Conceptual design and sizing
Turn a mission requirement into a converged airframe, before a single part is drawn.
Conceptual design and sizing
Early sizing decides most of a programme's cost and performance, yet it is usually done in a spreadsheet that nobody trusts a week later. Endurance, payload, wing area and mass are traded by hand, and the assumptions behind the chosen point vanish the moment the sheet is closed.
Sizing is a coupled problem. Change the battery and the mass, drag, wing area and endurance all move together, and a spreadsheet cannot hold that loop honestly. So teams freeze an early guess and discover the mistake in detailed design, when it is expensive to undo.
Planform runs the sizing loop as code. Mission, aerodynamic and mass models are solved together to a converged design point, every assumption is recorded with the result, and the output is a single airframe definition rather than a number in a cell.
That airframe definition is the spine of the whole suite. Camber shapes its aerofoils, Spar sizes its structure, Crosswind simulates it and Downlink judges real flights against the envelope it sets.
Tell us what you are flying and where the programme is losing time. We will tell you honestly which of these helps and which does not.