Custom, at the speed of standard. Atelier Labs is the R&D and investment engine behind the platform — it learns from every live project to make custom work buildable at scale. The Atelier Estimator is what ships today; the rest are frontiers we explore and invest in.
Custom shouldn't cost what custom costs.
Bespoke work is expensive because every piece is a first attempt. Labs exists to delete that penalty — so a one-off runs down the line with the confidence of the ten-thousandth unit. Its research ships quietly into every Atelier project: tighter tolerances, shorter lead times, and pricing computed from machine time.
The Atelier Estimator is a SketchUp extension that connects the moment of design to the economics of making it. Browse Atelier's live material library, let the plugin take off areas and components straight from your geometry, and watch a machine-time-based estimate assemble itself while you draw. When the numbers work, request a formal quote — without ever leaving the model.
Fig. L.05 — Atelier Estimator docked in SketchUp · live takeoff, machine-time pricing · demo data
Curated woods, stones, metals, and finishes with real unit economics — the same library Atelier's production floors build from, kept current inside the panel.
The plugin reads components, faces, and areas directly from your SketchUp model. No re-measuring, no spreadsheet — and nothing ordered twice.
Estimates are computed from machine time, material, and finishing passes — not markup guesswork — so the number on screen is a number a factory can hold.
Send the takeoff and your spec to Atelier from inside the panel. A formal engineered quote comes back through the same channel.
Sustainability at Labs isn't a badge we bolt on at the end — it's what falls out of doing the work exactly right the first time. When software reads the geometry instead of a person re-measuring it, material is bought once and cut once. Less waste isn't a separate program; it's the shape precision takes.
Precise digital takeoffs let sheet goods nest tighter and offcuts shrink to the edge. Material is ordered to the model, not the guess.
Pricing runs on the same tolerances the floor holds. Parts fit the first time, so scrap, re-cuts, and the emissions of doing the job twice mostly disappear.
Custom work engineered to last decades — and detailed to be refinished and repaired — is the quiet opposite of disposable furniture.
Engineered substrates and finish systems that meet hospitality-grade wear standards while carrying less embodied carbon than the conventions they replace.