The local-first KiCad companion
AmpereBrain automates the manual overhead of hardware design, so you can spend more time designing and less time managing files, reviews, or datasheets.
Runs locally. Your design stays yours, in KiCad — no cloud project, no lock-in.
Follow a real project workflow: analyze the schematic, retain its context, and keep design changes reviewable.
Core Features
AmpereBrain does not replace the editor. It handles the workflow that usually leaks into tabs, folders, and ad-hoc habits.
Project Dashboard
One dashboard for project status and quality: DRC and ERC results, BOM status, part availability for the variants you build, whether your simulations still pass against the production schematic, and which specifications and requirements still need review or approval.
Everything on the dashboard is derived from the project itself, so it cannot drift from the design it describes.
Specs & Requirements
Specifications and requirements start from a structured template, and the AI copilot helps you complete them and keep them in sync as the project evolves. They stay formal, versioned, and stored with the project.
Everyone reviews and approves the same requirements. It also covers test results and other document types, configured for your industry, so the structure stays flexible and AI-ready. Align and collaborate efficiently with stakeholders, clients, and engineering managers.
Hands-Free Versioning
With automatic tracking, every change is saved and documented. Open and compare previous versions of your design.
Don't spend time writing commits, AmpereBrain handles it for you. Commits are created automatically with descriptive messages. You can write your own too.
Smarter Library Management
Bring symbols, footprints, SPICE and 3D models, and the technical documents behind them into one place, automatically versioned and always up to date.
Find datasheets, application notes, and errata automatically, search them fast, and let AmpereBrain compare your KiCad footprint against the datasheet reference before it becomes a production issue.
Fast Reviews & Issue Tracking
Review immediately: visual diffs, comments pinned directly on the schematic, threads, and severity levels. See component details and datasheets in one click.
Feedback becomes tracked issues instead of chat messages, and every decision stays tied to the revision it belongs to. Full issue tracking for boards, with several reviewers in the same discussion.
Simulation Without Drift
Remove the drift between your SPICE simulation and the board you actually build, because they are the same schematic.
Variants, grouping, and quick exclusions keep only the relevant circuitry in each run. Your simulation workbook stays tied to the project, so you can review it one last time before production.
Continuous Verification
Verification runs continuously in the background: ERC and DRC, part lifecycle and availability, footprint-to-datasheet compliance, and simulation against the production schematic.
You hear about a problem the moment it is introduced, not when you're about to order the board. It covers the whole design: the schematic, the parts, and the documents behind them.
Smart Search & Answers
Ask in chat and get cited passages, or use smart search that matches similar terms so the answer is found wherever it lives: the datasheet, the errata, or the application note.
Answers stay grounded in your project and your own documents, and the cited source passage stays visible in the viewer while you read the answer.
AI Copilot
Turn project context into specifications, test reports, and technical documentation with diagrams and complex graphs when they help, and cross-check calculations against your design and its source documents.
It reads the schematic, the libraries, and the documents as one project, so its answers are grounded in the board you are actually building.
Ready-Made Exports
Hand firmware engineers the technical documents as Markdown together with the pinout of your board and MCUs, so their agents can start coding. Send your mechanical designer the 3D model, and your manufacturer a ready-to-go fabrication bundle: Gerbers, CPL, and BOM.
The Gerbers, CPL, and BOM are generated from the project itself, using the profile of the fabricator you are building with, so the bundle arrives in the format they expect. Every export comes from the same versioned source.
The Complete Toolchain
Keep the project dashboard, version history, component libraries, reviews, specifications, simulation, and manufacturing exports in the same project workspace.
Pricing
Beta access includes the Pro version at no cost. After beta, choose Free for open-source projects, Pro for additional AI capacity, or Enterprise when your team needs to run AmpereBrain inside its own infrastructure.
Add AI credit packs on Pro, or use your own models and document processing on Enterprise.
For hobbyists
The complete hardware workflow, free for open-source projects.
Free
Includes
For teams and freelancers
More AI capacity for regular design work, with clear data practices.
€49/ month
Free while in beta
Includes
For teams with their own infrastructure
Run the complete AmpereBrain stack inside the boundary your team controls.
Contact us
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FAQ / Field Notes
Beta access, supported environments, and the data practices that matter before you put AmpereBrain into a real workflow.
Read the Privacy Policy for the full data-handling details.
No. AmpereBrain is the local-first companion that supercharges KiCad. You still design in KiCad, while AmpereBrain takes care of the grunt work: libraries, reviews, version history, specifications, manufacturing exports, and AI-assisted workflows.
No. AmpereBrain uses native KiCad fields wherever possible to enrich your projects, and its Git integration follows standard workflows. Your project remains usable in KiCad and manageable with the tools you already trust.
Yes. They start from a structured template, and the AI copilot helps you complete them and keep them in sync as the project evolves. Everyone reviews and approves the same version, and the documents stay versioned with the project. The same structure covers test results and other document types for your industry.
During beta, AmpereBrain is available as the Pro version at no cost. After beta, Pro pricing will apply. Open-source projects will continue to have access to the Free tier.
There is no fixed end date. Beta will continue until we have gathered sufficient feedback and the software is stable enough for general availability.
Yes. You can use AmpereBrain beta for professional work. Analytics remain enabled during beta so we can diagnose issues and improve stability. Analytics are sent to and owned by AmpereBrain on our own infrastructure; we do not use a third-party analytics provider.
AmpereBrain supports KiCad 10.0 only, including 10.0.x patch releases. Backward compatibility with KiCad 9 and earlier versions is not supported.
AmpereBrain supports Windows, macOS, and Linux. On Linux, KiCad can be installed traditionally or through Snap and Flatpak.
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Explore the tools that carry design context from the first schematic pass to the manufacturing handoff.
Vision
AmpereBrain began as an internal tool to answer a stubbornly practical question: how do we make our own electronics design work more efficient and less annoying?
The long-term goal is to lower the barrier to advanced hardware workflows by importing the best parts of software practice, versioning, traceability, testability, and faster feedback loops, without forcing electronics designers to become software developers.
AmpereBrain does not host your design: your project stays on your machine. Two tasks use our servers — OCR for the documents you send, and AI inference, which Enterprise can route to its own models.
An AI copilot that actually understands your schematics, automating grunt work from datasheet analysis to requirement drafting.
Automatic tracking of every change. See visual diffs, manage libraries, and verify designs without overhead.
