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BootLoop

BootLoop is building the first AI agent to write and test firmware on real hardware. Existing AI coding assistants fail completely with embedded systems, but our agent ingests datasheets, schematics, and other design files to write firmware in your style and automatically test it on your hardware.

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Y Combinator
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BootLoop is building the first AI agent to write and test firmware on real hardware. Existing AI coding assistants fail completely with embedded systems, but our agent ingests datasheets, schematics, and other design files to write firmware in your style and automatically test it on your hardware.

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shared extracted concepts: firmware; shared product terms: write, test, firmware, real; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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Docket

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shared extracted concept terms: real; shared product terms: write, test, real, automatically; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Outerport

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Building out new LNG plants, HVAC systems, or semiconductor processes rely on hundreds of iterations of feasibility testing (through simulation or real-world lab tests) where different designs (combinations of equipment) and parameters are validated. The parameters are often locked in PDFs (datasheets, wiring diagrams, PFDs/P&IDs) which take thousands of hours to convert into CSVs / JSONs, and the simulators don't have an easy API to work with. Outerport bridges the gap by finding documents from

shared product terms: test, real, system, datasheet; shared affiliation: Y Combinator