What Create does
Describe the pack the way you’d tell a colleague — “500ml cold-brew coffee, premium, recyclable” or “RSC box 300×200×150 single-wall B/C”. Create parses it into a structured, line-by-line editable specification and carries it through design to a costed bill of materials.
- Material-agnostic: plastic, paper/board, metal and glass formats
- Every extracted field stays editable — nothing is locked behind the AI
- Design step: dielines, brand palette with Pantone mapping, artwork zones, 3D preview
- Ends in a bill of materials costed against live PackIndex prices
How it works
- Paste or type the brief
Free text is enough: product, volume or dimensions, quantity, any constraints (“recyclable”, “premium”, “retort-stable”). Three words or three paragraphs both work.
- Review the structured spec
The Suite extracts format, materials, dimensions, closure and decoration into discrete fields. Edit any line — change the substrate, resize, swap the label type — before anything is costed.
- Shape the design
Pick a look archetype, set brand colours (with Pantone mapping and print-suitability checks), place headline and GTIN, and inspect the dieline or rotate the 3D preview.
- Derive the bill of materials
One click turns the spec into an indicative BoM with per-unit cost anchored to live PackIndex material indices — the handoff point to Price.
Frequently asked
Do I need a packaging engineer to write the brief?
No. A plain-language line like “500ml cold-brew coffee, premium look, recyclable” is parsed by AI into formats, materials and dimensions. Every extracted value remains editable, so domain experts can correct and novices can learn from the defaults.
Which packaging materials does Create support?
All four families — plastic (bottles, pouches, films), paper/board (corrugated, cartons, sacks), metal (cans, tins) and glass — using the same brief-to-spec flow.
Can I start from an existing spec instead of a brief?
Yes. Paste the spec text as the brief; the parser recognises technical shorthand such as “RSC 300×200×150 single-wall B/C flute” and maps it directly to structured fields.
What does a Create run cost?
Parsing a brief and deriving a BoM are one run each. Runs come in packs from $24, and every account receives a free sample run each month.
Related on OPN
Every Create number is anchored to live PackIndex indices, computed with a published methodology.