part search software for component engineers and librarians
Resolve shortages and find alternates
generate footprints & symbols
strategic sourcing and cost reduction
Kipo AI is a software platform that helps component engineers, librarians, and supply chain teams manage electronic component data. Leveraging the industry’s most comprehensive component database, our software automates footprint and symbol creation, helps component engineers rapidly resolve shortages and obsolescence, and provides sourcing managers with data to intelligently select sources.
Features and Use Cases
For Design Engineering
Intelligent design assistant helps designers search for off-the-shelf parts and select parts while evaluating their tradeoffs. Tying part selection to price, lead time, compliance, and Approved Vendor constraints helps avoid downstream supply chain issues.
Strategic Sourcing Agent
Kipo AI automates vendor discovery: automatically identifying suitable vendors, requesting more information, and narrowing to viable candidates. The tool also collects pricing intelligence to assist Global Supply Managers with negotiation.
Library Creation
Kipo AI automatically produces high-quality footprints and schematic symbols for KiCAD, Altium Designer, OrCAD, and Allegro, improving the quality of your libraries and the manufacturability of your boards. Learn more.
Enterprise Integrations
We integrate with major PLM systems and can deploy our software on your IT systems to search over internal parts libraries, including custom silicon.
Alternates and Substitutes
Assists component engineers in finding substitute components to resolve shortages or replace obsoletes. Kipo AI is the only platform that completely evaluates form/fit/function match, including pin-to-pin and footprint compatibility.
Cost Engineering
Upload a BOM and automatically identify viable alternates, including those that require minimal design changes, that can reduce costs or improve supplier diversity.
Our technology
Our technology collects large volumes of supplier data and uses advanced AI models to extract technical data from component datasheets.
We integrate technical specifications with pricing, lead time, and compliance data aggregated from thousands of manufacturers and distributors.