Built by people who've run the floor, not just consulted to it.
FactoryPilot exists because the person who built it spent years running joinery manufacturing operations in Australia — quoting jobs, scheduling production, chasing POs, loading trucks, handing over to installers, arguing about defects at handover.
Every system we tried was either a spreadsheet that broke at 12 jobs, a trades app that didn't understand a cut list, or a full ERP that took six months to implement and still couldn't tell you if a kitchen was ready for delivery on Thursday. So we built the tool we wanted on the wall — and shaped it with other operators who've been through the same thing.
Every part of the workflow — from a quote at 6am to a defect list at 6pm.
Not academically. Actually. This is why the software knows what a job pack is, why the PO lives against the job, why the production board is one tap on a tablet.
Kitchens, commercial fitouts, wardrobes. Board buy-outs, hardware, laminate rate cards, subbies. We know what makes a quote win — and what makes it profitable when you win it.
Cut, edgeband, drill, assemble, spray, QA. Managing a schedule across a dozen jobs in different stages, with staff off sick and materials late.
Booking in board stock, reconciling POs, picking jobs to the bench, dealing with the supplier who short-shipped again.
Placing POs, chasing ETAs, matching invoices, working out why the hardware landed but the door fronts didn't.
Route planning, load lists, protecting finished product on the truck, delivery photos, damage claims, chasing the site contact.
Handovers, defects, variations, sign-off. Getting the retention. The bit that everyone forgets when they build the software.
Four things we won't compromise on.
- The job is the centre of everything. A quote, a cut list, a PO, a delivery slot, a defect photo — they all live against the same job. Nothing is orphaned in a folder or an inbox. If it happened, it's on the job.
- If a factory hand needs training, we haven't finished. The floor screens are one tap. The tablet on the bench doesn't ask for a password every hour. The installer's phone shows the job pack without a login gymnastics session. The people who'll actually use it get first dibs on the design.
- We show you what's live. We tell you what isn't. If a capability isn't in the product today, we say so and give you a rough date. We'd rather lose a deal than sell you demoware.
- Less software, not more. The point isn't to digitise your spreadsheets — it's to make most of them redundant. If a feature doesn't remove a phone call, a rekey or a mistake, it doesn't ship.
Joinery factories between 5 and 60 people who've outgrown the whiteboard.
You've got real jobs going through real stages. You've got an office, a floor, and probably a couple of vans out installing. You've tried spreadsheets. You've looked at ERP and walked away. This is the middle you've been looking for.
Where we sit — and where we don't.
Full ERP takes six months to implement and forces your factory to change to suit the software. Trades apps handle quoting or scheduling but don't connect enquiry to install. Neither know what a shop drawing revision or a hardware buy-out is.
FactoryPilot is the layer in between. Big enough to run a $10–20M joinery operation. Simple enough that your factory foreman uses it on day one without a manual. Australian, specific, opinionated.
We're not trying to be everything. Payroll goes to your payroll system. Accounting goes to Xero or MYOB. Design goes to your CAD. What we own is the job — from enquiry to handover — and the operational visibility that ties it all together.
The best way to judge us is to see it running.
30 minutes, your workflow, an operator walking you through it. Push back on anything.