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A precision manufacturer with a distributed factory floor.

America is not uncompetitive at cutting metal. It loses in the hours around the cut — quoting, DFM, programming, fixturing, first article, documentation, and the coordination between all of it. Praetore does those hours once, centrally, and sends the finished work to shops that are genuinely world-class at the part we are not trying to replace: running the machine.

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Is and is not

One accountable party, and a short list of things we will not become.

Most confusion about this company comes from pattern-matching it to something adjacent. It is worth being blunt about the differences, because each one is a commitment with a cost attached — and the ones on the right are the reason to believe the ones on the left.

A manufacturer of record. We own the customer, the engineering, the quality system, the schedule, and the guarantee.

Is not

A marketplace. We never send a shop an RFQ, and we do not make a shop bid against its neighbours for the privilege of doing our engineering for free.

One engineering core that produces complete, machine-ready Job Packets — twelve mandatory artifacts, verified in simulation before release.

Is not

A software vendor. The software runs our factory floor. It is not sold seat by seat, because the moment it is, the incentive is to sell licences rather than ship parts on the date we promised.

A distributed factory floor: independent American shops running the same modular workholding, contributing spindle time, machine ownership, and craftsmanship.

Is not

A competitor to those shops. We do not buy production machines that compete with the network. Metrology and test capacity is the stated exception.

A narrow, verified Catalog with a date backed by money — and a wide Sourcing door beside it that takes anything, quoted by a human, dated honestly.

Is not

An unlimited envelope. “Any part, any material, any process” is the epitaph of this industry. The envelope grows only as fast as verification does.

Where we are

Two lanes, and what each one is for.

A company selling certainty should be precise about what it sells. Here is the whole of it, in three lines — and the fastest way to test any of it is a small first order.

The Sourcing lane is running today

Human-quoted work brokered through vetted shops, with committed dates and full documentation. It is the original business, it is retained deliberately, and every job in it is logged by feature class — which is how the Catalog decides what to absorb next.

The Catalog lane is being built

Instant price, guaranteed date, packets, batching. It only works inside an envelope where central engineering can verify a job before release, so it starts narrow: 3-axis prismatic parts, a fixed material and stock library, defined tolerance classes.

Every number here is measured

Every number on this website is measured, under a definition published before the figure it governs. No logo wall, and no testimonial written on somebody's behalf. If it is on the page, it is real.

Note 1 — The Ledger sets out exactly which figures publish and how each term is defined.

Who is here

Graham Mumm

Founder, Praetore

Praetore started from a narrow observation: getting a part made in America is rarely limited by the machine. It is limited by the twenty-five days of engineering and coordination stacked around two days of cutting — and almost every one of those days is work somebody else in the country already did this week, for a part that was nearly the same.

The machines are here. The machinists are here. What was missing was an interface complete enough that the work could move between them. That is the whole company: do the engineering once, properly, and hand a shop something it can run without calling anyone.

If you run a shop, or you buy machined parts, or you think this is wrong somewhere — write to hello@praetore.com. It is read directly, and the sharpest replies are the useful ones.

I NEED PARTS

Upload a model. Price in minutes. A date with money behind it.

In-envelope work is priced and dated automatically as the Catalog lane opens; everything else routes to a human today — which is not a rejection, it is a different lane, and it is the lane that has been running all along.

Upload a Part

I RUN A SHOP

We send you the job, not the RFQ.

No quoting. No programming. No sales. Committed baseload, paid on delivery, and no hardware purchase or fees — ever.

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