Getting started

What Lens is, who it's for, and the whole journey in one picture.

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Lens is an AI industrial-design builder. You bring a raw idea, a sentence is enough, and Lens develops it into a buildable, costed, judged product: it asks sharp questions, builds a real articulated 3D model, applies materials and finishes, prices a full bill of materials, and runs it past a panel of expert judges.

It's built for industrial designers, founders, and makers who want to move from concept to a defensible spec without standing up a whole CAD-and-costing pipeline first. You stay in control at every step: Lens does the heavy lifting, you make the calls.

The journey at a glance

Every project moves through the same spine of steps. Some steps are conditional: the Mechanism step only opens for products with real mechanical or electronic systems.

01Context02Q&A03Mechanism04Sketches05Function06Materials07Render08Judges09BOM10Export
Dashed steps are conditional: they appear only when the product needs them.

Ready to build something? Head to Your first project next.