01 · Thesis

Drone design
is the next CAD.

For thirty years, engineers designed drones part by part in software built for static objects. We built the design environment they actually need, one that speaks intent, not geometry.

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02 · The moment

Three curves crossed in the last eighteen months.

Models can reason about hardware.

Frontier LLMs can traverse component graphs, validate constraints, and justify tradeoffs. This was not true in 2023.

Commercial drones went mainstream.

FAA Part 108. Walmart delivery. Zipline at scale. Buyers now exist outside of hobby and defense.

Supply chains democratized.

T-Motor, iFlight, GetFPV, JLCPCB. Anyone can build a drone in a week, if they know what to build.

03 · Market

A design tool attaches to every hardware category it touches.

CAD is a $12B software category. Figma is $20B. Unity is $14B. The drone industry alone is projected at $90B by 2030. We are the design layer for all of it.

SAM

$2.4B

Commercial drone design software, 2026.

TAM

$18B

All flying-machine design & operations by 2030.

Horizon

$90B

Total commercial drone economy by 2030.

04 · Product

Describe the job. Get a complete, priced, flyable machine.

Live session

Conversational spec

Natural-language job description in, complete bill of materials out. 4 minutes median.

Constraint-solving core

Component compatibility, mass budget, thrust-to-weight, thermal, and flight envelope validated in one graph.

Supplier integration

Every part mapped to three suppliers at live prices. Export to cart in one click.

05 · Why not the incumbents

CAD and component catalogs are the wrong abstraction for intent.

Tool	What it takes in	Time to a flyable design
SolidWorks / Fusion	Geometric primitives	4–12 weeks
Ardupilot Mission Planner	Pre-built airframe + params	Doesn't design the aircraft
GetFPV / RotorBuilds	Manual part picking	Days, no validation
DRONA	Natural-language intent	4 minutes, validated

This is the room.

We're taking meetings through August. If you invest in category-defining software and know what an attached hardware category looks like, we should talk.

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