A special one-idea episode: the AI tools that turn a product idea into plans a factory can build from. AI Tech Packs and Kobo draft factory-ready tech packs from a photo or a description, with measurements, materials and multilingual specs. Zoo's Zookeeper, Adam and Autodesk Fusion turn plain-English descriptions into editable CAD models and engineering drawings. Backflip rebuilds scanned objects into editable CAD for about $10 a part. And Alibaba's Accio and Accio Work agents find suppliers, send RFQs, negotiate and handle customs paperwork. Plus practical tips for working with Chinese factories: protect your designs with an NNN agreement, send bilingual specs, and always order samples. Quick hits: Election Day, a DeepSeek clarification, Apple Intelligence in China, Microsoft's school AI privacy standard, Riverside Agents, Ideogram Precise Edit, OpenAI's shared robots.txt signal, Meta vs. Google ad growth, Pope Leo on AI decisions, and Salesforce buying Rune Technologies.
Platforms in this episode: Tech packs
Intro / Outro music by Cheerry Red
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