Feasibility Sprint
2 weeks · Fixed price
We take one real product — your worst CAD assembly, not the easy one — through the whole pipeline and put it on a phone. You get the frame budget, the honest triangle count and a go / no-go.
About
3D.MBA is a spatial commerce studio. We take the model you already have — a CAD assembly, a photogrammetry scan, a LiDAR point cloud from a drone, a robot cell layout — and turn it into something a customer can rotate, configure, price and buy, or an operator can supervise from a control room. The same pipeline feeds a WebGL configurator, an AR try-in-your-room view, a rendered catalogue of a hundred thousand variants, and the digital twin running on the factory floor. We ship on open formats, we publish our frame budgets, and we hand over the source.
How we think
Every scene we ship has a published triangle, draw-call and byte budget, tested on a four-year-old mid-range Android — not a workstation.
glTF in, glTF out. Your assets leave with you, and the conversion pipeline is documented well enough to run without us.
A configurator that does not emit a priced, manufacturable, validated SKU is a toy. Rules engine first, shaders second.
The configurator, the AR view, the print catalogue and the shop-floor twin come from one source of truth or they will drift apart.
History
Started by rendering 40,000 furniture variants a night for a catalogue nobody wanted to photograph.
Moved the catalogue into the browser — the render farm became a fallback, not the product.
Built the STEP/JT tessellation service so engineering assemblies stopped going through a modelling agency.
Added photogrammetry rigs, a terrestrial scanner and a drone LiDAR payload for as-built work.
The same scene graph that sells a machine now supervises it — telemetry bound to the geometry.
Shipped our first splat-backed showroom; 4× the visual fidelity at a third of the download.
Published the format conversion matrix and the frame-budget methodology we hold ourselves to.
Our position
The benchmark on this site is not marketing. It is the research that decided what this platform would and would not be, published with the parts where competitors beat us left in.
Eleven of the twenty put their most convincing artifact — a live scene — behind a demo request or a login. The four that did not (Vectary, ShapeDiver, PlayCanvas, Matterport) were the four we understood fastest. Our entire demo gallery is unauthenticated for this reason.
SMB-facing products publish numbers; enterprise-facing products publish forms. That is a rational response to deal complexity, but it means an engineer evaluating options cannot build a shortlist without eight sales calls. We publish bands and a calculator, and say plainly where the number stops being reliable.
PlayCanvas, Babylon and Cesium publish payload sizes, frame budgets and hard limits. Commerce platforms almost never do — and payload is exactly what determines whether a 3D product page survives its first quarter. We adopted the engine convention: every scene ships with its budget.
How we engage
2 weeks · Fixed price
We take one real product — your worst CAD assembly, not the easy one — through the whole pipeline and put it on a phone. You get the frame budget, the honest triangle count and a go / no-go.
8–14 weeks · From $85,000
A production configurator on your storefront: rules, pricing, BOM emission, AR, analytics and the CMS handover so your team owns it afterwards.
4–10 weeks · Per site
Drone and terrestrial capture of a site or plant, registered to survey accuracy, published as a streamable cloud and a clean mesh for downstream use.
12–20 weeks · From $150,000
A live digital twin of one line or plant, wired to your existing OPC-UA / MQTT infrastructure, with the what-if layout model your ops team will actually use.
Credentials
ISO 27001
Information security
SOC 2 Type II
Hosted platform controls
Khronos glTF adopter
Conformant asset pipeline
WCAG 2.2 AA
Configurator UI audited annually
Tell us the option count, the CAD you already have and the frame budget you need to hit. An engineer reads it and replies with a straight answer — including when the answer is that good photography would serve you better.
We reply to every enquiry within one business day, in your timezone — with a frame budget, not a brochure.