Collaborative CAD kernel, parts graph, and engineering copilot — infrastructure for hardware teams at protocol depth.
Mechanical engineering still runs on file locks and email. Distributed teams — campus labs, India engineering centers, OEM partners — pass STEP files, fight checkout queues, and search parts catalogs in separate supplier tabs. No one owns the protocol layer between geometry, BOM, and release.
MechCove is the engineering OS I am building at ConsultCraft: a CRDT-native collaborative CAD kernel, unified parts intelligence across suppliers and standards databases, and an AI engineering copilot grounded in the live assembly. Defensibility lives in the sync kernel and parts graph — the same structural bet that made collaborative CAD a category.
The collaboration core uses a CRDT sync engine with WebGPU viewport rendering, STEP import/export, and software-grade branch/merge. The intelligence layer combines Gemini, OpenAI, and Claude agents for design review, tolerance analysis, and BOM assistance. Platform delivery runs on a TypeScript monorepo, Supabase Postgres, AWS object storage, and Vercel edge delivery.