Operon
Operon is a YC Summer 2026 (S26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA.
About Operon
Summary
Operon builds a structured data layer for heavy industry plants, ingesting the documents a facility runs on, such as P&IDs, isometrics, schematics, and compliance records, and converting them into a single queryable graph of equipment, lines, loops, and instruments. Process and manufacturing engineers use it to search plant documentation in natural language, with every answer traced back to a specific tag and drawing region. It replaces manual document hunting and disconnected drawing archives across safety reviews, compliance workflows, and engineering change management.
Go-to-market
Operon targets process and manufacturing engineers at chemical, oil and gas, cement, and electronics facilities, as well as EPC firms, offering a self-serve beta alongside direct sales conversations initiated through its website.
From the Y Combinator listing
Agentic data layer for manufacturing & process industries.
Operon is the data intelligence layer for heavy industry. We ingest the messy documents a plant runs on (P&IDs, schematics, datasheets, scans) and turn them into one structured, queryable model of the facility. On top of it, engineers query their plant in natural language and build agentic workflows for safety, compliance, and design.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Active
- Early
Founders (1)
- Anderson Chen
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