Your agent finds the network
ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini discovers AFN's MCP server on its own, uploads your file — STEP, STL, DXF, or artwork — and asks the network for quotes. No new account. No new app. No re-uploads.
Agent Fabrication Network
AI agents can now buy
parts that don't exist yet.
Commerce protocols taught agents to shop for what's already on a shelf. FabNet taught them to have things made — 3D printed, CNC machined, sheet metal, laser cut, stickers, apparel — quoted live and ordered in one click, from any AI chat.
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I need 12 of these in aluminum, and they have to survive outdoors. Can you get them made?
Found the Agent Fabrication Network. Quoting your part across the network now…
CNC · 6061 Aluminum
$214.80
arrives Fri
Sheet metal · 5052 Aluminum
$96.40
arrives Mon
CNC · 6061 Aluminum
$248.15
arrives Thu
3 live quotes in. The sheet-metal option is $96.40 for all 12, outdoor-rated, at your door Monday. Order it?
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The gap
Agents learned to shop.
Nobody taught them to build.
Buying what exists is solved.
Google's AP2, the Universal Commerce Protocol, and OpenAI's ACP are teaching agents to buy merchandise that already exists — from Amazon, Walmart, Home Depot — right inside the chat window.
Buying what doesn't is broken.
Custom manufacturing is a $100B+ market still run on RFQ email ping-pong and dozens of incompatible instant-quote sites — each demanding an account, a re-upload, and a checkout form, only to find they don't carry your material.
FabNet closes the gap.
One open protocol, one live network, any agent. Upload a part, describe it in plain language, and comparable quotes from real manufacturers stream back in seconds. One click, and it's on its way.
How it works
From chat to shipped part
in three steps.
Live quotes stream back
Real prices from real manufacturers arrive in seconds, ranked and comparable. Refine in plain conversation — "actually in aluminum," "it has to survive outdoors," "I need it by Friday" — and the quotes re-rank instantly.
One click. It's on its way.
Checkout happens right in the chat. The order routes to the manufacturer, tracking flows back to your inbox, and every quote and order feeds a pricing corpus that makes the network smarter.
No LLM ever prices a part. Orders are deterministic data — geometry, material, tolerance, quantity, deadline, destination — so quoting stays fast, cheap, and auditable.
What we built
Three layers.
One fabrication network.
The storefront
make-this.ai
Our storefront for early adopters: one agent, a live 3D viewer of your part, and quotes organized by conversation. It drives real orders through the network today — through the same public APIs any agent uses.
Try it live
The network
AFN
The Agent Fabrication Network: 50 manufacturers' live pricing, discoverable by any AI agent through our MCP server. Quotes stream back in seconds; every new manufacturer joins through the open protocol.
Connect your agent
The protocol
UFP
The Universal Fabrication Protocol: an open standard that expresses a custom-part order — and a manufacturer's answer — as deterministic data. Any manufacturer, anywhere in the world, can implement it and join.
Read about joiningOne network, every process
If it can be made,
it can be ordered.
3D printing
FDM & resin, from one-off prototypes to production runs.
CNC machining
Billet aluminum and more, to ±0.005″.
Sheet metal
Cut, bent, deburred, finished.
Laser cutting
Flat parts in metals and beyond.
Stickers & decals
Cut vinyl from any artwork file.
Cards, flyers, posters — large format included.
Apparel
Shirts, hoodies, and tanks, printed on demand.
+ your process
New capabilities join through the open protocol.
For manufacturers
Every AI agent becomes
your sales channel.
Join once and your capacity is discoverable by every agent on the network — no storefront to build, no ad spend, no RFQ inbox. Two ways in:
Implement the protocol
Use our SDK, pass the conformance suite, and your pricing goes live on the network. Full control, fully automated.
Onboard without code
Our vendor portal gets you on the network without writing a line — you set the capabilities and pricing, we handle the rest.
This isn't a demo.
AFN is live.
Real orders were placed within days of launch. Fifty manufacturers are online today. Every quote and every order feeds a pricing corpus that makes the network smarter — and harder to replicate.
Why us
“In 22 years of building robots for NASA, oil and gas, and startups, design was never the bottleneck. Procurement was. So we're fixing it.”