Compress the first pass
Describe a board and get a draft in minutes, so you iterate toward a prototype, not toward a finished schematic.
For startups
Prototype before you pitch.
Get hardware ideas to a real, reviewable schematic fast, and keep a small team moving together with live collaboration and git.
Idea to draft fastLive collaboration + gitLocal & private
TRUSTED BY ENGINEERS ATMIT·Stanford·Georgia Tech·Purdue·Texas·Cornell
01 | THE PROBLEM
Hardware moves too slowly when you are pre-seed
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Every schematic from scratch is time you don't have before a demo.
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A two-person hardware team can't afford EDA friction or siloed files.
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You need to iterate on real parts, not vaporware.
02 | HOW PROTOFLOW HELPS
Move as a team
Comment on the schematic, collaborate live, and version every change with built-in git.
Keep IP close
Desktop-first and local by default, your unreleased design isn't sitting in someone else's cloud.
03 | FROM IDEA TO A BOARD YOU CAN SHOW
1Describe
Describe it in plain English
State the board or block you want: MCU, peripherals, power rails, constraints, the way you would brief a teammate.
2Draft
Get an editable first pass
ProtoFlow assembles the schematic, places key parts, and wires the repetitive early conventions for you.
3Export
Hand off a clean project
Run DRC/ERC, then export a tidy KiCad or Altium project so your real layout workflow starts further ahead.
04 | FAQ
Can a small team collaborate?
Yes, commenting, live collaboration, and git integration are built in for teams that need more than one brain on a design.
Does it scale into our real EDA?
It's step zero: export a clean KiCad or Altium project and do serious layout there.
Is our design data private?
The desktop-first workflow keeps files local to your machine and team.
05 | EXPLORE MORE
Use caseSchematic captureDescribe a circuit in plain English and get an editable, manufacturable schematic, the core of ProtoFlow, and the "step zero" before layout.Explore Who it's forHardware engineersProtoFlow does the repetitive early schematic work, capture, parts, and cleanup, so you drop into KiCad or Altium with a project that is already clean and validated.Explore Use caseCleanup & exportAuto-clean a messy first pass and export a ready-to-use KiCad project, so your real layout workflow starts from something readable.Explore
06 | TRY PROTOFLOW
