Know what's at risk. Decide what replaces it. Keep the evidence.
PCNshark finds which components and BOMs are affected when change happens, gives engineering teams the evidence and workflow to make the decision, then helps them evaluate alternates, sourcing, lead time, pricing and lifecycle status — with every part-level decision preserved across the organization.
Starter and Team are free for 14 days. Card required. Cancel before the trial ends to avoid being charged.
A lifecycle event is only the beginning.
A team doesn't finish its job when it discovers an EOL notice. The notice is the trigger. Everything expensive happens after it.
PCNshark brings the lifecycle decision workflow together — from the notice that identifies the risk to the record of what your team did about it.
Monitor → Decide → Act
One continuous workflow: a PCN arrives, PCNshark identifies what's affected, your team decides what to do, and PCNshark helps find the replacement and the sourcing path. The decision becomes organizational knowledge.
Know when component change affects you.
The PCN engine is still the heartbeat. Notices your team receives get extracted, normalized and matched against every monitored BOM — so discovery stops depending on whether the right person opened the right email.
PCNshark works from the notices your team receives: forward them to your dedicated inbound address or upload the PDFs.
Turn lifecycle events into engineering decisions.
A PCN can carry hundreds or thousands of MPNs. Engineers work line by line: which matched positions are real issues, which are false positives, and what was decided for each one.
Go from “this part is at risk” to “here's what we do next.”
Four connected capabilities sit on the far side of the decision: what engineering should evaluate, whether it can be sourced, the documentation behind it, and the record that keeps the whole organization from solving it twice.
Know what engineering should evaluate first.
Two sources, kept separate. The manufacturer's own recommended replacement, extracted from the PCN itself — and functional alternates ranked by specification similarity.
Understand whether the current part — or its replacement — can actually be sourced.
Stock, MOQ, price breaks and lead times across approximately 15 distributors, with authorized and independent sellers clearly separated.
The technical evidence sits with the decision.
Supporting documentation belongs on the component record, not in a folder someone has to go find.
Pull the manufacturer's datasheet from the parts database, attach it to the component, or upload your own — accessed straight from the component record.
Decide once, at the component level.
Every part lives in one organization-wide catalog. Set lifecycle status, sourcing overrides, notes and evidence on the component — instead of making the same call again in every BOM that uses it.
Every BOM using the component inherits the decision, and the reasoning stays attached to it.
One component record. Every BOM that depends on it.
Every part across your BOMs lives in a shared component catalog with lifecycle status, usage, open impacts, sourcing context, alternates, datasheets, and your team's decisions.
Lifecycle set to NRND on 2026-08-12 by Mason, on evidence from ST PCN #DSC-2026-0871. Preferred alternate recorded for Rev C designs. No new starts on this part.
Lifecycle truth isn't always in a database.
Component engineers learn about lifecycle changes through many channels. PCNshark lets the team set the lifecycle status manually and attach the evidence behind that decision.
Automation finds the evidence. Your team owns the truth.
evidence: ST PCN #DSC-2026-0871
matched Aug 15
Human decisions are never silently overwritten. The manual status stands until someone reviews the conflict and decides.
Every decision has a paper trail.
Who changed what, when, from what to what, why, and on what evidence — kept on the part itself, so the next engineer to open it inherits the reasoning rather than repeating the work.
Eight capabilities, one lifecycle workflow.
Choose the plan that fits your lifecycle workflow
Unlimited PCN uploads on every paid plan. Plans scale by monitored MPNs, external source scans, AI-enriched analysis, seats and workflow depth — not by how many notices you send us.
Starter
For small hardware teams establishing a reliable lifecycle review process.
- 1 seat included
- 3 BOMs
- 500 monitored MPNs
- 1 program
- 500 external source scans / month
- 100 AI-enriched PCNs / month
- Unlimited PCN uploads
- Unlimited email-forwarded PCNs
- Unlimited internal PCN-to-BOM matching
- Unlimited impact PDF exports
- Component catalog & part records
- Lifecycle status with evidence
- Component decision history
- Datasheets on the component record
- Estimated lead time & pricing on every part
- Estimates from distributor data — not quotes
- PCN uploads are shared to the PCNshark network
- Your BOMs, decisions and notes always stay private
- Alternate part recommendations — not included
- Team Notes — not included
- Custom PCN email address — not included
Upgrade to Team for alternate recommendations, shared review, team notes and a custom PCN email address.
Start 14-day free trialTeam
For cross-functional teams managing multiple products, BOMs and lifecycle owners.
- 5 seats included
- 50 BOMs
- 10,000 monitored MPNs
- 10 programs
- 2,500 external source scans / month
- 1,000 AI-enriched PCNs / month
- Unlimited PCN uploads
- Unlimited email ingests
- Unlimited internal PCN-to-BOM matching
- Unlimited impact PDF exports
- Alternate part recommendations
- Manufacturer-recommended + spec-ranked functional alternates
- Component catalog & part records
- Lifecycle status with evidence
- Component decision history
- Datasheets on the component record
- Estimated lead time & pricing on every part
- Estimates from distributor data — not quotes
- PCN uploads are shared to the PCNshark network
- Your BOMs, decisions and notes always stay private
- Team Notes
- Custom PCN email address
Upgrade to Scale for a private workspace, and when you outgrow BOM, program or matching caps.
Start 14-day free trialScale
For larger hardware organizations requiring higher matching capacity, more users and advanced workflow support.
- 15 seats included
- Unlimited BOMs
- 50,000 monitored MPNs
- Unlimited programs
- 10,000 external source scans / month
- 5,000 AI-enriched PCNs / month
- Unlimited PCN uploads
- Unlimited email ingests
- Unlimited internal PCN-to-BOM matching
- Unlimited impact PDF exports
- Everything in Team, including alternate part recommendations
- Estimated lead time & pricing on every part
- Private workspace — uploads are never shared to the network
- Every PCN you upload or email in stays inside your workspace
Upgrade to Enterprise for SSO/SAML (planned), custom limits and contractual terms.
Get started with ScaleEnterprise
For complex organizations requiring custom implementation, integrations, permissions, security review, contractual terms or multi-business-unit support.
- Custom seat count
- Custom monitored MPN volume
- Custom external source scan volume
- Custom AI-enriched PCN volume
- Unlimited PCN uploads
- Unlimited email ingests
- Unlimited internal PCN-to-BOM matching
- Everything in Scale, including alternate part recommendations
- Estimated lead time & pricing on every part
- Private workspace — uploads are never shared to the network
- Enterprise onboarding · security review
- SSO / SAML — planned
- SCIM provisioning — planned
- REST API & webhooks — planned
- Slack / Teams routing — planned
- Dedicated Slack channel
A payment method is required at signup. You are not charged during the trial. Unless you cancel beforehand, the paid subscription begins automatically when the trial ends. Scale is a paid plan and starts immediately rather than with a trial.
First production BOM setup, column mapping and MPN import, inbound PCN email configuration, processing of the first three real or historical notices, and review of the initial PCN-to-BOM matches — with direct founder support.
Upgrade or downgrade at any time as your needs change. Your components, decisions and history carry over.
Questions, answered.
Anything not covered? Mail us at hello@pcnshark.com — we read every message.
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02Is PCNshark a component database?＋
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06Can our team set lifecycle status ourselves?＋
Know what's at risk — and what to do next.
Upload a BOM and turn component lifecycle risk into a traceable workflow from PCN detection through engineering decision, replacement and sourcing.
Starter and Team are free for 14 days. Card required. Cancel before the trial ends to avoid being charged. Scale begins as a paid subscription immediately and does not include a free trial.