Who it’s for
You were great at the work. You built a name for it. You scaled. Now the admin’s threatening to drown you, and the place wobbles whenever one key person’s away.
We keep meeting that story. A cabinetmaker who scaled. A superyacht fit-out firm. A geotech outfit. A sheet metal shop — us. Four versions of one thing, and we think there are more.
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A cabinetmaker who scaled
built a name for top work, grew, builds kitchens
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A superyacht fit-out firm
one-off interiors, every job custom
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A geotech outfit
started by a grad who was good with clients, grew
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Morris Sheetmetals — us
~15-person sheet metal shop; DocketWorks runs it
The shape it fits
Built around how MSM works — the closer your shop looks to this, the better the fit.
- Around 15 staff.
- The real product is people’s hours — even when the invoice says fabrications, reports, or custom installations.
- Every job is custom; you’re not making the same product over and over.
- A couple of thousand jobs a year, so quick data entry matters.
- Separate accounting — Xero is your books; DocketWorks isn’t.
- Materials sold near cost; the profit’s in the hours.
- Roughly one active job per staff member, mostly self-contained.
Every business is different somewhere; the further off this, the more the fit gets questionable.
It might not be you — and we’ll tell you so.
We obsess about one kind of business — the story above. If that’s you, you’ll love it: it already knows how a shop like yours runs, so there’s nothing to set up and no settings to fiddle with.
If your shop works in a fundamentally different way — say you need deep jobs-inside-jobs sequencing — a tool with more switches will suit you better, or honestly, Asana or Monday. We’d rather point you there than have you find out the hard way. We’re not trying to be the best job software for most shops; we’re trying to be the best for shops with this story.
Who built this
Morris Sheetmetals is a working ~15-person sheet metal shop. DocketWorks is the system it runs on — built from the inside, by the people doing the work. That’s why it’s quick, why there’s no fluff, why every field on the screen is there for a reason.
You’re not buying a software company’s guess at how your business works. You’re buying the tool another shop built for itself.
Where it’s headed
It’s young. Parts of the system still assume how MSM works, and shaping it to a new shop takes time. Here’s what we’re building next — things that exist in the system but aren’t yet at MSM’s “faster than paper” bar:
- →Timesheets on a phone or tablet
- →Leads / pre-sales tracking (coming soon)
- →Smarter handling of repeat jobs
- →GPS / site-location features
- →AI to help with quoting and following your job steps