To enable every organisation to source electronics responsibly — by making risk, compliance and impact measurable and transparent.
Why we exist
Hardware sourcing is one of the highest-stakes decisions in product development. 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 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. Predictable results of deciding without adequate intelligence.
Founded by industry veterans who lived these failures firsthand, Selectronyx focuses exclusively on objective hardware intelligence — building the data layer modern sourcing requires with early-adopter teams replacing assumptions with evidence.
Where we come from
Selectronyx was founded in 2024 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, at the centre of the Brainport region where leading precision-engineered electronics are designed and built. The founder kept running into the same question: why is responsible sourcing still treated as a values statement rather than something you can measure and prove?
That insight became FairSpec: score every component on repairability, reliability, sustainability, and Total Cost of Ownership — with implications for procurement efficiency, supply-chain resilience, and downtime avoidance.
We are an early-stage company with a live product and a small group of paying users, deliberately building before we scale. Every feature is shaped by teams using it now. Through 2026 our focus is depth of value over breadth of reach.
Electronic component volume — and the waste that follows it — rises every year. Procurement is the earliest leveraged moment to choose differently; responsible sourcing 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 alone is thin evidence. We surface multiple sources and gaps so your team can challenge claims before design-in.
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:
- •Nexar / Octopart aggregation — Octopart's published catalogue figures of 95M+ components, 11K+ manufacturers, and 700+ distributors — with DigiKey as an independent second source.
- •Compliance and lifecycle registries - restricted-substance lists FairSpec screens today (RoHS, REACH) and manufacturer lifecycle signals, including change and end-of-life notices surfaced through component documentation. TSCA, Prop 65, FCC Part 15 and UFLPA are not FairSpec screens today.