From engineering drawing to signed AS9102 package in an afternoon.

Articul pre-fills First Article Inspection reports for aerospace and precision manufacturing teams. The workflow turns a source drawing into ballooned, structured characteristics; sends uncertain dimensions, GD&T, material, and process data to human review; then exports a traceable AS9102 package with approvals, audit events, evidence files, source drawings, and balloon overlays.

Automatic drawing ballooning and characteristic extraction.
Review-first workspace for low-confidence dimensions and tolerances.
Forms 1-3, nonconformance disposition, signatures, and export history.
Hosted SaaS today; self-host/on-prem appliance path for ITAR-sensitive work.

How Articul works

Upload the drawing. Use a PDF, PNG, JPG, or TIFF source drawing. Articul stores the source file durably and links it to the FAIR record.
Review extracted characteristics. The extraction queue flags uncertain dimensions, GD&T, notes, material, processes, and tolerance sources for accountable human inspection.
Approve and export. Verify results, disposition nonconformances, sign quality and engineering approvals, and download the AS9102 package.

FAI workflow features

Automatic ballooning: Characteristics stay tied to drawing regions and Form 3 rows through review.
AS9102 Forms 1-3: Part accountability, material/process accountability, and characteristic results share one tenant-scoped record.
Nonconformance workflow: Out-of-tolerance results create nonconformances and block release until closed.
Audit trail: Approvals, exports, edits, and request context are captured as release evidence.
Team roles and seats: Invite quality teammates and enforce owner, admin, billing, member, and read-only roles.
Provider choice: Hosted extraction can use configured OpenAI and Anthropic providers; self-host deployments can point to a local HTTP extractor so drawings stay on-prem.

Hosted SaaS or private deployment

Articul is built as a plain React client, Fastify API, Postgres database, durable upload storage, and separate extraction worker. Hosted deployments run on Google Cloud Run with Cloud SQL and Google Cloud Storage. Self-host deployments can run the same app shape on a shop-controlled appliance.

Plans

Public SaaS plans include Free, Starter, and Professional tiers with extraction run, seat, active FAIR, storage, and export limits. Enterprise and Self-host Appliance plans are contact-us options for dedicated support, private deployment, and customer-managed infrastructure.

Common questions

What does Articul produce?

A structured AS9102 export package with Form 1, Form 2, Form 3, validation data, audit history, source drawing, balloon overlays, and referenced evidence files.

Does the software replace inspection judgment?

No. The workflow is review-first: low-confidence or conflicting extraction output is explicitly routed to a human reviewer before approval and export.

Can sensitive drawings stay off hosted model APIs?

Yes. Hosted providers are disabled unless explicitly configured, and the self-host path supports a local extractor endpoint for private environments.