For engineers. By engineers.
Software teams have had version control, code review, and automated checks for decades. Hardware teams have had email threads, shared drives, and filenames ending in _FINAL_v3. Allspice exists to close that gap.
Why we built Allspice
Before Allspice, our Co-Founder Kyle Dumont was building the electrical and software engineering teams at a 3D printing company. As the company grew, he went looking for tools to help his teams manage designs and work together. On the software side, the options were excellent. On the hardware side, they weren’t. The tools that existed connected to one or two programs in his workflow, never the whole thing. His engineers spent hours re-entering the same data between systems, and much of the value of any new tool disappeared into that manual work.
How we started
Kyle met our other Co-Founder, Valentina Ratner, in the fall of 2018 as part of the first class of Harvard’s MS/MBA dual degree program in engineering sciences. Before Harvard, Valentina worked at Amazon on internal productivity and project management tools, where she saw firsthand how the right tools change the way a team works every day. We spent a semester talking with engineers about the problems in hardware development and sketching out ways to fix them. We kept coming back to one idea: hardware teams deserve a design process where reviews are fast, every revision is traceable, and the data works for the engineer instead of against them. We couldn’t find anything that did that, so we built it.
Where we’re going
Allspice has grown from a better way to version and review hardware designs into a platform that helps engineering teams collaborate, automate, and scale their work. At its core is the design history and context every hardware team generates, which powers fast reviews, automated checks, and AI that understands electronics. Our goal is simple: let engineers spend their time on engineering. That means AI takes the first pass on design reviews, automation handles validation and releases, and issues get caught while designs are still changing, not after prototypes come back from the fab. The result is teams that ship better hardware, faster, without adding headcount. And we’re just getting started.
Why teams choose Allspice
Purpose-built for electronics
Allspice is made for teams designing complex circuit boards. Collaboration, workflow automation, and AI come together in one workspace built around how hardware actually gets made.
Engineer-led
We’re hardware engineers who ran into the limits of legacy design processes firsthand. So we built the tool we wished we’d had.
Trusted by enterprise teams
Fortune 500 organizations across aerospace, robotics, semiconductors, AI infrastructure, defense, and consumer electronics rely on Allspice. We’re SOC 2 certified and work with all major ECAD formats.