Chouhan Industries
Chouhan Industries is an open-hardware company founded around the conviction that premium hardware should be free for anyone to study, build upon, and improve. It publishes schematics, tolerances and manufacturing processes, and is developing consumer hardware people can inspect, customize, build or buy.
At a Glance
- Independent hardware builders
- Crowdfunded-device startups
- Small EE consultancies
- Open-hardware manufacturers
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AI Tools by Chouhan Industries
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copperhead
AI Platform for PCB Design
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Latest News
Hardware as fast as software: copperhead demonstrates taking two Kyra boards from a public roadmap to part selection in a day.
Improving TTFB with Anycast: the company documents putting an anycast edge in front of its single-region Azure application.
From brief.md to gerbers: an eight-stage workflow from product brief through verified hardware outputs, firmware and documentation.
copperhead presented at Antler Crackathon as an AI agent that designs, documents and validates real PCBs from a prompt.
Products & Services
Open-source Apache-2.0 AI engineering agent for KiCad. It turns a product brief or natural-language change request into documented, verified hardware work, editing real schematic and PCB files, propagating changes across design artifacts, and running ERC/DRC checks.
Hosted version for private repositories with hosted runs, web viewer, run history, shareable check reports and export of gerbers, DXF/STEP, renders and BOMs.
Cloud offering with CI checks, shared versioned constraint libraries, SSO/SAML, role management, central billing and pooled managed credits.
Custom annual self-hosted or VPC offering with Altium support, RBAC, security review, dedicated support, SLA and audit trail.
Market Position
Chouhan positions copperhead as an open, repository-native agentic hardware workflow rather than a closed browser ECAD tool, a per-board design service or a layout-only autorouter. Its stated differentiators are real KiCad files, document and constraint propagation, spec-gated edits, verification through KiCad's own ERC/DRC, and Apache-2.0 licensing. Named competitors include Flux.ai, Diode, Quilter, DeepPCB, siliXon and Siemens Fuse; the broader incumbent context is Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens EDA and Altium.
Leadership
Founders
Animesh Chouhan
Founder; engineer and open-source advocate. His public profiles identify engineering experience at JPMorgan and education at IIT Kharagpur.
Executive Team
Animesh Chouhan
Founder
Engineer and open-source advocate; public profiles cite engineering at JPMorgan and IIT Kharagpur.
Founding Story
Chouhan Industries says it was started to demonstrate that premium quality and full transparency are compatible, in response to opaque proprietary designs, closed tolerances and undisclosed manufacturing processes. Its initial vision is consumer hardware that users truly own: fully open, customizable down to the source, and available either as published files or finished products.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Open-core model: the local CLI is free and Apache-2.0; paid revenue comes from hosted runs, private-repository hosting, collaboration, governance, CI, audit features and managed inference. Customers can bring their own model key or use metered managed inference.
Pricing Tiers
Apache-2.0; local design on the user's machine, BYO Claude or GPT-5 key, no metering.
Hosted private-repository runs, web viewer, history and shareable reports; free for open hardware repositories. Includes 200 managed-inference credits per seat.
Cloud plus CI bot, shared constraint libraries, SSO/SAML, role management, central billing and pooled credits.
Self-hosted or VPC deployment, Altium support, RBAC, security review, dedicated support, SLA and flat annual licensing.
Target Markets
- Independent hardware builders
- Crowdfunded-device startups
- Small EE consultancies
- Open-hardware manufacturers
- Hardware teams and regulated organizations needing CI, governance or auditability
- Designing a new board from a Markdown product brief
- Making verified changes to an existing KiCad hardware repository
- Keeping schematics, PCB layouts, BOMs, pinouts, firmware and design documentation synchronized
- Generating a manufacturable first-draft package and bring-up plan
- Open-hardware product development
- PCB work by independent hardware builders, crowdfunded-device startups and small electrical-engineering consultancies
- Open Telegraph
- Kyra glasses and ring board concepts