About Adestio
Enterprise resource planning has been priced beyond small manufacturers for forty years. Not because the software is hard, but because the licensing model was designed for companies with a finance department. We changed that.
Why we built Adestio
NetSuite, SAP Business One, Epicor, Odoo. They are capable systems, and they are sold with a per-seat licence, a module list and an implementation partner on day rate. By the time a twenty-person fabricator has priced the seats for the stores, the buyer, the estimator and the shop floor, the quote is six figures and the first count is nine months away.
So the fabricator carries on with spreadsheets and a whiteboard, and everyone agrees ERP is not for businesses like theirs. We took the parts that genuinely matter on a shop floor: accurate stock, real bills of materials, work orders, purchasing, demand-driven replenishment and order fulfilment. Then we took the licence off the front of it. You get the whole thing, and we get paid out of the orders it helps you ship.
"Every small manufacturer we met had been quoted more for the ERP than they spend on steel. So we stopped charging for the software and took a share of the orders it helps them get out of the door instead."
The Adestio team
How we build it
An ERP that the stores will not use is worse than the spreadsheet it replaced.
The work happens in the racks, not at a desk. If a job cannot be done one-handed on a phone, it is not finished.
Every movement is append-only and carries a name. You can always answer how a stock figure got to where it is.
Permissions are per module and per person. Nobody is trained on a screen they will never open.
Master data is cached on the device, and when the signal is weak the app says so rather than pretending it saved.
What it replaces
| What most shops run today | In Adestio |
|---|---|
| A stock spreadsheet nobody trusts | Barcoded locations and an audited movement ledger |
| A BOM workbook one person maintains | Multi-level, formula-driven bills of materials |
| Min/max levels set years ago | Demand-driven buffers on a schedule you choose |
| POs on an email thread, rekeyed at month end | Purchase orders posted straight to your accounts package |
| Quotes priced from last year's costs | Live cost × FX × margin, approved before it ships |
| A printed picking list checked by eye | Scan-gated picking against reserved stock |
| A paper timesheet in the site hut | Clock in and out in the same app as the work |
Pricing
We agree a percentage with you, and we take it on the orders you successfully fulfil through Adestio. Nothing before that. No licence, no seats, no implementation fee and no consultant invoice waiting at the end of a discovery phase.
It is the only pricing model we could find that does not ask a business to bet six figures on software it has not used yet. If Adestio does not end up putting orders out of your door, it has not cost you anything.
To get started
£0
No licence. No seats. No minimum term.
Then an agreed
% of orders shipped
Apply to registerAgreed with you before you go live.
Apply, and if it is a fit we provision your tenant by hand, usually the same working day. Then you set up your facilities and invite your people. No implementation partner, no licence, no credit card, and no charge per user.
Tell us who you are and what you make. A person reads every application and answers either way, usually the same working day.
In the browser. Add your plants and bin locations, then print the barcode labels straight to your own printer.
Tick the modules each person needs. They pick up the app and start scanning.
Then your team gets the app
For scanning, counting, picking and clocking. You keep running the business from the desktop.
Nothing to pay and no card. We read every application, and we agree your rate before anything goes live.
Thanks, that is with us.
A person will read it and come back to you either way, usually the same working day. If it is a fit we provision your tenant and send you the link. If it is urgent, reply to that email and say so.
