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Quote it, build it, ship it. On one system you own.
Quoting in a spreadsheet, jobs on a whiteboard, material counts in someone's head, and shipping in another app. SpinFlow builds one platform that follows a part from enquiry to delivery, with the real cost visible at every step.
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Quoting in a spreadsheet, jobs on a whiteboard, material counts in someone's head, and shipping in another app. SpinFlow builds one platform that follows a part from enquiry to delivery, with the real cost visible at every step. SpinFlow builds one custom platform for manufacturers and fabricators that replaces eight to fifteen separate tools, owned by you at a flat subscription. Most platforms launch in as little as two weeks.
The pain points
What slows manufacturers and fabricators down
- Quotes priced from last year's material costs
- No live view of where a job is on the floor
- Job profitability worked out weeks after delivery, if at all
The spreadsheet shop
Why manufacturers cannot see their own margin
Custom and small batch manufacturers usually run on a quoting spreadsheet, a scheduling whiteboard, a stock count that is partly physical and partly memory, and an accounting package that only learns about a job once it is invoiced.
The consequence is a business that cannot answer simple questions quickly. Which jobs made money. Which customer's work always runs over. Whether the quote that just went out reflects what material actually costs this month.
Off the shelf ERP answers those questions, at the price of a long implementation and a process that has to be reshaped to fit the software.
The owned platform
One part number, one thread
SpinFlow builds a platform where an enquiry becomes a quote, the quote becomes a work order, the work order carries its own routing, materials, drawings, and time, and delivery closes the loop with real cost against quoted cost.
The shop floor updates progress from a tablet at the station rather than on a whiteboard. The office sees status without walking out to ask. Customers get a portal showing order status and paperwork, which removes the daily status calls.
Quality and traceability
Evidence, not filing
Inspection records, material certifications, revisions, and sign-offs attach to the job they belong to. When a customer or an auditor asks for traceability on a batch shipped eight months ago, it is a search rather than an afternoon.
This is usually the part that turns a capable shop into an approved supplier.
Common questions
Questions from manufacturers and fabricators
Is this an ERP?
It covers the parts of an ERP your shop actually uses, built around your process rather than a generic template, without the long implementation or the modules you will never touch.
Can the shop floor use it without a computer at every station?
Yes. Floor screens are built for tablets and scanners, so an operator updates a job in a few taps rather than filling in paperwork for someone else to key in later.
Will it show real job costing?
Yes. Materials, labour time, and outside processing accumulate against the job, so quoted cost against actual cost is visible while the job is live rather than months later.
Does it handle revisions and drawings?
Drawings and revisions attach to the part and the work order, with the current revision clearly marked, so the floor is never building from a superseded print.
Built for your work
The capabilities that fit your business
Explore the capabilities that replace your current tools, or read why traditional websites are dead.
Estimates and proposals
Quotes priced from current costs.
Project management
Work orders, routing, and floor status.
Inventory
Materials and stock tied to jobs.
Quality control
Inspections and traceability on the record.
Time tracking
Labour captured against the job, not a timesheet.
Customer portals
Order status and paperwork for customers.
Proof
Builds behind this page
Real platforms we have built in this space, with what they replaced and what changed after launch.
Metal Fabrication
Roseworks Fabrication
Roseworks Fabrication needed a site that treated custom metalwork as craft rather than as a commodity trade listing. It was built on the same design foundation as Blinds Couture, which let a proven premium system carry a second trade brand without starting over.
Aerospace
Super Universal
Super Universal moved off Duda onto an owned platform with substantially more depth than the original. The rebuild expanded a small brochure site into a properly structured set of capability pages designed to be found by the specific technical searches the business should be winning.
Robotics
Tech Co Industries
Tech Co Industries is a robotics company focused on humanoid robots for the home, with a secondary line in manufacturing robotics. The site was built across roughly fifteen pages to present a company with real operating history rather than a landing page for an idea.
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