Seattle, Washington
Manufacturing software in Seattle and Everett.
Custom systems for Seattle and Everett aerospace suppliers and machine shops. Washington has more than 1,500 aerospace suppliers. 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 $1,102.
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).
Highest supervisor wage of any city on this list, which means the wasted hours cost you more here than anywhere else we work.
- $38.68an hour, median. A production supervisor in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area. US dollars.
- $1,102a week. 28.5 hours times $38.68.
- $57,304a year. $1,102 a week times 52.
Fifty seven thousand dollars is a hire you did not get to make.
That was a 90 person shop. You are a different size. Your hours get counted on the walkthrough, one process at a time.
Your town
Yes, this is your town
Washington has more than 1,500 aerospace suppliers in a $71 billion industry, ranked number one in the United States for aerospace supply chain, sales, exports and labour productivity (Choose Washington, read 2 Oct 2026).
Fifteen hundred suppliers is fifteen hundred shops answering the same questions: where is that part, was it checked, what did the job actually cost, and can we prove it. Most of them answer with a spreadsheet and a binder.
Aerostructures, composites, interiors, tooling, avionics and the machine shops under all of them. The big names get written about. The shops that feed them are the ones we build for.
The work
What we build
Fifteen hundred suppliers answering the same four questions. Most of them answer with a spreadsheet and a binder.
Your customer’s audit stops being an event.
Inspection, non conformance, corrective action, certificates and traceability, tied to the part, the job and the operator, with photographs, from the moment the work happened.
One revision, everywhere, at once.
One structure per part, versioned. Change it once and every quote, job and purchase order downstream sees the change the same day.
The estimator stops re-typing.
Job status, labour and material capture and stage sign off feed costing on their own, so your best person is estimating and not keying.
Quote to invoice, typed once.
The quote becomes the job, the job becomes the shipment, the shipment becomes the invoice, and the number is right because nobody entered it twice.
You keep the system you already run. We build the parts it never covered.
Money toward it
Plan on your own budget
Straight answer: this is usually your own money, and we say so before you ask.
Impact Washington is the approved Manufacturing Extension Partnership affiliate for this state, inside the federal NIST MEP network built for small and mid sized manufacturers (NIST centre list, read 2 Oct 2026; Impact Washington). Worth a call before you budget.
When a build is funded out of your own account, payback order stops being a nicety. Every item on the map carries a price and a position, and the first one has to earn the second.
What we hear
What usually stops people
“Our customer audits us and we spend a week getting ready.”
You should spend an afternoon. The check lives on the part, with the operator, the job and the photographs, from the moment the work happened.
“Our estimator is the bottleneck and he is the best one we have.”
Then he should not be re-typing. On the shop we mapped, the quote being re-typed into the job was 6.5 hours a week on its own.
“We already run a big system.”
Most operations this size are not missing an ERP. They are missing the four things it never covered, and those four are on a spreadsheet one person maintains.
“You are in Canada.”
Same time zone, same working day. 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. You leave with a written map: every process, what it costs in hours and dollars, what can be automated, and the order it pays back in. It is yours to keep.
Straight answers
- You are in Canada. Does that matter?
- No. We are in Kelowna, British Columbia, on Pacific time, the same clock as your plant. Most work is remote and we come when the job needs it.
- Can you handle aerospace traceability?
- The check happens on a device at the station, tied to the part, the job and the operator, with photographs, and it comes back in seconds.
- How big does my shop have to be?
- Ten people to five hundred. Plants, shops, yards, fleets and distribution.
- Who owns the system?
- We keep the code. You keep your data and your freedom to leave. Thirty day exit, no penalty.