Desktop and web, shaped to how they actually work.
A decade of growth had layered workarounds on top of workarounds. Stock was tracked in spreadsheets. Labels were printed by hand. Factory floor tracking lived in people's heads. The old system had been patched so many times it had become the problem.
Scrapped nine years of accumulated technical debt and rebuilt from the ground up — informed by nine years of watching how the team actually works. Two interfaces for two contexts: a WPF desktop app for the warehouse and factory floor where Windows is king and speed matters, and a Blazor WASM web app for management and remote access. Same data layer underneath, no conflicts, no sync issues.
The first contact was in 2016. On and off since then — building what was needed, when it was needed. Not a retainer, not a continuous engagement. More like: a trusted relationship that kept finding new problems worth solving.
By 2025, what had been built up piecemeal had reached its natural ceiling. Not from lack of care — from the honest weight of decisions made before the full picture existed. We made the call to start from scratch.
The rebuild took everything accumulated from years of on-site visits, watching real users in a real factory, and made it structural from day one. The desktop application runs locally on Windows workstations — fast, native, no internet dependency for core workflows. The web application gives management visibility from anywhere. Both read and write to the same PostgreSQL backend.
The Excel integrations weren’t a nice-to-have. This team lives in spreadsheets for reporting, and the platform meets them there — not the other way around.