Silicon Factory

Type what you want.
Get a chip back.

Describe the silicon you need, and the factory takes it from there: agents do the first pass of the engineering, machines check every artifact, and named engineers pick up wherever the agents fall short — iterating until it passes, then signing the release. Money moves only when gates pass.

Start your evaluationHow it works
intent preview, priced live
Free
fixed-price silicon evaluation
$10,000
to a signed go/no-go
Days, not quarters
first silicon path, milestone-funded
From $100,000

How it works

One funnel from a sentence to silicon — the preview is free, the price is fixed, and every gate is signed.

Step 1

Type your intent

Plain language plus quantified constraints. Never a vague idea — say it like you would to a colleague.

Step 2

Preview it free

The evaluator compiles a fit verdict and the priced task graph you would be buying — before you pay anything.

Step 3

Fund the evaluation

A fixed $10,000 turns your preview into an owned task graph and starts the work. No estimates, no surprises.

Step 4

Watch it execute through gates

Agents produce, machines check, and a named engineer iterates on every task until it passes, then signs it.

Step 5

Choose your production run

Your signed decision packet converts to a fully quoted First Silicon Path the moment you say go.

An engineering workforce, not a chat window

Behind the funnel is an end-to-end, long-running multi-agent system that attempts a design from specification to sign-off-clean layout — with every artifact machine-checked, and a named engineer finishing whatever the agents could not. We measure what the agents can do rather than assert it; the structure below is what makes the attempt honest, whatever kind of chip you asked for.

01

Hierarchical orchestration

A top-level orchestrator delegates to sub-system leads — front-end, verification, back-end, sign-off — each owning its own specialist agents. The fabric does not care whether the artifact is a CPU, an accelerator, or a feed handler.

02

Governed iteration loops

Every optimization and debug loop runs against an explicit, enforced iteration budget with a full per-iteration history — long-horizon autonomy that converges instead of wandering.

03

Your objective function

Latency, energy per inference, throughput per watt, area, or a weighted blend — the figure of merit is a parameter. The closure machinery is unchanged when you swap it.

04

Provenance that compounds

Every claim is backed by a checksummed artifact in a machine-readable manifest, and every completed run feeds a curated design knowledge base — so each chip sharpens the next.

Agents do the work. Named engineers own the signature.

The same trust structure that lets civil engineers sign bridges — applied to AI-built silicon.

Gate 1

Agents produce

RTL, testbenches, floorplans — full provenance on every artifact

Gate 2

Machines check

Lint, simulation, formal proofs, DRC — gates no artifact can skip

Gate 3

A human iterates and signs

A named engineer with skin in the game iterates until it passes, then signs the release

Gate 4

Money moves

Reserved milestone funding releases only on passed gates

For trading firms

Built for latency-critical trading teams

Custom silicon used to mean a semiconductor division. The Silicon Factory makes it a funnel: type the datapath you wish existed, get a priced plan the same day, and a signed go/no-go in days — without growing a hardware team.

Deterministic tick-to-trade

When the FPGA and the kernel-bypass NIC stop being enough, a fixed datapath in custom silicon is the next rung: market-data parse, risk checks, and order entry with the jitter designed out, not tuned out.

A go/no-go in days

The evaluation answers the only question that matters — is this worth a tape-out — for a fixed $10,000, in days. No quarter-long consulting engagement before you learn the answer.

Confidential by construction

Your intent, task graph, and artifacts live in private repositories with named, accountable signers. Strategy stays yours; the evidence trail stays auditable.

Turnkey to packaged parts

One thread from intent to first silicon: priced task graph, agent execution through machine gates, tape-out through an MPW shuttle, packaged parts back — funded milestone by milestone, never by hope.

Start from the tick-to-trade starter intent below — it arrives fully quantified, ready to price.

Start now — the preview is free

Say it the way you would to a colleague. The evaluator compiles your words into the priced task graph you would be buying — before you pay anything.

No spec sheet required. Say it the way you would to a colleague; the evaluator does the translation.

Or start from a proven shape:

Shape of the ask

Five quick reads on volume, workload, and timing so the priced task graph fits your reality. Set at least three yourself (or spell them out in your intent above) — untouched defaults don't count as quantified.

Put numbers on it

Optional, but the more you quantify, the sharper the go/no-go comes back.

Where it ends up

Required for export-control screening — leaving these empty keeps checkout closed for a human review. Screening runs before anything is priced or charged.

A sentence is enough — one or two words reads as evasive and flags a review.

U.S. export-control and sanctions self-certification

Certify the statements below and this evaluation is approved for checkout without waiting for individual export-control review. This certification cannot clear a transaction that is actually prohibited under U.S. law — an embargoed destination or a restricted end use is stopped regardless.

  • Neither I, nor the end user or end-user organization identified in this request, nor any other party to this transaction, is a person or entity with whom U.S. persons are prohibited from dealing — including any party on the U.S. Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security Denied Persons, Entity, or Unverified Lists, the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons or any other OFAC sanctions list, or the U.S. State Department debarred-parties list.
  • Neither I nor the end user is located in, ordinarily resident in, organized under the laws of, or a national of any country or region that is the target of a comprehensive U.S. embargo or comprehensive OFAC sanctions.
  • The resulting silicon and any related technology, software, or technical data will not be used, exported, re-exported, released, or transferred, directly or indirectly, in violation of the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR, 15 C.F.R. Parts 730–774), the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR, 22 C.F.R. Parts 120–130), or any sanctions program administered by OFAC (31 C.F.R. Chapter V).
  • The resulting silicon will not be used in connection with any prohibited or restricted end use — including the design, development, production, stockpiling, or use of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons or of missiles — without every authorization required in advance under U.S. law.
  • I am authorized to make this certification on my own behalf and on behalf of the end user, and I hold, or am eligible to rely upon, every U.S. license, authorization, or license exception required for this transaction.

I make this certification knowingly and voluntarily. I understand that ActGen relies on it to make this evaluation available without individualized export-control review, that it may be relied upon by ActGen and by the U.S. Government, and that a materially false statement may be subject to penalties under U.S. law, including 18 U.S.C. § 1001. This certification does not authorize any transaction that is prohibited under U.S. law, and ActGen may refuse, suspend, or reverse the transaction at any time.

Free to preview. $10,000 to proceed.

By requesting a preview, you agree to each current ActGen agreement: Terms of Service (version 2026-08-10), Usage & Subscription Agreement (version 2026-08-10), Data Processing Addendum (version 2026-08-10), and Order Form (version 2026-08-10). ActGen records the accepted version and a tamper-evident hash of the exact agreement text applied to your action. How ActGen handles information is described in the Privacy Policy.

After the evaluation: your production run

A completed evaluation converts — when you choose — into a First Silicon Path: tape-out through an MPW shuttle to packaged parts, quoted per design from $100,000. Funding is collected through processor invoices and released milestone by milestone as gates pass and named engineers sign. It is not a regulated escrow or trust account. You never pay for hope.

  1. 1
    Evaluation complete
    Signed decision packet in hand
  2. 2
    Task graph executes
    Agents produce, gates check, signers sign
  3. 3
    Tape-out
    MPW shuttle slot, DRC-clean GDSII
  4. 4
    Packaged parts
    Silicon back, bring-up record signed
Silicon Factory — Type what you want. Get a chip back.