Fictiv

Fictiv is an on-demand manufacturing platform that lets hardware companies get custom parts made, from rapid prototypes through low-volume production runs, without owning their own manufacturing equipment or managing relationships with a network of machine shops and factories directly themselves. Engineers upload a CAD file, and Fictiv's platform provides an instant quote and manufacturability feedback across processes like CNC machining, 3D printing, injection molding, and sheet metal fabrication, then routes the actual production work to a vetted network of manufacturing partners best suited to that specific part's requirements, tolerances, and volume. This gives a hardware startup access to the kind of manufacturing capacity and expertise that would traditionally require an in-house manufacturing engineering team and established supplier relationships built up over years, compressing that process into a platform a small team can use directly. Fictiv's project management tools track a part's status through design review, quoting, production, and quality inspection, giving engineering teams visibility into where a physical part actually is in the manufacturing process, similar to how a software team tracks a ticket through a development pipeline. Its manufacturability feedback catches design issues that would make a part difficult or impossible to manufacture as originally designed, before that part goes into production and a design flaw becomes an expensive, time-consuming mistake to fix. Fictiv is aimed at hardware startups and engineering teams that need reliable manufacturing without owning factories or supplier relationships themselves.