Artifact GTM brain

Artifact sells collaborative electrical system and harness design software to complex hardware engineering teams.

category

Collaborative electrical systems design

market profile

  • text: Electrical systems teams coordinate interfaces, harnesses and manufacturing documentation across changing designs.
  • text: Aerospace and defense users need deployment and data controls as well as engineering collaboration.

personas

  • title: Electrical systems or avionics engineering lead
    pains:
    • Harness interfaces and pinouts drift across files and disciplines
    • Manual documentation and late electrical errors delay hardware builds
  • title: Hardware program or manufacturing lead
    pains:
    • Procurement and manufacturing work from stale bills of materials
    • Cross-system changes are hard to trace to the released design

icp

  • text: Aerospace and defense organizations designing interconnected electrical systems and harnesses, including teams with ITAR or CUI requirements.
  • text: Complex hardware manufacturers with separate electrical, mechanical, procurement and manufacturing teams.

message pillars

  • text: Keep design and downstream work aligned.
  • text: Shorten the harness design bottleneck.
  • text: Detect errors before hardware is built.

objections

  • objection: We already use electrical and mechanical CAD.
    response: Evaluate Artifact alongside the existing CAD system on a representative harness and check how reliably outputs stay synchronized.
  • objection: Controlled defense data cannot go into a generic cloud service.
    response: Review the customer's control requirements and Artifact's stated GovCloud and customer-cloud options with security stakeholders.

competitors

  • name: SOLIDWORKS Electrical
    why: Electrical design software named in Artifact's comparison FAQ.
  • name: RapidHarness
    why: Specialized wiring harness design software named in Artifact's FAQ.

keywords

  • electrical harness design software
  • ECAD collaboration
  • wiring harness documentation
  • electrical system traceability
  • aerospace electrical design
  • harness BOM software
  • ITAR electrical CAD

voice

  • technical
  • practical
  • systems-oriented

signals

  • text: Hardware company is scaling avionics or electrical harness design across multiple teams.
  • text: A program is struggling with manual pin tables, BOM changes or electrical interface traceability.

stack

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Python

hiring

  • Senior Software Engineer
  • Electrical Systems Engineer
  • Software Engineer

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • SEO
  • technical tutorials
  • LinkedIn
  • direct sales

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Antony Samuel
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: 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.
  • name: Corbin Klett
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO
    bio: 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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