App Case Study
Paint Formula & Inventory Management Platform
Custom paint formula management
Overview
IMAC is custom software for managing, mixing and storing car paints and formulas. It adds advanced user and role management, inventory tracking and data management.
IMAC replaced a wall of paper formula cards and a set of spreadsheets. One person understood those in full and everyone else guessed at them. IMAC stores proprietary paint formulas, guides technicians through mixing them, and keeps stock counts tied to the jobs that consume them.
The challenge
Paint technicians were managing thousands of proprietary formulas across paper records and disconnected spreadsheets.
The formulas were the business, and they lived in binders. Finding one meant knowing where it was. Mixing from it meant reading it correctly under workshop conditions. Stock was counted apart from the work that used it. So the two numbers drifted apart a little more every week.
What we built
Built a centralised platform with formula storage, mixing guidance, inventory tracking, and role-based access for shop staff.
We modelled the formulas, the inventory and the people first. Every screen after that depends on the shape agreed there. Mixing guidance was built around the everyday path rather than the path that demonstrates well. A technician who finds the system slower than the binder will go back to the binder. Roles decide who can read a formula, who can change one and who can adjust stock.
- Central formula store with search, versioning and controlled access
- Step by step mixing guidance sized for workshop conditions
- Inventory tracking tied to the jobs that consume stock
- Role based access separating technicians, supervisors and administrators
- Reporting on formula usage and stock movement
Results
The numbers below are what changed for Automotive Industry after IMAC shipped.
Technology used
We are technology agnostic by policy. This is a record of what IMAC required, not a house standard.
Services behind this project
IMAC drew on 3 services from our catalogue, matched to what an app project like this actually needed.
App development
Mobile and operational applications where records change and permissions matter. The edge cases decide whether the software survives a real workday.
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Bespoke systems for teams with a very specific requirement. An off the shelf product would force them to change how they work.
Explore custom software →Business process optimisation
Mapping and redesigning the process before it is automated. Software built on a broken workflow simply makes the wrong thing faster.
Explore process work →This work sits inside our Automate solution, for teams facing the same problem.
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IMAC FAQs
Off the shelf inventory tools track quantities. They do not hold a proprietary formula, guide a technician through mixing it, or connect what was mixed to what left the shelf. That connection was the whole point of the project.
Access is controlled by role, so a technician sees what they need to mix and nothing else. Changes to a formula are restricted and recorded. The formulas are the client's most valuable asset, and they are treated that way.
It was designed for one. Screens are readable at arm's length with gloves on. The frequent actions are reachable without hunting through menus. Software that assumes a quiet desk does not survive a shop floor.
Planning something like IMAC?
Tell us what you are trying to build. We will tell you plainly what it would take, including the parts that would not be worth doing.
Last updated 3 September 2026
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