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fulcrum Builder

Software that molds to you, not the other way around.

The dashboards, custom apps and tools your software never had. Describe one. Builder makes it in Fulcrum, on your live data, in minutes, not months.

Your shop isn’t off the shelf. Your software shouldn’t be either.

Every spreadsheet in your shop is proof your software doesn’t fit you. Hundreds of Fulcrum customers are changing that. Three real examples, rebuilt on sample data:

Built by Fulcrum customers
Work order traveler, the Builder app Blueline built, shown inside Fulcrum
The real app this shop built and uses every day, with its data anonymized.
Blueline IndustriesChino, CA
The problem

Every shop has its own way of moving work across the floor, and the people who have run it for years do their best work when they can keep doing it their way. The paperwork should follow the floor, not the other way around.

What they built

Work order traveler

A traveler designed around how Blueline’s floor already works, printed straight from the job and formatted to their team’s preferences in minutes. “Every stage of every work center is using it.”

Shop floor · printed daily
Operator efficiency, the Builder app Wal-Tek built, shown inside Fulcrum
The real app this shop built and uses every day, with its data anonymized.
Wal-Tek IndustriesPhoenix, AZ
The problem

Across two divisions and dozens of operators, a great run can go unnoticed and a tough one can go unaddressed. Wal-Tek wanted the numbers that drive their success, fine-tuned to their specific definitions, and live and readable at a glance.

What they built

Operator efficiency

Efficiency as Wal-Tek defines it, tuned to their own definitions, specific rule sets, and exclusions, for every operator and every operation, broken down by machine and by run.

Production · every operator
Shipping label generator, the Builder app Aldine built, shown inside Fulcrum
The real app this shop built and uses every day, with its data anonymized.
Aldine Metal ProductsNew Milford, CT
The problem

Every manufacturer has that one big customer who needs that one form tailored exactly to their needs. For Aldine, it’s a shipping label, in a specific format that only a single customer requires.

What they built

Shipping label generator

A label tailored to that customer, one click from any of their shipments. Every other shipment still gets Aldine’s standard label, and both print from Fulcrum.

Shipping · one customer’s spec

A report tells you. An app lets you act.

Builder apps write to Fulcrum, not just read from it. Move a job, set a due date, open an NCR. Publish once and the whole team works from the same app.

‹ Builds Customer date changes Draft
Mike KowalskiOperations manager · building the app
1 · Mike builds it
The request
Drop the customer’s spreadsheet here
XLS
acme-requested-dates.xlsx7 rows · line, job, requested date
Simulated on sample data
Building…
Requested date changesSales order 48812 · 7 lines
0 of 7 read
Drop the customer’s file to start. Nothing changes until you accept.
Written to Fulcrum
Jobs5 due dates
Job notes5 added · J. Okafor
ScheduleRebuilt around the new dates
Demo fulcrum + Builder
Why it works in Fulcrum

Build custom software with manufacturing context.

ChatGPT and Claude can write code. They don't know manufacturing, Fulcrum data structures, or the fundamentals of how your unique shop runs. Builder is taught all of it, so you describe the outcome and get working software instantly.

Trained on how manufacturing works

Feeds and speeds. Setups, outside processing, scrap, rework. How a job really moves across a floor.

Trained on Fulcrum

Your jobs, items, routings and customers. Live, not exported. It knows how to write a change back to the database safely.

Trained on what good software looks like

Screens people actually use. Filters that remember you. Versions kept. Publish to who needs it.

Trained on how a shop makes money

Costing, on-time delivery, margin by customer, capacity. It knows which numbers matter and why.

Three sentences. Four minutes. Working software.

Rethink what your software is allowed to do

If a process lives in a spreadsheet, your software didn’t fit.

Before: the spreadsheet
operator_eff_v3_FINAL(2).xlsx
ABCD 1OperatorEarnedActualEff % 2D. Alvarez181.5150.0121% 3K. Moreno169.5150.0113% 4R. Castillo154.5150.0#REF! 5M. Ortega??150.0#DIV/0! 6D. Alvarez181.5150.0121% 7TOTAL=SUM(B2:B5)600.0#DIV/0!
Machine shopFabSheet3old DO NOT USE
With Builder
The same operator efficiency numbers as a Fulcrum page built with Builder

Builder is how the shop gets the screen no software company would ever ship, without a consultant.

If you are pasting shop data into a chatbot, you are the integration.

Before: a chatbot
Here’s this week’s open jobs. Which ones are going to ship late? job,part,due,op,status 2210-1,410227,10/21,Weld,Running 2210-2,410231,10/21,Laser,Next 2214-1,HW-1512,10/24,Saw,Waiting … 212 more rows
AI
Can’t answer: missing data I can’t see your schedule, routings or machine capacity. Paste those too, and send a new export whenever anything changes.
Export. Paste. Repeat every morning.
With Builder
Which of this week’s open jobs are going to ship late?
Jobs that will ship lateBuilt with Builder · open jobs this week Live Fulcrum data
2210-2 · Laser · due 10/21Ships late Laser 2 is booked through 10/22. Earliest start pushes ship to 10/23.
2214-1 · Saw · due 10/24Ships late Waiting on HW-1512 kit. PO 2403 lands 10/25.
2210-1 · Weld · due 10/21On time Running on Bay 3. 16 h left, finishes 10/20.
2218-3 · Powder coat · due 10/25Ships late Outside process PO not sent yet. Vendor quotes 5 days. Send today and parts are back 10/24. Send PO
2216-1 · Brake · due 10/22Ships late Brake 1 is down for tooling until 10/21. Ships 10/23.

Builder is already inside Fulcrum, on live data, with your permissions. No export, no second login, no API to maintain.

Included in every plan.

Unlimited viewers

Every user on your account can open every page. You are never charged per seat to use your apps.

Live Fulcrum data

Pages read your jobs, materials and shipments as they are. No exports, syncs or integrations to maintain.

Secure

Only your site. Nothing you teach it leaves. Your existing Fulcrum sign-in and access controls carry straight through.

Your permissions apply

Pages respect the access rules you already have. Nobody sees anything they couldn’t see already.

Hosted by Fulcrum, ITAR secure

Nothing to deploy and no infrastructure to run. Pages sit in your navigation alongside everything else.

A pooled annual token allowance

Every plan includes a yearly allowance of AI tokens, pooled across the year.

Tell us what to build.

If a process in your shop still lives on a whiteboard or in a spreadsheet, tell us what it is. We’ll build it live, on Zoom. Pick a time →

FAQs

Is Builder included with Pro?

Builder is a separate product. Chat stays included for everyone, and Pro still includes all the reporting it always has. Building software with AI has a real per-build cost, so the shops that build pay for it and viewing stays free for everyone on the account.

Does editing count as a new app? Does deleting free a slot?

Editing doesn’t. Deleting does. The limit is how many apps exist at once, and empty or unpublished apps count, so clean up first.

Does it train on our data?

No. Each customer’s data is segregated and nothing you teach it leaves your site.

What if it builds the wrong thing?

Tell it what to change. Every version is kept and any one restores.

We are ITAR. Are we on a worse model?

Shops enabled on our government-cloud rollout run the same model as everyone else, hosted in AWS GovCloud. Ask us where your site stands.

Can I connect QuickBooks or my CRM?

External data connections are coming. Ask us about your system.