01 · InputNotebook sketch / safe example
Works best with sanitized sketches or fictional examples during validation. Sensitive product details stay out until secure workflows exist.
Private pre-CAD handoff brief
FigDraft
Clear handoff briefs before CAD, prototypes, or product-development review.
FigDraft is an interactive AI-guided workspace in development for inventors and hardware founders. It turns rough notes or sketches into a structured handoff brief, then asks focused questions before the next professional step. It prepares the inputs for the tools and experts already in their workflow; it does not replace CAD.
Privacy-first validation. Not another CAD package, legal advice, or finished engineering output.
Development betaAI-guided briefFits existing workflows
1. Notes inpublic-safe sketch, photo, typed notes
2. FigDraft asksAI-guided prompts close the important gaps
3. Better handoffcontinue with CAD, prototype, design, or team
Non-confidential demo packet
One rough input becomes an interactive, reviewable handoff brief.
Not a final drawing and not a replacement for CAD. It is a compact package that makes the next professional conversation and existing workflow easier. Follow the flow from left to right.
02 · AI-guided draftVisual intent + gaps detected
AI flags gapsYou confirm intentReview draft
Professional handoff
Not final drawings. Better inputs before you order them.
CAD designers, product-development partners, and prototype labs are useful when the request is clear. FigDraft is being built for the earlier moment: your idea is still a rough note, a sketch, a few part names, and unanswered questions. Your existing CAD, design, and prototype tools begin after FigDraft has made that handoff easier to understand.
Draft visual
A cleaner review visual that makes the concept easier to discuss before CAD, prototyping, or engineering.
Part list
Named components, intended functions, and unclear areas in one place.
Review prompts
AI-guided prompts for size, materials, motion, missing views, locking states, and technical ambiguity.
Handoff packet
A compact package for a CAD designer, product-development partner, prototype lab, or internal team.
Positioning line:Prepare the handoff brief before your CAD, design-engineering, or prototype workflow begins.
Drafting workspace
A short preparation step, not another full design system.
The planned workspace combines source material, a draft visual, reference labels, part names, and AI-guided review prompts. The result is a clearer starting point for the software and professionals you already use.
Why this matters
A clearer product package can unlock the next decision.
Reduce the fog before paid work
Inventors and founders can organize rough material before paying for CAD, prototyping, design engineering, or manufacturing guidance.
Make first conversations sharper
A structured brief gives professionals part names, visual intent, open questions, and draft figures before they quote or review.
Avoid fake certainty
FigDraft is not CAD or a finished engineering package. It is the upstream prep layer before expert review.
Controlled output
Product handoffs need more than a nice image.
FigDraft should assist early intake and brief preparation, not pretend to produce finished engineering automatically. Product intent, labels, and review stay under human control.
- AI can assist organization, while the product intent stays inspectable.
- Draft visuals can be corrected instead of accepting a flattened image.
- Part names, labels, and open questions remain under user control.
- Uncertainty stays visible, so the next expert knows what to review.
Generic AI outputnice-looking, hard to edit, uncertain geometry
FigDraft outputstructured draft, numbered, editable, reviewable
Sourcerough sketchPipelinecleanup + vector pathsHuman roleverify and editExportdraft package
If generic AI was not enough
For people who need a clearer next step than a generated image.
The missing piece is usually not imagination. It is a shared structure: parts, intended behavior, open questions, and a brief a professional can review.
Can I use FigDraft instead of CAD?
No. FigDraft is being developed for the stage before CAD. It helps organize a rough sketch, part names, intended behavior, and unanswered questions so a CAD designer or product-development partner starts with clearer inputs.
Can generic AI turn my sketch into an engineering-ready design?
Generic AI can make a concept look polished, but it often loses constraints, invents details, or hides uncertainty. FigDraft is intended to turn an early idea into a structured review brief, not an engineering-ready design.
What should I prepare before hiring a CAD designer or prototype partner?
Bring a readable sketch or photo, plain-language part names, intended behavior, a few key views, and explicit unknowns. FigDraft is being developed to bring those items together in one compact handoff brief.
Who is FigDraft for?
FigDraft is for inventors, early hardware founders, product-development teams, and founder programs that need to turn messy early inputs into a clearer starting point before formal design work begins.
Built first for
People who need clearer inputs before the next expensive step.
solo inventors organizing notebook sketches before CAD or prototype spend
hardware founders who need a clearer pre-CAD / pre-prototype brief
product-development teams that receive unclear early inputs
makerspaces and incubators helping non-technical founders move forward
For early product concepts
Your sketch should not become public before you are ready.
Inventors are right to be careful. FigDraft is being designed around private projects, controlled processing, and clear deletion, but the current validation phase is for non-confidential material only.
Before you send anything
- Send non-confidential sketches or sanitized examples during development.
- Do not submit sensitive product details until secure upload and final terms are live.
- Use FigDraft for early product preparation, not engineering sign-off or legal advice.
- Keep qualified product professionals in the loop before disclosure or formal work.
Non-confidential beta first
Until the secure uploader is live, FigDraft asks for non-confidential examples only.
No public examples without permission
Your sketches should not be published, shown, or reused as public examples unless you explicitly allow it.
No training on product material
The product direction is clear: user product material should not be used to train public models.
Early access
Tell us which handoff you need to make.
FigDraft is still in development. Early access is organized around the people and teams whose real intake workflows will shape the product.
Founders
You have early product notes or a rough sketch and need a clearer starting point before a CAD or prototype spend.
- pre-CAD brief
- clearer expert handoff
- early access updates
Product teams
You receive incomplete ideas from clients or teammates and want a more reviewable intake before formal work starts.
- repeat intake
- less ambiguous scoping
- design-partner updates
Programs
You support early hardware founders and want a simple way to help them clarify a product idea before specialist support.
- member resource
- founder feedback
- program-partner updates
Private beta
Help shape FigDraft before the full app is built.
Join the beta if you are an inventor, hardware founder, product-development professional, maker, or program lead with a real sketch-to-handoff workflow. Non-confidential examples only for now.