Boltline is a builder-first execution engine for hardware traceability, providing a unified platform to manage parts, inventory, configurations, and workflows across the entire hardware lifecycle. It replaces spreadsheets and legacy tools with a flexible toolkit that supports design, build, test, and trace phases, enabling rapid iteration with end-to-end visibility. The platform includes a Parts Library with eBOM management and QR-code-based part history queries for real-world as-built configurations.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Hardware development teams often rely on a patchwork of spreadsheets, legacy IT systems, and disconnected tools to manage parts, builds, and configurations. This fragmented approach leads to undocumented processes, errors, rework, and a lack of traceability across the product lifecycle, especially for companies iterating at a rapid pace.
Solution
Boltline provides a builder-first, execution engine for hardware traceability that unifies design, build, test, and trace activities in one flexible toolkit. The platform manages part relationships through an engineering BOM (eBOM), tracks individual parts and their real-world configurations as an as-built BOM (aBOM), and captures configuration data at every stage from design through maintenance. Users can automate processes with no-code workflows, follow app-like work plans with instructions and checklists, and manage supply chain orders with ERP connectors. This enables teams to iterate quickly while maintaining full visibility and audit-ready documentation across the entire hardware lifecycle.
Target Audience
Primary customers are hardware engineering teams in space and defense, medical and biotech, advanced manufacturing, alternative energy, and university research labs that need rapid iteration with full traceability and audit readiness.
Features
- Parts Library manages part references and relationships, including eBOM, with searchable access from any device
- Inventory tracks every individual part's lifetime data, including as-built configurations, with QR-code-based history queries
- Configuration Management captures data at design, manufacturing, test, and maintenance stages, linking logical designators with as-installed hardware records
- Workflows provide a no-code pattern for automating activities involving human tasks, physical components, and data
- Work Plans offer an app-like experience with instructions, images, checklists, sketches, and triggered workflows
- Orders function creates a single pane of glass for supply chain management, with ERP connectors to Quickbooks, Xero, Acumatica, or other accounting systems