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Atomic piece-level tracking. One row, one physical piece — including the offcuts you’d otherwise lose.
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The operating system for steel fabricators.
AI drawing import, atomic piece-level inventory, and everything you need for your first EN 1090 audit. Built by a fabricator who lived the Excel-book years so you don’t have to.
From Excel books to operating system.
Today, most steel fabricators run on a stack of spreadsheets, paper certificates, and email threads. Drawings get re-typed. Mill certs get lost. Offcuts get re-bought because nobody can find what’s already in the yard. EN 1090 audits become a two-week scramble.
SteelAxis OS replaces the stack. One system for inventory, projects, production, procurement, files, and quality — designed from the floor up for EN 1090 fabrication, not adapted from a generic ERP.
What SteelAxis OS gives you, on day one.
Projects
Drawings in, parts and assemblies out. AI triage does the first pass; planners review and refine.
Production
Work orders across material prep, cutting, welding, painting, assembly, fixture, outsourcing. Real-time floor visibility.
Procurement
Purchase orders, supplier RFQs over public quote tokens, outsourcing dispatch. No more email ping-pong.
Files
Mill certificates extracted from PDFs and linked to the physical pieces they certify. Searchable, traceable.
Quality
NCRs, fixture-expiry tracking, in-process material status. Append-only audit log, SOC2-aligned.
CPR 2024/3110 · in force since Nov 2024
ESPR DPP for steel · in stakeholder consultation 2026
Built for the regulations that are coming.
The EU Digital Product Passport is arriving for steel. The revised Construction Products Regulation (2024/3110) already requires a DPP for construction products — in force since November 2024. The ESPR Digital Product Passport for intermediate steel is in formal stakeholder consultation right now, with priority status for hot rolled coil, wire rod, galvanised coil, electrical and stainless steel.
Both regulations require the same data structure: heat-level product identification, mill certificates linked to the physical pieces they certify, chemical composition, recycled content, carbon footprint, country of melt and pour, audit-ready traceability across every transformation step.
That data structure is the foundation of SteelAxis OS. Atomic piece-level inventory means every piece already has the identifier the DPP will demand. Mill-certificate extraction means EN 10204 data is already structured, not trapped in a stack of PDFs. The append-only audit log is the traceable record your customers, your auditors, and the regulation will all eventually require.
If you start preparing for DPP in 2027 as a spreadsheet shop, you’ll be a year behind the fab shops next to you. If you start on SteelAxis OS now, you’re already there.
Built for the three people who run a fab shop.
Know what’s happening without standing on the floor.
- Scrap and material reuse trends, week over week
- Project margins as they move, not after they close
- Compliance posture — audit-ready, today
- Mobile access from anywhere
Outcome status
EN 1090 ready
Stop firefighting drawing-to-parts every Monday morning.
- AI drawing import — drop the PDF, get the parts
- Splicing-aware nesting recombines offcuts ≥ 1000 mm
- Work-order routing across all production stages
- Real-time SignalR updates from the shop floor
In-flight status
Cutting in progress
Defensible from the first audit to the hundredth.
- Mill certificates linked to the physical pieces they cover
- EN 1090 EXC2 / EXC3 execution class declarations
- NCRs with traceable resolution and approval chains
- Fixture-expiry nudges before they bite
NCR status
NCR open · #014
Compliance is wired in, not bolted on.
EN 1090 EXC2 / EXC3 · EN 10204 3.1 · EN 10210 · EN 10219
CPR 2024/3110 · ESPR DPP for steel (in consultation)
Standard profile catalogues: IPE · HEA · HEB · SHS · RHS · CHS · UPN · L · flat · round
Everything the standards you already work to demand — and the data architecture the regulations on the horizon will demand next.
Why we call it an operating system.
An operating system isn’t an application. It’s the layer underneath — the one that handles the things every application needs so the applications don’t have to. File storage. User identity. Real-time updates. Audit logs.
A fab shop has the same shape. Every shop needs: a record of every piece of steel, a way to turn drawings into parts, work orders that route across stages, mill certificates that stay linked to the material they certify, audit trails that hold up to EN 1090 review, and a way for the foreman to see all of it from the shop floor.
Today, shops build that baseline themselves — out of Excel, paper, folders, and email. Differently in every shop. Re-built every time someone leaves.
SteelAxis OS is that baseline, built once, shared across every shop that runs on it. Your fabricators focus on the fabrication. The OS handles the record-keeping the audit demands.
Questions you might have.
When does SteelAxis OS ship?
We’re in pre-launch. The waitlist is open, and onboarding for early-access fab shops will open before general availability. If you join the list you’ll be among the first contacted, and the launch-day briefing will arrive in your inbox.
What’s the deployment model? Cloud or on-prem?
Cloud-first. SteelAxis OS runs as a managed European SaaS — no on-premise install, no servers in your shop closet. Data is hosted in the EU. The shop-floor app works offline on the floor and syncs when connectivity returns.
Which CAD / nesting tools will you integrate with?
The drawing-import pipeline ingests PDF and IFC out of the box — the two formats every shop already has. Direct integrations with Tekla Structures, Advance Steel, and the major nesting tools are on the roadmap; the priority order is set by what the early-access shops ask for first.
How does pricing work?
Per-shop subscription with seat-based pricing for the office app, and unlimited shop-floor tablets included. Exact tiers will be published before general availability. Pre-launch design partners get founding-customer terms.
Is my data secure? Where does it live?
Your shop’s production data is hosted in EU regions (no transfer outside the EEA). Authentication uses your company SSO when available; otherwise email + passkey. The audit log is append-only and structured for EN 1090 traceability — SOC 2 alignment is the design goal, formal attestation lands in the year after GA.
Detail on the landing page itself: see our privacy notice.
I’m outside the Baltics / Nordics. Can I still join?
Yes. The product targets EU steel fabricators broadly — the country dropdown lists the Baltic and Nordic markets we’re prioritising for early-access, but onboarding will open to any EU shop. Pick “Other” when you sign up and we’ll route you in at the right time.
How do I become a design partner?
Reply to the welcome email after joining the waitlist — tell Matiss what kind of shop you run and the one thing that eats the most time on your floor. Design partners get founding-customer pricing and a direct line into the roadmap.
A note from Matiss, the founder.
I spent three years inside steel fabrication looking for software that fit. I never found it.
What I found instead: Excel books I built and rebuilt every quarter. Mill certificates piling up in folders that nobody could navigate. Offcuts in the yard that we re-bought from suppliers because we couldn’t find them again. Every piece of information lived in two or three places — and at least one of those copies was wrong by the end of every week.
EN 1090 audit prep meant pulling everything together by hand the week before. Drawings to parts meant evenings on the planner’s computer. Cut optimisation meant the foreman’s best guess.
SteelAxis OS is the system I wanted then. Atomic inventory so every piece has a record. AI drawing import so parts come out of PDFs without a human transcribing them. Splicing-aware nesting that finds the offcuts you forgot you had. Mill certificates linked to the physical pieces they actually certify. Audit-ready from the first day you use it.
If you’ve run a fab shop on spreadsheets, you already know whether this resonates.
— Matiss
Founder, SteelAxis OS
Join the SteelAxis OS waitlist.
You’ll get three things — none of them generic newsletter filler:
- Early access when onboarding opens, ahead of general availability.
- A monthly briefing on what the EU Digital Product Passport and the revised Construction Products Regulation actually mean for a steel fab shop. Written for owners and ops managers, not for regulators. One page, one inbox, one Friday a month.
- A copy of our DPP and CPR readiness guide for steel fabricators the moment it publishes (target window: 3–4 weeks from launch).
That’s the offer. No spam, no sales sequence, no third party gets your email.
Early access at launch
Monthly DPP / CPR briefing
Readiness guide when it ships