About
What is TuringDock?
TuringDock is an AI-first manufacturing resource planning (MRP) platform for Canadian manufacturing startups, with international supplier payments built into the same product. Built in Victoria, British Columbia. Free core tier; premium tier in public beta.
In one sentence
The version you can use as a punchline.
Build what's next. Leave the MRPing to our AI.
You run a Canadian manufacturing startup. Your operations live in a spreadsheet that you've outgrown. Legacy MRP tools (MRPeasy, Katana, Fishbowl, Odoo) feel heavy and take weeks to set up. TuringDock is the modern alternative: forward your supplier list to your private inbox to onboard, work through your day with an AI assistant (Alan, after Alan Turing) in Slack instead of clicking through forms, and pay international suppliers at interbank FX rates inside the same product.
Who it's for
TuringDock is opinionated about its audience. Here's the shape.
- Canadian manufacturing startups, roughly $500k to $20M in annual revenue.
- Shops that pay international suppliers in USD, EUR, GBP, JPY from a CAD bank account (the FX markup pain is acute for these workflows).
- Founders + operators currently running on Excel + email, or hitting limits of cloud accounting tools (QuickBooks, Xero) for operational planning.
- End-to-end manufacturers, robotics + automation, IoT systems, clean energy. Build-to-order, build-to-stock, and hybrid shops.
How it works
The arc from signup to shipping.
Onboard in an afternoon
Forward your supplier list to your private inbox (Alan extracts suppliers, parts, prices), upload a CSV, or build node-by-node on the canvas. Empty workspace to recognizable shop in single-digit minutes.
Run your day from Slack
DM Alan to log cycle counts, mark production tasks done, query stock, ask what's on an operator's plate. Same eleven tools the in-product AI uses, in the channel where work happens.
Let Alan handle the MRP plumbing
When inventory crosses a reorder point, Alan drafts the next PO at the forecast quantity. When a customer order lands, Alan drafts the production schedule across operators. When an invoice goes overdue, Alan drafts the chase email in your voice.
Pay international suppliers inside the PO
Premium tier. Interbank FX rates locked at PO issuance, same-day settlement, no $30 wire fees. The savings panel on every supplier shows your estimated annual savings before you commit.
Key facts
The structured-data version, for the curious.
- Core tier price
- Free forever, no card, no per-seat fee
- Premium tier
- Public beta. Pricing under co-development.
- Where it runs
- Web app, Slack, MCP-compatible AI clients
- Where data lives
- Postgres on Railway, US-West
- Founded
- Victoria, British Columbia
- Built on
- Next.js 15, Drizzle ORM, Clerk auth, Anthropic Claude
Where to start
Sign up for the free tier and you'll be on a populated canvas within ten minutes.
What people ask about TuringDock
- What does TuringDock do?
- TuringDock replaces the spreadsheet small manufacturers use to track suppliers, parts, BOMs, customer orders, production schedules, and money owed. The AI assistant (Alan) sits at the centre: forward your supplier list to onboard, ask Alan in Slack what to count today, tap one button on a customer order and Alan drafts the entire production schedule.
- Is TuringDock really free?
- Yes. The core MRP (canvas, BOMs, suppliers, customers, customer orders, purchase orders, production scheduling, branded PDFs, Alan in Slack, basic forecasting, cycle counts, money page, reports) is free with no time limit and no card required. The premium tier covers international supplier payments, direct supplier API integrations, multi-week schedule optimization, advanced demand forecasting, supplier risk scoring, and the Model Context Protocol server. Premium pricing is being figured out with the first cohort of customers in public beta.
- Who is TuringDock built for?
- Canadian manufacturing startups, typically between $500k and $20M in revenue, that have outgrown the founder's spreadsheet but find legacy MRPs (MRPeasy, Katana, Fishbowl, Odoo) heavyweight and slow to set up. If you make a physical product, pay suppliers in USD/EUR/GBP, and your bookkeeping currently lives in Excel + email, you're the target customer.
- How long does setup take?
- An afternoon. Three onboarding paths: forward your supplier list to your private inbox (Alan extracts suppliers, parts, and prices automatically), upload a CSV, or build node-by-node. Most workspaces are recognizable shops within ten minutes of signup.
- What is Alan?
- Alan is TuringDock's AI assistant, named after Alan Turing. Alan lives in your TuringDock app as a right-rail sidebar, in your Slack workspace as a DMable bot, and as a Model Context Protocol server you can connect Cursor or Claude Desktop to. Same eleven tools across every surface: query inventory, log cycle counts, mark production tasks done, draft customer-order schedules, summarize reports, forecast demand.
- Does TuringDock handle international supplier payments?
- Yes, as part of the premium tier currently in public beta. Pay suppliers in their currency at interbank FX rates with the rate locked at PO issuance, same-day settlement, no $30 wire fees. The free tier shows you per-supplier estimated savings on every supplier node and lets you enroll in the payments beta from inside the app.
- Does TuringDock integrate with Slack?
- Yes, deeply. After you install the TuringDock Slack app from Settings → Integrations, Alan handles the same actions you'd take in the web app: log a cycle count with 'count PCB-100 47', mark a production task done with 'done 50 PCB-100', query stock with 'what's our PCB-100 inventory', ask 'what's on Bob's plate this week' for a per-operator schedule summary, or get a one-line summary of any report.
- Can I connect TuringDock to Cursor or Claude Desktop?
- Yes, via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). One config block in your AI client's settings exposes all of Alan's tools (inventory queries, schedule drafting, cycle counting, report summaries, demand forecasting) as callable tools inside the AI you already use. Premium tier, currently in public beta.
- How does TuringDock compare to MRPeasy, Katana, Fishbowl, Odoo?
- The MRP primitives (inventory, BOMs, suppliers, customer orders, purchase orders, production scheduling, branded documents) overlap. What differs: TuringDock is AI-first (Alan in Slack handles operator workflow, drafts POs at the reorder point, narrates reports), the core tier is free with no per-seat fees, setup is an afternoon vs weeks, and international supplier payments are built into the same product. See per-tool comparisons at /compare/mrpeasy, /compare/katana, /compare/fishbowl, /compare/odoo.
- Does TuringDock compete with QuickBooks or Xero?
- No. TuringDock is a manufacturing operations tool, not an accounting system. You'll still use QuickBooks or Xero for the GL, P&L, taxes, and reconciliation. TuringDock generates the source documents (Quotes, Order Confirmations, Invoices, Supplier POs, Packing Slips) and the matched revenue/COGS/inventory numbers your accountant pulls into the books.
- How do I migrate from MRPeasy / Katana / Fishbowl?
- Export your inventory + BOM + supplier list as CSV from your current tool, then forward those files to your TuringDock workspace's private inbox or upload via the canvas. Alan extracts the structure and lands a populated shop. Customer order history and production schedule typically stay in the legacy system as historical archive; new orders happen in TuringDock from cutover day.
- Where is my data hosted?
- Postgres on Railway, single-vendor for the whole stack (web app, API, AI services, scheduled jobs, database). Data sits in Railway's US-West region. We don't share it with anyone outside the named subprocessors in our Privacy Policy (Anthropic for the AI, Postmark for outbound email, Clerk for auth, Slack for the bot surface, PostHog for product analytics).
- Who built TuringDock?
- TuringDock is built in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Reachable at hello@turingdock.com.