No—Quilter is not a copilot in the traditional sense. While many tools aim to assist human designers and incrementally improve their efficiency, Quilter is built for full automation. It doesn’t require a layout engineer to manually guide or interact with it during the design process.
Instead of serving as a productivity booster for your top layout engineers, Quilter generates complete board layouts on its own, freeing up human resources for tasks like system-level architecture or design for manufacturing. This makes it especially valuable in R&D environments where quick iteration on low-volume boards is essential and layout resources are limited.
That said, we understand that no model is perfect. When needed, Quilter offers mechanisms to review and modify its output, but its main goal is to eliminate the need for manual layout from the start.