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Your operation runs on spreadsheets. It shouldn't have to.

Sheet1.xlsx built your company. Spreadsheets are the most successful business software ever made, and reaching for one is always right on day one. But somewhere between the first VLOOKUP and the fifth 'FINAL_v3_ACTUAL' filename, the spreadsheet stopped being a tool and became the system of record for a real business. That's the part we fix.

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01Credit first

Where Excel & Google Sheets shines

We’re not here to trash a tool that works. If this list covers your needs, keep it.

  • Ad-hoc analysis and quick calculations, still unbeatable
  • Prototyping a process before you know its shape
  • One-person workflows with a single owner and a single copy
02The breaking point

Where Excel & Google Sheets breaks for operations

01

Concurrent editing corrupts the data

Two people, one cell, last save wins. Versions fork into FINAL_v3, and nobody can say which number is real anymore.

02

No validation, silent errors

A typo in a quantity, a broken formula range, a row sorted out of alignment. Spreadsheets fail silently, and the error surfaces weeks later as a wrong shipment or a missed invoice.

03

The workflow lives outside the sheet

The sheet stores state; the process itself (notify, approve, reorder, invoice) happens in email and memory. Every step is a human remembering to do it.

04

One person holds it together

There's always a spreadsheet person. The macros, the links, the 'don't touch column Q'. When they're on holiday, work stalls.

03The alternative

What we build instead

A system designed around your workflow, built fixed-scope and fixed-price, and you own the source code.

Custom operations software, built around how you work

The spreadsheets, the scattered SaaS tabs, the tool that almost fits: at some point they stop scaling with you. We design and build the one system that runs your operation, from sales to production to shipping to reporting, shaped to your workflow instead of someone else's template.

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Inventory management software that matches your warehouse

Stock counts that don't match the shelf, emergency reorders, the part that's 'somewhere in the back': inventory chaos is usually a software problem. We build inventory systems around how your stock moves, from the sale that triggers the pick to the purchase order that refills the shelf.

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Internal tools, admin panels & dashboards built for your workflow

Every growing company runs on internal screens: the panel where the team processes the work, the dashboard where someone checks the numbers. When those screens are spreadsheets and five SaaS tabs, every task takes longer than it should. We build the back office as one system shaped to your process.

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04Side by side

Excel & Google Sheets vs. a custom build

DimensionExcel & Google SheetsSpaceCraftersUniverse
Source of truthWhichever copy was saved lastOne live system, everyone sees the same state
Data integrityCell formatting, nothing enforcedValidation, required fields, audit trail
Multi-userConflicts and forked copiesConcurrent by design, role-based access
WorkflowManual steps around the sheetAutomated: notify, reorder, generate, route
ReportingRebuild the pivot table monthlyLive dashboards from the same data
ScaleSlows, then breaksA real database that grows with the business
05The switch

How the migration works

No big-bang cutover. Your current setup keeps running until the new system has proven itself.

  1. 01Collect the sheets. They are the spec: every column and workaround documents a real need.
  2. 02Design the system around the flow the sheets approximate; keep exports to Excel for the analysis people love.
  3. 03Import the data, reconcile the duplicates and conflicts one final time.
  4. 04Retire the sheets from system-of-record duty. Analysis stays in spreadsheets, where it belongs.
06Proof

Teams that made the switch

Real systems running real operations today. Click through for the full story.

Auto Parts Distribution · Order-to-Ship Operations

Run sales, stock & shipping in one flow

smg-ops.app/sales-orders
SMG Autoricambi · Orders
8 open
OrderCustomerItemStatus
SO-4821M. RossiBrake padsIn stock
SO-4822Garage LuganoAlternatorPO raised
SO-4820A. KellerOil filter ×6Shipped
SO-4819AutoZug AGClutch kitBackorder
Open orders
8
In stock
142
Open POs
5

One system for the whole journey, from a customer sale to finding the part in stock or raising a purchase order to shipping it to the client, with sales orders, inventory, suppliers, statuses, and analytics in one place.

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Solar Manufacturing · End-to-End MES + ERP

Run a whole solar factory in one system

app.t3manufacturing.io/sales
Orders

New

4

Quoting

7

Confirmed

9

In production

12

Delivered

21

OrderAccountPanelsStageShip byOwner
ORD-3391Northwind Power240In productionAug 12R. Sato
ORD-3388Cascade Grid96ConfirmedAug 20R. Sato
ORD-3385Vela Energy480Quoting—M. Diaz
ORD-3380Aria Solar60DeliveredJul 30M. Diaz
ORD-3377Halcyon Utilities300New—R. Sato

A custom platform that unifies sales orders, manufacturing and development orders, bills of materials and genealogy, per-serial operator tracking with NCR and time, inventory, and reliability-chamber scheduling. One place to build solar panels and the parts that go into them.

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Professional Services · Project & Invoicing Operations

See every project, and get paid

amicon.app/projects
AAmicon

Projects

New project

Active

12

Blocked

2

Unpaid

4

Pipeline value

€1.2M

ProjectClientStageValueInvoiceFlag
Brunnen SetupBrunnen TechDelivery€34kSentDue 5d
Kessler AuditKessler GroupDue diligence€58kUnpaid—
Vega RestructureVega HoldingsKickoff€21kBlockedBlocked
Helios M&AHelios GroupDelivery€76kPaid—
Atlas AdvisoryAtlas AGProposal€12kDraft—

A command center for every project: what's at which stage, what's blocked, what's unpaid, and what needs attention, with invoices generated automatically in the background.

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07FAQ

Questions, answered

The reliable signs: more than two people edit it, a broken formula has already cost real money, 'the sheet person' is a single point of failure, or you maintain multiple copies that someone reconciles. Any two of those and the spreadsheet is overdue for retirement as a system of record.

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