Forerunner
Forerunner, a San Francisco company founded in 2024, builds an AI engineering copilot for aerospace maintenance teams, answering questions from approved documentation and automating planning and quoting tasks.
With 11 to 50 staff, it reports 39 million US dollars raised, including a 26.3 million Series B led by Wellington Management. HRD Aero Systems, an aircraft oxygen-system overhaul shop in Valencia, California, runs it in production; its officers report procedure times down 27 per cent and part lookups 79 per cent faster, in a release issued by Forerunner. It is the only named customer.
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Forerunner is profiled in the companies register, but no deployment has been verified against published evidence. Records are added as evidence is reviewed and graded.
Products & Solutions
1 productForerunner AI - MRO Planning and Quoting Engine
An AI-powered maintenance planning and quoting engine for aviation MRO operators.
Heavy maintenance planning and quoting at MROs is a manual, error-prone process relying on spreadsheets and cross-referencing of technical documents. Missed access requirements or incorrect labor estimates reduce competitiveness and introduce financial risk. Slow quoting means MROs lose bids to faster competitors.
- Automated MPD task card ingestion and analysis
- Access requirement extraction and deduplication across maintenance tasks
- Planned labor hour calculation and optimization
- Alternative execution path identification
5 more features
- Special access review automation
- Customer portal with structured project breakdowns (tasks, parts, consumables, labor hours)
- AI that learns from each project to improve accuracy over time
- Enterprise data connectors (prebuilt, integration-native deployment)
- Airworthiness Directive and Service Bulletin tracking within work scope
Technical specifications (5)
- Cloud-based deployment with enterprise-grade security
- Rigorous penetration testing and hardened infrastructure
- AI guardrails designed for regulated, mission-critical operations
- Dozens of enterprise data connectors prebuilt for rapid deployment
- Processes MPD, AD/SB, and customer-specific Engineering Orders
Profile data from the Aerostack companies register; deployment records from the verified register. Evidence grades: T1 first-party confirmation, T2 credible reporting. See Our approach for how records are graded.