Company Profile (AI Text)
Name: Buttonsmith Inc.
Canonical URL: https://wefunder.com/buttonsmith.inc
Updated at: 2026-06-22T05:03:18Z

Tagline: 🏆 Software bringing American factories into the 21st century
Elevator pitch: We are using software and automation to reinvent US manufacturing. Instead of building thousands of units at a time and shipping them halfway around the world, we build products one at a time in the US to be exactly what customers want, using software and new kinds of manufacturing processes to do it quickly and efficiently. It's not only better manufacturing, it will also help save the planet.

Key claims:
- Total raised on Wefunder: 1076667 | citation: https://wefunder.com/buttonsmith.inc#claim-total-raised
- Total investors: 578 | citation: https://wefunder.com/buttonsmith.inc#claim-total-investors

Verified facts:
- Total raised on Wefunder: 1076667 | observed_at: 2026-06-22T05:03:18Z | expires_at: 2026-06-23T05:03:18Z
- Total investors: 578 | observed_at: 2026-06-22T05:03:18Z | expires_at: 2026-06-23T05:03:18Z

Computed metrics:
- total_amount_raised: 1076667
- total_investors: 578
- team_size: 6
- featured_investor_count: 1
- faq_count: 5
- recent_post_count: 0

Quick facts:
- 🚀 Beta factory: $13M+ in cumulative revenue & 580K customers across 50 states | citation: https://wefunder.com/buttonsmith.inc#claim-fact-1
- 🔥 World-class team from Microsoft, IBM & Xerox with $250M+ exit to Amazon | citation: https://wefunder.com/buttonsmith.inc#claim-fact-2
- 🎯 Channel partners include Amazon, Shopify, Etsy, and eBay | citation: https://wefunder.com/buttonsmith.inc#claim-fact-3
- 💥 Average customer rating 4.9 out of 5 stars | citation: https://wefunder.com/buttonsmith.inc#claim-fact-4
- 💸 Positioned to disrupt the smart manufacturing market — slated to surpass $384BN | citation: https://wefunder.com/buttonsmith.inc#claim-fact-5
- 📰 Featured in Fast Company, Forbes, People, NowThis, Business Insider & more | citation: https://wefunder.com/buttonsmith.inc#claim-fact-6
- 🥾 Bootstrapped, until now… | citation: https://wefunder.com/buttonsmith.inc#claim-fact-7

FAQ:
- Q: How do you plan to minimize the environmental impact of one off delivery?
  A: Hi Mark, When we think about the environmental impact of manufacturing, there are four key areas to look at: 1. What’s the impact of the manufacturing process itself? 2. What’s the impact of the energy used for manufacturing? 3. What’s the impact of the transporting the goods? 4. How much waste is there in the supply chain? Different manufacturing processes have different levels of environmental impact. We have consistently made a point to choose processes that do not create environmental dam...
- Q: With over 7000 products, it seems that the company vision is to be all things to all people. Is that a correct assumption? If not, how do you define your customer and how large is your market? Also, what's the exit strategy?
  A: Hi Kevin, There’s actually one big problem we are trying to solve: to fix US manufacturing through software-driven digital manufacturing. While plenty of politicians wax poetic about the joys of US manufacturing, there’s been a pretty big gap in the question of exactly how US manufacturers will compete. There is widespread agreement that having China manufacture everything and ship it here on big cargo container ships is not working out so well right now. So what’s the alternative? What we’ve...
- Q: Hello, congrats on your revenue growth from $2M in 2019 to $5M in 2020. Are you going to repeat or exceed this growth rate to get you to the $8-10M revenues range in 2021, or based on Q1, Q2, and Q3 numbers you will most likely plateau around the $5M? Can you license the softw...
  A: Hi Vilem, Both 2020 and 2021 have been challenging to forecast accurately; however, our nimbleness at adapting as circumstances and the economy change has served us well so far. With the Delta variant creating hiccups in the economy and the problems we’re seeing with global supply chains, right now our manufacturing team is filling customer orders at a flat out sprint all day every day. We are constrained at the moment by space and the need for additional automation hardware, both of which ar...
- Q: What is the ROI?
  A: Hi Jay, That depends on the scope of the question. :-) If you are asking, "How does Buttonsmith make money?" the answer is that we make money every time we sell a product, aka the old-fashioned way. Our unit margins are pretty high, in the ballpark of 90% when accounting for materials COGS. We also apply some employee labor and incur shipping, sales, and marketing costs, but those are more variable. If you are asking, "What will we be using the investment for that will produce return?" then t...
- Q: Hi, congratulations on your achievements, well done! Is there a way to see your financial statements for the last 2-3 years? Do you expect competition from the 3D printing industry? Thank you.
  A: Hi Boris, Thank you! When we file our Form C, it will include audited statements for the last 2 years, and anyone who has made a reservation to invest will be able to review them prior to any investment becoming final. The work being done in the 3D printing industry is entirely complementary to what we are doing. For any manufacturing technology, it's critical that there be a way to tell the hardware what to manufacture to meet customer needs. The software we have built does exactly that: it ...