One Button Starts Every Shop

Step 01

Publish a design

A designer uploads STEP, STL, DXF, Gerber, KiCad, and BOM files, plus drawings and assembly instructions. Every file is versioned and never overwritten. The geometry service reads each part: bounding box, volume, surface area, holes, pockets, threads, thin walls, undercuts, and minimum feature size. For boards it reads layers, size, part count, and fine-pitch parts.

Step 02

Break it into processes

The DFM agent builds a parts tree. Each part gets a process, a material, and a quantity, with alternatives and their cost and lead-time trade-offs. The designer confirms or edits the tree. Every flag links to the exact feature it concerns.

Step 03

Get a price curve

Each part gets an estimate from its geometry, process, material, and quantity. Estimates carry a confidence range. When the waitlist reaches a set share of its target, real quotes are requested from matched shops and replace the estimates.

Step 04

Join the waitlist

Buyers save a card. Nothing is charged. The page shows the current price, the next price break, and the count to trigger. The ship date is shown before anyone joins. A buyer can leave at any time before trigger and pay nothing.

Step 05

Press start

At the target count, the designer or an operator presses one button. The orchestrator confirms that each node accepted its quote, charges every buyer, sends a purchase order to every node at once, generates serial codes, and sends label files to each node.

Step 06

Trace every part

Floor staff scan a part’s serial code at each step and add a photo when needed. A downstream node or a buyer can report a bad part by scanning its code. The report routes to the node that made it, and an operator reviews it before any money is withheld.

Step 07

Ship to buyers

Each node quotes with shipping to the next node included. The last node ships to buyers. Buyers see one tracking view for their unit.