Acme Robotics (acmerobotics.com) - QBR Brief: Entity Not Verifiable, Do Not Rely Until Confirmed
1. Bottom line
I could not confirm that any public "Acme Robotics" is your warehouse-analytics customer, so this brief cannot support a QBR on results or expansion yet. The domain you gave, acmerobotics.com, returned an empty page on every attempt (fetch of acmerobotics.com, fetch of www.acmerobotics.com), so I could not use it to pick the right entity. The two public "Acme Robotics" entities I found do not look like warehouse-software buyers: a high-school FTC team and an early-stage Palo Alto robotics startup that publishes almost nothing. Before the QBR, confirm the legal entity from your own contract and CRM; Section 12 gives an agenda built from your side of the relationship, not from public data.
Interpretation notes. Mode: Customer review. Your offer: warehouse analytics software for mid-size 3PLs and retailers. I chose no entity as "the" match, because the website did not load. Treat everything below as candidate identification, not a customer profile.
2. Overview and business model
Candidate A, the FTC team: ACME Robotics is FIRST Tech Challenge Team #8367 from Grass Valley, CA. Its GitHub organization lists Grass Valley, California, and 53 followers, with open-source tools such as the road-runner motion-planning library and ftc-dashboard. It is a student team, not a commercial buyer. Its site carries a donation appeal and a sponsors page I did not open. Note that its main site is goacmerobotics.com, not acmerobotics.com.
Candidate B, the startup: a page titled "Acme Robotics, Inc." says only Palo Alto, California, "For the work that takes a skilled hand", with a team drawn from Stanford, Google DeepMind, Meta, Amazon, Apple and Stanley Black & Decker. The contact address is on acmerobotics.co, a third domain. The page gives no product, customer, pricing or funding information. The logos describe team backgrounds, not customers.
Other same-name entities surfaced in search and were not examined: a UK company and a Glendale, CA LLC appeared in search results (unverified; I did not open either record).
3. Size and funding or financials
| Metric | Value | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate A: GitHub followers | 53 | Oct 2026 (page read) | GitHub |
| Candidate A: public repositories | 39 | Oct 2026 | GitHub |
| Candidate B: revenue, funding, headcount | Not found in public sources | n/a | acmerobotics.work |
No SEC, registry or funding-database record was verified for either candidate.
4. Products and pricing
Candidate A publishes free open-source software; road-runner is a wheeled mobile robot motion-planning library for FTC. Candidate B: products and pricing not found in public sources.
5. Customers and named logos
No customer logos found for either candidate. The logos on acmerobotics.work are employer backgrounds of the team, not customers (source). Whether your company appears as their vendor is something only your records can show.
6. Recent news (last 12 months)
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Nov 2025 | FTC team announced a new home at a school-of-the-arts site after 13 years at its old site (the post and the recap give slightly different school names) | ACME Robotics blog |
| 1 May 2026 | FTC team's season recap: four competitions, no finals selection or awards, lost two members | Season recap |
| 2026 | Candidate B: no news found | n/a |
Warning for anyone browsing goacmerobotics.com: its recent posts include unrelated Spanish-language online-gambling articles dated April to September 2026. That pattern commonly signals a compromised or monetized site (inference). Do not treat that site as an authoritative company source.
7. Priorities in leaders' own words
No leadership quotes found in public sources for either candidate. The only first-person statement found is the FTC team's own wish to go to the FTC Worlds this season.
8. Hiring, tech-stack and partnership signals
- Candidate B: a search surfaced a humanoid-locomotion job listing on a job board, but I did not open it and cannot confirm it belongs to this company, so I draw no conclusion from it.
- Candidate A: Java and Kotlin code for FTC competition (GitHub). No hiring or partnerships.
9. Strengths
Candidate A has a widely used open-source tool set; the road-runner-quickstart repository lists 1,735 forks. Candidate B lists a team with large-company robotics backgrounds (source), which is a claim, not verified.
10. Risks and red flags
- Identity risk: the domain does not load and multiple unrelated entities share the name. Any QBR built on the wrong one wastes the meeting.
- Fit risk (inference): neither candidate matches a 3PL or retailer that buys warehouse analytics. If your customer is a different "Acme", this brief does not describe it.
- Candidate A: a hijacked-looking website and a reported loss of two members (recap).
- No litigation, layoffs or regulatory actions were searched in depth; none were found in the pages read.
11. Key people
| Name | Role | Since | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liam McKenna | Author of FTC team's 2025/26 recap (departing member) | Not stated | Recap |
Candidate B: no named leaders found in public sources.
12. Angle for your purpose (customer review)
Public data gives no results, leadership-change or expansion signals for your account. Use your internal data. Suggested agenda (generic, unpersonalized to any offer details beyond "warehouse analytics for mid-size 3PLs and retailers"):
- Confirm the account: legal entity, sites, users and the sponsor who bought.
- Results: usage of the product, the metrics they track (for example order cycle time, dock-to-stock, labor productivity) and the change since last quarter, from your own telemetry.
- Risks: champion turnover, low active users, open support issues, renewal date.
- Expansion: new sites, new data sources or modules, new warehouse systems.
- Questions to ask them: What decisions did our dashboards change? Which warehouse is the pilot for the next quarter? Who else needs access? What would make you renew early?
If the customer is in fact the Palo Alto startup, ask whether it runs a physical warehouse or pilot site at all (inference: unusual for an early-stage robotics firm).
13. Gaps and caveats
- acmerobotics.com returned an empty body; no content from it was read.
- smart.mit.edu's "Acme Robotics" page returned 404; no content read.
- Not opened: the UK and Glendale registry records, LinkedIn, Crunchbase, G2 or Glassdoor. Sentiment, financials and funding are therefore not found.
- The FTC team's site and search listings are dated and partly non-authoritative.