Machinists + software engineers Flow is built by a company that does both, on our own shop floor in Houston
Manufacturing comes back when the cost of making it here stops being guesswork .
An American plant pays more for labor, power and floor space. It wins on the hours it doesn't waste. Flow measures them: every machine live, every job costed, every setup done once.
14 days free · no card · month to month · from $400 a month
Rather talk it over? Call our Houston office and a person who has run a lathe picks up.
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- Precision turning
- Screw machine
- CNC milling
- Stamping & forming
- Gear & spline
- Medical & dental
- Aerospace hardware
- Contract assembly
- Precision turning
- Screw machine
- CNC milling
- Stamping & forming
- Gear & spline
- Medical & dental
- Aerospace hardware
- Contract assembly
Most shops run on memory, spreadsheets and a whiteboard
That works until the shop grows past what a few people can hold in their heads. Then jobs ship late, quotes miss, and money goes out the door in ways nobody can see. A system like Flow puts the whole operation in one place.
- The problem Nobody has the full picture. What is running, what is late and what is missing lives in different places and different heads.
- What changes
One version of the truth
Office, floor, purchasing and quality work from the same live plan, so decisions stop waiting on a walk around the shop.
- The problem Problems are found too late: at the machine, at final inspection, or when the customer calls.
- What changes
Problems show up while they are still cheap
Shortages, conflicts and slipping dates surface days ahead, with time to reorder, reschedule or tell the customer.
- The problem You are not sure what a job really costs, so every quote is a gamble.
- What changes
Quotes you can stand behind
Cost comes from what actually happened on the floor, so you know which work makes money and which does not.
- The problem The shop depends on a few people who know how everything works.
- What changes
Knowledge that stays with the shop
How each part is made, checked and bought is written down once, so the shop keeps running when someone is out and new people learn faster.
Audit-ready on any given day
Traceability, controlled documents, gauges, NCRs and first articles are recorded as the work is done.
Private AI
Real intelligence, not a wrapper around someone else’s AI
Many platforms say they use AI. Most are wrapped around a bigger provider such as OpenAI or Claude: they send your data to that third party and display the answer back to you. Your sensitive data is now in a system you have no control over, and you may have helped train it. Flow is the opposite.
- Our own intelligence, not a wrapper
- Every insight is processed by optimization logic built in-house by Flow.
- Learned by making parts every day
- The logic comes from what we have learned as manufacturers, running our own shop floor.
- Validated, and private
- Proven on real jobs. Your data is never sold, shared, or used to train anyone’s AI.
A TYPICAL “AI” PLATFORM
- Your data
- OpenAI, Claude or similar
- Answer shown to you
Your data leaves your control, and can be used to train a model you will never own.
GI FLOW
- Your data
- Flow’s own logic
- Insight to you
Processed by Flow. Nothing is sent to a third-party AI, not even for an insight.
$400 a month.
No licence fee.
Every feature, unlimited users, on every plan. You pay more only when you add machines. Cancel at the end of any month and take a full export with you.
Typical platform, licence before you start
licence fee, then the subscription
$15–20k
GI Flow, licence before you start
14 days free, then from $400 a month
$0
See what your floor is actually costing you
Fourteen days, every feature, no card, no contract. Most shops have their first machine reporting the same afternoon.