Boise, Idaho
Manufacturing software in Boise.
Custom systems for Boise Valley manufacturers. Idaho manufacturing employs over 70,000 and makes $12.6 billion of GDP. Free thirty minute walkthrough.
The work
Four things we built. Different industries, same engineer.
Each one started as a problem somebody said out loud. All four are live: press the button and use the real tool.
Recommissioning a gas plant from twenty-year-old drawings.
The client bought a plant that had been shut down for years. 646 tags, thirteen questions each, before a single part could be bought. We built the system that answers them, tag by tag.
A 60-person fab shop, up for sale, and nothing written down.
The buyers loved the business and could not see how it ran. We interviewed 22 people, pulled out everything they knew, and built the whole operation into one package: flows, procedures, safety, ISO, maintenance, a legacy library. The deal closed.
A supply business that runs itself.
A teeth whitening supplier that sells to salons. One console reads the mail, chases the leads, counts the stock and writes the letters. The owner clicks only to send and to pay.
An end to end water delivery business, run from the truck.
One truck, 150 doors a week. The app asks every customer, builds the run, sends the invoice and takes the payment. The owner drives.
The money
28.5 hours a week. That is $1,002.
We mapped a 90 person fabrication shop. 28.5 hours every week went into work nobody sells. Re-typing a shipping slip into an invoice. Re-typing a quote into a job. Rebuilding the whiteboard schedule (the payback chart on pragmabuild.com/how-it-works).
That is the cost of the ordinary week, before anything goes wrong.
- $35.15an hour, median. A production supervisor in the Boise City metro area. US dollars.
- $1,002a week. 28.5 hours times $35.15.
- $52,104a year. $1,002 a week times 52.
Fifty two thousand dollars a year, paid to people who would rather be building something.
That was a 90 person shop. At twenty people it is fewer hours from fewer people and it hurts more, because there is nobody spare.
Your town
Yes, this is your town
Idaho manufacturing employs over 70,000 people and generated $12.6 billion of GDP. Advanced manufacturing is the third largest industry in the state (Idaho Commerce, 2023 figures, read 2 Oct 2026).
The state names the sectors itself, and it is a strange and useful list: food processing, trailer manufacturing, jet boat manufacturing, lumber and wood products, aerospace, industrial machinery, electronics and robotics (same page).
A trailer plant, a jet boat builder and a food processor have nothing in common except this: not one of them is going to find its system on a shelf.
The work
What we build
A trailer plant, a jet boat builder and a food processor have nothing in common except this: not one of them finds its system on a shelf.
Whatever you build, it has a structure.
Multi level bills of material, revisions, routings, standard cost, where used and change history, for a hull, a trailer frame or a production run.
The count is right where the part moves.
One stock count updated at receiving, at the bin and at the job, with reorder points that fire on their own.
Growing faster than the paperwork is normal.
A live schedule tied to real capacity, so the spreadsheet that held at forty people is not what you are still using at ninety.
One number, carried all the way through.
The quote becomes the job, the job becomes the shipment, the shipment becomes the invoice, in a valley where nothing is standard.
You keep the system you already run. We build the parts it never covered.
Money toward it
No grant promises here
No grant promises here. We do not sell them and we do not clip them.
Idaho’s centre in the federal NIST MEP network is TechHelp, set up for small and mid sized manufacturers in this state (NIST centre list, read 2 Oct 2026; TechHelp). One call is worth making before you spend your own.
Budget for your own money and be pleasantly surprised. Either way the map prices every item and orders them so the first build funds the next.
What we hear
What usually stops people
“We make something nobody else makes.”
Good. The jobs on this website look nothing alike and the same engineer built all of them. The plant changes and the data changes. The method does not.
“We are growing faster than our paperwork.”
That is the usual reason people call. The spreadsheet held at forty people and it will not hold at ninety.
“We do not have clean data.”
Nobody does. That is most of the first two weeks, and it is the same job whenever you start.
“You are in Canada.”
One time zone away, and most jobs run remote on a screen share and a phone camera in your operator’s hand. When the job needs boots on the floor, we come.
Next step
Book a walkthrough.
Free. Thirty minutes. A written map of your operation, priced, in the order it pays back. Yours whether or not you build anything with us.
Straight answers
- You are in Canada. Does that matter?
- No. We are in Kelowna, British Columbia, an hour behind you. Most work is remote and we come when the job needs it.
- We are a food processor, not a machine shop. Does that fit?
- Yes. Processing plants are on the list with plants, shops, yards, farms and fleets.
- Can we start small?
- That is how all of them started. One problem, said out loud, and a first working piece inside two days.
- Who owns the system?
- We keep the code. You keep your data and your freedom to leave. Thirty day exit, no penalty.