GroundControl: Vertical AI for highly-regulated manufacturing
We automate lengthy, complex, and regulated quality documentation in aerospace manufacturing.
Hi! We’re Mehul Shah, Nick Warren, Matthew Noseworthy — co-founders of GroundControl.
TL;DR — We've onboarded 70+ manufacturing facilities as customers throughout the US. Our core product automates lengthy, complex, and regulated quality documentation in aerospace manufacturing.
How We Started
Nick and Matt co-founded their last startup (InspectAR) with Mehul's brother before being acquired by Cadence ($CDNS). I (Mehul) spent the last decade in my family business, where we built PCBs for every advanced system on Earth: rockets, satellites, aircraft, fighter jets, and more. We noticed despite building for innovation, manufacturing operations were antiquated and bogged down with manual processes.
First Article Inspection Reports (AS9102s) were creating a bottleneck in quality. Parts would be built and ready to ship, just waiting on paperwork. Our facilities were doing 15 reports a day, 8 hours per report. The worst part? Even if the part was built exactly to spec — if a single typo was found by the customer, the report would get rejected and payment delayed until the report was fixed.
What We Built
Our core product automates first article inspection reporting for regulated manufacturing. Quality teams can balloon drawings and automate inspection report generation in minutes, instead of days.
Our Vision
Today, over 70 facilities across the US generate almost 1000 reports a month on our platform. This is just the beginning. We'll continue to build for quality, and upstream towards operations, engineering, and sales to empower manufacturers with AI. GroundControl will embed itself across the global supply chain, from Tier 4 suppliers to OEMs with vertically integrated manufacturing.
Our Ask
If you know anyone in regulated manufacturing (aerospace, automotive, medical), or their customers (OEMs like Lockheed, SpaceX, Anduril, etc.) we would love to chat. Reach us at founders@gndctl.com or 408-390-4460.
