Live Design Sessions
We design with you
in the room.
Real-time CAD sessions over Google Meet. You watch the piece take shape, you decide what stays, and you leave the call with a file that is already producible.
The problem
Render. Email.
Wait. Repeat.
The standard CAD workflow looks like this. The designer models in silence. A render gets sent. The client reviews it days later. Feedback arrives by email — vague, partial, sometimes contradictory. The designer interprets, revises, renders again. Two weeks pass. The piece still doesn’t look like what the client had in mind.
Every cycle costs hours that nobody pays for. Every misread reference adds a revision. Every silent decision builds in a problem that surfaces three weeks later, at the bench, when it’s expensive to fix.
We stopped working that way.
How it works
Four steps,
one call.
You send a brief.
Sketches, references, a written description, a competitor’s piece you want to push past — whatever you have. We read it, reply with feasibility notes within two working days, and book the first session.
We model in front of you.
A Google Meet call with ZBrush shared in real time. Typical sessions run 60 to 90 minutes. You see the block-out happen, you weigh in on proportion, mass and detail, and you hear the production reasoning behind every decision as it gets made.
You decide what stays.
No screenshots emailed back days later. No “I imagined it differently”. Every choice — geometry, gemstone seating, wall thickness, finish — is taken in the call, with both sides seeing exactly the same screen.
You leave with a file that works.
When we hang up, the file is already engineered for casting, printing and setting. Most projects close in one or two sessions. Complex collections, more — but always with the same predictability.
What we solve in the call
The decisions that
usually go wrong by email.
The questions that take a week of back-and-forth in a traditional workflow get answered in the same hour —
- Proportion and mass. Whether the piece feels right on the hand, the ear, the neck — judged against reference models on screen, not guessed from a flat render.
- Stone seating and prong geometry. Decided with the stone’s real dimensions on the model, not approximated.
- Wall thickness and casting feasibility. Adjusted live, with the casting rules built into the conversation.
- Finish, texture and engraving. Tested on the model in real time, before they get locked into the file.
- Sizing strategy. For collections: how a single design scales across every size without re-modelling.
- Edge cases. The questions that a designer normally raises three weeks in — raised, and answered, in the first hour.
Application
Built into every
project we run.
Live Design Sessions aren’t a separate service. They’re how we run every project across every service line —
- In CAD design commissions, sessions are how the piece gets shaped, validated and signed off — without a single misread email.
- In production work, sessions cover prototyping decisions, mould strategy and the engineering choices that affect unit cost across a run.
- In institutional commissions, sessions bring the committee, the curator or the brand team into the same conversation, with the piece on screen for everyone.
- In collection development, sessions move from one size to the next, one variant to the next, with the rules set once and applied consistently.
Setup
Three things,
nothing more.
A screen.
Any laptop or desktop with a stable connection. No software to install. No CAD experience required. We share the model, you watch and talk.
A brief.
References, sketches, written notes — whatever you already have. We don’t need a finished design. We need to understand where you want the piece to go.
Decision authority.
The person on the call should be the one who can say yes. Sessions are most efficient when decisions don’t need to be relayed to a third party afterwards.
Standard, not premium
Included in every
commission.
Live Design Sessions aren’t a paid add-on or a premium tier. They’re how we work. Every CAD commission, every production project, every institutional piece is run this way by default — because it’s the workflow that produces the best file, in the fewest hours, with the fewest surprises.
If you’d rather work the traditional way — brief, wait, render, feedback — we can. But most clients who try a live session don’t go back.
Start a project
Bring your piece
into the room.
Send a brief — references, sketches, the piece you want to make. We reply within two working days with honest feedback on feasibility, timeline and cost, and we book the first session from there.