St. Louis – September 24, 2026 -- Novaclad has released a free iOS app that measures a kitchen with an iPhone's LiDAR sensor, prices a countertop from a fabricator's own catalog, and routes the job to a local shop in about five minutes, replacing a quoting process that has traditionally taken days.
The app is the first consumer product built on Novaclad's AI-LiDAR measurement engine and marks the initial piece of the company's planned Fabrication Cloud, a network intended to connect homeowners directly to local fabricators of countertops, cabinetry, tile and millwork.
The engine converts a smartphone scan into a fabrication-grade takeoff
Novaclad's software captures a room in three dimensions via the iPhone's LiDAR sensor, then applies a model trained on how a working stone shop measures a kitchen to generate a specified takeoff and an itemized price pulled from the fabricator's price book. Fabricators receive leads that arrive already measured and priced, rather than requiring an in-person site visit before quoting.
Co-founders built the technology inside an operating stone shop
Ryan and Audrey Brown left corporate careers in 2022 to acquire Rock Creek Granite, an Imperial, Missouri-based fabrication shop that has cut stone since 2013, and developed Novaclad's engine on its shop floor rather than in a conventional software lab.
"We saw automation coming for the industries we came from and asked where it was needed and nobody was looking," said Ryan Brown, adding that fabrication carries both a material-waste problem and a measurement problem that are now solvable with software.
Launch market pairs the app with a single founding fabricator
Novaclad is launching in St. Louis with Rock Creek Granite as its founding fabricator, and the company is placing one fabricator per market through a Founder-Partner program as it expands. Countertops are the first surface category live on the platform, with the underlying engine designed to extend to other fabricated finishes beyond stone.
Access is restricted to newer iPhone hardware
The app is free to homeowners, who pay their chosen fabricator directly for the completed work. It requires an iPhone 12 Pro or a newer Pro model running iOS 17 or later, limiting initial adoption to owners of higher-end recent devices.