What it sells
Industrial Controllers built for AI
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedControls engineers and plant or manufacturing operations managers at industrial manufacturers (case study: CureWood engineered wood).
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
Aging PLCs (e.g. a 1991 Siemens S5) and weeks-long controls projects; claims replaced in one 8-hour cutover.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Describe machine behavior in plain English in the Synapse IDE; it generates deterministic real-time Python, the controller runs it with built-in HMI, historian and I/O discovery, replacing PLC, HMI package and vendor IDE.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Hardware sale with $0 software and runtime licenses; claims controls projects go from weeks to minutes.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Pre-orders with $50 deposit, pilot applications with founder calls, case studies; ships Q1-Q2 2027.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Summer 2026 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.