Claybench

Orchestrates clay volume, drying time, firing slot, and inventory in a single deterministic gather, then synthesizes a week-by-week timeline. Every plan is reproducible, auditable, and validated against typed schemas before it's stored — a hallucination fails validation, not the database.

Search a library of tested glaze recipes compiled from public pottery databases — filter by cone range, firing atmosphere, surface, color, and ingredient, or match against the raw materials already on the studio's shelves. Each result is checked for hazardous ingredients and flagged when its cone range doesn't overlap the clay body you're working in.

Plans and answers draw on a curated corpus of ceramics knowledge — encyclopedic articles, respected teaching handouts, standardized terminology, and safety regulations — retrieved by vector search. The system stays grounded in real sources instead of plausible-sounding guesses.

Custom modules covering clay weight, color, cones, drying, shrinkage, glaze consumption, safety, and consumables — the physical rules of ceramics, modeled. The plan respects them; users don't have to.

Firings are first-class. Schedule one, build a load manifest, start it, and close it out with a multi-outcome unload. A month-grid calendar shows kiln utilization, and the planner solves around the real schedule instead of guessing dates.

Every stage transition — formed, trimmed, leather-hard, bone-dry, bisqued, glazed, fired, delivered — is captured as an append-only event log on the web console and a native iOS app. That history powers undo, accurate timing, and richer replanning when a batch slips.

Track failure rates by clay body, glaze, and kiln, view defect trends over time, and project material consumption and kiln utilization. Piece-weighted vs. event-count toggling reveals which materials are actually costing studio time.

Manage clay bodies, kilns, and glazes; take class bookings with integrated billing; and sell finished work through a store auto-populated from production data. One platform from wet clay to finished sale — no re-entry, no parallel systems.

A safety engine scans glaze formulas for silica, lead, cadmium, and food-safety concerns, flagging hazards with required disclaimers. Studios can ship with confidence; regulators see the audit trail.