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" is not 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 measuring anything. That is not what this is. Every number Buildable shows you, a wall thickness, an overlap volume, a draft angle, a bend radius, comes from geometric computation against your mesh or CAD solid: ray-casting, mesh topology, boolean intersections, dihedral angles. The AI layer sits on top of that to explain results, prioritise what to fix first, and answer questions in plain language. It does not invent the numbers; it reasons about numbers that were already measured.

Honest about what it does not know

Some things cannot 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 labelled as measured geometry, a configured rule, a heuristic, or something that needs real validation, because knowing which one you are looking at is part of trusting the result.

Why it runs in your browser

CAD files are sensitive: unreleased products, client work, IP that should not 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-optimisation tool: analyse 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 is 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.