How It Works: Foam Sprint™

From concept to profitable proof in 30 days. Then scale to category domination.

Traditional Footwear

  • 6 months to prototype
  • $50K-100K minimum orders
  • Hope your design sells
  • Thousand of units sitting in warehouse

Foam Sprint™

  • 7 days to prototype
  • $0 inventory required
  • Know before you scale
  • Launch on-demand

The Real Cost of Waiting

Your fans will buy foam footwear. The question is: will they buy it from you, or from the brand that moves first?

Uncertainty

  • Footwear is a "new" category for your brand.
  • Your audience buys your products.
  • But will they buy foam footwear?
  • What if foam footwear was a hidden gold mine that naturally extended your product line?

Risk

  • Traditional footwear requires $50K+ before you see a single sale.
  • If the design flops, you're sitting on thousands of unsold pairs.
  • One wrong bet = $50K+ lost.
  • Most brands can’t take that risk without proof, but now that's not the case.

Opportunity Cost

  • Less than 5 % of brands have foam today.
  • Every month you wait is $50K–$100K+ going to whoever launches first.
  • The first brands to own foam in your category win for the next decade.
  • The question: Will that be you?
The old system forces you to bet $50K+ before you know if it works with high risk. Foam Sprint™ flips that: Know first. Then scale.

Introducing: Foam Sprint™

The only system that lets you test, validate, and scale foam footwear with zero inventory risk in as little as 30 days.

Validate

3–4 weeks

Test with your audience

Scale

3–6 months

Launch proven winners on-demand

Dominate

6–12+ months

Own your category

Instead of betting tens of thousands on a guess, you validate first with real customers and real data. Then you only scale what's proven to work.

Brands Who We've worked with.

Chris Brown's Auracles

CELEBRITY / MUSIC

  • WORLD’S FIRST GLOBALLY RELEASED 3D-PRINTED FOAM SANDAL IN COLLABORATION WITH NOS AILES
  • ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FOOTWEAR COLLECTIONS OF ALL TIME
  • ESTABLISHED FOAM FOOTWEAR AS A VIABLE GLOBAL REVENUE STREAM FOR ARTISTS AND BRANDS
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diamond supply co.

luxury STREETWEAR / CULTURE

  • VALIDATED CONCEPT THROUGH 7-DAY RAPID PROTOTYPING
  • LAUNCHED A FULL FOAM COLLECTION (SLIDES, CLOGS & FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND FOAM PACKAGING)
  • SCALED TO GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION AND HIGH-PROFILE COLLABORATIONS
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nonsense jp

NATIVE / ANIME-GAMING BRAND

  • BUILT A NEW FOOTWEAR CATEGORY FROM SCRATCH USING FOAM
  • ACTIVATED A HIGHLY ENGAGED ANIME/GAMING COMMUNITY
  • ROLLing OUT MULTIPLE FOAM PRODUCTS WITH PROVEN MARKET TRACTION
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Frequently Asked Questions

That’s exactly what Stage 1 answers in 30 days. Real product. Real customers. Real data. You’ll know definitively how much of a hidden goldmine is for your brand without betting tens of thousands on inventory.

No. Zero inventory required. Stage 1 uses Zellerfeld’s on-demand 3D printing. You only move to inventory-based production after you’ve proven demand with real sales.

Investment varies based on your goals and which stage you're starting at. We’ll walk through options on the strategy call. It’s a fraction of traditional footwear costs with zero inventory risk.

Average 30 days to launch. 3–6 months to scale. 6–12+ months to dominate. Most brands start with Stage 1 (30 days) to test before committing to a larger scale.

You can either get a free, customized 12-month roadmap to see your full foam opportunity (see foam blueprint page) or book a Sprint Call if you’re ready to start validating in 30 days.

Still have questions?

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