Reframe: Automate end-to-end hardware procurement
Designing parts is an engineer's job, procurement is ours.
Details
- External ID
- 97967
- Source
- YC
- Company
- Reframe
- Product
- Reframe: Automate end-to-end hardware procurement
- Website domain
- usereframe.ai
- Launched
- Feb. 19, 2026
- Cohort
- Winter 2026
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1821705426356589
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI coding agents and developer tools
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- hardware procurement automation for engineers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The procurement dashboard, supplier communication agents, and RFQ workflows can be vibe-coded, but automating custom hardware sourcing requires CAD/drawing parsing engines (STEP, GD&T) and deep manufacturing domain knowledge.
What it would actually take: The stack requires a CAD-geometry processing pipeline (parsing STEP/DXF files and 2D engineering PDFs with OCR/vision), an automated RFQ dispatch and quoting engine, and supplier matching algorithms. The primary hurdles are interpreting complex geometric tolerances, materials, and finishing specifications to accurately estimate pricing and lead times. It demands mechanical engineering and supply chain logistics domain expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 416 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #321 of 417 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 113 days after the earliest competitor.
- Prototyping.io - Autonomous Manufacturing for Mechanical Parts · yc · 2026-05-07 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Waybill - Procurement autopilot for hardware teams. · yc · 2026-08-20 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- BaseFrame: Bring confidence and clarity to your hardware designs · yc · 2026-01-16 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- REV1 - Automating engineering drawings for Mechanical Engineers · yc · 2026-02-02 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- SpaceFlow: AI-native procurement services for the physical economy · yc · 2026-08-06 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- MOVEdot: AI Agents for Hardware Engineering · yc · 2025-11-06 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Noetic - Vanta for hardware · yc · 2026-03-10 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Traces · hn · 2026-06-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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