€25k
A failure Nodal saw coming.A client gave us the brief of a product it had already manufactured. Nodal flagged in the dossier a part that could break. It had broken, and fixing it had cost them €25k.
Product Decision Software
The AI software for developing physical products.
Nodal turns an early product brief into evidence-backed directions. Research the market, develop alternatives and test business, engineering, manufacturing and regulatory constraints before CAD.
45%
Faster product definition.An early benchmark target for the pre-CAD workflow.
4×
More product directions explored.Compare more directions before committing engineering time and budget to one.
70%
Critical risks surfaced pre-CAD.Benchmark target: expose most consequential risks before engineering commitment.
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01How it works
From a first brief to a decision engineering can act on.
Follow one product from start to finish: brief, research, concepts, validation and decision dossier, with every risk in view before CAD.
00 · StartProduct decision software. From the first brief to a decision engineering can act on.
How it works
From brief to a clear product decision.
Nodal connects the brief, research, concept development, validation, visualisation and the final dossier. Evidence, assumptions and unresolved conditions stay connected from one stage to the next.
01 / 06Scope · requirements · assumptions
Define the product
Turn an initial idea into a clear scope, defined requirements and a shared starting point.
PRODUCT INTENTPremium compact espresso machine
TARGET USERDesign-conscious home barista
TARGETServiceable · compact · premium
OPEN ASSUMPTIONS3 need evidence
02Solutions by industry
Different products.The same decision layer.
One complete analysis for any physical product, run by agents that know each sector's standards, costs and processes.
Sector agent
Nodal Consumer Products
Nodal runs the same complete analysis. This agent runs it with consumer-product judgement: shelf price and retailer margin, use and upkeep at home, CE marking and WEEE, and the comparable products already in store.
03Security
Your product data stays yours.
Nodal works with briefs, specifications and decisions that are often confidential. These are the commitments behind every project.
Client-owned data and results
What you share and everything Nodal generates from it, concepts, reports and dossiers, belongs to you.
No model training
Your information is not used to train models, ours or anyone else's.
EU infrastructure
Enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure with data residency in the European Union.
Encryption and isolation
TLS-encrypted connections, encryption at rest and logical isolation per client and project.
NDA and data processing agreement
Every project is covered by an NDA and a data processing agreement under GDPR article 28.
AI with human oversight
Decision support validated by your team. A limited-risk system under the EU AI Act.
Contact our team for more information at [email protected]
04Foundations
The evidence and systems behind each Nodal decision.
Read how Nodal reasons: where each data point comes from, and why the cost of a product is decided long before it is built.
Evidence01
Where each data point comes from
The six sources behind every analysis, how the origin of each data point is recorded and where human judgement steps in.
Methodology02
Where a product's cost is decided
What it means that design decides most of the cost, which studies support it, which qualify it and why the concept matters.
05FAQ
The questions we hear in every first meeting.
What product, design and engineering teams ask us before they start with Nodal, answered straight.
When a new product, variant, category or direction still has meaningful choices open. Nodal is most useful while the team can still improve the product before detailed engineering, tooling or other expensive commitments make change harder.
Get started
Develop your next product with Nodal.
Every problem found after CAD, tooling or supplier orders is paid for twice. Find it while changing direction is still cheap.