Smartbase
ActiveAutomated order entry for manufacturers
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Smartbase automates order entry for manufacturers. Today, incoming purchase orders are still entered into the ERP by hand. This often requires multiple full-time employees, even at small manufacturers. Smartbase removes this manual work by automatically converting incoming purchase orders into ERP orders. We’ve worked on factory floors, sat side-by-side with employees to learn their workflows, and even slept at a factory. We’re now onboarding our first customers onto five-figure annual contracts. This is our wedge into automating the $26 billion clerical labor market in U.S. manufacturing. Sam previously founded a DevOps platform that raised $2M. Taira was the youngest SDE 2 at AWS SageMaker Inference, where he built AI infrastructure for enterprises such as Salesforce.
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CEO @ Smartbase. Previously, I founded a DevOps platform that raised $2M and had growth-stage startups as customers.
AmazonCTO @ Smartbase. Previously, I was the youngest SDE 2 at AWS SageMaker Inference, where I built AI infrastructure for enterprises such as Salesforce.
Launch
We help manufacturers (e.g. job shops) remove the manual work from order entry.
Smartbase automates purchase-order entry for manufacturers by importing POs from scanned documents or emails, using AI to extract ERP-ready data per custom rules, and enabling review and approval before the orders appear in ERP (with an optional traveler printing step). It targets manufacturers with high-mix or custom work to reduce manual data-entry labor.
Formerly “Glade”, “Sandfish”, “Anytrace”
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