Archived: SiliconMatch v1 as published on 21 October 2026, with its own film. See the current version →
Prospecting for silicon sellers
Find who needs your chip, and why.
Pick your chip, or the all-in-one box you build around it. SiliconMatch finds the drone, robotics, OEM and ODM makers and the factories, labs, hospitals, utilities and fleets that need it, scores each one with evidence you can click, names the people to approach and drafts the pitch.
The 1:41 tour, narrated by Ellen: sign in, describe the offer, find, read the evidence, people and sequences, save to a list, and the blind review that checks the ranking.
The problem
Silicon is getting specialised. Motor-control chips, edge-AI accelerators, radios, positioning, power: each one solves a real problem for someone. But the buyers are scattered across hundreds of drone and robot makers, module designers, contract manufacturers, and whole industries that would run a chip inside a box on their factory floor or in their lab. General sales databases list companies; they cannot tell you which ones need your part, or prove it.
Who even builds these?
Small drone makers, robot startups and module houses are hard to find and change fast.
Who actually needs it?
A list of names is not a reason to call. Sellers need evidence of the need.
What do I say?
A good first message names the prospect's own product and how your part fits their systems.
How it works
Think of it as Apollo, built for silicon: companies, people and sequences, with the reasoning shown.
- Describe what you sell. Choose from 23 chip and solution types, and tick the parts of your box: optimized hardware, local AI, domain skills and agents, MCP and protocol connectors, a test bench, observability.
- Choose who to find. Builders (drones, robots, OEMs, ODMs), module makers, and the industries that would run your box: manufacturing and test labs, energy and telecom, healthcare and labs, automotive and logistics, plus the integrators and software vendors who serve them.
- Get a ranked list with reasons. Each company gets a fit score from 0 to 100. Every reason cites a quote from a real source: the company's own homepage, a web page, or an official US list. Scores without direct evidence of need are marked down, and companies that sell what you sell are flagged as competitors and set aside.
- Meet the people. Decision-makers come only from a licensed contact provider, ranked by role: CTO, head of hardware, procurement, plant and lab leaders.
- Pitch and follow up. An opener about the prospect's own product, the integration story for their protocols, and a three-step email sequence you can edit. Nothing is ever sent for you.
- Work the list. Save prospects, track status (new, contacted, replied, meeting, not a fit), keep notes and export a CSV.
The data behind it
The prospect base as of 21 October 2026. Every company has a verified website (the page loads and names the company) and at least one piece of evidence.
By role
716 builders217 module makers435 adopters132 integrators227 software vendors
Official US sources
507 accepted FAA drone Declarations of Compliance (Remote ID and Operations over People) and the Department of Defense Blue UAS Cleared and Framework lists (82 drones, 255 components).
Fit scores are measured, not assumed: a blind quality check against a person's own judgement is part of the plan, and the result will be published here when it is done.
The product
One small service: a search engine for prospects, an evidence store, and a workspace for the seller.
Features: requirement vs. status
What is built and verified today, and what is still open. We keep this table honest.
| Requirement | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Chip and box dropdown, segment and country filters | Built ✓ | 23 types, 6 box parts, 38 segments |
| Find drone, robotics, OEM and ODM prospects | Built ✓ | web search plus FAA and Blue UAS lists |
| Industries beyond drones and robots: adopters, integrators, software vendors | Built ✓ | 435 adopters, 132 integrators, 227 software vendors across four industry groups |
| Fit score with cited evidence | Built ✓ | uncited reasons are dropped; inferred need is marked down |
| Competitors flagged, not pitched | Built ✓ | decided per offer with cited evidence: a chip seller's rivals are other chipmakers, not the module makers who buy its chips |
| Opener about the prospect's own product | Built ✓ | checked in code to name a real product |
| Decision-makers from a licensed contact provider | Built ✓ | Hunter in the demo; Apollo planned for production |
| Three-step email sequences, editable | Built ✓ | numbers must come from evidence; never sent for you |
| Saved lists, status, notes, CSV export | Built ✓ | |
| Blind quality check of the ranking | In progress | two review passes by an AI reviewer (the first is in the film). After fixing duplicates, hijacked websites and competitors in the list: motor-control chips 8 in 10 top prospects judged good (target 7); edge-AI box 4 in 10, because big operators without visible AI need still rank high: being fixed. A human expert pass will follow. |
| One search in under two minutes | Built ✓ | median 83 seconds with fresh web discovery, about 11 cents; about 30 seconds from the existing base |
Roadmap
Next
Publish the blind quality score. Read more of each company's own pages so more countries and needs are stated, not inferred.
Then
Apollo for contacts in production. Push lists to HubSpot or Salesforce. More official sources: US patents, federal contract awards.
Later
Watchlists that tell you when a new company appears for your offer. A capability profile builders can claim and correct.
How we handle data
Evidence, not guesses
Every fit reason points to a quote you can open. Company facts come from public pages and official lists; the AI writes the summary, the code checks the citations.
People data, carefully
Contacts come only from a licensed provider, never scraped and never written by the AI. In the public demo, names and e-mail addresses are masked.
Try it: demo sign-ins
The live demo runs on our own server. Both companies below are fictional. In the public demo, real people's names and e-mails are masked, new contact searches are off, and AI use has a daily cap.
| Persona | PIN | Role | What you can do |
|---|---|---|---|
| VoltEdge Silicon (fictional) | 1111 | Seller of motor-control chips | Search, score, see roles and masked contacts, draft sequences, keep your own lists |
| NeuroBox Systems (fictional) | 2222 | Seller of an edge-AI box | The same, for its own lists only |