Dental Labs · MVP in 3 weeks
MVP in 3 Weeks for Dental Labs: Ship an Internal Beta Your Technicians Actually Use
Dental labs run on tight case-in and case-out windows, but the software holding it together is usually a spreadsheet, a shared inbox, and one senior technician who remembers every doctor's preference. Asaasin's Build Pod takes a single painful workflow — scan intake, case routing between doctors and technicians, or production scheduling — and ships a working internal beta in three weeks. We scope with your lab manager and lead CAD designer, build against real cases from your queue, and hand back something your technicians can use on Monday. Month-to-month, no long procurement cycle.
What we build for Dental Labs
Route incoming digital scans from doctors to the right technician automatically
Ingest scans from 3Shape, iTero, Medit, and email, then assign by case type, material, and technician load instead of the bench lead sorting manually each morning.
Replace the production scheduling spreadsheet with a live case board
Model your actual stations — design, mill, print, finish, QC — and let due dates, pan size, and technician capacity drive sequencing so one person isn't the single point of failure.
Catch case-in errors before the technician opens the file
Flag missing Rx fields, wrong shade, incompatible scan formats, or missing antagonist arches at intake, then ping the doctor's office for a fix before the case hits the queue.
How a Build Pod fits
A Build Pod is a small, dedicated AI engineering team — product lead, senior engineers, and AI specialists — that plugs into your lab for the month. Week one we sit with your lab manager, watch real case-in and case-out, and scope down to one workflow we can actually ship. Week two we build against anonymised cases from your queue, wiring into the systems you already use: 3Shape Communicate, exocad, your lab management system, UPS/FedEx APIs, whatever is load-bearing.
Week three your technicians use it on live cases while we iterate daily on what breaks. At the end you have a working internal beta, the source code, and a clear call: extend the Pod to the next workflow, keep us on for hardening, or take it in-house. No annual contract, no handoff to an offshore team, no six-month discovery phase before anything ships.
Frequently asked questions
- How long before our technicians see working software?
- A usable internal beta in three weeks, running on real cases from your queue. It will not be polished, but it will do the one workflow we scoped end-to-end.
- Can you integrate with 3Shape, exocad, and our lab management system?
- Yes. We work with whatever your lab already runs on — 3Shape Communicate, exocad, Dental Wings, LabStar, Magic Touch, or a homegrown system. If it has an API, a database, or even a watched folder, we can wire into it.
- Who owns the code and the data at the end?
- You do. The repo, the models, and any data we process stay with your lab. The Build Pod is month-to-month, so if you want to take it in-house after the three weeks, nothing is locked up.
- Do we need an internal tech lead to make this work?
- No. We expect to work directly with your lab manager or owner and your lead CAD designer. If you have IT, we'll loop them in for access and deployment, but we don't need an internal PM or engineer to drive the project.
Ready to ship AI for dental labs?
A Build Pod gets working AI into your stack in 2–3 weeks. Month-to-month, cancel any time.
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