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Mainstay One / industrial product storytelling

Complex products. Clearly sold.

Buyers are interested. Your product is just hard to show. We fix that. Turn CAD into photoreal visuals, animation, AR, and interactive experiences that help buyers understand your product faster.

Proof / trusted at scale

Trusted by the best. On the industry's largest stages.

In the field

Seen in the wild.

Interactive 3D touchscreen on the show floor
Interactive 3D touchscreen on the show floor
WEB AR automation cell at Automate
WEB AR automation cell at Automate
Life-size WEB AR at AHR Expo
Life-size WEB AR at AHR Expo
WEB AR on the Las Vegas Strip
WEB AR on the Las Vegas Strip
WEB AR automation cells at Automate
WEB AR automation cells at Automate
WEB AR milling cell at IMTS 2026
WEB AR milling cell at IMTS 2026

System / measured, not estimated

Always on. Under load.

  • assets delivered

    1,250+

  • brands served

    150+

  • international tradeshows

    30+

  • outputs per source

    4

  • intake to first draft

    ≤2 wk

Client-measured output

Pipeline / intake to deployed

One file in. Every channel out.

  1. 01 · day 0

    Order up

    Log in, pick, submit

    Choose a deliverable, upload your STEP file, answer 3 to 7 questions. The platform routes the rest.

  2. 02 · week 1 to 2

    Dial it in

    Review, revise, repeat

    First draft in weeks. Revise as many times as you need. Your team sees every stage.

  3. 03 · week 3+

    Ship it

    Deploy, track, close

    Push the asset into your sales stack, watch engagement, and hand your reps something that closes.

Pricing

Published, because everyone else hides it.

Every competitor in this category runs a "request a quote" form. Here are the 3 numbers. Pick one and start.

  • Basic

    For teams building a steady 3D content pipeline.

    $2,995/month

    + $2,500 one-time onboarding fee • Cancel anytime with 30 days notice • Billed quarterly ($8,985 every 3 months), renews automatically

    1 asset at a time. Product videos use the Basic edit, with no voiceover or custom soundtrack.

    • Unlimited product stills
    • Unlimited Web AR
    • AR analytics
    • AR QR business cards
    • 3D sales concierge
    Start with Basic
  • Most popular

    Immersive

    For teams that need richer video and guided product exploration.

    $3,995/month

    + $2,500 one-time onboarding fee • Cancel anytime with 30 days notice • Billed quarterly ($11,985 every 3 months), renews automatically

    1 asset at a time. Unlocks full-production video with voiceover and scored music, plus hotspot 3D experiences.

    • Everything in Basic
    • Full-production product video
    • Hotspot 3D experiences
    • Hotspot analytics
    Start with Immersive
  • Momentum

    For teams running bigger product portfolios and multiple initiatives at once.

    $7,995/month

    + $2,500 one-time onboarding fee • Cancel anytime with 30 days notice • Billed quarterly ($23,985 every 3 months), renews automatically

    3 assets at a time. Unlocks full interactive experiences and runs up to 3 deliverables concurrently.

    • Everything in Immersive
    • Custom interactive experiences
    • 3 concurrent assets
    Start with Momentum

Included with every plan

Need to make the case internally?

Build a proposal around your team, priorities, and budget. Edit it, then email yourself a copy.

No account needed.

Bigger portfolio than 3 assets at a time?

Book a call

Objection ledger / verbatim from calls

The pushback, answered.

  • 01Our engineering team has CAD. They can do this.

    CAD is engineering output. It's accurate and it doesn't sell anything. Pulling senior engineers off the roadmap to make marketing assets is the most expensive 3D a company can produce.

  • 02We tried 3D before and it didn't work.

    Usually that means a freelancer or an overseas shop that couldn't read your CAD and disappeared after delivery. Mainstay One runs on one US-based team with one creative voice and monthly output you can plan around.

  • 03It's too expensive. Budget is tight.

    One booth runs $50K to $150K for a week. A 3D library that doubles dwell time and keeps working after the show multiplies money you're already spending. Subscription pricing also means finance sees the same number every quarter.

  • 04AR is unproven. Our buyers won't put on a headset.

    Most of the return here is web based: photoreal renders, interactive 3D on your site, and WebAR that runs in a phone browser with no app.

  • 05Our show is in 6 weeks. Too late to start.

    Subscribers already have a pipeline running, so a date is a planning question. For a new client on a tight timeline, intake is short and production is repeatable, so we can move on day one.

  • 06We just need photography or a screen recording.

    Static content can't show an internal mechanism, an alternate configuration, or a use case at scale. One 3D asset carries across renders, video, AR, web, and the show floor.