Manufacturing and distribution
Get more from the ERP you already paid for
We build the schedule board, job profit reports and quoting your ERP never quite delivered. On top of it, not instead of it.
Where the work gets stuck
The ERP scheduler never matched the floor.
So the real schedule went back to spreadsheets, rebuilt by hand for every rush job.
The reports don't add up.
Job profit numbers you second-guess, and custom reports that take weeks from the vendor.
The same order, typed three times.
Into the ERP, into accounting, and into a spreadsheet.
Too much lives in one or two heads.
When your best person is out, things slip.
None of that is a discipline problem. Your ERP was built to keep records, not to run the floor. The schedule, the costs and the quotes all exist. They just sit in places that don't talk to each other.
You've probably asked yourself
- Should we switch ERPs again?
- Why is the real schedule still in a spreadsheet?
- Is this profit number right, or wrong again?
- What happens when our best person takes two weeks off?
What you want, and what we build for it
A schedule that keeps up when a rush job lands.
A schedule board that reads the jobs and routings already in your ERP, so a rush job reshuffles the plan instead of someone's spreadsheet.
A job profit number you can trust.
Job profit reports tied back to real costs, with every figure traceable to where it came from.
Every order entered once.
One entry that reaches both the ERP and your accounting system. Nobody writes it down to type it again.
An operation that runs when someone is out.
Quoting and scheduling steps written into the tool, not kept in one person's head.
We don't replace your ERP. We build what's missing around it, and we keep it running.
Where AI fits
AI reads the quote requests and drawings that arrive by email and pulls out what the quote needs. A person approves every quote before it goes out.
What we can't fix
Tariffs, raw material prices, the skilled labor shortage and customer demand. We work on how the job moves inside your operation.
I was hired to build an AI agent. The real job was bigger.
I build internal tools at a manufacturer. I was brought in to build an AI agent for quoting.
I spent months working alongside the teams who handle quotes, and noticed something. AI was misunderstood. To the people closest to the work, it sounded too technical to trust and too vague to use.
What they needed first wasn't an agent. It was a simple automation: something that reads each quote request as it arrives and files it in one place.
Once that was running, the rest of the process came into view. The steps around every quote were slow, manual, and done a little differently each time. Standardize them, add AI where it earns its place, and the work speeds up. Better still, the data finally shows up.
And the data had answers nobody could see before:
- Fewer requests were coming in than anyone thought, so the extra hire everyone expected turned out not to be needed.
- Plenty of quotes were going out, but not enough were turning into orders.
- Quotes could go out faster.
- New customers were finding the company on their own, and nobody knew how.
The answers had been there all along. They were buried, because the people closest to them were stuck doing busywork.
That's when it clicked. If one business runs like this, how many others do?
That's why Hazelrod exists. We find what's under the business and build what fixes it: a simple automation where that's enough, and a full AI system where it's worth it.
Founder, Hazelrod Systems
Your data, handled like the business depends on it
Because yours does, and so does ours. These are promises every build keeps.
Only the access a job needs
We ask for the least access that does the work, and you can see and revoke it.
Secrets kept encrypted
Passwords, keys and logins to your systems are stored encrypted, never in code, email or chat.
Your code, your data, kept apart
You own both, and they leave with you if you ever stop working with us. Nothing is shared between clients.
You'll know where your data lives
We write down, in plain language, where your data is stored and every outside service it touches. Nothing goes to a new one without your OK.
A person approves
Anything that touches money, customers or records goes through a human approval step.
Backups, tested
Every system we run is backed up nightly to a separate location, and we test the restore before it goes live.
Find out what's under your business
The first step is a fixed-price review. If we find you don't need us, we'll tell you, and the findings are yours to keep.
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