You are a better engineer than your tools let you be.

Professional CAD, CAM, and FEA.

Grounded in physics.

With AI built in.

If you’ve designed physical things, you’ve probably thought of a better approach but decided you didn’t have time to try it.

Suppose you’re designing a robot arm and want to make it lighter.

You could change the geometry.
You could switch materials.
You could move the motors closer to the base.
You could try a different gearbox.

Each path means new models, new analysis, and another round of figuring out how to manufacture the thing. Eventually, you choose something reasonable and move on. Because you have a robot to finish.

Apply this process of settling across every part, every assembly, every project, and you start to see how much engineering never gets done. There just simply isn’t time to pursue the idea.

We’re building Finite to change that.

Less time chasing files and reconciling revisions.
Less time managing the work between design, analysis, and manufacturing.

More time to investigate alternatives and improve the design.

We’re building a system that carries more of the work, so you can spend more time engineering.

But we all know more options aren’t useful on their own. A simulation can solve the wrong problem if the boundary conditions are wrong. You still have to decide what matters, understand the assumptions and judge the evidence.

With Finite, the tools do more of the work while the engineering judgment remains yours.

The first change is how much engineering you can do.
The bigger change is what you decide to build.

WHAT WE’RE BUILDING

A new way to engineer

Where your judgment goes further and tools help you explore more territory than you thought possible.

A machined bracket, rendered from its CAD model.

Professional CAD

Built on Parasolid, the geometry kernel used for the most demanding engineering projects.

Agentic engineering

Share your intent, then the system helps you build it and reach further than you could before.

The same bracket under load, colored by a stress contour plot.

Grounded in physics

Simulation and DFM checks keep every design honest about what can actually be built.

WHO IS BUILDING IT

The people building the tools for people who make physical things

  • AEROSPACE

    Matt Ferraro

    Co-Founder & CEO

    Portrait of Matt Ferraro

    Aerospace engineer and software engineer. MIT, NASA, and satellites at Planet.

  • AEROSPACE

    Josh VonFricken

    Co-Founder & President

    Portrait of Josh VonFricken

    Aerospace engineer and software engineer. Penn State and Planet.

  • SOFTWARE

    Jake Dahn

    Chief Vibes Officer

    Portrait of Jake Dahn

    Generalist hacker and artist: product, design, and infrastructure. Planet, Scythe Robotics, Replicate.

  • SOFTWARE

    Jesse Andrews

    Principal Architect

    Portrait of Jesse Andrews

    Co-founder of OpenStack. Creator of userscripts.org. Principal architect at Planet and Replicate.

  • SOFTWARE

    Andres Milioto

    Director of Autonomy

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    PhD in robotics, University of Bonn. Robotics at iRobot, Scythe Robotics, Embodied and Skyways.

  • MECHANICAL

    Levi George

    Mechanical Engineer, Customer Success

    Portrait of Levi George

    Mechanical and welding engineer, Montana Tech. A career in fixtures, weldments and production tooling. First-line support and test pilot at Finite.

What will you decide to build?

A robotic arm, rendered in Finite's dither.