Priced per line, per factory and on outcomes — so the first workflow funds the next. No per-seat pricing; a plant should not pay more for letting more people see the truth.
Most plants start at Line on the workflow that hurts most, then move to Factory within two quarters.
Manufacturers validating ROI on one wedge workflow.
$8,000/line/month
Scaling factories adopting the whole closed loop.
$55,000/month
Brands and contract-manufacturer networks standardising on Footeon.
Customland $350k–$4M ACV
Prices exclude edge hardware, which you can buy directly from the OEM or through us at cost.
Line pricing covers one workflow end to end on one line. RUN-4417 is what that looks like in practice: 1,200 pairs, eight steps, one approval, logged and costed per lot.
Simulated the whole lot in the shoe-and-line twin before a single hide was cut — nest layout, mould recipe and bonding process window for EVA midsole and rubber outsole at 71% relative humidity.
in: pattern velo-trainer-2, hide batch LH-2291, mould set M-14 · out: nest v7, recipe R-08, bond window 62–68 °C
Scanned 64 hides, marked 1,842 scars and brand marks, then solved a defect-aware nest across the EU 36–46 size curve. Leather yield came in at 87.4% against a 79.1% plant baseline.
in: 64 hides, 1,842 defects · out: yield 87.4%, 12.3 s solve, 22 nested part groups
Held stitch tension inside ±4% across 14 stitching stations, caught three skipped stitches on the lateral overlay and re-ran those uppers before they reached lasting.
in: seam map v3, thread lot TL-77 · out: 3 skips corrected, 0 escapes
Trimmed press temperature and dwell on P-3 as the EVA lot ran slightly high in blowing agent, holding midsole density at 0.24 g/cm³ within ±1.8% and cure at 214 seconds.
in: EVA lot EV-1180, recipe R-08 · out: density 0.24 g/cm³, cure 214 s
Lasted the upper over last set L-42 under a heat and tension profile tuned to this leather lot. Toe-lasting deviation held at 0.6 mm; heel seat measured true on every pair sampled.
in: last set L-42, 78 °C, profile T-2 · out: deviation 0.6 mm
Humidity climbed to 71% mid-shift, pushing the primer flash-off outside the validated window. The agent proposed +2 °C activation and +0.3 bar press pressure, and paused for the quality engineer to approve — the change touches a validated bonding parameter.
in: primer PR-9, adhesive AD-22, RH 71% · out: proposed activation 66 °C, awaiting sign-off
Bond-line vision, 3D fit metrology and cosmetic scan on every pair. First-pass yield 98.2%; 21 pairs routed to rework for adhesive squeeze-out, none for bond gaps.
in: 1,200 pairs · out: FPY 98.2%, 21 rework, 0 bond-gap escapes
Robotic cleaning, lacing, insole insertion and carton packing to spec C-4, with per-pair traceability written back to the MES and the brand’s quality portal.
in: carton spec C-4 · out: 1,179 pairs packed, 21 held
Figures are modelled from the RUN-4417 scenario, not a customer average. Your line assessment produces the real numbers.
The difference is scope of the loop, not throttled capability.
| Capability | Line | Factory | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agents included | One workflow | All eight | All eight, multi-site |
| Shoe-and-line twin | — | Included | Included, custom physics |
| Defect and fit sensing | That line | Whole plant | Whole network |
| Custom material and bond models | — | Standard families | Custom per material and last |
| Deployment | Edge + cloud | Edge + cloud | Edge, VPC or full on-prem |
| Identity | Email + MFA | SSO | SSO + SCIM + RBAC |
| Audit export | CSV | Signed export | Signed export to GRC |
| Support | 8×5 | 24×5 | 24×7 with named CSE |
| Model review cadence | Annual | Semi-annual | Quarterly |
For the highest-value workflows we will price a component against the outcome, measured on your baseline.
A share of verified yield improvement above the agreed baseline, measured per hide and audited monthly.
Priced against reduction in delamination and bond-related returns over a rolling twelve months.
Priced against first-pass yield improvement and reduction in rework hours.
No procurement theatre. Four steps, roughly ten weeks.
Two-week baseline on one line, at no charge, producing a measured yield, defect and changeover picture.
free
One workflow, one line, a defined success metric and a fixed pilot fee credited against the first year.
weeks 3–10
Annual agreement on the wedge workflow with prepay discount and outcome component if desired.
$8,000/line/mo
Second workflow, whole factory, then network rollout under an enterprise agreement.
$55,000/mo and up
Modelled on a plant running 4,000 pairs a day on leather uppers with cemented construction.
Modelled figures use published footwear cost benchmarks and design-partner baselines. Your assessment produces your numbers. [PLACEHOLDER] pending audited case studies.
Metering the wrong thing changes plant behaviour for the worse.
We do not charge per user, per inspected pair, per model retrain or per dashboard. Charging per pair inspected pushes plants back toward sampling; charging per seat keeps the quality team from seeing the run. The price is the line and the factory.
The three outcomes that justify the line item.
“The nesting agent found yield our best pattern cutter could not — and then explained the layout hide by hide. We stopped arguing about scrap and started managing it.”
Leather yield 79.1% → 87.4%
“Bonding is where our warranty costs live. Having an agent watch humidity, primer flash-off and press pressure on every pair — and stop for a human when it wants to move a validated parameter — is the first thing that has actually moved delamination.”
Delamination returns −71%
“We run 40 model changeovers a month. Simulating the nest, the mould recipe and the bond window in the twin before the line starts took hours out of every launch.”
Changeover time −46%
Design-partner scenarios are illustrative and modelled on public footwear-manufacturing benchmarks — named references are [PLACEHOLDER] pending customer approval.
Line at $8,000 per line per month for one workflow, Factory at $55,000 per month for the whole loop, and Enterprise from $350k to $4M ACV for multi-site networks with custom material, last and bond models. Outcome-based components are available on leather waste, rework and returns.
A typical wedge deployment on one line runs six to ten weeks: two weeks of sensing and baseline capture, three to five weeks of shadow-mode model tuning against your material lots, then graduated autonomy. Whole-factory rollouts follow line by line.
No. Footeon is a software and factory-edge autonomy layer that sits on top of the machines you already run. We connect over OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus TCP and vendor SDKs, read sensors and vision, and write setpoints back through the controls you already trust — with approval gates on any validated parameter.
Only if you choose. Inference runs on factory-edge servers, and Enterprise deployments can run fully on-premises or in your VPC with no telemetry egress. Brand IP — patterns, lasts, construction specs — is tenant-isolated and never used to train models for another customer.
Two weeks of sensing on one line, a measured baseline, and the run Footeon would have executed. Then decide.