Agentic Fabrication Network
Commerce protocols taught agents to shop for what's already on a shelf. FabNet taught them to have things made — 3D printed, CNC machined, sheet metal, laser cut, stickers, apparel — quoted live and ordered in one click, from any AI chat.
The problem
Custom manufacturing is a $1.3T global market that still runs on accounts, attachments, and follow-up emails. Here's what ordering one part actually looks like, and what it looks like now.
Sign up on each instant-quote site and re-upload the same file, just to see a price.
The AI chat you already use. No new account, no new app.
Quote requests, attachments, and the "just following up…" chasers.
Tell the agent exactly how the part has to be made.
Reconcile who's cheapest, who ships fastest, who's actually reliable.
Price, lead time, and vendor track record, side by side.
The winner doesn't carry your material. Back to square one.
Your agent completes the order. No logins. No guesswork.
Days, often weeks, before the part is even ordered.
The part is on its way in minutes.
How it works
Bringup your favorite agent like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, they discover AFN's MCP server on its own, and it requests the network for quotes for your part (STEP, STL, DXF, PNG, and more). No new account. No new app. No re-uploads.
Real prices from real manufacturers arrive in seconds, ranked and comparable. Refine in plain conversation — "actually in aluminum," "it has to survive outdoors," "I need it by Friday" — and the quotes re-rank instantly.
Checkout happens right in the chat. It routes to the manufacturer, tracking flows back to your inbox, and every delivered part rates the shop that made it — so the best makers rise.
No LLM ever prices a part. Orders are deterministic data — geometry, material, tolerance, quantity, deadline, destination — so quoting stays fast, cheap, and auditable.
What we built
The Agentic Fabrication Network: 49 manufacturers' live pricing, discoverable by any AI agent through our MCP server. Quotes stream back in seconds; every new manufacturer joins through the open protocol.
Connect your agentThe Universal Fabrication Protocol: an open standard that expresses a custom-part order, and a manufacturer's answer, as deterministic data. No LLM ever prices a part; geometry, material, tolerance, quantity, deadline, and destination stay auditable end to end. Any manufacturer, anywhere in the world, can implement the protocol, pass the conformance suite, and join the network.
Agent InstructionsToday's agents weren't trained on AFN, so until the protocol gains traction, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can't always discover it on their own. make-this.ai closes that gap: one agent that already knows the network, a live 3D viewer of your part, and quotes organized by conversation. It runs on the same public APIs those agents will use when they plug in natively.
Try it liveOne network, every process
FDM & resin, from one-off prototypes to production runs.
Billet aluminum and more, to ±0.005″.
Cut, bent, deburred, finished.
Flat parts in metals and beyond.
Cut vinyl from any artwork file.
Cards, flyers, posters — large format included.
Shirts, hoodies, and tanks, printed on demand.
New vendors and manufacturing capabilities are being added daily.
For manufacturers
Join once and your capacity is discoverable by every agent on the network — no storefront to build, no ad spend, no RFQ inbox. Two ways in:
Use our SDK, pass the conformance suite, and your pricing goes live on the network. Full control, fully automated.
Our vendor portal gets you on the network without writing a line — you set the capabilities and pricing, we handle the rest.
Real orders were placed within days of launch. Forty-nine manufacturers are online today. Every quote, order, and delivered part feeds the network's pricing corpus and manufacturer ratings — making it smarter, more trusted, and harder to replicate.
Why us
“In 22 combined years of building robots for NASA, oil and gas, and startups, design was never the bottleneck. Procurement was. So we're fixing it.”
Frank is a career roboticist who has spent more than a decade taking robotic systems from concept to deployment at NASA, Dow Chemical, Stryker, and Alcove Robotics, owning the mechanical, electrical, and software design and implementation. He has designed hundreds of custom parts and assemblies and led multiple teams of design engineers, most recently as Head of Hardware at Scope with five engineers reporting to him.
Frank has spent eight-plus years building robots from scratch, including a magnetic inspection crawler for Dow Chemical, an assembly robot designed to bolt together structures on the Moon for NASA, and most recently robots for Alcove Robotics. At Dow, he managed a 15-person innovation team and designed and procured plant equipment. During his Ph.D., he has deployed real software stacks on robotic systems for defense, oil and gas, and nuclear industries.
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