What is the canvas in TuringDock?

The canvas is your home screen: every supplier, part, product, and customer as one connected graph. You navigate, edit, and act from it instead of clicking through forms and menus.

How is the TuringDock canvas different from a BOM tree?

A BOM tree shows one product at a time. The canvas shows your whole shop at once, left to right, with shortages tracing in red from the missing part to the products and customers waiting on it.

How do I add a new part or supplier to the canvas?

Click '+ New node' and describe it in plain English, like 'ATmega328p from Digi-Key, $4.50 each, 1000 in stock.' Alan creates the part, the supplier, and the link in one tap.

Can I select and move multiple nodes at once?

Yes. Drag on empty canvas to draw a selection box, hold Shift to add more, then move the whole group together. Positions persist; pan with right-click or middle-click.

The canvas

Your shop as a graph.

See your whole shop in one picture. Drag edges to build BOMs. Click any node for Alan's one-line summary.

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The new way

How this works in the future of MRP.

Today your shop lives across separate inventory, BOM, and supplier screens, and you click between them to trace one shortage. TuringDock puts it all on one canvas: shortages light up, and Alan tells you what to fix first.

How it works

Connect by dragging

Supplier to part to product to customer, left to right. Drag an edge to link them.

Alan summarizes every node

Click a node and Alan tells you what matters in one line. No scanning seven fields.

Add nodes in plain English

Type “ATmega328p from Digi-Key, $4.50, 1000 in stock.” Alan creates the part, the supplier and the link.

Shortages light up

When a part runs short, the products that need it turn red. You see the impact, not just the stockout.

Promise from Available

On-hand, on-order and available all show on the node, so you promise from real numbers.

Common questions

What is the canvas in TuringDock?: The canvas is your home screen: every supplier, part, product, and customer as one connected graph. You navigate, edit, and act from it instead of clicking through forms and menus.
How is the TuringDock canvas different from a BOM tree?: A BOM tree shows one product at a time. The canvas shows your whole shop at once, left to right, with shortages tracing in red from the missing part to the products and customers waiting on it.
How do I add a new part or supplier to the canvas?: Click '+ New node' and describe it in plain English, like 'ATmega328p from Digi-Key, $4.50 each, 1000 in stock.' Alan creates the part, the supplier, and the link in one tap.
Can I select and move multiple nodes at once?: Yes. Drag on empty canvas to draw a selection box, hold Shift to add more, then move the whole group together. Positions persist; pan with right-click or middle-click.

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Last updated 2026-05-24