The Industrious Company
Industrious SEEDS
Software for steel and industrial fabrication, built by a shop owner with 26 years under the hood.
Industrious Optimizer Lite
Your material list in, a clean buy out. The Optimizer Lite plans your cuts and your plate, totals exactly what to order, and puts it on a clean sheet you can send to your supplier, without retyping a thing.
Early-bird pricing
$200 / year
Cut layout · C8x11.5 · 4 sticks · 98% used
Plate nest
Plate parts laid out on the sheet, so you know how many sheets to buy before you place the order.
Material list in, clean buy out
Enter your list by hand or upload it from Excel. You get exactly what to order.
Cut planning
Linear shapes laid out stick by stick: beams, channel, angle, tube, flat bar, and rod.
Plate nesting
See how your plate parts fit on the sheet and how many sheets to buy.
Purchase estimating
Sticks, sheets, and pounds, totaled and ready to send to your supplier.
Drop tracking
Keep track of what's left over so it gets used on the next job.
Clean PDFs
Buy sheets and cut sheets with your company name on every page.
Tested on real jobs
What it’s already caught.
Overbuying costs money. Underbuying stops the floor. Here’s what turned up when real material lists ran through it.
10,118 LBS
of steel one shop almost bought and didn’t need
140 FT SHORT
caught on a job that would have stalled mid-run
DUPLICATE MARK
one piece mark calling out two sizes
MISSING LENGTH
a mark on the list with no length on it
3 PIECES LIGHT
a vendor quote caught on the weight, before sign-off
More seeds
Coming in 2027.
Optimizer Plus
Label printing and more
Coming 2027
Redline
Coming 2027
PM
Coming 2027
Traveler
Coming 2027
Business
Coming 2027
3D Reader
Coming 2027
Yield
Every tool is a seed. Yield is what you reap when they all grow together. Plant the seeds, bring in the Yield.
Your shop, your call
Use mine, build your own, or have us build it.
I started with the Microsoft tools I was already paying for and built from there. That’s how the Optimizer started.
Stop renting. Build your own.
Learn to build software for your own company with AI, from the first screen to logins and a live server. You’ll still pay for hosting, just not for overpriced software that wasn’t built for your shop. Get notified when the classes open.
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