Aeroplicity expands into the MRO market

Compliance can be expensive.

The National Association of Manufacturers estimates that the average U.S. company pays $9,991 per employee per year to comply with Federal regulations and the average manufacturer pays nearly twice that amount. 

Milwaukee-based startup Aeroplicity was created to reduce those costs.

Aeroplicity is a blockchain-backed data management platform that meets the rigorous compliance regulations required of manufacturers working in the aerospace and defense industries. Launched in 2023 by co-founders Jamey Rose and Jerome Miastkowski, the company allows users to safely digitize records for as little as $25 a month.

“In aerospace and defense there needs to be full traceability of materials,” Miastkowski explained.

“Imagine you have a screw. You need to know where that material came from, that the screw was built to a certain spec, that it was tested, and then you need to know every single hand the screw touched as it went through this supply chain. Now imagine going to a higher level, like a kit that goes on a plane or a product. There are thousands of parts, all of which have tons of paperwork under each one …” he continued.

“When we launched last year, the idea was to take all of this (documentation), put it on the packing list on a QR code… To prove authenticity, we back it up on blockchain, so literally every piece of data that goes onto our platform is backed to blockchain,” he said.

Beyond meeting stringent compliance requirements, Aeroplicity also helps users cut costs. In doing a case study, Miastkowski found significant savings for a potential distribution customer.

“We went through their actual numbers, just in their US division, and it would save them half a million dollars in costs just from the printing of paper that they ship. It also would save (approximately) 4,000 man-hours and 2, 500 trees. And again, this was just their US segment; they have a French segment and a Chinese segment- they are all over,” he said.

Aeroplicity is preparing for the future by working to meet the 2026 Department of Defense (DoD)compliance guidelines.

“There’s a DoD mandate coming down next year through 2026, that’s going to require all businesses in the DoD supply chain- that means from the Tier Ones all the way to the mom and pop shops that are building a little tiny piece parts for the bigger assemblies, to be Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) certified,” he said.

According to Miastkowski, meeting these guidelines will be both expensive and time consuming, particularly for small businesses. Aeroplicity technology provides an “out-of-the-box” solution for its users.

The revenue-generating company sells the platform as a per-user monthly subscription fee. Miastkowski sees this pricing model as a remedy to what he believes are “predatory” practices of the compliance solution industry.

“I saw the amount of money wasted and I said we could literally do this out of the box at a fraction of the cost and actually solve the problem. And that was the goal,” he said.

Yesterday, at the MRO Americas Aviation Week event in Chicago, the premier event in the aviation aftermarket industry, Aeroplicity announced it is expanding into the Maintenance Repair Overhaul (MRO) market.

“We’re displaying with one of our partners and announcing that we’re going to be attacking that space. We will be working on building applications for an operational system to run their MRO operations on the platform. That’s a $10 billion market for software, so it’s a huge segment in the industry.” Miastkowski said.

The growth-mode company currently has six employees and two interns. Aeroplicity is largely bootstrapped, with the addition of SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) notes from industry supporters.

To learn more about Aeroplicity, connect with the growing company here.