Making the responsible choice obvious. Measurable and defensible in seconds.
We give procurement and engineering teams the data to decide responsibly at the BOM stage, when it still costs almost nothing to change.
Why we exist
Hardware sourcing is one of the highest-stakes decisions in product development. The components chosen at the Bill of Materials (BOM) stage decide whether a product is compliant, serviceable, cost-effective, and sustainable for its whole life. Yet those decisions are made daily with fragmented data, manual compliance processes, and no systematic view of sourcing quality.
The consequences arrive late - compliance failures at market entry, obsolescence-driven redesigns mid- production, sustainability claims that collapse under scrutiny, and price-only decisions that become expensive field failures. These are not exceptional outcomes. They are the predictable result of deciding without adequate intelligence.
Selectronyx started as a question: what would responsible sourcing actually look like if it were measurable instead of asserted? The answer turned out to be more useful than that question alone. Score every component on the things that genuinely determine whether it is a responsible choice - repairability, reliability, sustainability, and Total Cost of Ownership - and the implications go well beyond a values story. They go to procurement efficiency, supply-chain resilience, and downtime avoidance.
Founded by industry veterans who lived these supply-chain failures firsthand, Selectronyx is an independent company focused exclusively on objective hardware intelligence. We are actively building the foundational data layer that modern sourcing requires, partnering with early-adopter teams to replace assumptions with evidence.
Where we come from
Selectronyx was founded in 2024 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, at the centre of the Brainport region where some of Europe's leading precision-engineered electronics are designed and built. The company started with a question its founder kept running into: why is responsible sourcing still treated as a values statement rather than something you can measure and prove?
The answer turned out to be more useful than the question. Score every component on the things that genuinely determine whether it is a responsible choice, repairability, reliability, sustainability, and Total Cost of Ownership, and the implications go well beyond ethics. They go to procurement efficiency, supply-chain resilience, and downtime avoidance. That insight became FairSpec.
Selectronyx is an early-stage company with a live product and a small group of paying users. We are deliberately building before we scale. Every feature is shaped by the teams using it now, not a roadmap written before customer contact. Our focus through 2026 is depth of value over breadth of reach, and conversations with operators, partners, and early customers in that range are always welcome.
The wider context is straightforward. The volume of electronic components moving through the world is rising every year, and the waste that follows them is rising in step. Procurement is the earliest, most leveraged moment to choose differently. Responsible sourcing, applied at that stage, is what a circular electronics industry has to be built from.
What we are held to
Risk visibility
Risk that is not visible cannot be managed. Every feature surfaces risk earlier - where it costs least and there is still time to act on it.
Compliance confidence
A declaration is not the same as verified compliance. We cross-reference rather than accept supplier claims, because confidence requires evidence.
Measurable impact
Sustainability quality should be a score - comparable and documentable - not a statement. FairSpec exists to make it so.
Responsible decisions
Built for people making decisions with consequences, not for filing reports. Intelligence that does not improve a decision does not belong here.
Where our data comes from
FairSpec scores are only as credible as the data feeding them. We draw on authoritative sources for each dimension and verify across multiple feeds where possible:
- •Nexar / Octopart aggregation across 95M+ components, 11K+ manufacturers, and 700+ distributors - including DigiKey and TME for European supply depth.
- •Compliance and lifecycle registries - restricted-substance lists (RoHS, REACH, TSCA), Product Change Notice (PCN) feeds, and manufacturer end-of-life announcements.
- •AI inference - used only as a gap-filling layer where authoritative data is missing. Always flagged in the source column so users can see when a value is inferred rather than primary.