The situation
A bespoke fabrication workshop in Ireland needed an operations system covering quoting, production and installation. The full scope was clear and so was the obstacle: committing to a whole system before seeing anything working is a large step for a business of that size.
What we did instead
We took the single element with the most day-to-day friction and built that first. When drawings go to a client, both sides need to know which phase has been approved and when, because every downstream deadline moves with that approval date.
What was delivered
A working quotation and approval flow: a proposal split into stages, each stage approved by the client in the browser with a signature, documents attached where they belong, and project deadlines tracked from the approval date rather than from a guess. The workshop can see what the client has opened and what is waiting on them.
Why it was built this way
A working prototype answers a question a proposal document cannot: will the team and the client actually use it. It also means the wider operations system, if it goes ahead, is scoped against something real.
Status: prototype built and delivered. The wider operations system is under discussion.
