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Software for industryPre-seedAustin, TXVerified

Black Arc AI

AI-powered quoting and production scheduling for real machine shops.

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What they build

The product

BlackArc Industrial builds AI tooling for discrete manufacturers: AI-powered quoting for machine shops, dynamic production scheduling using mathematical optimization, and an AI Academy that trains shop teams to use these systems. The focus is shop-floor practitioners — operators and schedulers — not boardroom 'transformation' projects.

Why it matters

The thesis

The 'AI for manufacturing' market is full of decks and zero deployments. BlackArc is built by a real ex-COO of multi-site manufacturing groups (CaneKast, AFC Industries) and is one of the few entrants actually pulling data off 15-year-old PLCs and putting it to work, which is the unsexy bottleneck for every US shop trying to scale.

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