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Aqueduct

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Founded 2022Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Aqueduct is a procedural material engine, editor, and CLI.

Technical artists and environment artists use Aqueduct to create PBR materials and VFX textures from composable GPU shader nodes.

Aqueduct's MCP server is optimized for frontier models to create high quality, legible, adjustable procedural materials.

Because Aqueduct runs in the browser, it is easy to share links to procedural material graphs. For instance, see: https://aqueduct.sh/examples/g/marble-003.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Iliad

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08
1team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2022 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedPittsburgh, PA, USA
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Not assessed · 4 of 6 areas documented

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