For computational designers, consultants & studios
If you build Grasshopper definitions for clients, you know how it usually ends: a file they can’t maintain, and a project that closes at delivery. With ShapeDiver you can deliver a hosted app instead - the client’s whole team uses it in a browser, the engagement becomes an ongoing relationship, and you choose whether to hand over the definition or keep it and license the app.
14-day trial. No credit card.
The problem
When a project ends with a handed-over Grasshopper file, the client is usually left with something they can’t really run or maintain without Rhino and your skills - and the engagement closes there, with nothing left to be paid for. Handing over the file isn’t always what you want, either: sometimes it’s the right thing, and sometimes you’d rather deliver the result and keep refining the definition yourself. Today you don’t get much of a choice.
How it works
You build your definition in Grasshopper, as always.
It becomes a hosted app; you expose only the inputs and outputs the client needs.
The client’s team uses it in a browser - no Rhino, no plug-ins.
You keep refining the definition; publish an update and everyone gets it.
What changes for you
The client uses the app either way. You choose whether to hand over the Grasshopper definition (in which case it’s theirs, like any file you deliver) or keep it and license the app, even to more than one client.
A hosted app on a subscription can replace the one-off fee; you’re paid while it’s used.
Because you keep refining the app, the work continues past handover.
Hand over the definition and the client owns it and can take it anywhere; keep it and it stays yours to reuse and move. Either way, no one is trapped, and the relationship lasts because the app is useful.
Package it your way - and grow with us
Deliver it to suit the client
The client holds a ShapeDiver subscription; you build and maintain their app.
App Builder is open source and the viewer embeds anywhere, so the app can live under your name, on your client’s site.
And grow your practice two ways
Join the Reseller Program to buy subscription coupons at a reseller discount and bundle ShapeDiver with your work - you keep the margin.
Reseller ProgramWe keep a directory of partners qualified to implement ShapeDiver solutions. Deliver strong results for a client and you can earn a place on the Grasshopper Partners list, where prospective clients come looking for someone to build with.
Grasshopper PartnersWhat you can build for clients
The same skills let you deliver across industries - product configurators for made-to-order manufacturers, scan-to-print apps for medical and custom-fit devices, internal design tools for AEC practices, and automation that turns a definition into drawings, data, and production files. Whatever your niche, you build it in Grasshopper and deliver it as an app.
Solution
Apps for medical and custom-fit devices.
Scan-to-printSolution
Internal design tools for AEC practices.
AECSolution
For made-to-order manufacturers: each order comes with its production files.
Product configuratorsProof
Spain
The architecture and engineering studio behind the PENTAURA timber configurator, delivering automation “as a service”: in one case a three-minute workflow in place of a three-week manual drawing.
Worldwide
Independent specialists and studios build client work on ShapeDiver worldwide - from product configurators to internal engineering tools.
Four problems with sending .gh files to clients and colleagues, from IP exposure to support requests, and how a ShapeDiver app solves each.
ShapeDiver
This is a guest post written by Nicholas Florek, CEO of Computational Design and Digital Fabrication company General Lattice based in Chicago, Illinois. They offer digital production solutions to companies that are looking to manufacture product concepts specifically designed for additive manufacturing.
Nicolas Florek
Meet Joan Marc and Jordi, the team behind ADDA Lab, a computer engineering agency based at 22@ Barcelona's innovation district.
ShapeDiver
Your work, your call
Keep the Grasshopper definition and license the app (the same app can serve several clients) or hand the definition over, in which case the client owns it, exactly as they would any file you deliver. Whichever you choose runs on SOC 2® Type II audited infrastructure with a permissions system you control, and you always own and can reuse what you built.
Security & Trust
Who it's for
Independent Grasshopper specialists, freelance computational designers, computational-design studios and consultancies, and design-technology teams who build parametric tools for clients.
Getting started
Start a free trial and turn a definition into a hosted app.
Join the Reseller Program for reseller pricing and the marketing materials to go with it.
Earn a place in the Grasshopper Partners directory by delivering results for clients.
Book a call if you’d like help shaping the offer.
FAQ
No - they use the app in a browser. Only you need Grasshopper.
No - it’s your choice. Hand it over and the client owns it, like any file you deliver; or keep it and license the app, even to several clients. Either way, the client uses the app in a browser.
Yes - deliver the app on a subscription, replacing the one-off fee.
Both. Resell through the Reseller Program, and earn a place in our Grasshopper Partners directory by delivering results for clients. App Builder is open source, so the app can also carry your brand.
They can - there’s no lock-in. If you handed over the definition, they own it; if you kept it, they can stop using the app.
Yes - configurators, scan-to-print, AEC tools, automation; the same platform serves them all.
Consultants & studios
Start a free trial and deliver your next definition as an app - or look at reselling and the Grasshopper Partners directory if you want to grow your ShapeDiver practice.
