Root Access launches out of Stealth to arm Embedded Engineers with AI
Today we're stepping out of stealth.
Root Access is building the AI platform for embedded engineers — the people writing the firmware that flies, drives, plows, and keeps the physical world running. We owe the modern world to the machines that built it, protected it, and fed it. Yet for all the leverage AI has delivered to web and application engineering, the engineers who actually program hardware have been left with tooling from the dial-up era. We can livestream from Mars, but we can't patch a bulldozer without a multi-year roadmap.
That's the problem we're here to solve.
What we're building
We're building a platform that meets embedded engineers where they work. Two surfaces today:
- Hideout — a cloud platform where teams spin up autonomous coding agents, manage parallel sessions across a program, and review the work back as a single PR.
- Seb — a terminal-native coding agent that lives inside the toolchain you already use, with deep awareness of silicon, registers, RTOS primitives, and the standards that govern mission-critical code.
Both surfaces sit on top of fine-tuned models, deterministic algorithms for register- and constraint-aware reasoning, and a hardware-aware context layer that pins the right datasheet, errata, and HAL version to every session. Code can stay inside your VPC. Generated work lands with a requirement ID, a test, and an audit trail your cert team can defend.
Who we're building for
Firmware teams shipping ECUs, embedded engineers bringing up new boards, safety and certification leads pushing programs past DO-178C / ISO 26262 / IEC 62304, and the system integrators stitching it all together. If you're shipping firmware to real hardware in a regulated industry, we're building this for you.
The full announcement
The story behind why we started Root Access — and why this matters now — is in our founder's launch post on LinkedIn:
Read the launch announcement on LinkedIn →
Engineers deserve better tools. The frontier is waiting.