Project vision • October 2026
In developmentMatelassê is a proposed AI-assisted atelier companion for people who create and sell handmade products. This page brings together the product thesis, technical foundation and business hypotheses.
Back to homeOur initial focus is Brazil: artisans and microentrepreneurs in creative sewing, baby layette, embroidery, crochet, knitting and textile crafts. Our hypothesis is that connecting materials and production reduces administrative effort and supports more informed decisions.
Boxes without inventory, forgotten supplies, duplicate purchases, slow registration, uncertain quantities and difficulty estimating material needed for an order. Costs and margins are scattered across notebooks, spreadsheets, calculators, messages and marketplaces. These are workflow hypotheses, not statistical survey findings.
Notebooks and spreadsheets, generic ERPs and inventory tools, pricing calculators, order apps, marketplaces and chatbots can address parts of the workflow. Our proposed opportunity is to reduce the effort of structuring data and connecting these stages, respecting existing alternatives.
Natural language, documented manufacturer knowledge, physical measurements, inventory with locations and production planning. The assistant should turn conversation into traceable proposals without inventing specifications or confirming changes on its own.
Local app inspection on October 8, 2026: material and location structure, deterministic engine, PDF importer for selected families and a rule-based conversational pilot. The report records 4 families, 5 presentations and 94 document-checked variants. These figures describe technical pilot coverage, not customers, traction or market size. The base revision is 42ab3e2; local working files were also inspected.
Our vision is to reuse structured catalogs across ateliers while preserving each person’s inventory and references. Before expanding, we need to validate data quality, usage rights, product identification and material calibration. No manufacturer or Anthropic partnership, credits or program acceptance is claimed.
Designed to use Claude
We are developing a conversational AI experience. Claude is the intended intelligence layer for turning requests into useful actions connected to your atelier.
Instead of asking you to learn the language of a system, we want the system to understand yours.
Your ideas and materials, in your own words.
Understands intent, identifies details and asks when something is ambiguous.
Tools retrieve structured data and its sources.
Verifiable rules estimate quantity using weight, tare and reference data.
Inventory and project services prepare a proposed action.
Important changes go through your review.
Claude is intended to extract names, colors, codes, weights and locations; coordinate tools; clarify ambiguity and explain limitations. Voice and images are planned.
Specifications come from documented sources; calculations stay in the deterministic engine. Claude API integration is planned. No official Anthropic partnership or endorsement.
Grounded product development
The prototype is a research foundation. The app is not publicly available yet, and estimates await physical validation.
Inventory and storage locations. Import of selected PDF catalog families. Deterministic estimation engine and rule-based sentence interpretation pilot.
Claude integration, natural-language actions, contextual identification, corrections and confirmations. Voice and images as future capabilities.
Projects, material consumption, costing and pricing, order planning and reports. Public catalogs and sales as future options.
Subscription model under study
Our proposal is freemium: free basic organization and affordable subscriptions for AI and business features. Plans, limits and prices require customer validation.
Free
Basic inventory, storage locations and limited assistant usage.
No monthly fee proposedTest hypothesis • unavailable for purchase
Atelier
AI-assisted registration, estimates, projects and cost and inventory history.
BRL 19.90–29.90 / monthTest hypothesis • unavailable for purchase
Atelier Pro
Higher assistant limits, advanced planning, reports and extended commercial features.
BRL 39.90–59.90 / monthTest hypothesis • unavailable for purchase
No plan is for sale. Recurring subscriptions are the priority, without relying on marketplace commissions.
Evidence before scale
Interview ateliers across crafts, observe registration and purchasing, and test willingness to pay. TAM, SAM and SOM sizing is in the backlog: record official sources, year, segment, method and limitations before publishing any figures.
Measure real packaging weights, calibrate materials, test tolerances and assess scrap geometry. Validate identification, ambiguity handling, human review and data protection. No physically validated tare dataset exists yet.
Validate retention, willingness to pay, AI cost per use, subscription limits and support. Manufacturer and retail partnerships, premium integrations, advanced production and optional storefronts are possible extensions, with no agreements or revenue claimed.
No public user, revenue, growth or conversion metrics. Quantitative market claims await research and verifiable attribution.
The next chapter starts with a conversation
Want to learn about the project or share your atelier routine? Email us. Early access and the waitlist are still in preparation.
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