The AI Powered Intertek Alternative for Hardware

Intertek operates as a traditional testing and consulting firm — you pay for consultant hours and wait in their queue. Hardware Compliance is an AI-driven platform that automates the research, documentation, and lab-matching work that normally happens before testing ever begins. By the time your product reaches a lab, your technical files are already complete and tailored to the specific standards required, dramatically reducing the back-and-forth that extends traditional compliance timelines.

Hardware Compliance supports a wide range of physical product categories including electronics and IoT devices, robotics platforms, drones, medical devices needing FDA 510(k) or CE marking, automotive electronics requiring ISO 26262, and aerospace and defense hardware. The platform's AI agents are trained across the standards relevant to each of these product categories, from FCC and IEC 62368-1 to MIL-STD and FAA requirements.

Hardware Compliance replaces what traditionally takes months of compliance consulting with an AI-agent-driven workflow that takes weeks. The AI handles regulatory research and documentation drafting at a speed that no consulting team can match, because compliance throughput scales with compute rather than headcount. The exact timeline depends on your product's complexity and the standards required, but the platform is built specifically to compress the pre-testing phase.

Hardware Compliance does not replace accredited testing labs — it prepares your product for them. The platform's role is to handle everything that happens before and around lab testing: identifying which standards apply, generating the required technical documentation and test plans, and matching you with the right accredited lab. The actual physical testing is conducted by the appropriate NRTL or accredited testing lab for your product and standards.

Hardware Compliance was founded by Anika Patel, who previously worked at Intertek and Agility Robotics; Marcus Chen, formerly of Google DeepMind and Palantir; and Sofia Reyes, who comes from UL Solutions and Framework Computer. The founding team brings direct experience from inside the traditional compliance industry, which informed the platform's design as a faster and more transparent alternative to conventional consulting workflows.