Understand Standards and Deliver Compliant Hardware with Saphira

Hey y'all!  We’re Oscar and Akshay from Saphira.  We collaborate with robotics and aerospace companies to certify their products, which requires us to be deeply familiar with relevant standards and frameworks to produce requirements and test lists.  To automate our work, we built an AI agent that we’re making publicly available that specifically searches for appropriately structured technical details in these large, hierarchical documents.  Here’s a demo!

If you’ve ever had the fortune of digging through ISO or UL standards or OSHA/FAA CFRs to build a safety case while preparing for certification of a hardware product, you know that it can quickly become a hot mess of references to dozens of sub-frameworks. That’s what we encountered and have tried to fix.

We’ve learned by writing safety cases and building compliance plans that this agent must be able to do things like identifying exactly the right section of a standard that applies to a particular topic of consideration, such as the insulation width for a particular wire in a robot to prevent heat and current transfer in order to produce touch safety, which is actually directly stated in the appropriate substandard section!

When identifying these sorts of sections, we must then be able to reference a knowledge graph derived from the standard to identify which substandards to traverse to, and critique identified sections to state whether they actually contain technical details, or just definitions or further references.

You can log into Saphira, specify details about your project to allow us to associate relevant standards with your project, then start issuing these sorts of queries for free!  You can even upload arbitrary documents to our Context Store to try this out on specific complex documents you wish to traverse!

We’re actively improving all of this, so please share any feedback!