The bottle that becomes the only bottle you own.
One body. Many functions. Patented.
MX-01 is the first official build-in-public experiment from Mattae Labs. A patented modular bottle that comes apart, swaps function, and locks tighter than any single-mechanism bottle on the market. New configurations release on a rolling basis. The architecture is what’s protected.
What’s wrong with the bottle you already own. Eight things. All real. Most aren’t fixable.
You probably own three or four bottles already. You probably drink from one. Here’s why the rest live in your cabinet.
01 · SMELL
It stinks. Rinsing won’t fix it.
Biofilm builds inside every reusable bottle. Hot water doesn’t kill it. Soap doesn’t reach it. By the time you can smell it, you’ve been drinking it for weeks.
02 · CLEANING
Your hand doesn’t fit. The brush doesn’t reach.
The narrow mouth keeps water in. It keeps cleaning out. You buy a skinny brush. You miss the corners anyway. The inside of your bottle is the dirtiest object you put near your face every day.
03 · LEAKS
85% of bottle lids leak.
Gaskets compress. Threads wear. One day your bag is wet and your laptop is dead. The bottle still looks fine. It isn’t.
04 · STRAW
The straw clouds in a month.
You can’t see what’s in it. You can’t clean what you can’t see. You drink through it anyway, or you skip the straw and accept the spills.
05 · ONE PART FAILS
Lid cracks. Gasket dries. New bottle.
The bottle outlives everything attached to it. You don’t replace the part, you replace the whole thing. The old one goes in the cabinet. You tell yourself you’ll deal with it later.
06 · TASTE
The water tastes like the bottle.
Plastic. Metal. Last week’s protein. Even after a wash, the bottle keeps a memory of what was in it. You drink less because the water tastes off.
07 · FIVE BOTTLES, FIVE JOBS
Water bottle. Mug. Shaker. Pitcher. Jar.
One for water. One for coffee. One for protein. One for filtered. One for overnight oats. Five objects. Five cabinets. Most of them empty most of the time.
08 · WEARS OUT
Coating peels. Gaskets dry. Insulation fades.
The vacuum seal fails after a year. Ice melts faster than the box promised. Coffee gets cold by lunch. You replace the bottle because nothing about it was replaceable in the first place.
+ · YOUR TURN
Got one we missed?
Eight isn’t the whole list. Tell us what your bottle gets wrong. The build log readers vote on what gets fixed next.
Comes apart. Swaps function. Locks tighter. Three vessel parts twist together into a bottle and come apart into a cup, a bowl, and a base. One attachment slot in the body accepts whatever the lab releases. The MATTAE M3™ coupling holds tighter than anything single-mechanism on the market. The M3 is the platform.
Vessel A
LidThe seal point. Patented architecture. Tighter than threaded. Faster than snap.
Vessel B
BodyKitchen-grade stainless. Double-wall vacuum. 30h ice life. Accepts the attachment.
Vessel C
BaseDetaches. Works standalone as a cup or a bowl. Ring seal extends capacity from 32oz to 40oz.
Attachment
FiltrationActivated carbon. Tap water in. Clean water out. No pitcher in your cabinet.
Attachment
Mixing, Infusing, StrainingWhisk ball for protein. Basket for fruit and tea. Mesh tube for loose-leaf. Same slot. Different bottle every time.
Attachment
SensorOptional electronic attachment. Coming later. Details stay quiet until launch.
M3™ architecture. M3™ attachment interface. We’re not showing the mechanism until we ship. USPTO App 19/056,751.
02.5 · Configurations
The platform expands as we release.
Different bottle shapes. Different attachments. Same M3™ coupling. Here’s a snapshot. The platform grows whenever the lab releases the next one.
Bottle
Lid, body, base. 32oz default. The full assembly, locked tight.
Default
Wide-mouth + handle
Different form factor. Wide opening for ice, fruit, cold brew. Rubber wrist wrap for grip.
Variant
Cup / Bowl
Base detaches. Stands alone. 12oz. Coffee, water, overnight oats, soup.
Base
Shaker
Drop in the whisk attachment. Protein, electrolytes, pre-workout. No separate shaker.
+ Mixing
Filter
Drop in the carbon attachment. Tap water in. Clean water out. No pitcher.
+ Filtration
Infuser
Drop in the basket. Fruit, herbs, tea, cold brew. No separate infuser.
+ Infusing
Whatever connects to the mid-section is a new bottle. The patent is the platform.
02.6 · Attachment library
Every attachment is a new bottle.
Buy MX-01 once. Multiple attachments grow the platform. Each one expands what the bottle can do without you buying a new bottle.
ATT-01 · Filtration
Filtration
Activated carbon cartridge. Tap to clean, in the bottle.
Available at launch
ATT-02 · Mixing
Mixing
Whisk ball and powder chamber. Protein, electrolytes, pre-workout.
Available at launch
ATT-03 · Infusing / Straining
Infusing / Straining
Removable basket and mesh tube. Fruit, herbs, cold brew, hot tea, loose-leaf.
Available at launch
ATT-04 · Sensor
Sensor
Optional electronic attachment. Battery-passive. Details under NDA until launch.
On the roadmap
ATT-05 · ???
Submitted by the build log
Build log readers propose. The lab votes. The winning attachment ships next.
Open call
03 · Build log
From sketch to shipping. In public.
Every revision documented. Every dead end included.
Mar 2024bottle-sketch-01.jpg
01 · SKETCHNotebook page. Dual-lock interface and modular insert chamber first drawn here.
Jun 2024bottle-cad-rev11.jpg
02 · CADRev. 11. Mid-section coupling geometry finalized. Shape that went into the patent application.
04 · V04 PASSCurrent revision. Dual-lock holds under cycling. Going to tooling.
Mar 2025
Supplier pivot · FAILFirst gasket vendor couldn’t hold the LSR cure profile inside spec. Two months of yield issues. Swapped to a Vietnamese supplier mid-rev. Cost a quarter. Logged.
Aug 2025
Tooling yield · FAILFirst soft-tooling run scrapped at 22% yield on the M3 coupling. Wall draft angle was wrong by 0.4°. Recut the core. Rev. 03 of the tool.
Dec 2025
Claims amended · USPTOFinal claim listing replaces all prior versions. Three independent claim families covering the full system.
Feb 2026
Notice of Allowance · USPTOApplication 19/056,751 allowed. Issuance fee next. The patent is granted in everything but the certificate.
Q2 2026
First-article inspectionTooling sample from the factory. Measured against the CAD spec. Pass, or another rev.
Q3 2026
Tooling in productionSteel cut. No going back on geometry. Reservers ship first.
TBD
Pilot run, then shipFirst production run. Reservers ship in order pledged. Retail opens with the second run.
04 · What’s different
Eight problems. Eight answers.
Section one named what every bottle gets wrong. Here’s how MX-01 fixes each one.
Lime green visible = sealed. Lime green hidden = ready to twist. The dual-lock makes the state legible at a glance.
01 · Smell
Every surface comes apart. Every gasket replaceable. Biofilm has nowhere to hide.
02 · Cleaning
No narrow mouths. No curved corners. Each vessel is open on both ends when separated. Your hand reaches every surface.
03 · Leaks
Patented mid-section lock. Tighter than threaded. Engineered to outlast the rest of the bottle.
04 · Straw
Straw pulls out for cleaning. See through it. Replace it. Or skip it entirely and use the wide mouth.
05 · One part fails
Replaceable everything. Lid, gasket, ring seal, attachments. All sold separately. The bottle outlives any one part.
06 · Taste
Kitchen-grade 304 stainless. Wide-mouth disassembly for full cleaning. The water tastes like water.
07 · Five bottles, five jobs
One body. Many functions. Bottle, cup, bowl, shaker, filter, infuser, and whatever ships next.
08 · Wears out
Patented architecture, replaceable parts. The bottle outlasts any single piece you can break. Patent filed. USPTO App 19/056,751.
PU.S. Patent Application 19/056,751Notice of Allowance · Feb 2026
Compared
What Stanley, Yeti, and Owala do. What MX-01 does.
Feature
Stanley · Yeti · Owala
MX-01
Hero capacity
Fixed
32 to 40 oz drop-down
Insulation
11 to 24 h cold
30 h cold
Lock system
One mechanism
Patented dual-lock
Modular vessels
—
✓
Attachment ecosystem
—
Multiple
Standalone vessel use
—
✓
04.5 · From the lab
Why I’m building this. In one paragraph.
FOUNDERfounder-portrait.jpg
I’ve owned eleven bottles in ten years. Every one of them ended up in a cabinet next to four others. I built MX-01 because the problem with the bottle in my hand was never the bottle, it was that the category stopped trying. One body. Many functions. Replaceable parts. Patented coupling. Tested for 10,000 leak-proof assembly cycles. Reservers get the earliest serials and a direct line to the lab. The platform expands from there.
Mattae Kim. Operator. Founder, Mattae Labs.
USPTO App 19/056,751. Notice of Allowance, Feb 2026. Second venture under Mattae Labs after a B2B SaaS shipped on the same operator stack.
05 · Reserve
$1 holds your platform. The rest only on ship.
Reserve a slot for $1 today. The remaining balance charges only when production confirms and MX-01 ships. Reservers get the earliest serials, first access to every module drop, and a direct line to the lab. Refundable any time before charge.
Onyx ships at launch. Sage, Bone, and Mocha drop after.
$1 today. The rest only on ship. Refundable any time before charge.
Four bottles in your cabinet at $45 each is $180. Or one MX-01 platform. New modules ship to reservers first.
06 · Licensing & investment
Patented invention. Open to partners.
USPTO Application 19/056,751. Notice of Allowance, February 2026. Three independent claim families covering the full system. MX-01 is the first build under Mattae Labs. Open to licensing, manufacturing partnerships, and pre-seed conversations.
01 · LICENSE
Brand license
Ship the MX-01 architecture under your own house. Your colors. Your tier strategy. Your retail channels. We retain the claims and supply the IP package.
Pre-seed open. Same operator that shipped a venture-funded B2B SaaS and helps run a 45-attorney PI firm ($1B+ recovered). MX-01 is the second venture under Mattae Labs. Build-in-public traction is the deck.
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