We build the tools
we wish we had.
RavenSoftworks makes engineering and security software. We ship AxiomCAD and Defendrix AV because we got tired of the tools that were on the market. If we're going to spend the next twenty years using this stuff, it may as well be good.
One desk and two annoyed engineers.
RavenSoftworks started at a hardware bench that kept fighting us. On one side of the desk sat a CAD tool that couldn't route PCBs, so work bounced between three programs and something got lost every time. On the other side, the antivirus kept quarantining the CNC controller because a signature had shifted overnight.
Both problems came down to software written for the biggest possible audience instead of the person at the bench. So we started building replacements: AxiomCAD to design the hardware, and Defendrix to defend the machines it runs on.
Big enough to do it right.
We're not trying to stay a boutique. We want software that stands up next to whatever the biggest names in each category are shipping, and beats them where it counts. Defendrix layers endpoint scanning, behavior analysis, recovery-first remediation, and fleet correlation. AxiomCAD puts parts, assemblies, PCBs, simulation, and CAM in the same file.
We're growing this as a real company, with real engineering, sales, support, and security teams, because the shops, MSPs, and enterprises we're selling to need someone to pick up the phone. Getting bigger also lets us invest in the unglamorous stuff that takes years to do properly: kernel drivers, ML training pipelines, mesh transports, fabrication-format exporters. We're doing all of it.
Better tools change what gets built.
Nearly everything, physical or digital, now gets designed, protected, and built through software. When those tools are bad, everything downstream slows with them. Making them good is the most useful place we can think of to spend our time.
Solo makers get more
One person with our two products should get roughly the same output as someone paying for a full CAD + AV bundle. That only works if the important features are in the entry price, so that's where we put them.
Enterprises get the whole thing
Fleet mesh, image-bake deployment, and the full simulation suite are available in their listed editions. The public price book shows which tier includes each capability before a customer buys.
Some of it didn't exist yet
We built the LAN threat mesh, the file-provenance chain, and the LLM-adversary classifier because we wanted those signals in one local decision pipeline. Their names describe mechanisms, not proof of vendor superiority; comparative claims wait for independent testing of the exact release.
Two products, neither of them a side project.
Defendrix AV
Fleet-aware antivirus: a confirmed detection can share authenticated evidence with eligible LAN peers after validation. 33 protection controls, one dashboard. Enterprise adds a Sysprep-friendly image-bake tool, so a whole shop gets protected from a single reference PC.
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AxiomCAD
Parts, assemblies, PCB routing, and live simulation in one file. Parametric, history-driven, and it exports to every fabrication format that isn't proprietary. Runs offline; your files stay yours.
Learn more →Things we won't budge on.
Local-first
File contents stay on your disk. Optional connected features send only their documented bounded metadata: fleet sync can include detection paths and hashes, while approved remote support can carry the content a user explicitly chooses.
Honest pricing
Prices are on the site, with no "contact sales" runaround. Renewals cost the same as year one. If we ever raise a price, existing subscribers keep the old one.
Made in the US
Everything is built and released from our shop in the US. What you pay goes toward kernel drivers, ML models, and mesh transports. We don't spend much on ads, which you can probably tell.
We read every request.
Use our first-party contact form for general questions, technical support, or fleet and sales requests. Each request is categorized before it reaches someone who can actually help.
Everyone from solo makers to enterprises.
Solo makers, hardware startups, machine shops, refurbishers, MSPs, universities, IT departments running thousands of endpoints, and the big enterprises building the hardware and software everyone else depends on. Everyone gets the same product line, the same builds, and the same prices you see on this site.
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