Macadamia Labs

Executive Summary

Macadamia Labs is a YC W25 pre-seed company (2 founders, $500K raised) building a suite of AI agents — CAD Technician, Safety Engineer, QA Inspector, Cost Estimator, and Data Entry Clerk — purpose-built for industrial EPC firms. The core thesis is credible: EPC workflows are document-heavy, repetitive, and desperately underserved by modern software. The founding pair (SpaceX-pedigreed mechanical engineer + TU Delft AI/CS co-founder) is arguably the best possible team composition for this problem. The single biggest risk is everything else: a 2-person team selling into 12–24 month enterprise procurement cycles with $500K in the bank, in a space where Autodesk, Hexagon, and a clutch of better-funded startups are all converging on the same customer. At this stage, Macadamia is a bet on the founders and the thesis — not on proven traction.