Software for manufacturing & machine building · Frankfurt, since 2017

From Excel tool to customer portal: software that wins orders and frees up your team.

We build portals where your customers handle spare parts, service, and orders around the clock — and calculators that turn your pricing know-how into a product. First version in days instead of months, live in about 90 days. You own the code, 100%.

Free Potential Analysis (30 min)What we build

Free and non-binding. In 30 minutes, we'll run the numbers on what a portal or calculator would do for your business.

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Maximilian Schmidt — founder of CPI Technologies — Maximilian SchmidtFounder & CEO, CPI Technologies · Frankfurt

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Sound familiar?

Strong on the shop floor, stuck in the office?

The shop floor runs at capacity, quality is solid, repeat customers keep coming back. But everything around the machines — quotes, spare parts, order status — runs on phone calls, email, and a spreadsheet only one person understands. That's exactly where you lose margin, time, and eventually customers.

Your pricing lives in a spreadsheet only one person can operate.

The file with all the pricing formulas has grown over years — and crosses a single desk.
Every quote takes days, and mistakes only surface once the order is already priced.
Yet inside that very file sits a product your customers could operate themselves.

Spare parts and service run on phone and inbox.

For every request, your back office digs up part numbers, drawings, and lead times — by hand.
Customers wait for callbacks, urgent cases drown between emails.
Your best people spend their days answering questions instead of winning orders.

Your sales depend on field reps and gut feeling.

The supplier who quotes fastest wins the order — increasingly, that's the competitor with a configurator.
Young buyers expect prices and lead times at the push of a button.
Suppliers who can't deliver that get dropped at the next vendor review.

What we build

What we build for manufacturers, machine builders, and suppliers

Always software that pays for itself — by winning orders, taking load off your team, or becoming a product in its own right.

Customer portal for spare parts and service

Your customers find parts by serial number or machine type, see price and lead time, and order on the spot — instead of waiting on your hotline. Service cases arrive structured, not as free-text emails.

Order portal for B2B customers

Framework agreements, call-off orders, order history, delivery status: your B2B customers run their orders themselves — with their terms, their approval flows, and visibility on every order. Your sales team sees it all in one system.

Your calculator, turned into a product

Your homegrown Excel becomes a configurator: the customer enters material, dimensions, and quantity and gets price and lead time instantly. You get qualified inquiries instead of price fishing — and you can sell the tool to other companies.

Quote automation for your sales team

An inquiry email becomes a draft quote: AI extracts the line items, applies your pricing logic, and queues the quote for approval. Quotes go out in minutes instead of days — and your estimator keeps the final say.

AI agents for the back office

Digital coworkers that capture orders from the inbox, push order data into your ERP, and answer routine lead-time questions instantly. Your team reviews and approves instead of retyping — and doesn't have to grow to keep up.

Dashboards for your order book and KPIs

Order backlog, delivery dates, spare-parts revenue, open service cases: one look instead of five systems. The numbers flow in live from your ERP, warehouse, and portal — so you know where you stand every morning, without anyone stitching spreadsheets together.

Integrations

Your portal works with your systems — not around them

The portal doesn't replace your ERP — it builds on top of it: prices, stock levels, and order status come live from your systems, and every order flows straight back in, with nobody retyping a thing.

Your internal systems

ERP & production planning

CAD & costing

Warehouse & shipping

Your customer & service portalconnects your customers to your operation

Tools it talks to

+ 1,500 more apps

A few examples — we connect whatever you run: through direct interfaces plus an integration layer covering 1,500+ apps. If there's no API, we work with exports and imports until a clean integration is in place.

See what works with your systems

How it works

About 90 days to a system your customers actually use

No agency black box, no IT project without an end date. Three steps, each with a clear deliverable — at a fixed price locked in before the project starts.

Step 1 · Weeks 1–2

Prove it before you build it

In the free 30-minute Potential Analysis, we run the numbers on what a portal or calculator would do for your business: a lighter back office, more spare-parts revenue, a new income stream.
We talk to five of your customers and find out what they'd actually use and pay for.
You then receive a written scope, a fixed price, and a launch date.
If the idea doesn't hold up, the project ends right there — you only pay for this stage.

Step 2 · Weeks 3–9

Weekly sprints to version one

Within days, you're clicking through a prototype — with your parts, your pricing logic, your logo.
Every Friday, you review the latest build in your browser and decide what gets built next.
We connect your ERP, production planning, and inventory systems in parallel — and the fixed price never moves, no matter how many hours we put in.

Step 3 · Weeks 10–13

Test with loyal customers, then roll out

Five to ten of your regular customers work with the system for four weeks — ordering spare parts, pricing quotes, filing service cases.
Wherever they get stuck, we fix it before the rest of your customer base ever sees the portal.
After rollout, we stay on to run the system long term — a full handover is possible anytime, and the code is 100% yours.

Maximilian Schmidt speaking to business owners at a CPI event

What you get out of it

What your business gets out of it

Software that works for you: in daily operations, in sales, and on your balance sheet.

A back office that can breathe

Part numbers, lead times, order status: what costs ten phone calls today, your customers handle themselves in the portal — around the clock. Your team stops playing information desk and focuses on the cases that actually carry margin.

New, recurring revenue

A calculator other companies pay for monthly. A spare-parts business that grows because ordering is as easy as any online shop. Software serves ten customers or ten thousand — without your costs growing with it.

A more valuable company

Customers who order through your portal don't switch suppliers over a two-percent price difference. And recurring software revenue counts as an asset in its own right in a valuation or succession — unlike pure production orders.

The comparison

Why a portal of your own — not an off-the-shelf module

The portal module from a software vendor doesn't know your edge cases, and an in-house dev team is expensive and hard to find. Our approach: a portal that truly reflects your pricing logic — built by people who have shipped software since 2017.

		Off-the-shelf portal or shop	In-house dev team
Handles your pricing logic and edge cases	✓	✕	✓
Connected to your ERP, production planning, and inventory	✓	?	✓
Live in about 90 days	✓	?	✕
Fixed price and launch date	✓	?	✕
You own the source code, 100%	✓	✕	✓
No in-house IT team required	✓	✓	✕
Ongoing support and further development	✓	✕	?

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Case studies

What we've already built

Two examples from our work — running on the same technology your portal or calculator would be built on.

Sellerpoint — B2B ordering platform

A B2B commerce platform with 500+ active users: orders from Amazon, eBay, and Shopify flow into a single interface, with fulfillment and analytics built in. The same technology powers the ordering and customer portals we build for manufacturers.

View case study →

PowerSetter.AI — sales that picks up the phone

An AI platform for sales teams: it calls leads within seconds, understands their request in natural conversation, and books appointments straight into the calendar. That's what sales digitization looks like when it delivers meetings instead of slide decks.

View case study →

Frequently asked questions

What manufacturers want to know before a project

Will this work with our ERP and inventory system?

Yes — the portal doesn't replace your ERP, it builds on top of it. We connect to whatever you run via its interfaces; if there's no API, we work with exports and imports until a clean integration is in place. In the Potential Analysis, we look at your system landscape and tell you before the quote what the integration involves — no surprises after the project starts.

Our pricing logic is complex and lives in a homegrown Excel file. Can you really turn that into software?

That's exactly when it's worth it. Your Excel file isn't an obstacle — it's the best specification a software project can have: every formula, every edge case, every customer discount is already in there. We translate that logic into a system anyone can operate — and during the test phase, your people run the portal and the spreadsheet side by side until the results match.

Our customers aren't IT people. Will they even use a portal?

That's precisely what we test before you roll out at scale: five to ten of your regular customers work with the system for four weeks while we watch where they get stuck. Whatever jams gets fixed before the rest of your customer base ever sees the portal. And a good portal doesn't abolish the phone — it makes sure the routine requests stop landing there.

What does it cost — and how can the price be fixed?

After the free Potential Analysis, you receive a written quote with scope, fixed price, and launch date. Once you sign, that number doesn't move — no matter how many hours we put in. Anything you want added later gets its own quote with its own fixed price. AI-powered development is what makes this possible: it makes the effort calculable before the first line of code is written.

Who owns the system — and what if we want to switch providers later?

You do. Source code, credentials, documentation, and the hosting accounts all run under your company's name. We keep running the system long term after launch, but a complete handover is possible at any time — to your own team or another provider. If you never hire us again, you're not missing a thing. Hosting is in the EU, GDPR-compliant; your drawings and prices stay in your accounts.

You work with AI. Does that make the code worse?

For us, AI speeds up writing code — not making decisions. Architecture, data model, and reviews are handled by a human with nearly ten years of experience building software. Every line goes through the same tests and standards as hand-written code. That way of working is what makes the fixed price and the roughly 90 days to launch possible in the first place — for a customer portal just as much as for a calculator.

Maximilian Schmidt on the trading floor of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange

First conversation

What could a portal or calculator earn you?

Walk us through your business: in 30 minutes, we'll run the numbers on what a portal or calculator would do for you — and tell you honestly whether the project is worth it.

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Within two business days, you receive an assessment with scope, price range, and launch date. If the project isn't worth it, we'll tell you that just as plainly.

Testimonials

From homegrown Excel to a platform of their own: what our clients say

**Nicklas Spelmeyer**Sellerpoint · CEO eCommerce.de

**Ulvi Aydin**Ameritum · Founder & Interim Manager

**Sven Büchel**Intokia · Van Sterling Capital

**Zhenwei Wang**Precious metals trading platform

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