer bottleneck into a minutes-long check that gets sharper as more drawings and SOPs run through it.
The Manufacturing Intelligence Company was founded in 2026 by Meera Patel and Noelle So and is based in Seattle as part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch. Noelle grew up in an industrial park her family runs in the Philippines and at 19 built a water-treatment facility that added 40 L/s of capacity to the park. Meera has spent years around manufacturing at her family's plants and on projects at Pfizer and TE Connectivity, where she built a discrete-event simulation, taught herself PLC programming and C++, and published ML research at UW.
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Ridwan OkaforAug 1, 2026
Every mech eng who has ever eaten a scrap cost because of a missing basic dimension callout just felt a chill down their spine. GD&T is where projects go to die.
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Leo AdeyemiAug 1, 2026
A missed datum is the industrial equivalent of a typo in a legal contract. Nobody notices until someone gets hurt or billed.
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Priya N.Aug 1, 2026
Reminds me of what Rune did for BOM automation but pointed at the drawing layer. Curious how you handle legacy PDFs with hand-annotated redlines.
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kentaAug 1, 2026
The tweet buries the lede at the tolerance callout example. Lead with the $1,000 number in frame one, put the ASME line as the punch, you'd double the dwell time easy.
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Sasha VolkovAug 1, 2026
Cool pitch but ASME Y14.5 has enough ambiguity that even senior checkers argue for hours. What does Hera do when two interpretations are both technically valid?
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Sofia MarchettiAug 1, 2026
How many people on the team? Feels like the kind of vertical where two engineers and a very patient CAD nerd can go the distance.
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Annika HalvorsenAug 1, 2026
If you're hiring a founding forward-deployed engineer with actual GD&T scars, I know a guy who ran drawing checks at a tier-one supplier for years.
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Meilin ChenAug 1, 2026
Would love to chat about the S26 batch and what drew you to design review specifically. Happy to keep it off record if easier, DMs open.
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yusraAug 1, 2026
Any plans to open source the ASME rule extraction layer, or is that the moat? Also, please tell me the docs will actually have example drawings.
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Cassia RibeiroAug 1, 2026
Defense and aero shops will ask about ITAR and where the drawing data sits before they even watch a demo. Worth putting a residency FAQ up front.
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Tomasz B.Aug 1, 2026
The $1,000 mistakes hook is strong but truncated by the ASME link cut. Rework the copy so the mechanical audience gets the value before the URL preview swallows it.
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Hera is an automated drawing review tool for the engineers who sign off on mechanical drawings before parts get cut. Every custom metal part starts as a 2D drawing that has to be checked against ASME/ISO standards and GD&T requirements before it goes near a machine, and today that review is done by hand, usually by the most senior engineer in the building. Hera ingests a drawing and checks GD&T callouts, tolerance stack ups, and title block requirements against ASME Y14.5, relevant ISO standards, and the shop's own design intent , returning each flag with the specific clause or internal SOP behind it so reviewers can trust and audit the output. The launch matters because the people who catch these mistakes are aging out of the workforce, and a single missed datum or unreachable weld can scrap a part worth tens of thousands of dollars. According to the founders, Hera is already live in three plants running roughly 60 real drawings a week, aimed at OEMs and suppliers in aerospace, semiconductor, medical device, pressure vessel, and custom machinery work. The pitch to buyers is straightforward: turn a multi-day senior-engineer bottleneck into a minutes-long check that gets sharper as more drawings and SOPs run through it. The Manufacturing Intelligence Company was founded in 2026 by Meera Patel and Noelle So and is based in Seattle as part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch. Noelle grew up in an industrial park her family runs in the Philippines and at 19 built a water-treatment facility that added 40 L/s of capacity to the park. Meera has spent years around manufacturing at her family's plants and on projects at Pfizer and TE Connectivity, where she built a discrete-event simulation, taught herself PLC programming and C++, and published ML research at UW.
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Every mech eng who has ever eaten a scrap cost because of a missing basic dimension callout just felt a chill down their spine. GD&T is where projects go to die.
A missed datum is the industrial equivalent of a typo in a legal contract. Nobody notices until someone gets hurt or billed.
Reminds me of what Rune did for BOM automation but pointed at the drawing layer. Curious how you handle legacy PDFs with hand-annotated redlines.
The tweet buries the lede at the tolerance callout example. Lead with the $1,000 number in frame one, put the ASME line as the punch, you'd double the dwell time easy.
Cool pitch but ASME Y14.5 has enough ambiguity that even senior checkers argue for hours. What does Hera do when two interpretations are both technically valid?
How many people on the team? Feels like the kind of vertical where two engineers and a very patient CAD nerd can go the distance.
If you're hiring a founding forward-deployed engineer with actual GD&T scars, I know a guy who ran drawing checks at a tier-one supplier for years.
Would love to chat about the S26 batch and what drew you to design review specifically. Happy to keep it off record if easier, DMs open.
Any plans to open source the ASME rule extraction layer, or is that the moat? Also, please tell me the docs will actually have example drawings.
Defense and aero shops will ask about ITAR and where the drawing data sits before they even watch a demo. Worth putting a residency FAQ up front.
The $1,000 mistakes hook is strong but truncated by the ASME link cut. Rework the copy so the mechanical audience gets the value before the URL preview swallows it.