A growing foundation-repair crew was tracking steel, jacks and pier stock across eight trucks on paper and in someone’s head. Material walked off jobsites, and estimates went out without knowing what was on the shelf. I built their inventory and operations system. Their public website is someone else’s work.
Stock lived on paper and in memory across eight trucks. Material walked off jobsites, estimates went out blind, and the office never knew the real count. The fix was first planned as a $15,000 custom software project, then rescoped to a one-week build.
A jobsite-first inventory system: the field crew logs material from a phone on site, and the office sees the count update the same minute. It’s tied to manufacturers, vendors and per-truck stock. Scoped down to a focused $300/hr one-week build that shipped exactly what they needed and nothing they didn’t, and went live in under two weeks.
Running in production since March 2026; it launched with 136 items across 8 trucks and 30 manufacturers. The crew owns the code and the database, and it runs on a hosting account in the business’s own name, with no monthly platform fee on a tool they depend on daily.
Read the story: Tracking Steel Across Eight Trucks: A One-Week Inventory Build
Want the longer version? Read the full story of the inventory system on mattebersole.com.
