# Claw — UAV procurement co-pilot

- **Event:** [Claude Build Day](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/claude-startups-build-day)
- **When:** Sat, Jun 13 at 9:00 AM – 10:00 PM (PDT)
- **Where:** San Francisco, CA
- **Team:** [Suvasis Mukherjee](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/suvasis)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/dronomyio/Claud_hackathon_claw.git
- **Website:** https://claw-widget.vercel.app
- **Demo video:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEFmJNR-5FA
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/claude-startups-build-day/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/claude-startups-build-day/hackathon/gallery/17

Buying parts for an FPV drone or a robot isn't like buying a book — it's assembling a system of a dozen interdependent components that all have to work together. The motor has to match the frame size; the ESC has to handle the motor's current and the battery's cell count; the flight controller has to physically mount and speak the right protocol; the VTX, camera, props, and receiver all have constraints that ripple through the rest of the build. Get one wrong and the drone won't fly — or won't even power on.
But the tools shoppers actually have are a search box and category filters. Those match keywords; they don't reason. They can't answer the questions people actually have — "build me a 5-inch freestyle drone under $400," "I crashed mine, here's a photo, what do I need to fly again," "cheapest tiny whoop, I already own goggles." So the buyer is forced to become the systems engineer: cross-referencing spec sheets, checking compatibility forums, tracking budgets across a dozen tabs, and hoping they didn't miss something. It's hours of research for a hobbyist, and a wall that stops beginners from ever starting.
The cost lands on both sides. Customers abandon carts, buy the wrong parts, or give up. The store loses sales it should have won, eats returns on incompatible orders, and watches first-time builders bounce. The expertise to guide them exists — it just doesn't scale to every visitor at 11pm.
Claw closes that gap. It turns a passive catalog into an active procurement co-pilot: the shopper describes what they want to fly — in plain language, or by uploading a photo of the wreck — and Claw returns a complete, compatibility-verified, in-budget, in-stock bill of materials. It does the systems-engineering reasoning the search box can't, so the customer gets a buildable answer instead of a list of guesses. For a drone shop like multirotors.store, that's the difference between selling parts and selling builds.

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