Sutra reasons across your ERP, PLM, MES, Slack, and Email, answering engineering questions in seconds, simulating the downstream impact of every change, and executing the follow-on work automatically.
When a change is proposed, how do you actually compute “downstream impact” (affected BOMs, open orders/WIP, inventory exposure, re-qualification steps, schedule shifts)—and what do you do when the underlying data across PLM/ERP/MES disagrees or is stale?
Congrats on the launch. How do you handle permissions so it doesn’t leak info across teams?
5 years ago, me and @hemanthug didn't know we will be building a company together.
It started with a script to fill excel sheets at Hemant's hardware job, which turned into @Sutra
we have been at it for the past 2 months
Discovery conversations with engineers from Figure AI, Rivian, Caterpillar, Reliable Robotics and Nova Semiconductors told us the problem is much bigger than we imagined.
3 LOIs, 1 live, 2 onboarding. and a check from an a16z scout, we are just getting started.
I'm Hemant, Co-Founder & CEO of @Sutra.
Hardware manufacturing is having its moment right now, sutra lets hardware manufacturing teams make decisions faster and make them better. We are bringing the infrastructure that accelerated software development with AI to the manufacturing industry.
I have lived this exact problem for the past 3 years. As someone with a MS in Aerospace from UIUC I spent 90% of my engineering time filling spreadsheets and sending emails. I looked for a solutions but nothing existed. So we built it.
Sutra is what every engineer we talked to wish existed, it sits above a hardware team's systems of record (PLM, ERP, MES, email, spreadsheets) and answers operational questions, simulates the downstream impact of changes, and executes the follow-on workflows. The architecture mirrors the way engineering decisions actually get made: question, consequence, action.
Today we're launching our agentic layer, which as as an AI PLM analyst and runs your workflows autonomously. Head over to http://heysutra.com/agents to grab a spot on our list, as we are rolling deployments out over the week. We will be hanging out in the comments today!
About Sutra on Product Hunt
“Decision Intelligence for hardware teams”
Sutra launched on Product Hunt on May 8th, 2026 and earned 98 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #13 on the daily leaderboard. Sutra reasons across your ERP, PLM, MES, Slack, and Email, answering engineering questions in seconds, simulating the downstream impact of every change, and executing the follow-on work automatically.
Sutra was featured in Hardware (11.4k followers), Change Management (1k followers) and YC Application (38 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 3.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Sutra?
Sutra was hunted by sam mathew and hemant. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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