Materially started because the existing options force a choice — sleek photo catalogs that don't sell, or commerce sites that don't help you specify. We're building both, in one place.
The materials world runs on a tangle of PDFs, vendor emails, and sample requests. The architect's job is to assemble a coherent specification across hundreds of products — usually under a deadline, often under a fire-marshal review. We're cutting the loop down to a single workspace: discovery, comparison, specification, ordering.
We launched in the US — Shopify Payments, Shopify Tax, multi-state nexus, Stripe ACH. EU support stays code-resident for the deferred phase: VAT validation, iDEAL / Bancontact / SEPA routing, EN 13501-1 fire classes. Adding a region is a siblings-not-a-migration design.
We treat the platform like real software: TypeScript strict, zero-warning lint, audit-ready architecture decision records, and a 14-agent review scaffold that runs before every release. Built to be sold; designed to be used.