Dirac Raises $10.7M to Automate Manufacturing Knowledge Transfer with AI-Powered BuildOS

"American manufacturing faces a critical knowledge crisis as factories return home through reshoring efforts. While the U.S. produces just 1.5 submarines per year, China manufactures over 10 monthly, highlighting the urgent need to modernize production processes that still rely on printed PDFs, outdated SOPs, and tribal knowledge locked in retiring technicians' heads. Dirac addresses this challenge with BuildOS, an AI-powered platform that automatically generates high-quality, animated, interactive work instructions for complex mechanical assemblies directly from CAD files."

"The platform reduces work instruction creation time from weeks or months to hours or minutes, while preserving critical process knowledge in structured, reusable formats that bridge the gap between engineering design and manufacturing execution. With early aerospace wins including Ancra Aircraft achieving 95% time savings and a strategic partnership with Siemens, Dirac is building the operational backbone needed to make American reshoring successful."

"Engineers upload CAD files, and BuildOS suggests an assembly sequence and produces 3D animations. Tasks that historically take weeks or months now take hours or minutes to complete. The tool allows adjustments, such as reordering steps or defining subassemblies, and the visuals update automatically. BuildOS helps preserve tribal knowledge; including tools, torque specs, and checks; in structured and reusable form."

American manufacturing faces a knowledge crisis as reshoring returns complex production tasks to domestic factories that rely on printed PDFs, outdated SOPs, and tribal knowledge held by retiring technicians. Dirac built BuildOS, an AI platform that automatically generates animated, interactive work instructions directly from CAD files, suggesting assembly sequences, producing 3D animations, and allowing step adjustments with visuals updating automatically. BuildOS cuts instruction creation from weeks or months to hours or minutes and captures tools, torque specs, and checks in structured, reusable formats. Early aerospace customers report dramatic time savings, and Dirac secured $10.7M seed funding plus a strategic Siemens partnership.

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