Why I built TuringDock

I spent years in manufacturing. The software was bad enough that it eventually drove me out of the industry.

If you have ever run a small shop, you know the feeling. You make a real, physical thing, and you are good at it. Then you sit down in front of your MRP, the software meant to help you plan it all, and you lose an afternoon to a wall of forms, menus, and settings that feel designed by someone who has never stepped onto a floor.

The tools are so complicated that you cannot run them on your own. You hire someone to operate the MRP. Sometimes a whole team. A growing shop ends up paying people to run the software that was supposed to save it time. That is backwards.

The tooling wore me down, and I left manufacturing for a job in finance.

Then Ben called.

A friend of mine, Ben, runs a manufacturing company here in Canada. He told me about a wire he sent to his supplier in China. He had moved his payments to one of the modern fintechs, Venn, because the bank was even worse. The wire was delayed. Then it was rejected. By the time it was sorted out, his supplier still had not shipped, and the delay ate straight into the lead time he had promised an important customer.

A rejected payment is not a line item. It is a production line that stalls, a supplier you have to go back and apologize to, and a customer who starts to wonder if you are reliable. And there was no one to call. No accountability. Just a manufacturer treated like a consumer account.

Two broken layers, one problem.

That is when it clicked. Small manufacturers are stuck on operations software so heavy you have to staff it just to keep the plan current. Software that makes you the database instead of running the shop for you, and never tells you the thing that actually matters: what is about to go wrong, and whether you can afford the next move.

Nobody had built an MRP that an AI actually runs. So I did.

What TuringDock is.

TuringDock is a modern MRP, free to start, with an AI operator named Alan who does the busywork. Forward your supplier list and Alan builds your shop. Ask him a question in plain English and he walks your BOM, checks lead times, drafts the PO, schedules the build, and chases the supplier. Paying that supplier is built into the PO too: same-day settlement at the interbank rate for a flat 0.05%, the rate locked the moment you issue. No heavy setup, no team to run it.

It is the tool I wished I had when I was on the floor: an operator that keeps the plan current so the next surprise, a slipped lead time, a part below reorder, a bounced wire, does not blindside you the way it blindsided Ben.

Canada deserves better.

Canadian businesses are opening new supplier corridors in Asia, the EU, and Latin America right now. The manufacturers who move fastest need infrastructure that does not exist yet. I am building it for them.

I built TuringDock for Ben, and for every Canadian manufacturer building real things in this country. Canada deserves better than software that fights you and banks that ignore you.

Built in Victoria, BC.