Trace.Space launches Trinity to tackle hardware engineering’s next bottleneck

Trace.Space has launched Trinity, a hardware engineering platform designed to assist robotics, aerospace, automotive, defense, and other hardware teams in moving from prototypes to products manufactured at scale. Trinity connects requirements, testing, design parameters, and product variants in one system, providing AI agents access to this engineering data.

The startup's origins lie in the problem faced by Latvians Janis Vavere and Karlis Broders, who recognized that engineering information was scattered across requirements-management tools, spreadsheets, documents, and other systems. This made it increasingly challenging to track the impact of changes on the entire product. They concluded that a fundamental shift in how engineering information was structured and connected was necessary.

Since its founding in 2022 in Riga with offices in the US, Trace.Space has evolved from requirements management to incorporate testing, design parameters, variant management, and AI-assisted engineering. The company aims to manage up to 80% of the product development lifecycle, currently covering around 40% of the process.

Looking ahead, Trace.Space plans to expand into modelling, simulation, and manufacturing, including bills of materials, ERP, and supply chains. CEO Janis Vavere envisions engineering data being interconnected across companies and their suppliers, with AI agents navigating these connections to assess the impact of changes.

Investment in industries like robotics, defense tech, and space tech is accelerating, yet the engineering infrastructure has not kept pace. Building faster and scaling products at scale remains challenging due to reliance on spreadsheets, static documents, legacy platforms, and knowledge trapped in people's heads. Trace.Space works with engineering teams such as Lucid Motors, Serve Robotics, Xiphos, TMAP Mobility, and StandardX to democratize the infrastructure required for rapid and precise product development.