Product foundry  ·  Weesp, Netherlands

The last software before something real happens.

Most software ends at a screen. Ours ends on a printing press, a beam saw, a live domain taking payments, or a factory floor. We learn the formats those machines speak, then hide them behind something a person can actually use.

What comes out the other end
Output 01
A press-ready PDF/X-4 sheet, separated, with the cut contour on its own plate.
Output 02
A served page, a table booked, an order paid for.
Output 03
A machine file a beam saw executes without anyone retyping a measurement.
Output 04
A physical task, finished on site, by an operator who is somewhere else.
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Why this is difficult

The formats nobody
wants to learn.

Every serious trade runs on a handful of file formats and protocols that consumer software politely refuses to understand. A printing press wants separated CMYK with an output intent attached. A beam saw wants its own binary. A payment rail wants a mandate, not a checkout button.

So most tools stop just short. They hand you an export and wish you luck, and the gap gets filled by a person retyping numbers, a prepress operator fixing colour, or a studio emailing a PDF and hoping.

We build the piece that closes that gap. It is slow, unglamorous work, and it is the whole reason the products are worth using.

Languages our products already speak
PDF/X-4ICC colour profilesSpot colours & SeparationOverprintLab spot coloursColour books .ase .cxf .gpl .socDie lines & cut contoursBTLx 2.0.0Hundegger BVXHundegger BVNEAN · QR · Code 128PDF · AI · SVG · PSD importiDEAL · SEPA · cards

These are the languages the machines, the presses and the banks already speak. Learning them properly is the work. The point is that nobody using our products ever has to.

Product 01 · Live

A design editor that finishes the job in CMYK.

Popcorn is a design editor for print and screen that runs in a browser tab. The unusual part is not the canvas. It is what happens when you press export: colour, separations, overprint and the PDF/X-4 packaging are handled by our own print engine, so the file that reaches the printer is the file the printer wanted.

The sticker run

The brand green goes out as a real spot ink, the cut line as something the cutter recognises, the bleed already correct. One file leaves the studio and nothing comes back to be fixed.

The 24-page catalogue

Text flows across pages on its own. Change a style once and the whole document follows. The contents page renumbers itself, and any image too low-resolution to print is flagged before it is sent.

The 1,200 badges

One design, a spreadsheet of names, one press-ready file with every badge laid out to fit the sheet. An afternoon's work instead of a week's.

One artwork, six plates
Cyan
64%
Magenta
12%
Yellow
88%
Black
100%
Spot
Overprint
Cut
Contour

A sticker leaves Popcorn as one file with six plates: four process inks, a spot ink set to overprint, and a die line on its own separation so the cutter knows where to cut. Nobody has to explain that to the printer.

Product 02 · Live

A website platform
an assistant can run.

PageWebPro builds the site and runs the business behind it. Forms, bookings, tickets, a shop, visitor numbers. It also lets an AI assistant do the work, which is how the page you are reading was made.

“Start a site for a product foundry, in English.”
A site
A domain, a design system and a home page, ready to write into.
“Graphite, paper white, and one hi-vis marking colour.”
A palette
Applied everywhere at once, including the pages nobody had written yet.
“Put the four products on the homepage as a handoff line.”
A section
The one you scrolled past a minute ago.
“Now show me what that looks like on a phone.”
A screenshot
At phone width, back in the conversation, without anyone opening the editor.

This page is one of them.

The pages, the layout, the words, the navigation. All of it was made by asking in plain sentences and checking the result. Nothing here used a private back door, so anything you see, a customer can do on their own account.

How PageWebPro works→
Speed

The editor never reaches the visitor. A published page is plain HTML, so it opens quickly on a phone with one bar of signal.

Business

Forms, bookings, ticketing with QR check-in, a shop that takes iDEAL and cards, and visitor numbers you can read. All of it inside the product, so there is one login and one bill instead of four.

Assistants

An assistant can write a page, change the opening hours on forty sites at once, or show you what a change looks like on a phone, without anyone opening the editor.

Many sites

Run one site or four hundred, each on its own domain, under your own brand.

Products 03 & 04

Further from
the screen.

Two products where the output is not a file at all. One ends with a saw blade in a beam. The other ends with a hand in a room.

Kerf
In trials
2400 mm45°45°Two angled cuts, taken from the drawing

A cutting-list tool that speaks workshop Dutch on the way in and machine binary on the way out. The angles the carpenter drags on screen are the angles the saw cuts, so nobody at the machine has to retype a measurement.

Writes

BTLx 2.0.0, checked against the official schema before it leaves. Plus Hundegger BVX and BVN.

Calibration

BVX has no public specification. We calibrated it against a corpus of 12 real production files, 879 parts and roughly 9,100 operations, and we check every release against that corpus.

Kerf→
hAire
Pre-launch
OPERATORanywhereSITEAMS · RTM · NYCteleoperation

A remote workforce for physical work. Rather than wait for full autonomy, hAire puts a person in the loop at a real address, and lets the platform learn from the variation of an actual work floor instead of a lab.

Availability

Stated by the product as deployable from mid-2026, in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and New York.

Sectors

Hospitality, repair, food production, maintenance, retail and SMEs.

hAire→
How the foundry works

Small team.
Long specifications.

Brand New Level is run from Weesp, next to Amsterdam, as a network: a small core with specialists across Europe pulled in per problem. Four rules keep the portfolio from turning into a pile of unrelated apps.

01

Take the boring hard part

The valuable work is usually a file format, a colour transform or a protocol nobody wants to own. That is exactly where we start.

02

Ship where people already are

A browser tab, a domain, a phone. No installers, no on-premise appliance, no six-week onboarding.

03

Be exact about status

Live, in trials, pre-launch. Stated the same way on every product, including the ones that are not finished.

04

Calibrate against reality

Real production files, real machines, real printers. A format is not supported until something physical comes out correct.

4Products in the portfolio
2Live and in public use
3Machine formats Kerf writes
1Files a printer needs from Popcorn
The other name

Brand New Level makes the tools.
Brand Level builds with them.

Brand Level is our Dutch agency, working out of Amsterdam. It does the client work: websites, findability, e-commerce, automation and brand, for companies in the Netherlands, in Dutch first and English on request.

The relationship is simple. Brand New Level owns the products and the engineering. Brand Level is where a company hires the same people to apply them to its own business. If you are looking for a supplier rather than a product, that is the door.

Brand New Level

Product foundry. Weesp, NL. Builds and owns Popcorn, PageWebPro, Kerf and hAire. Sells products, worldwide, in English.

Brand Level

Digital agency. Amsterdam, NL. Client projects on the same stack. Dutch first, English on request.

Shared

The same founder, the same engineers, the same European network of specialists.