RackCity v1.0 shipped in June 2026 — the first stable release, and the point where the tool left private preview. The premise is simple: laying out pallet racking shouldn't require CAD, a consultant, or a week of back-and-forth. You should be able to describe a building and see a workable rack layout, with a real pallet count and a real material list, in minutes.
Two Ways In: Describe It, or Upload the Flyer
v1.0 landed with two on-ramps into a design, because that's how the work actually starts.
Describe the building. Type something like “600 by 300 ft warehouse, 32 ft clear, 12 ft aisles, offices in the northwest corner” and RackCity generates the layout — building envelope, rack rows, aisles, offices, dock doors.
Upload a building flyer. If you're working from a broker's PDF — the one-page flyer with the site plan, the dimensions, and the specs — drop it in. RackCity reads the flyer, pulls the building dimensions and clear height out of it, and builds the layout from there. No retyping numbers off a PDF.
Why this matters for dealers and brokers: the flyer is usually the first artifact in a deal. Going straight from that PDF to a racked layout with a pallet count is the difference between quoting a job today and quoting it next week.
The Rack Layout and the Pallet Count
Underneath the AI is a real rack-layout engine, not a drawing tool. It places back-to-back rack rows, respects aisle widths and wall clearances, works around offices and dock doors, and counts the pallet positions that actually fit — including flagging the ones that don't.
The pallet position count is the number the whole tool is built around. It's what a landlord, a 3PL, or a rack dealer is really asking when they ask whether a building “works.”
Everything the AI produces is editable. Drag a rack zone, change the aisle width, add a beam level, move an office — the layout and the pallet count update as you go.
Bill of Materials, Pricing Summary, Drawings
A layout that stays in the browser isn't worth much. v1.0 shipped three exports, all generated from the live design:
- Bill of materials (CSV) — every upright frame, beam, wire deck, and row spacer the layout requires, with quantities.
- Pricing summary (PDF) — the BOM with unit costs, fee line items, a grand total, and a cost per pallet position.
- Layout drawings (PDF) — a dimensioned floor plan and rack elevations, ready to send to a client.
Accounts and Saved Projects
v1.0 introduced accounts. You can still try RackCity with no sign-up — generate a layout, look at it, poke at it. Creating a free account is what unlocks keeping the work: save a project to your account and reopen it from any device.
What Came Next
v1.0 established the core loop: building in, rack layout and pallet count out, exports on the end. The next release took each of those further — a conversational AI you can question and iterate with, a rack model that tracks every upright column, and cloud projects with a full version history.