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Aras fired its sales team and made the software free. Airbus came calling.
The Andover software maker spent seven slow years selling PLM the usual way. Its 2007 reset - free software, paid certainty, and customizations that survive upgrades - turned a near-stall into an enterprise foothold.
Rupert Hopkins Has Spent Decades Teaching Engineering Documents to Talk
Before AI became a boardroom reflex, Rupert Hopkins was worrying about a quieter problem: the specifications, parts records and requirements that machines still could not understand. His answer became XSB, a 26-year experiment in making industrial knowledge usable.
The Tiny New York Company Teaching 100 Million Parts to Speak the Same Language
XSB spent decades organizing the industrial world’s least glamorous data - part numbers, price files, standards and PDFs. Its reward is a strategic role inside Exiger’s supply-chain intelligence machine.
Istari Digital
Istari Digital is a Cambridge, Massachusetts software company building a digital engineering platform that connects fragmented engineering data - models, simulations, requirements and test artifacts - across teams, suppliers and classified environments. Founded in 2022 by former Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper, the company aims to let regulated industries like aerospace and defense validate, secure and certify complex systems in minutes instead of months. Its flagship effort, Flyer One, is working with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to make a modified X-56A the world's first digitally certified aircraft.