Radio Frequency test equipment, finally built like it’s 2026. Zero driver installs, PoE and USB-C, automatic device discovery and networking, and a SKILL.md to write your test software.

Smash your test development schedule and ship to production faster with @NineFivesRF.

https://ycombinator.com/launches/QQk-nine-fives-simple-networked-driverless-rf-test-equipment…

Launch YC: Nine Fives - Simple, Networked, Driverless RF Test Equipment | Y Combinator

Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QQk-nine-fives-simple-networked-driverless-rf-test-equipment Test hardware for companies that can’t wait for their test equipment to catch up.

TL;DR: Nine Fives makes test equipment for manufacturers of radio devices in cellphones, drones, or satellites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vtMt6-0SvY

**Problem:**You are a hardware engineer holding up a billion dollar satellite constellation or slipping a cellphone release date because the legacy test equipment in your production line was designed around the January 1997 revision of the USB Human Interface Device specification and the firmware hasn’t been updated since then.

Your AI agent is blissfully unaware of how this thing works because the “documentation” is hidden in a PDF on a password protected FTP server. After the legacy vendor left your email on read for a week they gave you access and sent you aVB.NETscript that they think should work. You ran it and now all 8 of that vendor’s devices in your rack have tried to enumerate as “COM11” in device manager. Now you have 8 broken pieces of equipment instead of just 1!

**Solution:**We’re Noah Levy and Andrew Kurtz and we are building Nine Fives. Together we have spent a decade at SpaceX designing radio frequency hardware and test systems for multi-million dollar products. Our equipment is driverless, touchscreen enabled, and uses a single, machine-readable, API with both REST and SCPI endpoints.

Every module we build works as a standalone product, but if you use our rack-mountable data and power backplane than you can take advantage of our NineVue web-app for generating easy-to-maintain, machine-readable rack configuration and ourskill.mdso that your AI agent can finally understand your test system and write your test software.

Get off the critical path and reduce your production readiness timeline from months to minutes.