About CabDesign

CabDesign is cabinet design software that runs in a browser. You draw a room, place cabinets in it, and get back the parts list, the cut list and the sheet layout you need to build them. It is made by a working cabinet shop in Los Angeles, which is the short answer to why it argues with you about grain direction and blade kerf.

What we are building

Cabinet software has been the same for twenty years: expensive, Windows only, and shaped for people who already know it. Getting a cut list out of it is a week of training. We think that is backwards. The knowledge belongs in the software, not in the manual.

So CabDesign starts from the other end. You describe a room the way you would describe it to a person, and the tool does the arithmetic that turns it into parts. The measurements come out in whatever unit you think in, whether that is millimetres, decimal inches or sixteenths, because a wrong unit is a wrong cut.

Design the whole room

Walls, cabinets, appliances, counters and the fittings around them, in a floor plan, an elevation and in three dimensions.

Get the parts, not a picture

Every panel with its size, its material, its grain direction and its edgebanding, nested onto sheets so you know what to buy.

Talk to it in plain English

The Designer asks the questions a good kitchen designer would ask, then does the work in the app for you. It is the part of this we care about most.

Who builds it

CabDesign is made by Ahmed Hamade at Bespoke Woodcraft Studio, a custom cabinet shop in Los Angeles. He builds 32mm frameless cabinets for a living, which means the software gets tested against real jobs before it gets shipped to anybody else. When a feature would not survive a Tuesday in a real shop, that is usually the reason it changed.

Everything past that point is done by a team of AI specialists working under him. That is worth saying plainly rather than dressing up: they are software, not staff. They carry names because it is easier to talk about who checked what, and each one owns a single narrow job and signs off on nothing outside it. The cabinetmaker decides what is true. They do the reading, the checking and the arguing.

The team

Thirty six specialists work on this, split across nine desks. One of them does nothing but re-derive cut geometry from first principles. Another works every control on a page to prove it does what its label says. Two more run the same fixed kitchen job every release, so one release can be compared with the last. You can meet all of them, and each one tells you which file it runs from.

Meet the team

All thirty six, what each one guards, and why that matters when the numbers on your screen turn into cuts in real plywood.

The team

StackDesign

We also make StackDesign, a planner for a wall of Systainer tool cases sized to the boxes you already own. It is a separate product with its own pricing, built by the same team, and it exists because the founder needed one and could not buy one.

Getting in touch

Questions, corrections and bug reports all go to the same place: support and guides. A correction about how a real shop does something is the most useful message you can send us, and it goes straight to the person who decides.

CabDesign is made by Bespoke Woodcraft Studio in Los Angeles. Nothing on this page is a projection or a plan: it describes what the software does today.