F4 Industries

F4 Industries

The GD&T Analysis Platform for Engineering Drawings

San Francisco
5 employees
Hardware
Seed · $500K

About F4 Industries

GD&T takes years to master. Engineers must encode their design intent into a dense syntax that manufacturers must decode, and not everyone gets it right.

Put ten engineers in front of the same drawing and you may get ten different interpretations. Which means errors often surface later in interface stack-ups, manufacturing, or in the field - when they’re far more expensive to fix.

That’s why we built F4 - the platform that analyzes GD&T to determine whether your designs are ready for production.

Drop in your drawing and 3D file. F4 analyzes every element of your GD&T to assess whether your design is clear, manufacturable, and production ready. To make the drawing easier to understand, engineers can visualize their datums, reference frames, and tolerance zones directly on the 3D model. F4 also calculates tolerance stack-ups instantly - directly from the drawing. What once took hours of manual work now takes seconds.

When issues are found, F4 flags them and guides engineers toward resolving the problem.

After analyzing your drawing, F4 also automatically generates design and inspection reports - stack-up tables, FAI reports - ready to share with your team.

And it does all of this locally on-device with no AI used for analysis. Producing deterministic results engineers can trust.

Company details

Team Size5
LocationSan Francisco
IndustryHardware

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Paul Hyoungsang Shin

Paul Hyoungsang Shin

Previously Mechanical Design Engineer at Tesla Drive Unit; led the global drive unit heat exchanger program. ASME GDTP-T09 certified.

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Aidan Cantu

Aidan Cantu

CTO & Co-Founder @ F4 | Previously Avionics Test Engineer @ SpaceX where I designed and built hardware for Raptor 3 engine testing | Earned B.S. & M.S. in Electrical Engineering in four years with minors in CS & Math

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.