How Vixiv is Solving The Manufacturing Velocity Gap

A conversation with Vixiv CEO Aaron Chow

There’s a moment in every founder conversation where the air in the room changes. With Aaron Chow of Vixiv, it happened when he casually mentioned that his platform had just generated twelve optimized drone component designs in 108 seconds. The engineers from the lab watching the demo had gone silent. “That would have taken us three months,” they finally said. “For one design.”

Edison’s famous quote about finding a thousand ways not to make a light bulb? That’s not historical trivia. That’s Tuesday at Northrop Grumman. That’s every hardware startup burning through runway trying to optimize a critical component.

Consider this mathematical reality: Between an empty space and a solid brick exists an infinite number of possible geometries. Traditional engineering is essentially random sampling from this infinite space, guided by intuition and experience. Even our fastest “move fast and break things” engineers are making educated guesses in a solution space too vast for human comprehension.

Engineering today:

1. Engineer envisions a component
2. Models it (weeks)
3. Simulates it (days to weeks)
4. Builds it (weeks to months)
5. It fails in some unexpected way
6. Return to step 1

The math is brutal: Optimizing for both thermal and mechanical performance doesn’t double your test matrix – it squares it. Add modal analysis for vibrations? Cubed. 

Imagine if this entire process could be inverted and if engineers could navigate directly to viable solutions. No guessing. No checking. Just rapid convergence on designs that work.

That’s what Vixiv has built. A physics-based prediction engine trained on actual material behavior, not theoretical models. 

How? They built tens of thousands of physical components and destructively tested every single one. This isn’t synthetic data or simulation results. It’s ground truth about how materials actually behave in the real world.

When base iteration drops from months to minutes, that squared or cubed matrix becomes tractable. You can explore the entire solution space, not just the corner your budget allows. This is how step-functions happen that change industries.

We’re entering an era where industrial leadership won’t be determined by who has the biggest factories or the most engineers. It will be determined by who can iterate fastest and deliver results. The race is on. And Vixiv is helping fuel that future.

To learn more about Vixiv, watch my interview with Aaron (below) or head on over to www.vixiv.net to request private beta access.