Prism is the AI platform for hardware engineering. CAD, physics solvers, 3D viewers, coding, and reporting together in one place, all driven by agents. Go from ideas to validated design effortlessly. Free to try on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Cameron, and I co-founded Navier AI (YC W24) with Evan.
The pain. Before Navier I led vehicle engineering on hydrofoiling container ships at Boundary Layer, worked on autonomous trucks, and analysis for rockets and satellites. Every design change sent us back through Ansys, which meant cleaning up the geometry, re-mesh, resetting the boundary conditions, babysitting the run, checking that it converged, and pasting the plots into slides. Each analysis loop took days. Evan saw the same thing doing additive manufacturing for Raptor at SpaceX, and so did I on Starlink. Some of the best engineers we knew were being throttled by their tools.
That’s why we builtPrism: CAD, physics solvers, 3D viewers, a coding environment and reporting in one desktop app, driven by our engineering agents.
What it's like to use. Prism is an agentic platform and should feel similar to Cursor, Claude Code, etc. However, it's designed for the hardware engineer. Ask it to run a CFD study, design and validate a part, write firmware for your board, or draft your weekly engineering review. It handles the workflow end to end, from the CAD to the simulations to the final report.
If you've used Cursor, it'll feel familiar. You chat with the agent, and it works directly on the files on your machine. Use STEP files, test data or old reports as context, and open or edit anything it produces. Every script, mesh and solver input is a file in your project, so you can review it the way you'd review a colleague's work.
Prism is free to try. Download it for Windows, Mac or Linux at navier.ai/prism. Point it at one of your real engineering problems and tell us:
What cool things did you build with the agent?
Where did it get something wrong?
Which solver, CAD tool or plugin should we add next?
Evan and I and the whole team are here all day. Excited to see everything you build!
The assumptions behind a simulation belong beside its result. I'd want the next person reading the report to see the inputs that produced it.
About Prism on Product Hunt
“Cursor for hardware engineering”
Prism launched on Product Hunt on November 3rd, 2026 and earned 103 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. Prism is the AI platform for hardware engineering. CAD, physics solvers, 3D viewers, coding, and reporting together in one place, all driven by agents. Go from ideas to validated design effortlessly. Free to try on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Prism was featured in Design Tools (263.9k followers), Hardware (11.5k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (483.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 188.3k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Prism?
Prism was hunted by Will Zhang. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Will Zhang
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Cameron, and I co-founded Navier AI (YC W24) with Evan.
The pain. Before Navier I led vehicle engineering on hydrofoiling container ships at Boundary Layer, worked on autonomous trucks, and analysis for rockets and satellites. Every design change sent us back through Ansys, which meant cleaning up the geometry, re-mesh, resetting the boundary conditions, babysitting the run, checking that it converged, and pasting the plots into slides. Each analysis loop took days. Evan saw the same thing doing additive manufacturing for Raptor at SpaceX, and so did I on Starlink. Some of the best engineers we knew were being throttled by their tools.
That’s why we built Prism: CAD, physics solvers, 3D viewers, a coding environment and reporting in one desktop app, driven by our engineering agents.
What it's like to use. Prism is an agentic platform and should feel similar to Cursor, Claude Code, etc. However, it's designed for the hardware engineer. Ask it to run a CFD study, design and validate a part, write firmware for your board, or draft your weekly engineering review. It handles the workflow end to end, from the CAD to the simulations to the final report.
If you've used Cursor, it'll feel familiar. You chat with the agent, and it works directly on the files on your machine. Use STEP files, test data or old reports as context, and open or edit anything it produces. Every script, mesh and solver input is a file in your project, so you can review it the way you'd review a colleague's work.
Prism is free to try. Download it for Windows, Mac or Linux at navier.ai/prism. Point it at one of your real engineering problems and tell us:
What cool things did you build with the agent?
Where did it get something wrong?
Which solver, CAD tool or plugin should we add next?
Evan and I and the whole team are here all day. Excited to see everything you build!