FirstCutAI

Point your camera at a piece of furniture. FirstCutAI tells you how to build it, what it's worth, or where it belongs. FirstCutAI is three tools in one, powered by AI. It reads a single photograph and gives you a smart first cut: a real head start you can act on, print, and share. The tilde in our logo means "approximately," and we mean it. Every result is an honest estimate from one photo, not a certified spec or a formal appraisal. MAKE, for woodworkers. Saw a $3,400 sideboard and thought "I want to build that instead"? Photograph any piece and get a complete cut list with finished dimensions for every part, board-feet totals with waste factored in, rough-stock thicknesses in quarter notation, a hardware list with suppliers, regional lumber pricing, scaled part drawings, and a finishing schedule matched to the finish in your photo. Enter exact dimensions by hand, or measure the piece in augmented reality with your camera. Every cut list unlocks five free shop tools that never use AI credits: • Cut Diagram, your parts packed onto real boards, with kerf and glue-up strips. It turns the cut list into a cutting plan, so it is a separate tool on top of the list itself. • Shopping List, the buy list for the yard, with check-offs that persist. • Shop Mode, a big-type cutting checklist that keeps the screen awake at the saw. • Wood Movement, seasonal expansion predictions for every wide panel. • Finishing Schedule, coats, grits, and products, readable at the bench. Then go further. Resize This Piece re-engineers the whole design to your target dimensions. Build Plan writes the joinery specs and a step-by-step build sequence for your skill level. Research a piece first to get its style, period, and joinery, with a Wood Match species profile added automatically. Point the camera at a living tree or a rough-sawn board to identify the species, grade, and best uses. Everything you run saves itself to My Projects and re-exports as a PDF anytime. THRIFT, for buyers, sellers, and estate hunters. Get a professional-style appraisal from one photo: identification, period, condition, and three-tier value, what you'd get selling it, what a dealer would charge, and what it would cost to replace. Enter the asking price for a Bargain, Fair, or Too High verdict. Guided Inspection walks you around the piece station by station, where to find maker's marks, how to spot replaced hardware, what crazing in the finish means, and feeds your findings into the appraisal as facts. Enter the piece's dimensions by hand or measure them in augmented reality with your camera, and the true size sharpens both the identification and the valuation. New in 2.0, the Restoration Advisor. Antiques wisdom says originality IS the value. Before you touch a piece, get a conservator-style verdict: Leave As-Is, Clean Only, Conserve, Restore, or Refinish, with the effect on value, a patina-safe care schedule, and repair steps when repair makes sense. STYLE, for designers and homeowners. Photograph a house to see which furniture styles belong in it. Photograph a piece to find its ideal setting. Or start from the material: name or photograph a wood species and get its full profile, grain, hardness, workability, history, and the styles that favor it. EVERYTHING SAVES ITSELF. Every report lands in My Projects automatically with its photo and full results. Reports on the same piece group together. Star favorites, BUILT ON HONESTY. No tracking, no ads, no analytics SDKs. Your photos are processed only to generate your report and are never used to train AI. When wood-ID confidence is low, the app withholds the result and coaches a better photo instead a shaky ID. Every report carries a verify-before-you-act note, because a first cut is a starting point, not the final word. HOW IT WORKS. Free to download. Sign in with Apple and get 30,000 free tokens to start. Tokens power each AI analysis.