Your floor is running. Your systems are not.
We build operational systems for manufacturers and distributors — so production data, inventory, scheduling, and billing live in one place instead of spread across spreadsheets, legacy software, and the one person who knows how everything works.
We've heard this before
One person going down stops everything
When your most experienced operator, scheduler, or billing person is out, the rest of the operation slows to a crawl. The knowledge lives in their head — not in the system. New employees can't be properly onboarded because the people who know the process struggle to explain what's become second nature over 10 or 15 years.
Your systems are a single point of failure
One server running the domain controller, the SQL database, and the barcode scanners. When it crashes — and it does — 120 people can't log production data, can't scan inventory, can't access anything. For five or ten minutes, the floor stops. It happens every couple of days and everyone has accepted it as normal.
Your scheduling is someone's full-time job and it still breaks
Production planning runs on a spreadsheet someone updates every morning. It works until a rush order comes in, a machine goes down, or someone calls in sick — and then it's a phone scramble to figure out what moves where. There's no visibility into capacity until you're already over it.
Your people are the integration between your systems
Sales lives in one place. Production in another. Shipping somewhere else. Billing after that. When a customer calls for an order status, someone has to walk across the floor and ask. When a job closes, someone manually moves the data. Your best people are spending a chunk of their day being human middleware.
A manufacturer running 120 employees across production and office had their entire operation tied to one server. Every couple of days it would crash — taking down email, barcode scanning, and production data entry simultaneously. The owner handled it personally every time because no one else could. Meanwhile on the floor, paper drawings sent to field crews were routinely three months out of date.
Six weeks after go-live: production data flowed in real time from the floor, field crews pulled current drawings on mobile, and the owner stopped being the IT department. The server hasn't been the reason the floor stopped since.
If that guy got hit by a bus, we'd be screwed for a couple of months trying to figure out how he does things.
— Owner, 25-year family manufacturing business
What your operation looks like after
Your floor data is live, not lagging.
Production tracking, job status, inventory — visible in real time without walking the floor or waiting for someone to update the spreadsheet. What's done, what's behind, what's at risk: one screen.
Your scheduling has a brain.
Capacity, machine availability, rush orders — managed in a system that shows conflicts before they happen, not after the deadline passes. The scheduler stops playing Tetris and starts making decisions.
Your systems share one version of the truth.
What was ordered matches what was produced matches what was shipped matches what was invoiced. No manual handoffs between departments. No calling the floor to ask what happened to a job.
Your knowledge lives in the company.
Processes, pricing rules, customer-specific requirements, tribal know-how — built into the workflow. When someone leaves after 20 years, the operation doesn't leave with them.
Most of what you need is already built. We have 200+ pre-built modules covering the core of manufacturing and distribution operations — production tracking, inventory, scheduling, order management, billing, CRM. Your implementation budget goes toward the 20% that makes your operation yours. Your team is in the new system in 6 weeks. Not in a demo. Running real jobs.
Most of it already exists · you're live in 6 weeks · we handle the parts that make you different
Show us how your floor actually runs.
Not a sales call. We'll map how work moves through your operation and show you where a system would actually help — before you commit to anything.
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