Novaclad launches free iPhone AI-LiDAR app that measures and prices a kitchen countertop

Novaclad released a free iOS app built on its AI-LiDAR measurement engine — homeowners scan a kitchen with an iPhone Pro’s LiDAR, get a fabrication-grade takeoff priced from a real shop catalog, and hand the lead to a local fabricator, with Rock Creek Granite as the St. Louis launch partner.

SOFTWARE desk — custom fabrication still runs on tape measures and days-later quotes; Novaclad is turning the kitchen scan into a priced, shop-ready lead before anyone visits.

What the engine does, on the release. Custom fabrication — countertops, cabinetry, tile, millwork — is called a large corner of residential construction still run on tape measures and quotes that arrive days later as one number. That list is the industry the release describes. It is not a list of surfaces the app already prices. The engine captures a room in three dimensions with the iPhone’s LiDAR sensor, then applies a model trained on how a working shop reads a kitchen. The output is a fabrication-grade takeoff and an itemized price from the shop’s own price book. The fabricator receives a lead already measured and specified. LiDAR, here, is the phone’s depth sensor. It maps the room in 3D. A takeoff is the measured cut list a fabricator needs before cutting stone. Itemized means the price is a list of lines, not one lump sum days later. A price book is the shop’s own catalog of what it charges. These lines are the release’s. This desk did not watch a slab get cut.

Who built it, on the release. The engine was not built in a software lab. Co-founders Ryan and Audrey Brown left corporate careers in 2022 to buy Rock Creek Granite, an Imperial, Missouri, shop cutting stone since 2013, and built Novaclad on its floor. Imperial, Missouri, is the town the release names. 2022 is the year the release says they bought the shop. 2013 is the year the release says the shop has been cutting stone. These lines are the release’s. This desk did not visit the shop.

The two quotes, and only the release. Ryan Brown said they saw automation coming for the industries they came from and asked where it was needed and nobody was looking. He said fabrication has a material-waste problem and a measurement problem, and that both are software problems now. Audrey Brown said they did not automate the craftsman. She said they automated the two weeks of waiting in front of him. She said the saw still happens, and what is gone is the guesswork. Two weeks is her clock on the page. It is not the five minutes in the lede, and it is not a wait this desk timed. Those are their sentences. This desk did not interview them.

Where it launches, and how many shops. Novaclad launches in St. Louis with Rock Creek Granite as founding fabricator. It places one fabricator per market through its Founder-Partner program. Countertops are the first surface. The engine is built to extend to other fabricated finishes. One per market is the release’s rule. Founder-Partner is the program’s name. The page does not print a second city, a fee, or a contract term. Do not invent them. Extend means the release says the engine is designed to go further. It does not say cabinetry, tile, or millwork are priced in the app today. Those three words sit in the sentence about the old way. These lines are the release’s.

What the homeowner pays, and which phone the wire requires. The app is free. Homeowners pay their fabricator for the work. The release says it requires an iPhone 12 Pro or newer Pro model on iOS 17 or later. The link it prints is novaclad.com/app. Free means the app, not the stone. iPhone 12 Pro or newer Pro, and iOS 17 or later, are the wire’s requirement. These lines are the release’s. This desk did not install the app.

What the about box says the company is. Novaclad LLC is a St. Louis construction-technology company founded by Ryan and Audrey Brown, part of the Fourfold Futures venture studio. A venture studio, in plain words, is a company that starts other companies. That definition is this desk’s, not a sentence on the page. The site it names is novaclad.com. SOURCE Novaclad is the wire’s last line. The page this desk read does not print a media email. These lines are the about box. This desk did not read a studio filing.

What the store listing adds, and that it is not a second announcement. The wire’s link, novaclad.com/app, redirects to www.novaclad.com/app and then to the Apple App Store listing for Novaclad, app id 6767419372. The page this desk read is that listing. It does not print the 19:58 ET stamp or the 23 Sep 2026 dateline. The subtitle is “Scan your countertop in AR.” AR, here, is the phone’s camera laid over the room so the app can mark the counter. The line under the name says the countertop is measured in minutes: scan in AR, spec every detail, and send a fabrication-ready project, with a clear itemized estimate, to a real fabricator. The page says Novaclad turns an iPhone into a spatial scanner for stone countertop projects, for a kitchen renovation, a single piece, or a remodel budget. It says most quotes start with a stranger in the home with a clipboard, and that the app replaces the guesswork. Walk the counter, tap each corner, and the app builds a measured outline, accurate to the inch, that a fabricator can work from before anyone visits. Accurate to the inch is the listing’s phrase. The wire does not print it. This desk did not check a tape against the outline.

What the listing says a person can do, and only that page. Scan in 3D uses the iPhone’s camera and AR, with LiDAR on supported Pro models, to capture the countertop’s outline. The person taps corner by corner. The app handles the math, the angles, and multi-piece projects. Specs named on the page: material, edge profile, backsplash height, sink and faucet cutouts, waterfall edges, and seating overhangs. The estimate lines are material, fabrication and installation, options and services, and tax, priced from the measurements and updating live when the stone or the specs change. AI-assisted verification is multi-angle photo analysis that cross-checks the scan against the room. In the St. Louis metro, the project routes to Rock Creek Granite, called the launch fabricator, and a professional proposal PDF goes to the inbox. Outside the metro, the person saves the project and the page says Novaclad will say when it reaches that area. Each project is saved with a top-down diagram, labeled dimensions, material selections, and the estimate. These lines are the listing’s. The wire does not print the corner tap, the spec list, the tax line, the photo check, the PDF, or the outside-metro save. Do not file them as sentences on the 19:58 ET release.

The two requirement sentences, filed apart. The wire says the app requires an iPhone 12 Pro or newer Pro model on iOS 17 or later. The listing’s requirements line says an iPhone with ARKit support, and that the LiDAR sensor on iPhone Pro models delivers the best accuracy and is the recommended experience. ARKit is Apple’s toolset for that camera overlay. Recommended is the listing’s word. Required is the wire’s. The compatibility block says iPhone and iPod touch require iOS 15.6 or later, a Mac requires macOS 12.5 or later and an Apple M1 chip or later, and Apple Vision requires visionOS 1.0 or later. The top of the same listing says “Only for iPhone,” and “Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.” iOS 17, iOS 15.6, a required Pro, and recommended LiDAR are not one sentence. This desk did not install the app on any of those devices.

The clocks that do not match, and whose sentence each is. About five minutes is the wire’s time for measure, price, and handoff. Quotes that arrive days later as one number is the wire’s picture of the old quote. Audrey Brown’s two weeks is her sentence about the wait in front of the saw. The listing says three visits, two estimators, and weeks of back-and-forth for what should be a thirty-minute decision, and that everyone now carries a 3D scanner in a pocket. It says the countertop industry had not caught up, and that Novaclad is the path from wanting new counters to the install crew arriving. Five minutes, days later, two weeks, three visits, two estimators, weeks, and thirty minutes are each the sentence they sit in. This desk did not time a visit.

Who the listing names, and what it says about data. The why section says they built Novaclad because they run Rock Creek Granite, just outside St. Louis. It does not print Ryan or Audrey Brown, 2022, or 2013. Those are the wire’s. The developer line is “Rock Creek - powered by Novaclad.” The seller is Fourfold Futures LLC. The copyright line is © 2026 Novaclad LLC. The wire’s about box says Novaclad LLC is part of the Fourfold Futures venture studio. Venture studio is the wire’s phrase. LLC on the seller line is the listing’s. The listing says it collects name, email, install location, and the project, and shares that only with the fabricator the person chooses to send it to. It says no ads, no selling the data, and in-app account deletion. The privacy block, which the page says Apple has not verified, lists data that may be linked to the person: precise location, email address, name, phone number, photos or videos, other user content, and a user ID. Phone number, photos, and a user ID are on that block. They are not in the your-data paragraph. The support address is support@novaclad.com. The privacy-policy link is novaclad.com/privacy. This desk did not open that policy. Age rating 4+, category Lifestyle, language English, and size 125.9 MB are the listing’s. The page says the app has not received enough ratings to display an overview. Free is on both pages. These lines are the listing’s, except the venture-studio sentence, which is the wire’s.

Plain English for the rest of the card. LiDAR = the phone’s depth sensor that maps a room in 3D. A takeoff = the measured cut list a fabricator needs before cutting stone. A price book = the shop’s own list of prices. Itemized = the price broken into lines. Fabrication Cloud = Novaclad’s name for the path from a homeowner’s scan to a local fabricator. Founder-Partner = the program that places one fabricator in a market. AR = the camera view laid over the room. ARKit = Apple’s toolset for that view. A Pro model, on the wire, means an iPhone 12 Pro or a newer Pro. 7:58 p.m. Eastern = the wire’s stamp. iOS 17 or later, on an iPhone 12 Pro or newer Pro, = the wire’s requirement. iOS 15.6 = the store listing’s compatibility line. Five minutes = the wire. Thirty minutes = the listing. Two weeks = Audrey Brown’s quote. 2022 = the year they bought the shop. 2013 = the year the shop has been cutting stone. Imperial, Missouri = the shop’s town. 125.9 MB = the listing’s size. 4+ = the listing’s age rating. This filing is the 23 Sep announcement.

PRIMARY here: Novaclad’s 23 Sep 2026 PR Newswire release, stamped Sep 23, 2026, 19:58 ET and datelined St. Louis — Tier A PRIMARY, the company’s own announcement. The free iOS app on the AI-LiDAR engine, the about-five-minutes line, the first-of-its-kind claim, the Fabrication Cloud line, the tape-measure and days-later sentence, the LiDAR capture, the shop-trained model, the fabrication-grade takeoff, the itemized price from the shop’s price book, the measured-and-specified lead, the 2022 purchase, Rock Creek Granite in Imperial, Missouri, cutting stone since 2013, the Ryan Brown and Audrey Brown quotes, the St. Louis launch, the Founder-Partner one-per-market line, countertops as the first surface, the free-app and pay-the-fabricator line, the iPhone 12 Pro or newer Pro on iOS 17 or later line, and the Fourfold Futures venture-studio about box are that release’s. The App Store listing that novaclad.com/app redirects to adds the corner tap, the inch phrase, the spec list, the tax line, the photo check, the proposal PDF, the outside-metro save, the iOS 15.6 compatibility line, the recommended-LiDAR sentence, the three-visits and thirty-minute sentence, the developer and seller lines, the 125.9 MB size, the 4+ rating, and the privacy block. Those stay on the listing. NOT claimed: that this desk scanned a kitchen, timed five minutes, or checked a tape against an inch, that first of its kind was surveyed, a dollar price for a countertop, a second city, a Founder-Partner fee, that cabinetry, tile, and millwork are priced in the app, that iOS 17 and iOS 15.6 are the same requirement, that this desk opened novaclad.com/privacy or installed the app, a stock tip, or investment advice. The card image is omitted. Distinct from the already-filed fxt-ai-trading, realset-ai-flatkey-10m, form3-agentic-payments, and collibra-maestro.