Cam-Driven Recipes
Chain any process into cams and followers. One crank turns a hundred small, perfect motions — no logic puzzles required.
Guild-Certified Automata
Wind your workflows like brass automata
Cogsmith turns recurring work into a clockwork engine: draft the mechanism once, wind the mainspring, and let precision brass run the whole shop while you sleep.
Fig. II — The Movement
Mechanisms worthy of the name
Three plates from the Cogsmith movement, each cut, tempered, and jeweled in-house.
Escapement Timing
Each step releases on the exact tick. No race conditions, no jitter — only well-bred regularity, jewel-smooth.
The Ledger of Deeds
Every winding is engraved on brass plate in strict sequence. Auditable by any inspector, editable by no one.
Fig. III — Assembly Order
From blueprint to ticking brass
Three operations on the bench, start to finish.
- 01
Draft the Blueprint
Sketch the process in the drafting atelier — gears for logic, cams for branching, springs for retries.
- 02
Wind the Mainspring
One winding stores the whole run. Cogsmith computes torque, tension, and every tooth's engagement.
- 03
Release the Automaton
Let it tick. Watch progress through the glass back-plate; pull the lever if it ever drifts.
Fig. IV — Attestations
Sworn at the bench
Statements given before witnesses, in ink.
"Our nightly settlements used to stall like a rusted verge. Since Cogsmith, they tick like a cathedral clock."
"I wound the automaton on a Monday and forgot it existed. Four hundred days, not one missed beat."
"The Ledger of Deeds passed our auditors without a single cough. Brass, it turns out, is more honest than paper."
Fig. V — Commissions
Terms of the guild
Prices in guild crowns, billed monthly. Cancel any month — the brass stays yours.
Apprentice
12 crowns / mo
For the lone tinkerer and a first automaton.
- Up to 3 automata
- 100 windings a month
- 30-day Ledger retention
- Correspondence by post
Masterwork
Masterwork
36 crowns / mo
For workshops running serious machinery.
- Unlimited automata
- 10,000 windings a month
- Ledger kept in perpetuity
- Cam-branching & spring retries
- A bench journeyman on call
Grand Atelier
96 crowns / mo
For guilds, mills, and municipal engines.
- Everything in Masterwork
- A dedicated mainspring vault
- On-premises brass install
- Quarterly visit from the Master Smith
Fig. VI — Inquiries
Questions put to the counter
No. Cogsmith ships with a drafting atelier of ready-made gear trains — scheduling, retries, approvals — that snap together like a well-cut puzzle. Journeymen may still hand-file their own cams.
The automaton halts at its last completed tick and files a tension report to the Ledger. Rewind, and it resumes from that exact tooth — nothing is ever done twice.
Happily. Flanged adapters exist for REST, cron, and webhooks. A carrier-pigeon adapter is in beta and famously reliable in fair weather.
Each entry is pressed into brass in strict sequence. Not even the Master Smith can quietly re-file a tooth without the whole guild hearing the click.
Serve notice at the counter. Your automata keep ticking until the month is out, then the workshop doors close behind them with a respectful click.
Fig. VII — The Commission Book
The workshop is warm. The brass is waiting.
Leave an address and we shall post you a first winding — twelve windings, on the house.