Why Buildable exists.
A CAD model can look completely finished and still be unbuildable: a wall too thin for the process, a corner no real tool can cut, two parts that quietly overlap in an assembly nobody explodes to check. Most of the time that gap between "looks done" and "can actually be made" isn't found until a supplier finds it, after the file has already been sent, and often after money has already moved.
Buildable exists to close that gap earlier, in the browser, before a file ever leaves your machine.
Geometry analysis first, AI second
It would be easy to build a chatbot that talks confidently about manufacturing without actually measuring anything. That's not what this is. Every number Buildable shows you, a wall thickness, an overlap volume, a draft angle, a bend radius, comes from real geometric computation against your actual mesh or CAD solid: ray-casting, mesh topology, boolean intersections, dihedral angles. The AI layer sits on top of that to explain results, prioritize what to fix first, and answer questions in plain language. It doesn't invent the numbers; it reasons about numbers that were actually measured.
Honest about what it doesn't know
Some things genuinely can't be determined from geometry alone: which gate location a moulder will choose, how a specific supplier's tolerance stack-up behaves, whether a part will survive a drop test. Buildable is built to say so explicitly rather than paper over the gap with a confident-sounding guess. Every check is labeled as measured geometry, a configured rule, a heuristic, or something that needs real validation, because knowing which one you're looking at is part of trusting the result.
Why it runs in your browser
CAD files are sensitive: unreleased products, client work, IP that shouldn't sit on someone else's server by default. Buildable's geometry engine runs client-side, in WebAssembly, so the file itself never has to leave your machine for the analysis to happen. The one exception, explained on the privacy section of the homepage, is that the AI features send a small, bounded summary of numbers already computed locally, not the file itself, to generate an explanation.
Where this is going
Buildable today is specifically a DFM and CAD-optimization tool: analyze the geometry, find manufacturing problems, fix the supported ones. CAD describes the product; manufacturing determines whether it becomes real. The direction is a manufacturing intelligence layer connecting geometry, process, and engineering constraints in one place, not a pivot into supplier sourcing or product-development consulting, and not a claim that layer fully exists yet. See where this is headed and what's live today versus still coming on the pricing page.
This page is intentionally short on biography. Buildable is built by a small, hands-on engineering effort; as the team and the product grow, this page will grow with real names and a real story rather than placeholder copy.