Martin, co-founder and CEO of Bench, is building "Cursor for hardware engineering" to bring AI assistance to rocket builders, roboticists, and physical product developers. Connecting from San Francisco during a Valley exploration trip, he discusses raising a £1M+ seed round led by Superseed while evaluating whether to split operations between London and US markets. Having founded his university's hyperloop team before meeting Imperial rocket-building co-founder Rayhan, he explains why hardware development has lagged behind software in AI adoption and his vision for automating complex engineering workflows across multiple file types and simulation platforms.