INDUSTRIAL & MANUFACTURING

Run Your Operation Like
A Tech Company

Scrap yards, manufacturers, importers doing $5-50M+—we install systems that turn operational chaos into calm, digital execution.

The Industrial Ops Tax

Quote Requests Buried in Email

Customers send photos, specs, quantities via email/text. Every quote requires manual lookup, calculation, and follow-up. You're losing deals to response time.

Inventory is Complete Chaos

Material across multiple yards/warehouses. No real-time tracking. Employees calling around to find stock. Customers asking "do you have X?" and you honestly don't know.

Paper Everything

Scale tickets, invoices, job sheets—all paper or PDFs scattered across email. No searchability, no reporting, no insight into margins or trends.

Can't Scale Your Knowledge

You can price a job in 30 seconds. Your team takes 30 minutes and still gets it wrong. Your pricing judgment doesn't transfer—it's locked in your head.

What We Install

Digital infrastructure that embeds your operational judgment and runs 24/7.

Automated quote system that receives photos/specs via email/SMS and generates pricing instantly
Real-time inventory tracking across all locations with automatic updates and low-stock alerts
Digital job board showing all active quotes, jobs, and invoices in one live dashboard
Intelligent pricing engine that learns from your historical quotes and applies your judgment automatically
Customer portal where clients can request quotes, check inventory, and view past orders 24/7
Automated invoicing and payment tracking that eliminates paper and follows up automatically
CLIENT STORY

Regional Scrap Metal Operation

$22M annual revenue, 3 yards, 40+ employees, losing deals to slow quote response

The Problem: Owner personally handled every quote request—photos via text, specs via email, calls during the day. Response time averaged 4-6 hours. Inventory was tracked on whiteboards at each yard. Lost 20-30% of inbound quotes to faster competitors.

What We Built: SMS/email quote system that receives requests, analyzes photos/specs, checks real-time inventory across all yards, and returns pricing automatically using owner's historical pricing logic. Digital job board showing all active quotes, pickups, and invoices.

The Result: Quote response time: 6 hours → 8 minutes. Conversion rate increased 35% because customers got instant responses. Owner freed from phone prison. Team could check inventory from anywhere. Revenue up $380K in first 6 months just from faster quotes.

10x faster
Quote response time
Full visibility
Into all inventory
Zero paper
Everything digital
Your pricing
Applied automatically

The Math

Quote conversion improvement: 35% × 80 monthly quotes × $12K avg = $336K/year

Owner time recovered: 25 hours/week × $400/hour = $10K/week

Typical system cost: $7K-$35K depending on complexity

ROI: 3-8 weeks

Beyond Operations: Data Intelligence

Once your operations are digital, your data becomes valuable. We're exploring intelligence layers for larger operations.

What's Possible with Your Transaction Data:

Customer Profitability Analysis

Which customers are actually profitable after accounting for payment delays, contamination issues, and operational hassle? Most yards track revenue, not true profit per customer.

Fraud & Quality Pattern Detection

Identify which customers consistently over-estimate material quality or under-deliver on weight. Pattern recognition that saves tens of thousands annually.

Payment Risk Scoring

Early warning system for customers who are about to default. Payment pattern changes often precede bad debt by 60-90 days.

Dynamic Customer Pricing

Price based on true customer value, not just material type. High-volume, clean-load, fast-pay customers deserve better rates than high-maintenance accounts.

These capabilities require significant transaction history and custom modeling. We're working with select operations to prove the value.

If you're $20M+ revenue with years of data in your system, let's talk.

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