Aurorin CAD

Claude code for Mechanical Engineers

1.7Score#827 of 999 agents#20 of 25 in Hardware engineer

Why it ranks #827

Aurorin CAD, an AI hardware engineer from YC W26, ranks #827 of 999 AI agents and #20 of 25 in Hardware engineer, with a score of 1.7 of 10. Data as of 3 Oct 2026.

The score adds four parts, each 0 to 10, by weight. Every point comes from public evidence. How scoring works ·

Proof 0 × 30% 0.0
Scale 0 × 30% 0.0
Momentum 3 × 25% 0.8
Autonomy 6 × 15% 0.9
= 1.7

Proof
Do customers use it? 30% of the score
0
No public claims of customers or revenue yet.
Not found: revenue or growth (+4), named customers (+3), a customer result (+2), a customer count (+2), work done at scale (+2)
Scale
Is there a real company behind it? 30% of the score
0
1 person.
Not found: funding round in its news (+3)
Momentum
Is it shipping and growing now? 25% of the score
3
Shows hiring and a new batch.
- +2
  Hiring: 1 open roleFounding EngineerYC page
- +1
  New: YC Winter 2026
Not found: launch YC post in the last 6 months (+3), new traction claim in the last 6 months (+2), funding news in the last year (+2)
Autonomy
How much of the job does it do on its own? 15% of the score
6
Supervised agent: takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.
- +6
  Level 2 of 4: Supervised agentTakes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.
What the model read
- Acts in other systems: 18% likely
- Finishes whole tasks: 18% likely
- Calls itself an agent: 74% likely
- Level 1 from the model's reading of its pages; the evidence review found, with quotes, that its AI acts in the work, so the level is 2
Level 2: Takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.

About Aurorin CAD

There are 2 problems:

The first, CAD software is slow and the second, designing with it is a tedious process with many steps. Aurorin solves both of these problems by being a CAD software built from the ground up on a modern tech stack with AI at its heart.

Building the CAD kernel lets us fully leverage AI while modernizing execution speed. Almost all existing CAD software (Solidworks, NX, Creo, Catia, Fusion 360, Onshape etc) use the same couple of underlying CAD kernels built in the 80's. It's common for these programs to take 4 hours to open a file.

Aurorin uses a custom parametric and B-Rep driven CAD Kernel built to take full advantage of modern CPUs and GPUs and be AI native.