Still running production on spreadsheets and sticky notes?
You don't need a two-year ERP project. We build custom manufacturing software that creates the work orders, chases the POs, and keeps compliance paperwork current — around whatever your floor runs on today.
The work that shouldn't need a person
Built around your production process and the systems you already use — ERP, spreadsheets, or whatever the floor actually runs on.
Every business here has its own paperwork problem
Job shops & fabricators
- —Quoting from drawings
- —Work-order routing
- —Material purchasing
Food & beverage producers
- —Batch records
- —Compliance documentation
- —Supplier ordering
Electronics & assembly
- —BOM management
- —PO matching
- —Test & QA records
Packaging & print production
- —Job tickets
- —Proof approvals
- —Shipping paperwork
What we'd build for you
Walk any production floor and the software gap is visible: the ERP that only two people know how to use, the spreadsheet that actually runs scheduling, and the folder of Word templates that becomes every work order. Custom software for manufacturing closes that gap without a rip-and-replace project — we build the missing layer that connects what you already run.
A typical build starts with work order automation: a job comes in, and the system creates the work order, checks material availability, raises the PO if stock is short, and routes everything to the right station — with the paper trail your auditors expect generated as a by-product. From there it usually expands into supplier follow-ups, inventory reconciliation, and compliance reporting.
Unlike an ERP module, the software is shaped to your floor: your routing steps, your naming, your tolerances. Small manufacturers tell us the difference is that people actually use it — because it works the way the shop already thinks.
Where the week goes today — and where it comes back
- Work orders built by hand from emails, then re-typed into the ERP
- POs and supplier follow-ups living in one person's inbox
- Compliance records assembled the night before an audit
- Work orders created and routed the moment a job lands
- POs cut and chased automatically when stock runs low
- Audit-ready compliance docs generated as the work happens
One workflow. Six weeks. Yours.
Every build runs the same four phases — scoped to the manufacturing workflow that pays back fastest, and nothing moves forward without your team seeing it work.
Map
One working session on how work actually flows through your operation — and which of your work-order creation and routing costs the most to do by hand.
Build
AI reads your messy inputs — emails, PDFs, forms — while deterministic code enforces your pricing, approvals, and data rules. Built around the tools you already run.
Ship
Live in production with your team trained, exceptions routing to a person, and every action logged from day one.
Support
Monitored and iterated as volume grows and your process changes. You own the system either way.
How Gulmen Digital turned lead-to-quote into a 5-minute job
We built Gul, an AI ops desk for Gulmen Digital — an Australian supplier of packaging machines, label printers, and finishing equipment. It qualifies inbound leads in any language, answers product questions from the live catalogue, and produces branded quotes, order confirmations, and cover letters from the company's own templates.
What manufacturing operators ask us
Stop wasting your people's time on what automation can do
Twenty minutes. We map the workflow costing you the most and tell you straight whether it's worth automating.
Built end to end. Most systems ship in 4–6 weeks.