Exploded view of a single-stage gearbox: housing and flange, input pinion, helical spur gear, bearing and output shaft

Make your engineering data findable and ready for AI workflows

EnCad tags, labels and indexes your CAD data.Engineers find and reuse parts instead of redesigning them, and your organization gets a clean foundation to build AI workflows on.

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  • Live in three weeks
  • No migration
  • Deploy in cloud or on-prem
  • ITAR-ready
Works with
All integrations

Your vault has the part. Nobody can find it.

Most engineering teams search by part number and filename. When that fails, they model the same bolt, bearing or motor again and give it a new part number. Every redundant COTS part number adds sourcing, qualification, documentation and quality overhead for the life of the product, typically $5k to $30k each. Multiply by thousands of duplicates and the cost of poor findability is one of the largest hidden line items in engineering.

EnCad is software that tags, labels and indexes the CAD files in your vault so engineers can find and reuse COTS parts (fasteners, bearings, motors and other off-the-shelf components) instead of modeling them again. It searches by shape and by plain-language description, finds duplicate part numbers, and gives your organization clean, structured data for AI workflows.

Per redundant part number $5k‑30k Sourcing, qualification, documentation and quality overhead for the life of the product
Search

Find the COTS parts you already use

Search your vault the way engineers think: by shape, by function, by description. Semantic and geometric search surface the right fastener, bearing or motor even when the metadata is wrong or missing.

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Semantic search
Queryhex bolt SS
Search results4 of 37
  1. Bolt, hex, M8-1.25 × 20, A2PN 10-4471 · ReleasedStandard Parts / Fasteners / Bolts / 10-4471
  2. Hex cap screw M8 × 25, 304 SSPN 10-4472 · ReleasedStandard Parts / Fasteners / Bolts / 10-4472
  3. HHCS 5/16-18 × 3/4, 18-8 SSPN 10-2208 · ReleasedLegacy / Imperial / Hardware / 10-2208
  4. Bolt hex M10x20 stainlessPN 10-5530 · PrototypeProjects / Gripper R2 / Purchased / 10-5530
Enrich

Reuse instead of redesign

EnCad tags and labels every model and drawing automatically, so every COTS part becomes discoverable to the whole team, not only the engineer who first added it. Reuse goes up; engineering bandwidth comes back.

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Generated for every part
Functional tags
bracket, fastener, housing, shaft
Geometric attributes
envelope, hole count and pattern, symmetry
Material and finish
from model, drawing notes, attributes
Classification
your taxonomy, eCl@ss or UNSPSC
Embeddings
semantic search and AI tools
Audit

Collapse duplicate COTS parts to one part number

The EnCad Audit scans your entire vault, clusters duplicates by geometry and metadata, and recommends a preferred part for each. The same bearing, one part number.

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The same 6205-2RS ball bearing stored three times under different part numbers
Three-week rollout

From connection to live search in three weeks

  1. Week 1 · Connect

    EnCad connects to your CAD files and the vault database behind them and starts indexing. Nothing is written back; nothing moves.

  2. Week 2 · Enrich

    EnCad reads geometry, drawings and metadata, generates tags, labels and descriptions for every part, and finds every duplicate cluster. Your data stays in your system; it just becomes findable.

  3. Week 3 · Search and consolidate

    Engineers search by shape or plain language. Your standards team works through the duplicate clusters with EnCad's consolidation recommendations.

The data layer your AI initiatives are missing

AI tools are only as good as the data they can find. EnCad gives every part structured, consistent tags and embeddings, so copilots, design assistants and analytics work on your real engineering data rather than on filenames.

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Built for enterprises that cannot afford a migration

Parts indexed3.5M+
Duplicate parts found82,944
Weeks to live search3
Search time reduced97%
Within three weeks, EnCad surfaced duplicate COTS parts we had been maintaining under different part numbers for a decade. Now our engineers search before they model, and the part they need is usually already in the vault.
Jared M.Director of Engineering, F500 OEM
Security posture

Built for the vaults you cannot afford to expose

  1. 01

    Stays in your systems

    EnCad reads your engineering data; it never writes to it.

  2. 02

    No shared training

    EnCad never trains shared models on your data.

  3. 03

    Your boundary

    Your data never leaves the boundary you choose. SOC 2, ITAR-ready, and available on-prem.

  • On-prem and customer-VPC deployment
  • AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit
  • BYOK

See what is hiding in your vault

Book a 30-minute vault assessment. We review your setup, estimate your duplicate rate and show you what EnCad would find.

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