Dirac

.@AndurilTech Selects @DiracInc to Power AI-Driven Work Instructions Across Its Factories. By partnering with Dirac, Anduril saw an ~10x speedup in one of the most critical coordination loops in manufacturing. More: [diracinc.com/resources/andu…]

"Let me check" is the most expensive sentence on your factory floor. Each instance costs about 11 minutes. Multiply by every technician, every shift, every day. That's your invisible budget for bad tools...

Every factory still runs on a paper packet that follows each unit down the line. You hear it called "the traveler." That packet runs your business. It was last redesigned 30 years ago.

Your work instruction problem isn't only yours. You have it. So do your three suppliers. So do their three suppliers. Defects compound at every handoff.

A generation of engineers is choosing to build hard things in America again. The least we can do is give them tools worthy of the work.

Excited to announce that Jake Cornelius, former CoS to @PalantirTech COO Aki (Akash Jain) and Director at @geckorobotics, has joined @DiracInc as Head of Commercial. Dirac is at a major inflection point, and I'm thrilled to have Jake help lead the charge.

A new generation is showing up to build hard things in America again. We owe them tools that match the ambition.

Rework is the most expensive line item nobody tracks honestly. Every hour of it traces back to an instruction someone couldn't follow. Fix the instruction, kill the line item.

Hardware companies don't get to opt out of being software companies anymore. The product is hardware. The leverage is software. Pick your decade.

There's a binder on your factory floor right now with a torque spec that was updated in engineering last month. The binder doesn't know. This is the entire problem.

The moat for every physical product company is how quickly it iterates between Engineering and Production If increase the pace of iteration, you increase the rate of innovation No truly great hardware company can decouple production from product

American manufacturing's comeback runs on better software, better tools, and the engineers building both. The next decade looks nothing like the last one.

Continuous improvement needs a loop. Most factories run a one-way street: engineering to floor. Nothing comes back. Nothing gets learned. Slogans don't compound. Loops do.

Your AI roadmap has 14 initiatives. Zero of them reach the technician actually building the product. A roadmap that skips the floor is decoration.

You can't reshore American manufacturing on tools built in 1995. New factories need new software underneath them.

Your senior tech retires Friday. 40 years of "the way we actually build it" walks out the door with him. You wrote none of it down. You're running a memory leak rather than a factory.

Your MES can tell you a unit was built. It can't tell you how. That's the entire problem in one sentence.

Your CAD model isn't your product. Your BOM isn't your product. Your work instructions are your product. If a technician can't build it, you don't have a company. You have a render.

Loved diving in with @FilArons on his journey as a repeat founder, engineer at Northrop Grumman, and now CEO at @DiracInc. Dirac bridges assembly design to manufacturability for companies like Anduril and Siemens. @rachtsui and I are proud to to have them in The Council portfolio! 00:00 Introduction 02:35 The Journey into Engineering and Hard Problems 05:27 The Birth of Dirac: From Aerospace to Software 08:11 Addressing the Opioid Crisis: A Personal Story 10:43 Deciding What to Build: Timing and Passion 12:58 Navigating Hardware and Software Challenges 15:32 The Day-to-Day of Tackling Hard Problems 18:31 Manufacturers' Willingness to Innovate 22:57 Building Trust in Complex Industries 24:58 Embracing Risk in Entrepreneurship 26:39 The Assembly Company: Dirac's Unique Approach 31:48 Reintegrating American Manufacturing 36:24 Defining Success and Milestones at Dirac 38:14 Rapid Fire Insights: Leadership and Innovation

@FilArons @TheCouncilCap @AmberIllig @rachtsui Watch/listen to the full episode here: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1hStZy… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=i7blNl…

.On First Builders, Dirac CEO @FilArons discusses his journey so far building Dirac and explains what it takes to deploy software inside mission-critical factories. Link to full episode in the comments below. @TheCouncilCap @AmberIllig @RachTsui #firstbuilders #startups #leadership