Inventory
Atomic piece-level tracking. One row, one physical piece — bars, plates, sheet and mesh, including the offcuts and plate remnants you’d otherwise lose.
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The operating system for steel fabricators.
AI import for part lists and mill certs, 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, nesting, production, procurement, quality, compliance documents and delivery — designed from the floor up for EN 1090 fabrication, not adapted from a generic ERP.
What SteelAxis OS gives you, on day one.
Projects
Part lists in; parts, assemblies, sub-assemblies and bolt schedules out. AI does the first pass, planners review and confirm. Uploaded drawings are matched to their parts.
Nesting
Cut plans for bars and profiles that use stock and offcuts first. Splicing-aware: offcuts ≥ 1000 mm can be joined into a finished part when that beats buying new steel — with your approval.
Production
Work orders routed across material prep, cutting, fit-up, welding, coating and assembly. The floor closes each step; who did it and the hours are recorded as it happens. Printed work orders carry a QR code a phone opens.
Planning & cost
A shop-wide planning board — projects, stages, days — showing the plan against what actually happened. Logged hours and purchases roll up into cost against the quote, per project.
Procurement
From shortage list to RFQ to purchase order to goods received. Supplier quotes compared side by side; steel already on order counts in planning. Suppliers answer in their own portal or by quote link.
Outsourcing
One view of everything that is at a vendor — cutting, galvanising, coating — until it is back with its certificate. Cutting RFQs go out with each part’s DXF, STEP or NC file attached.
Certificates & files
Mill certificates read from PDF and linked to the physical pieces they certify — you confirm what the AI proposes. Drawings, certificates and reports in one searchable place.
Quality
NCRs, welder qualifications, equipment calibration and FPC certificate expiry, with a weekly digest before anything lapses. Append-only audit log, built to produce SOC 2 evidence.
Compliance documents
Declaration of Performance, NCR, coating and weld-inspection reports generated from the work already recorded — then gathered into one documentation pack per project.
Delivery
Packages, a packing list you tick off at loading, a delivery note built from what was actually loaded, and a filled-in CMR.
Client portal
Your clients sign in by email link to follow their project and download the documents you share with them. You decide, per client, how much they see.
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.
- Welder qualification, calibration and FPC expiry before they lapse
- Project cost against the quote as it moves, not after it closes
- One planning board: the plan against what actually happened
- Clients follow their own project in the client portal
Outcome status
EN 1090 ready
Stop firefighting drawing-to-parts every Monday morning.
- AI part-list import — drop the spreadsheet, get the parts
- Splicing-aware nesting recombines offcuts ≥ 1000 mm
- Work orders routed across every stage, closed by the floor as it happens
- Shortages go straight to an RFQ — steel already on order is counted
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 execution class, coating and NDT requirements set per assembly
- DoP, NCR, coating and weld-inspection reports generated, not typed
- Welder qualifications and instrument calibration tracked before they expire
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
Plate · sheet · mesh and expanded metal · bolts and fixings
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?
It’s shipped — SteelAxis OS runs in production today. We’re not selling it broadly yet: the founding-customer program takes five fabricators onto it properly, with the founder doing the onboarding. General availability follows once those five are running. If you’d rather ask a few questions first, contact us.
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. It runs in the browser on any device, tablets at the saw included, but it needs a live connection — there is no offline mode today. If your floor has connectivity gaps, tell us; a dedicated offline client is roadmap, not shipped.
Which CAD / nesting tools will you integrate with?
Today the AI import reads part lists (Excel/CSV) and mill certificates (digital PDF), turning both into structured data without anyone retyping them. Drawings you upload — PDF, DXF, DWG, STEP, NC — are matched to their parts by file name and title block and attached; a weak match is left for you to place by hand. Importing a PDF or IFC drawing and getting parts back is on the roadmap, not shipped, and so is reading scanned certificates. Plates are stocked and traced, but the plate nest itself still comes from your CAM. Direct integrations with Tekla Structures, Advance Steel and the major nesting tools come after that; founding customers set the priority order.
How does pricing work?
Flat per-shop subscription — not per seat. Charging per head would tax the thing the product is for: the shop floor logging in. Everyone in your shop gets a login, including tablets at the saw.
Right now we’re running a founding-customer program for five fabricators, from €500/month + VAT. Your exact rate is agreed in writing before anything is billed. You only commit to the first three months — at the end of month 3 both sides review the pilot and decide whether to carry on.
Prepay a block and you get two months off it: months 4–12 for the price of seven, and each year after that for the price of ten. Prepaying commits that block, so it replaces the review for it. Invoiced directly either way, no card.
Is my data secure? Where does it live?
Your shop’s production data is hosted in EU regions (no transfer outside the EEA), in a separate database per shop. Sign-in runs through our EU identity provider; federating with your own company SSO is roadmap, not shipped. 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 Baltic and Nordic markets are where we’re onboarding first, because the founder does it in person, but any EU shop can apply — tell us where you are and we’ll say honestly when we can take you on.
How do I become a design partner?
That’s what the founding-customer program is — five places and a direct line into the roadmap. Apply there and tell Matiss what kind of shop you run and the one thing that eats the most time on your floor.
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 import so part lists and mill certificates become structured data 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
Founding customer program
Five fabricators. Real production. Founder on the phone.
SteelAxis OS runs in production today. We’re taking five fabricators into it properly — real projects, real material, real audits — with direct founder support, in exchange for telling us where it’s wrong.
Everyone in your shop gets a login, including tablets at the saw. Your exact rate is agreed in writing before anything is billed.
- One real production project
- Initial data setup and workflow configuration
- Team onboarding
- Direct founder support
- We measure the operational change together
- The full SteelAxis workflow
- All standard platform capabilities
- Priority on what gets built next
Two ways to pay. Pick the one that fits how you buy.
If SteelAxis hasn’t earned its place in your shop by month 3, you shouldn’t be paying for it — and we’d rather know. That’s why the monthly route exists, and why the discount on the prepaid route is what you get for giving up that exit.
Invoiced directly — monthly or per block, whichever you pick. No card, no checkout. We confirm scope and details with you before anything is billed. Already onboarded? Sign in.
What we’re honest about
- Limited to five fabricators. Not a growth-hack scarcity line — five is how many shops one founder can onboard properly at once.
- It’s early. You’ll find rough edges. That’s the trade for the access.
- Your data is yours. One database per shop. Export whenever you want, including if you leave.
- Drawing import is on the roadmap, not in the box. Today the AI import reads part lists and digital mill certificates, and matches uploaded drawings to their parts. Dropping a PDF drawing and getting parts back is not built yet; neither is reading scanned certificates.
- No estimating yet. SteelAxis starts once you have the job. Estimating is the next big module, not a current one.
- Plate nesting stays in your CAM. We nest bars and profiles. Plates are stocked, traced and released with their remnants, but the nest itself comes from the software you already cut with.
- It needs a live connection. There’s no offline mode today — tablets on the floor need coverage.
- Implementation has a defined scope. Onboarding hours, data migration, integrations and on-site work are agreed in writing before we start — so the subscription stays a subscription.
Want to know more? Contact us.
Questions about the product, the pricing, or whether SteelAxis OS fits the way your shop works — write to us. Matiss, the founder, reads every message.
hello@steelaxis.eu, or the founder directly at matiss@steelaxis.eu.