About Kenesto

Discover Kenesto: The Cloud Solution for Engineers

Kenesto was founded to solve document and file management problems that traditional tools couldn’t — problems that look simple, but quietly waste time and money when left unsolved. Our cloud platform gives engineering and design teams one place to store, share, view, version, and collaborate on CAD and other documents, from anywhere.

Distributed engineering teams collaborating with Kenesto

Kenesto keeps distributed engineering teams working from the same current files, wherever they are.

About Kenesto

PDM for the teams big PDM left behind

Most engineering teams are small. Traditional PDM was built for large companies with IT departments, servers and implementation budgets. We built Kenesto so a 5- or 50-person team gets the same control over its CAD data, in an afternoon, at the price of a shared drive.

Founder & CEO

Michael Payne

Mike is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded PTC, SOLIDWORKS and SpaceClaim, three companies that changed how engineers design. He holds an MBA from Pace University and an MSc in Physics from King's College London, has taught at Northeastern University, and is a recipient of the CAD Society Lifetime Achievement Award.

Co-founder, PTCCo-founder, SOLIDWORKSCo-founder, SpaceClaimCAD Society Lifetime Achievement Award

Partners

Kenesto is a certified SOLIDWORKS Solution Partner, an Autodesk Authorized Developer and a DraftSight partner, and is built on Amazon Web Services.

SOLIDWORKS Certified Solution Partner DraftSight Partner Autodesk Authorized Developer Built on AWS
The Problem

Traditional file storage and sync tools weren’t built for CAD — leaving engineering teams with lost files, version conflicts, and no true single source of truth.

The Platform

Kenesto’s cloud platform gives every team one authoritative copy of each file, with automatic locking, version history, and simple sharing built in.

The Outcome

Organizations simplify their document environment, reduce IT and process costs, and collaborate confidently from anywhere in the world.

Built to Solve a Problem Traditional Tools Couldn’t

Kenesto was founded on a simple idea: help customers solve document and file management problems that traditional methods couldn’t fix. These problems can look simple, but left unsolved, they quietly drain time, money, and productivity.

By utilizing Kenesto’s cloud platform, organizations of any size can simplify their document environment — reducing IT overhead and improving efficiency across the business.

For engineers and designers, that means a simple, powerful way to:

  • Store and share CAD and other documents securely in the cloud
  • View and update versions without losing track of changes
  • Collaborate with anyone, anywhere — including outside suppliers
  • Trust that current files won’t be inadvertently overwritten or overridden

Kenesto is a growing team of passionate people dedicated to giving customers, partners, and vendors the very best solution and service possible.

Kenesto Is All About the Engineering Document

Innovation

We’re continuously evaluating how things work through customer and partner feedback, and delivering solutions that help solve real engineering problems.

Enterprise-Class Technology

Our development team is committed to leading-edge technology — giving engineers an experience that helps them store, collaborate, and manage change.

Timely Support

Customer service is built on lasting relationships, so customers always get the most value from our solutions — with continually improved value in return.

Partnership

We work with our partners to build value in our customer ecosystem, prioritizing enhancements based on what our partners and customers tell us.

Kenesto stands out as a leader in forward-thinking online engineering data management. We now have a secure, cloud-based solution for product document management, collaboration and version control, accessible from wherever we are in the world. On top of that, the Kenesto Drive feature allows our team to interact with our data as though it were a mapped server drive.

Josh Adams, PE — Founding Principal, Apollo Engineering Design Group

“Kenesto is more than a collaboration tool – it’s fully-customizable to work with your processes and designs, and it provides a virtual workspace to store, view, and manage your data.”

Elise Moss, Senior Mechanical/Thermal Engineer

“Kenesto has helped us structure our communication flow so that all involved can see the status of every campaign at a glance.”

Erin Howell, Digital Campaign Manager, MEDIATA

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