Manufacturing software for SME manufacturers, built around exactly how you run
Works orders, stock and materials, quality records and invoicing — one system tailored to exactly how your factory runs, that you download as a complete Laravel app you own outright, and that AI keeps up to date for you.
Most manufacturers of ten to a hundred people run the same setup: an MRP or inventory platform — Katana, Cin7, Unleashed or similar — priced per user, per location, per order or per module, where the published entry price turns out to be a fraction of the working price once the modules you actually need are added. And around it, the spreadsheets that fill the gaps between systems: the job board, the delivery schedule, the certificate register nobody quite trusts.
Here's what we do instead. Tell us how your factory runs, and we build you one system for it — every job's stage from order to despatch, material drawn down as it's used, certificates filed against the job with expiry dates tracked, and the invoice raised when it ships, configured to your exact rules. The building blocks are already built and tested, so your system is shaped around your works rather than written from scratch. And here's what makes it unlike anything you're renting:
You own it. The system is yours — it exports as standard code you can take anywhere, and your job, stock and customer data lives in your own database and hosting accounts, not a vendor's. No per-user pricing, no per-site licence, no subscription that grows with your headcount, no losing your history if you leave.
AI manages it. When something needs to change — a new job stage, a different despatch note, a report you wish you had — you describe it in plain English and the AI makes the change. No support tickets, no waiting on someone else's roadmap, no developer day-rates for a ten-minute tweak.
We stand behind it. Getting it live is part of the build — we set up basic hosting on your own account, where you pay the provider directly and we never mark up the infrastructure. After that, owning it works like owning a machine tool: when you want work done — a change, a new feature, an integration — you ask us and pay for the job, quoted before we start. No monthly fee, no contract. And if we ever find a defect in the modules your app is built from, we fix it centrally and ship the fix to every affected system free of charge. You're never tied to us: the code is yours, built on open source, and any suitably qualified Laravel developer can take it on. More on how maintenance works →
What's already built
We don't yet have manufacturing-specific modules — what we have is a library of proven, general business modules, each covered by its own automated test suite, that we configure around a factory: jobs, stock, scheduling, documents, invoicing and audit. That's an honest description of the fit, and for most SME manufacturers it covers the office side of production well. Here's what each part does:
| The job | What it does | What you tell us |
|---|---|---|
| Jobs & works orders | Every job tracked through your stages from order to despatch, with quotes, status and history in one place — so the job board comes off the whiteboard and the spreadsheet | What you make, and the stages a job passes through |
| Stock & materials | Raw material, bought-in parts and finished goods counted in one place, drawn down as they're used, with supplier deliveries and purchases recorded against the stock they replenish | What you hold, and how ordering works now |
| Scheduling | Work booked against machines, cells or people over the week — who's doing what and when, with no double-booking — using the same scheduling engine that runs bookings in our other sectors | What work gets booked against, and how you plan now |
| Quality & certificates | Inspection sign-offs, material certs and calibration records filed against the job or item they belong to, with expiry and renewal dates tracked so nothing lapses unnoticed | What records you keep, and which dates need chasing |
| Invoicing & debtors | Invoices raised from completed jobs on your terms, with a live debtors list and reminders — and a clean feed into your existing accounting package rather than a replacement for it | Your payment terms and invoice details |
| Customer email | Order confirmations, despatch notes and invoice reminders through your own email provider, every send logged | The address customer emails should come from |
| Audit trail | Every job, stock movement and payment recorded across the system — who did what, and when | Nothing extra — it works from everything else |
What we don't do
We build the business systems around production — not the production technology itself. So, plainly: no machine control or PLC work, no CAD or CAM, no shop-floor hardware, and nothing safety-critical on the line. Where you have equipment, accounting or filing systems that work, we connect to them rather than replace them. If what you need is on that list, we're not the right fit and we'll say so — and if you're an advisor weighing up whether to point a manufacturer at us, that's the boundary to check against.
It already works together
These aren't six separate products with six logins. A job drawing material moves the stock count; the completed job raises the invoice; the certificate is filed against the job it certifies and flags before it expires. Every piece reads the others, so a change in one place is a change everywhere — no exports, no re-keying, no spreadsheet reconciling two systems that don't talk.
It's your system to plug into
Every module comes with two ways in: a screen your team uses, and an API. An API is simply a doorway into your system that other software is allowed to use, with no person retyping anything. It's how your system connects to your accounting package, how a customer portal or a barcode scanner could feed the same job board later, and how the AI itself reads and updates your data — with access controlled the way you decide. Your system is open from day one, so the tools you add later plug into what you already own, no rebuild required.
Tell us how your factory runs
Tell us how your factory runs using this form and we assemble your system, run the tests, and hand it over as a complete, working Laravel application you own — for a one-off build fee, with no monthly fee to us after that. When it needs work later, ask us and pay for the job — defects in our own modules are always fixed free — or take it and self-host: it's your code either way.
Your system is built on Laravel — the world's most popular PHP framework, used by companies like Currys, MKM, Apple, Nike, NASA and Pfizer.
Not quite your business? Tell us what you need and we'll say whether we can build it.