// farman-labs / services
Four systems.One operation.
Start with the one that hurts most. They connect when you're ready.
// farman-labs / services / portals
Client & Supplier Portals
A branded, secure web portal where customers place and track orders and suppliers confirm and update them, so your team stops re-typing emails into spreadsheets.
What’s slowing you down
- Orders arrive by email, phone and WhatsApp, and get re-keyed by hand, with errors.
- Print files and job specs come in the wrong format or resolution, and are found late.
- Customers call to ask “where is my order?” several times a day.
- Supplier confirmations live in inboxes, so nobody sees what is late until it is too late.
What we build
Order intake
Guided forms with product-specific fields, quantity breaks, due dates and repeat-order shortcuts.
File upload and preflight
Drag-and-drop upload of print-ready PDFs, checked for page size, bleed, colour mode and resolution, with a clear pass or fail message.
Custom job specs
A spec builder per product (stock, finish, binding, dimensions) that feeds the production job record.
Status tracking
A live order timeline driven by the same data the shop floor updates.
Automated notifications
Email and SMS at each status change, proof-approval links and delivery confirmation, with no staff action needed.
Supplier side and accounts
Purchase orders pushed to suppliers. Company accounts with roles, row-level security and SSO-ready sign-in.
What changes
- Staff time on order entry
- Cut by 60–80%
- Orders with missing or wrong specs
- Cut by over half
- “Where is my order?” calls
- Cut by over half
- Order to production-ready
- Same day
Targets we measure against your baseline in every engagement, not past results.
- Customers, suppliers, email
- Portals
- Pipelines
- Shared database
- Dashboards
// farman-labs / services / automation
Workflow Automation Pipelines
Background systems that read the documents and emails your business already receives, pull out the data and put it where it belongs, with no copy-paste.
What’s slowing you down
- Staff spend hours a week keying supplier invoices, POs and delivery notes into QuickBooks or the ERP.
- Data lives in several tools that disagree: the spreadsheet says one thing, the accounting system another.
- Routine steps (send the invoice, chase the approval, update the stock count) depend on someone remembering.
- Errors surface at month-end, when they cost the most to fix.
What we build
PDF and invoice parsing
Extracts vendor, line items, totals, tax and PO numbers. Low-confidence fields go to a review queue, not straight into the books.
Email parsing
A dedicated inbox whose messages and attachments become structured records automatically.
Database syncing
Two-way sync between your database and your spreadsheets or line-of-business tools, with conflict rules.
QuickBooks and ERP bridges
Creates bills, invoices, customers and items through official APIs, with matching to avoid duplicates.
Background jobs
Scheduled and event-driven jobs with retries, step-level logs and alerts on failure.
Review and audit trail
An approval screen for exceptions, and every automated action logged with its source document.
What changes
- Manual data entry
- 10–30 hours a week saved
- Data-entry error rate
- Under 1% after review
- Invoice to books
- Minutes, not days
- Month-end close
- Days saved
Targets we measure against your baseline in every engagement, not past results.
- Customers, suppliers, email
- Portals
- Pipelines
- Shared database
- Dashboards
// farman-labs / services / dashboards
Real-Time ERP & Operations Dashboards
One live screen showing every job, crew and asset, updated the moment something changes, built around how your business actually runs instead of a generic ERP's idea of it.
What’s slowing you down
- The owner has to walk the floor or call around to know where things stand.
- Job status lives on whiteboards and in people's heads, so handovers drop work.
- Field crews get dispatched by phone and text, with no record of who went where.
- Inventory and equipment go missing or run out without warning.
- Off-the-shelf ERPs cost too much, take months to roll out and fit the work poorly.
What we build
Kanban job boards
Drag-and-drop boards per department, with due-date warnings and capacity limits.
Field dispatch
Assign jobs to crews on a calendar and map. Crews check in, add photos and notes, and capture signatures.
Inventory and assets
Stock levels with reorder points, barcode or QR scanning from a phone, and equipment history.
Real-time updates
Changes reach every open screen instantly, with no refresh and no stale data.
KPI dashboards
Throughput, on-time rate, backlog, revenue by customer and crew utilisation.
Alerts
Rules such as “job late by 1 day” or “stock below reorder point” trigger email, SMS or Slack messages.
What changes
- Owner's status picture
- Seconds, any device
- On-time delivery rate
- Up vs. baseline
- Status meetings and calls
- Cut by over half
- Stockouts and lost equipment
- Cut by over half
Targets we measure against your baseline in every engagement, not past results.
- Customers, suppliers, email
- Portals
- Pipelines
- Shared database
- Dashboards
// farman-labs / services / custom
Custom Software Development
Full-stack software engineered around one operation's unusual work: quoting engines, scheduling tools, scanners and internal apps that no off-the-shelf product handles.
What’s slowing you down
- Off-the-shelf software covers 80% of the job, and staff work around the other 20% with spreadsheets.
- A core process (quoting, scheduling, costing) lives in one person's head or one fragile spreadsheet.
- Several disconnected tools each hold part of the picture.
- Past custom builds became black boxes nobody can change.
What we build
Web and mobile apps
Internal tools, customer apps and shop-floor screens on Next.js, built for phones, tablets and desktops.
Quoting and costing engines
Your pricing rules, materials and labour turned into instant, consistent quotes.
Scheduling and capacity
Planning tools that know your machines, crews and lead times.
Integrations and APIs
Connections to accounting, ERPs, carriers, payment providers and machinery through official APIs.
Data model and security
A Supabase Postgres schema with row-level security, backups and audit logs.
Tests and documentation
Automated tests, a written runbook and the code in your repository from day one.
What changes
- Quote
- Fixed by the Blueprint
- First release
- 2–3 weeks
- Code and data
- Yours, in your repo
- Handover
- Documented
Targets we measure against your baseline in every engagement, not past results.
- Customers, suppliers, email
- Portals
- Pipelines
- Shared database
- Dashboards
// farman-labs / services / system
How itconnects.
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// farman-labs / services / pricing
Priced inthree steps.
Each step is scoped and priced on its own, so you can stop after any step with something useful in hand.
01 · Paid Blueprint
- Price (USD)
- $500–$1,000
- Duration
- 1–2 weeks
- What you get
- Workflow map of the current process
- System architecture and data model
- Screen list
- Fixed quote and timeline for the build
- Exit point
- You own the blueprint and can build with anyone.
02 · Fixed-Scope Build
- Price (USD)
- $5,000–$10,000+
- Duration
- 2–3 weeks for a first release
- What you get
- The working system, deployed
- Data migrated
- Staff trained
- Documentation and admin access
- Exit point
- Code and data belong to you.
03 · Monthly Retainer
- Price (USD)
- $1,000–$1,500 / month
- Duration
- Ongoing, cancel with 30 days' notice
- What you get
- Hosting and monitoring
- Bug fixes
- Small changes (hours set per plan)
- Monthly usage and outcome report
- Exit point
- Full handover package on exit.
- The Blueprint fee is credited against the Build if you proceed within 60 days.
- The Build quote is fixed by the Blueprint. A change outside scope becomes a written change order before work starts.
- Every Build ships to production in 2–3 weeks. Larger systems ship in phases, each with its own fixed scope.
// farman-labs / next-step
See what your operationcould run on.
Tell us where work gets re-typed, chased or lost. We’ll show you the system that removes it.
A 30-minute call with the founder. No sales team, no obligation.