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Mar 10, 2026
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Physics Gets a Vote: Nominal Cofounders on Hardware Development in an AI World
Cameron D'Ambrosi and Jason Hoch
(Cofounders, Nominal, guest)
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Executive Summary
Nominal is building the "GitHub for hardware," a centralized data and AI platform to address the lack of sophisticated, standardized tools in hardware engineering, particularly for testing and validation.
The company is capitalizing on the macro trends of American re-industrialization and a renewed focus on hardware, driven by pioneers like SpaceX and Anduril.
Nominal has significant traction in the aerospace and defense sector, serving four of the top five U.S.
defense primes and working with DARPA on advanced AI-driven testing projects.
Their long-term strategy is to build a proprietary, human-enriched hardware dataset to power AI for physical systems and to eventually build their own hardware to control the entire data supply chain.
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