Positioning Mycelium Systems

A different class of simulator.

Not a faster FEA solver and not a game engine. Physics simulation is the product.

Comparison 03 categories
vs. rigid-body CAD & FEA
Static FEA displacement plot of a truss bridge

SolidWorks · Ansys · AutoCAD

Rigid-body assumptions after model import. Implicit solvers return a single result per load case; load cases are not visually defined.

Mycelium

Soft-body, node-level. The interior is recomputed after each collision.

vs. soft-body game engines
Real-time vehicle crash deformation

BeamNG

Node structures are authored per vehicle and tuned until the crash looks right. Stiffness values are chosen against a visual target, and no run leaves a record to validate.

Mycelium

Mathematical accuracy above visual appeal. Every run replayable as evidence.

vs. competitors
Explicit solver particle simulation coloured by resultant velocity

LS-DYNA · Abaqus/Explicit

Explicit solvers step through impact and update the interior as they go. Fracture arrives through the mesh, elements erode at failure threshold, and the crack follows boundaries an analyst drew before the run.

Mycelium

Fracture resolves through bond weighing between nodes. Nothing predetermines where the crack goes.

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The Market CAD market today

Wherever rigid-body physics runs today.

Companies like General Electric, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Tesla, Honda, and Ford are among the largest customers in the computer-aided design market. Mycelium is ready to save these companies up to 40% of design engineering costs, saving an estimated $1.5 billion per company annually.

$1.5B
Estimated savings per large company, annually
Up to 40%
Of design engineering costs
TeslaLockheed Martin AppleGeneral Electric SpaceXFord DysonJohn Deere BoeingHonda 3M

Customers of the CAD market today — not Mycelium customers or partners.

The Economics 12 → 4 compression

The value isn't just in the hours, it's in the projects completed.

Traditional structural validation is a relay race across a dozen specialists. Mycelium fuses simulation, failure tracking, and validation into a single run, allowing a team of engineers to complete 3 projects in the time it previously took them to complete 1.

Traditional pipeline 12 specialists · sequential
01CAD DesignGeometry authoring
02FEA AnalysisMesh setup & solver config
03Validation EngineeringInterpreting contour maps
04Live TestingPhysical prototype & rig
05Failure AnalysisPost-test forensics
Mycelium pipeline 4 operators · fused
01Design & SimulationGeometry in, physics out, same session
02Integrated ValidationTesting and validation in the same pass
03AI Failure AnalysisTime-based propagation, flagged automatically
04Physical Prototype CyclesDramatically reduced
05Unified Pipeline SuiteOne development cycle, one team

12 → 4 team compression

0

Handoffs between teams

−40%

Total annual design cost

The 40% time-savings on FEA review is the floor, not the ceiling.

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Development roadmap.