We built this because quality managers deserve a tool that does their job, not theirs and a spreadsheet's.

The sentence we kept hearing: we keep getting dinged on corrective-action timeliness. From three different shops. In one week. Same sentence.

Every shop had the same setup. A CAR log in Excel. Customer complaints in someone's inbox. SCARs in a folder on a shared drive. The quality manager personally chasing five people for status. The 90-day IATF clock running quietly in the background until a customer audit walks in and finds something open.

The big QMS platforms (MasterControl, ETQ Reliance) solve this for pharma and med device. Six-figure annual contracts. Twelve-month implementations. A $5–50M automotive supplier can't buy them and shouldn't.

The mid-market suites (QT9, ComplianceQuest) are honest software. They run on per-seat licensing and broad horizontal scope. None of them lead with IATF 16949 specificity. None of them ingest a SCAR from an email forward and produce an audit-ready packet by lunch.

So we built the thing in the middle. An intake layer with five sources. AI categorization a human checks. An action tracker that won't let a CAR slip. An audit trail that survives the audit. Trend visibility that catches recurrence before the next scorecard review.

The product is narrow on purpose. We don't compete on feature breadth. We compete on knowing the language: SCAR, 8D, PPAP, FMEA, the 90-day window, the effectiveness gap that produces 60% of CAPA audit findings. We build around it.

The founder is an industrial engineer. Tesla production-floor experience. Currently a systems engineer at Boeing. In this vertical that background is the price of admission, not a story point.

We sell paid pilots first. The founder operates the AI's judgment in the loop. The customer logs into a real product. Once the same workflow has worked reliably for five shops without the founder behind it, the manual layer drops away and the product becomes standardized self-serve software. Service-funded. Software-scaled.

The bet: a real problem, a real buyer, a real founder edge, and a clean test in 30 days.