Smartbase: automated PO entry for manufacturers
We help manufacturers (e.g. job shops) remove the manual work from order entry.
Details
- External ID
- 99744
- Source
- YC
- Company
- Smartbase
- Product
- Smartbase: automated PO entry for manufacturers
- Website domain
- smartbase.so
- Launched
- April 15, 2026
- Cohort
- Spring 2026
- Upvotes
- 23
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5214285714285715
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- enterprise workflow and developer tools
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- automated purchase order entry for manufacturers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The core product is document ingestion (extracting line items from unstructured purchase orders) and pushing that data into manufacturing ERPs. While modern vision LLMs can extract tabular PO data easily, interfacing with legacy on-premise manufacturing ERPs (like JobBOSS, Epicor, or Global Shop Solutions) requires complex integration work.
What it would actually take: The pipeline uses document OCR/VLM extraction (e.g., via Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o) with specialized prompt schemas for multi-page tables, paired with validation algorithms for math and SKU matching. The hard part is integrating with legacy on-premises Windows-based manufacturing ERPs, which often lack modern REST APIs and require custom ODBC/direct SQL connectors, robotic desktop automation, or specialized EDI translators. Execution requires manufacturing IT systems knowledge and reliable local integration agents.
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