Problem
A quote for a machined part takes two to five days because someone reads the drawing by hand. Half of them never get sent.
One line
Small factories price a custom part in minutes instead of days.
Problem
A quote for a machined part takes two to five days because someone reads the drawing by hand. Half of them never get sent.
Product
Upload the drawing, get a price, a lead time and the machining plan behind both. The shop edits the plan, not the price.
Model
Per shop, per month, plus a fee on quotes that convert.
NT$12,000 / month
Traction
Eleven paying shops, 94% month-on-month retention.
NT$1.3M ARR
Market
4,100 machining shops above four staff in our three launch markets.
Bottom-up, 2026
Team
Three: a machinist turned engineer, a geometry researcher, a shop-floor operations lead.
The round
Raising a pre-seed on a SAFE for 18 months of runway.
US$1.5M
Contact
hello@meridianworks.example
Sample one-pager — every figure is invented.
One line
Small factories price a custom part in minutes instead of days.
Category: manufacturing software. Stage: pre-seed, eleven paying customers. We sell to the shop, not to the shop's customer.
Problem
Who has it
Machining shops with four to forty staff. One or two people can read a drawing well enough to price it, and they are also running the floor.
How often
Between 30 and 120 enquiries a month per shop, of which roughly half are never quoted at all.
What it costs
Two to five days of delay, and the enquiries that go unquoted are the cheapest revenue a shop will ever see.
From 23 shop interviews across three cities, March to August 2026. Sample figures.
Product
The thing nobody else does: the shop can change the plan — a different fixture, one fewer setup — and watch the price move. The quote is a negotiation with the method, not with a black box.
Model
| Line | Per shop, per month | Gross margin |
|---|---|---|
| Platform subscription | 12,000 | 88% |
| Conversion fee on won quotes | 6,400 | 94% |
| Compute and storage | (1,850) | — |
| Contribution | 16,550 | 90% |
New Taiwan dollars, averaged over the eleven paying shops in September 2026. Sample data.
Traction
0
Paying shops
Paying = an invoice settled in the last 35 days.
NT$0
Annual run rate
September recurring revenue × 12, excluding one-off setup.
0%
Monthly retention
Logo retention over six months; one shop paused and returned.
Eight months to September 2026. Sample data.
Market
| Segment | Shops | Price / year | Reachable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan, 4–40 staff | 2,400 | 144,000 | 35% |
| Japan, 4–40 staff | 1,100 | 168,000 | 20% |
| Korea, 4–40 staff | 600 | 156,000 | 20% |
| Reachable revenue | 4,100 | — | NT$183M |
Method: shop counts from public registries, price from our own list, reachable share from the share with a CAD file in the enquiry. Sample figures.
Team
L. Tanaka
Chief executive
Eight years on the floor of a contract machining shop, then four building quoting tools for it.
P. Oyelaran
Chief technology
Geometry and feature recognition; shipped the first version against real drawings in eleven weeks.
H. Lin
Operations
Ran scheduling for a 60-machine shop; now gets new customers live in under a week.
Fictional team for this sample deck.
The round
What it buys: 60 paying shops and the Japan launch, which is the milestone a seed round would be priced against.
Contact
hello@meridianworks.example
Small factories price a custom part in minutes instead of days.
Sample deck. Every name, figure and market number here is invented — replace them before sending.