If you can describe it, we can build it.
Custom software for machine shops. Quoting tools, shop-floor apps, customer portals, dashboards, and the small calculators you'd use every day. Scroll to machine one.
OP 00 — Raw stock
Every project starts as a rough idea.
A spreadsheet that's outgrown itself. A tool everyone hates. A step someone does by hand every day. That's good material.
What we can build
A few things to click through.
Every one of these works. Click around: it all runs on invented data. Yours would be shaped around how your business actually runs.
The whole shop, working
One app, from request for quote to paid invoice.
Quotes priced from your own history, jobs, a schedule you drag, travelers on the floor, first articles, a portal your customers check. A year of invented history underneath. Put your shop's name and machines in and it re-plans around them.
Or try one piece at a time
Quote builder
Working demo · invented data
Material, quantity, operations, finish: a priced quote in seconds.
ReplacesQuoting from a spreadsheet only one person understands
Connects toYour shop rate, material costs, CAD files and ERP
Want one like this?Built alongside what you run, or as its replacement.
ERP & job tracking
- JobBOSS²
- E2 Shop
- ProShop
- Global Shop
- Epicor
- Fulcrum
Quoting & CAD/CAM
- Paperless Parts
- Mastercam
- Fusion
- SolidWorks
Floor & quality
- MachineMetrics
- PC-DMIS
- MTConnect
Office
- QuickBooks
- Excel
- Outlook
Product names are trademarks of their owners. Listed to show what we work with; no affiliation implied.
Pocket tools
Small tools that earn their keep.
Not every win is a big system. These are the quick numbers you work out at the machine, done properly: on your phone, with a picture, and the formula shown. Free to use.
Units
Tool angle (included)
82° for inch flat-head screws, 90° for metric. Spot drills are usually 90°, 118° or 120°; enter the spot drill's angle to get the plunge for a chamfer.
Plunge depth (Z)
0.2157″
≈ 7/32″
Chamfer width
0.0870″
Depth to hole edge
0.1001″
Z = (D − flat) ÷ (2 · tan(angle ÷ 2)) · chamfer = (D − d) ÷ 2
Source: Machinery's Handbook; Engineers Edge countersink / spot-drill depth
Reference tools. Check results against your drawing and the tool maker's data before you cut.
Ideas to get you thinking
Things people ask us for.
Tap one to see how we'd build it. Most are small; all of them save time every week.
Read spindle and alarm state from the controller (or a current sensor on older machines) and send a text with the machine, job and reason.
When a job ships in the ERP, gather its material certs and inspection report and send them with the packing slip.
Scan at each operation to clock in and out. Real run times flow back into your quotes.
Every quote revision kept with the drawing revision it was priced from, and the customer's PO matched to the right one.
Quoted vs. actual hours per job, rolled up by customer and part family. The answer is usually a surprise.
A shared board fed by open jobs and machine status, readable from the floor TV and the front office.
Scan tools out to jobs; reorder points produce a weekly order list for your supplier.
One place for drawings and revisions, with old revisions stamped and locked so nobody runs the wrong one.
OP 40 — Report
The owner view is an inspection report.
What's in tolerance, what isn't, and where to look, every morning. Read straight from the export your ERP already produces. Nothing in your systems is changed.
| # | Characteristic | Nominal | Tol | Actual | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Late jobsof 20 open | 0 | +2 | 6 | FAIL |
| 2 | Shipped on time, 30 days10 shipments | 95% | −5% | 40% | FAIL |
| 3 | Quote win rate, 90 days39 decided | 35% | ±10% | 38% | PASS |
| 4 | Hours queued, busiest machineHaas UMC-500 | ≤ 40 h | +0 | 44 h | FAIL |
| 5 | Jobs with no machine assigned | 0 | +0 | 2 | FAIL |
| 6 | Open order valuenot yet shipped | — | REF | $40,006 | REF |
Routing
Small, scoped, and written down.
One project at a time, so the one we're running gets done properly. Like a traveler on a job, you always know the next operation, what it costs and when it's done.
- OP 10
Fit call
Free
- Where
- Phone or video
- Time
- 20–30 min
Tell us the one process that wastes the most time. We'll say plainly whether we can help, and whether you even need custom work.
- OP 20
Workflow assessment
From $299
- Where
- Remote
- Time
- About a week
One workflow, reviewed. A short written summary: how it works today, ranked options (configure, connect, build, or leave it alone) and next steps. Half the fee is credited if you go ahead within 60 days.
- OP 30
Fixed-scope build
Fixed price
- Where
- Weekly written updates
- Time
- Quoted
A fixed price when the scope is clear, written acceptance tests, and progress you can read. Small projects are 50% to start, 50% on acceptance.
- OP 40
Handoff & warranty
Included
- Where
- Your accounts, your code
- Time
- 30-day warranty
Documentation, your data, your logins. Defects in what we delivered get fixed under warranty. Ongoing help is optional, never a hostage.
Tolerances
The tolerances we hold.
Built around how you work
We start from your process, not a template. Replacing a tool you hate, filling a gap, or connecting what you already have: the software fits the shop, not the other way round.
You own it
Your code, your data, your accounts. If we ever part ways, you keep everything and it keeps running.
AI-assisted, human-verified
We build with AI coding tools, which is why custom work is affordable now. Every change is tested and checked by a person, and your data stays out of tools you haven't approved.
Honest demos
Everything on this site runs on invented sample data. No fake clients, no fake testimonials, no made-up savings.
Who's on the machine
An engineer who has run the machines and run the trucks.
Hands-on machining and GD&T. Mechanical engineering. Running a service business and building software for service operations. Less time explaining what a traveler is, more time building the thing that fixes it.
- Shop floor
- machining · GD&T
- Engineering
- mechanical
- Operations
- service business
Next operation
What would you
have us build?
A few sentences is enough, even if it's just a frustration and not a spec. You'll get a personal reply, usually within one business day.