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. Canadian manufacturers are caught between two bad layers. The operations layer is legacy MRP software so heavy you have to staff it. The payments layer is Big 5 banks that charge 2.5 to 3% and take days, or fintechs built for tech startups that do not understand a $500K purchase order or a 45-day lead time.

Nobody had built the thing that fixes both at once. 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, and drafts the PO. International supplier payments are built into the purchase order, at interbank rates, same day, with the rate locked the moment you issue. No separate portal, no re-keying, no team to run it.

It is the tool I wished I had when I was on the floor, and the one Ben needed the day his wire bounced.

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.