Digital design was transformed by synthesis and place-and-route in the 1980s. Analog never got that revolution. Designers still size transistors by hand, navigating noise, matching, and layout parasitics invisible to digital abstraction — and a single design cycle, from specification to verified schematic, can take weeks to months.
Meanwhile, the pool of specialists who can do this work is shrinking just as demand accelerates.
Samurai exists to capture their invaluable tacit design knowledge, and convert that into sustainable, institutional assets for the future.