Product Intelligence Engine

Total Cost of Ownership.
Decided at Design.

Forge Engine reads your CAD, BOM and tolerances, then prices every part across its entire life, before you cut metal.

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Collaborating with Carbon13 TU Berlin KU Leuven
Explore the sample

Click any part. See its cost over its whole life.

Shafts €74

Shafts

Stainless 304 · 3.0 kg

€7416 kg CO₂e12% risk

Multi-shop part. Plain turned 304. Quote two or three machine shops to benchmark price.

Tolerance. Only the bearing seats need ± [tight]. Relax the other diameters to ± [relaxed] and drop a grinding pass.

Illustrative data · whole machine €9,840 TCO over 20 years

The status quo gap

80% of a product's lifetime cost is locked in at design.

Today 2–3 weeks per loop
  1. Design Concept and requirements become CAD and a BOM.
  2. Data stitching ERP, CAD and spreadsheets: days of gathering cost data by hand.
  3. Review The one senior engineer who knows should-cost is out. Guesswork fills in. DfX · cost · risk · tolerances
Back to square one
With Forge Engine 20 minutes per loop
  1. Design with instant cost, carbon and risk BOM and 3D auto-parsed into one model.
  2. Guided moves Manufacturing and criticality constraints surfaced automatically.
  3. Approve First time right.
How it works

Upload CAD and BOM. Read the report in minutes.

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.xlsx
tolerances
Your CAD + BOM + tolerance profile
Forge Engine reasons
  • Life-cycle cost€9,840
  • Carbon271 kg
  • CriticalityMedium
Decision-ready in minutes

The report, for the same conveyor

Illustrative data
Capex€4,120
Opex per year€860
End-of-life€140
Total cost of ownership€9,840
  • Capex 62%
  • Opex 29%
  • End-of-life 9%

Running cost over 20 years is more than twice the purchase price.

Run this on my design Read the 2026 whitepaper (PDF)
Where it lives

Starts with a file. Grows into your stack.

No IT project to begin. Each connection sharpens the numbers.

CAD + BOM upload
Now · in the pilot
PLM / CAD vault
Next · planned
ERP
Later · planned
Forge Engine
Your cost of ownership
not an average
CAD + BOM upload · now
Forge Engine
PLM / CAD vault · nextERP · later

Your data governance, at every stage. Files and connections stay inside your boundary unless agreed in writing.

Our vision

We believe in a world where designing a better, sustainable, reliable machine is the easier choice.

Where what it costs to build, to run and to retire is visible the moment it's decided, not years after it ships.

Our mission

We influence product designs through digital reasoning over requirements, background data, methodologies, tribal knowledge and field data, for the engineer, or the agent, making the decision.

Currently Requirements in, a design out. The engineer decides alone.
Requirements Designer Design X · tight tolerances€42 · 6.4 kg CO₂e Cost known after tooling
The vision The engine reasons over everything the designer knows and does not know. The engineer decides better.
Requirements
Designer
Forge Engine
Design Y
relaxed tolerance
€29 · 5.9 kg
Cost known at decision.
Better than X.
Fed by
Background data
Methodologies
Tribal knowledge
Field data
Fed byBackground data · Methodologies · Tribal knowledge · Field data
Forge Engine with the designer
Design Y · relaxed tolerance
€29 · 5.9 kg CO₂e · better than X
Design X · tight tolerance everywhere
Tolerance
± [tight] on every hole
Process
Drill, ream, hone
Three operations per hole.
Per part
€42 · 6.4 kg CO₂e
Design Y · relaxed where it doesn't matter
Tolerance
± [relaxed] on the non-fit holes
Process
Recommended: drill, one pass
Reaming and honing drop out.
Per part
€29 · 5.9 kg CO₂e

−31% €13 saved per part · one operation per hole instead of three

How we work
  1. Intense customer collaboration.
  2. We respect our customers' data governance.
  3. A design tool, not a reporting tool. We change the design while it is still cheap to change.
  4. Paid for outcomes.
  5. Scale through great results, not lock-in.
Founders

Two people who have sat on both sides of the rework loop.

Mouaz

Mouaz · builds the tech

10 years building and scaling software products in Berlin's startup ecosystem. Background in decentralized energy systems research at TU Berlin.

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René

René · leads the science

PhD in Engineering Science (KU Leuven), MSc in Artificial Intelligence (JKU Linz). Six years in circular-economy research and two startups before this one.

[email protected] LinkedIn
Get early access

Bring one real assembly. Leave with its life-cycle cost.

We are onboarding early pilot partners: design and development engineers navigating cost and sustainability trade-offs.

  • A 30-minute call, then one assembly of yours through Forge Engine
  • Your files never leave your governance boundary without a written agreement
  • Prefer email? [email protected]

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