For 3D print, laser & CNC makers

The slicer knows the grams. Now know the cost.

Your slicer already tells you the piece is 86 grams; your spreadsheet was supposed to turn that into a cost and never quite did. Filament by the kilo spool, sheets nested to fight the kerf, machine hours, and the failed-print bin — that's the real economics of a print farm. MadeKeeper turns sliced weight into cost per piece automatically.

The app is live. Free during the pilot. Founding rate $19/mo, locked for life.

No card to start. Use it free through the pilot, and lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.

How MadeKeeper maps to your farm

Spools by the kilo, prints by the gramA $19.99 spool is 2¢ a gram. Log the sliced weight on a product's recipe and its material cost computes itself — per color, per material, PLA to resin.
Failed prints in the mathSet a scrap rate — 5%, 8%, what your farm really runs — and every good print carries its share of the spaghetti. Honest costs, no heroic assumptions.
Machine hours and consumablesPrinter wear, electricity, laser lenses, CNC bits — log a per-hour rate and each piece's machine time becomes a line item instead of a shrug.
Sheet goods and nestingLaser and CNC stock logs by the sheet; jobs pull their nested share with kerf waste included. STL files are free to sell twice — sheets are not.

One printed piece, to the penny

Say you sell an 86 g articulated print:

  • 86 g of PLA @ $19.99/kg, +8% fail rate$1.86
  • 5.5 machine hours @ 30¢/hr$1.65
  • Magnets and hardware$0.85
True cost of the print$4.36

At $24 at the con table, you keep $19.64 before fees. Multiply across a farm running day and night, and the difference between 2¢ and 3¢ a gram finally means something you can see.

For anything food-contact or licensed-IP-adjacent, MadeKeeper keeps clean records of what you made, from what, and when — the paperwork half; the judgment calls stay yours.

Straight about what's live

Materials and true cost per piece, products (in bulk or one-of-a-kind), sales that drain stock, the was-this-fair-worth-it event math, mileage, expenses, and the year-end tax packet — all in the app today. Etsy and Square sync, your own storefront, a booth card reader, and shipping labels are building, shaped with founding makers. Nothing above describes a feature that doesn't exist without saying so. See the full live-vs-building list →

Questions 3D print and laser makers ask

Can MadeKeeper cost prints from sliced weight?

Yes — that's the native motion. Put the sliced grams on the product's recipe and the spool price does the rest. Update the spool cost when you change brands and every product reprices.

How do failed prints get counted?

A scrap-rate percentage on the recipe loads each successful print with its share of failures. Your farm's real yield becomes part of the price instead of a quiet loss.

Does it work for laser and CNC sheet goods?

Yes — sheets log at cost, jobs pull their nested share, and kerf waste rides the waste factor. Same honest math, different machine.

Ready to see your real numbers?

The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.

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