Built with the hardware ecosystem

Bring your engineering needs into the development process and shape automation around your constraints, workflows, and real-world requirements.

  • Private accessAn invite-only workspace for your engineers
  • Concrete KPIsAgreed before work starts, reviewed on every board
  • Room to scaleFrom one board to every hardware team
The ecosystem

Hardo sits where hardware is made

  • Hardware
    Engineers

    Bring
    Real boards from the backlog and your own design rules
    Get
    Production-ready KiCad projects, measured against the KPIs you set

  • Component
    manufacturers

    Bring
    Datasheets, footprints and part data
    Get
    Parts that reach engineers verified and ready to place

  • Research & engineering institutions

    Bring
    Research on AI and electronics design, and lab boards to test with
    Get
    Early access to Hardo for research and teaching, and joint work on open problems in PCB design

In the ecosystem

  • Shelly
  • Würth Elektronik
How it works

From the first board to every team

  1. 01

    Apply

    Tell us about your team, your products and the boards on your roadmap

  2. 02

    Set the KPIs

    We choose a first board together and set baselines and targets before any work starts

  3. 03

    Private access

    Your engineers get invite-only access to Hardo and a direct line to our team

  4. 04

    Review and scale

    We review the KPIs after every board. When the targets are met, we add more boards and teams

Concrete KPIs

Measured on every board

Time to layout

Hours from an approved brief to a routed, checked board

Every board

Engineering hours

Senior engineering time spent per board, against your baseline

Every board

Respins

Prototype revisions caused by schematic or layout errors

Every prototype

Verified parts

Share of BOM lines checked against datasheet, price and stock

Every BOM

Checks before fab

Electrical, design-rule and manufacturability issues caught before the board goes to fab

Every release
Design partner program

Become a Hardo design partner

Bring a real board from your backlog. We’ll choose it with you, agree the KPIs up front and design it alongside your engineers.