The engineering world (manufacturing, construction, industrials) relies heavily on 2-dimensional PDF and CAD drawings as a way to communicate between companies. Engineers spend hundreds of hours to annotate and digitize these drawings to run simulations, quote work, build automations, and investigate issues in factories. Unfortunately, LLMs and VLMs are still quite bad at analyzing these drawings.

Outerport is building a foundation model for turning technical engineering documents into structured data, alongside an interactive application platform on top of this to solve some of the most pressing issues for the world's biggest enterprise companies. Outerport is already used at Fortune 500 enterprise companies in manufacturing & industrials.

Our team consists of experts in computer vision, computer graphics, systems software, and AI from NVIDIA, LinkedIn, Meta, Embark Trucks, Tulip Interfaces, and more. With backing from Y Combinator and top-tier venture capital firms and angels, we're looking to expand our team to accelerate product development.

We work in-person in SF, and we're a team that enjoy playing sports together and learning about the latest LLM and VLM papers.