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News Apr 9, 2025 Jennifer Jang 5 min read

Introducing StoryGold

What we're building, why parametric CAD is the right substrate, and why now.

StoryGold is training a foundation model that understands and generates the 3D world through parametric CAD. Existing AI produces static meshes and pictures of objects. We generate the object itself — fully editable, constraint-aware, production-ready CAD.

Why parametric CAD

Meshes are dead geometry: millions of triangles with no dimensions, no constraints, no intent. Parametric CAD is the native language of engineering — a compact program of sketches and features that carries the reasoning behind a design. A model that speaks it preserves exactly what downstream editing, simulation, and manufacturing depend on.

Multi-step manufacturing workflow where each stage requires different expertise before a product can finally be manufactured
Fig. 1 — Each manufacturing stage needs different expertise; design intent is lost at every handoff.

The dataset

We are building the world's largest parametric CAD dataset — terabytes of feature trees, constraints, and paired natural-language descriptions. Data, not architecture, is the bottleneck for 3D reasoning, and it is the moat.

Why now

Vision-language models finally provide a base with enough visual grounding to build on — but as our experiments show, 3D capability has to be trained in at scale, not prompted or adapted in. The base models exist; the dataset does not; we are building it.

The team

Before StoryGold, Jennifer built large-scale deep learning models at Waymo to navigate the real world, alongside colleagues from Google Research working on large-scale 3D perception. It's clear to us that 3D reasoning is required to truly build general intelligence.

Join us

We are hiring, and the model is coming. See roles, or join the waitlist on the homepage for early access.

Jennifer Jang
Jennifer Jang
Founder, StoryGold

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