Ironminder is the AI commission studio for independent metal sculptors. It fields briefs against your own portfolio, drafts feasibility notes + ballpark quotes, books the studio visit, chases the deposit, and queues finished pieces to every channel you actually sell on — from one posting schedule.
Portfolio match
3 nearest works· “Cinder poppy” (2024) · “Honeycomb triptych” (2023) · “Char wall IV” (2022)
Material
Bronze · 22 lb pour
Ballpark
$4,400 – $5,200
Hours
48 ± 6
Feasibility
In range
Why now
Most solo metal artists stitch together ChatGPT for proposal drafts and Mailchimp for outreach— or pay for general-purpose agent builders like Algolia Agent Studio, Genesys Cloud AI Studio and Automation Anywhere that ignore the niche entirely.
Ironminder folds the inbound-to-gallery workflow into a single vertical tool shaped around the realities of a working workshop: kiln schedules, oxide palettes, deposit chasing, and the fragmented channels where sculptors actually sell.
The workflow
Ironminder is built around what already happens in your shop, not a SaaS pipeline you have to wire yourself. Five steps, one approval surface, one posting queue.
A commission inquiry lands at 11pm mid-quench. Ironminder acknowledges the client in your voice, asks the disambiguation questions a real sculptor would ask, and pins dimensions, finish, timeline, and budget before you ever see the email.
Each request is matched against your own archive — past commissions, weld marks you favor, oxide palettes, scale sweet spots, materials you have on hand. The agent flags what it can fabricate, what it would have to outsource, and what to politely decline.
You get a one-page brief: feasibility verdict, material estimate, hours-to-completion, shop-rate breakdown, and a ballpark quote bracketed with deposit terms. Approve it verbatim, edit it inline, or hand it back with comments — your name goes on the final version.
Once approved, the agent drops the visit on your calendar, sends the deposit link, and follows up on a schedule you set. No more silent drafts sitting in your inbox because the client "got busy" — cash flow stops depending on a single reply.
When the piece is photographed, you point Ironminder at the file once. It schedules listings to Saatchi Art, Artfinder, Etsy, Zazzle, and your direct storefront from one queue — staggered for each channel, copied to the right specs, posted automatically.
Channels
Ironminder speaks the schema of each marketplace, so a single upload fans out to channels that actually move sculpture — not generic e-commerce defaults.
One-of-one drops, editioned serials, certificate of authenticity auto-attached.
Original art alongside commission-shop traffic, in the spec profiles Artfinder expects.
Smaller wares, jewelry-scale pieces, the audience that already buys metal direct.
Photography and renders of finished work turned into embossed prints, tins, coasters.
Your own shop, your own checkout, your own URL — Ironminder pushes the listing, you keep the margin.
Pricing
You pay for what you actually ship — commissions parsed, pieces listed, deposits chased. No per-seat fees, no enterprise sales call to talk to a working sculptor.
For a single forge just getting consistent about the inbox.
For the working sculptor with a steady inbound line.
For multi-artist workshops and small foundries.
Our commitment
Ironminder was commissioned by a working forge in Sheffield and shaped over a year on actual commission traffic — not hypothetical user stories. The ontology is weld-aware, the quoting math respects realistic shop rates, and the agent knows the difference between a one-of-one and an edition.
Ready when you are
Tell us about your forge, the channels you sell on, and the commission traffic you’re sitting on. We’ll set up a sandbox against your portfolio and walk you through the workflow on a real brief.
Replies in one business day, usually faster.