Why a new CAD platform

Origin

As an engineer, I spent my career across aerospace and motorsport, specialising in aerodynamics. The deeper I went, the clearer one thing became: legacy CAD platforms no longer answer the needs of modern design engineers. Their tools are slow, cumbersome, siloed and brittle — built for a way of working the industry has long outgrown.

Two trends in modern design demand a far more capable approach, and a fresh look at the problem:

• Under intense international competition, engineers in automotive, aerospace, defence and beyond face relentless pressure to deliver higher-quality designs faster and faster.
• The new generation of AI world-models is trained on physics simulations, and the sheer volume of data those models need is vastly outstripping what legacy CAD platforms can produce.

Kioko was built to meet both. It pairs the latest CAD research with modern engineering breakthroughs to help teams design faster and more efficiently — without trading away quality.

The Kioko pledge

We built the Kioko platform around five pillars:

• Robust. Once created, a model should survive any parameter change. That robustness is what makes a design process repeatable — and we achieve it with a brand-new CAD kernel written in Rust, built on a new class of geometry known as G1 surfaces.
• Efficient. A CAD model should be small to store and effortless to share — handled much the way software engineers share code on GitHub.
• Fast. Geometry creation should be fast no matter how large the model. Our kernel is GPU-accelerated and server-based, so you get fast compute on whatever machine you are using, wherever you are.
• Open. CAD should be open, not locked behind proprietary binary formats. Legacy players have enjoyed a monopoly for too long by restricting how data is shared; Kioko's file-based approach changes that.
• Collaborative. CAD should be easy to share, to pass on, and to publish. Our browser-based, multi-user platform brings the Google Docs experience to engineering, making real collaboration effortless.

Beta release

Kioko is now welcoming fellow engineers into our beta program — it has never been easier to get started and help shape the CAD of the future.

Joining the Kioko community gives you access to beta features, an early look at new CAD research, and the chance to contribute directly to the roadmap.

If you would like to join, write to us at contact@kioko.io with the subject "Join Kioko Beta".