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Manufacturing feedback usually arrives after the tooling assumptions are already wrong — a render looks printable, a CAD file looks machinable, and then a shop gets it and finds the wall that will crack, the corner no cutter can reach. By then the redesign is expensive, and the feedback that would have prevented it was never grounded in anything more specific than “looks fine.”
ForgeLab puts that feedback at the start instead of the end. A brief goes in; a Design agent proposes candidates; a DFM agent checks them against a real rulebook — not a vibe, an actual wall-thickness minimum and overhang limit per process, with the rule and the measured value cited on every finding. When a candidate fails, the Design agent gets one automatic pass to fix it and re-check, so what reaches you has already been through a real iteration, not just a first draft.
None of this replaces an engineer's judgment, and it doesn't try to. Every critique is advisory. Every cost figure is a range with its drivers shown, not a quote. And nothing — marking a design production-ready, releasing an order package, sharing it outside your account — happens without a person deciding to do it. ForgeLab prepares the case for manufacturability; it doesn't make the call.
ForgeLab is built by Techna. We're early — this is a pilot, and the product is still growing into the roadmap. If something is wrong or missing, we want to know.