Read only
Observe the workflow and review its data without making changes.
Built by an LBM operator · For roofing, siding, and drywall distributors
Built by operators. Built around the work.
We’re operators. We started with the physical workflows—how material gets purchased, sold, pulled, loaded and delivered—then added the coding to build operating systems around how these businesses actually run.
We take a hybrid approach. Keep your ERP and choose how much SHNGL does in each workflow. Start with read-only Shadow Mode, then use recommendations, drafts, or approved actions where you’re comfortable. You can use your ERP and SHNGL at the same time. It’s up to you—not an all-or-nothing rollout.
A delivery is promised. The material is committed elsewhere.
Take the controls.
Explore a sample operation. Follow the evidence. Make the next decision.
Your workflows. Your comfort level. Your choice.
Hybrid by design. You set the pace.
Choose the level of authority for each workflow. Keep one read-only, ask another to prepare drafts, and allow a third to act within the permissions you approve. You do not have to give every workflow the same level of control.
Read and Recommend/Draft
Prepare recommendations or drafts for your team to review, edit, and approve.
Read and Act
Carry out approved actions within the workflow, permissions, and limits you choose.
Keep using your ERP and SHNGL side by side for as long as you want. Choose the workflows, agree on the scope, and change the level of authority as your comfort grows. It’s up to you. It’s not all or nothing.
Observe, Ask, Understand, Connect, Predict, Recommend, Approve, Act, Measure, Learn, Scale.
SHNGL works beside the system you already have. One team, one set of facts, and your people stay in charge.
The expensive part
The costliest problems in a distribution yard are the ones you find out about last.
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The stockout you hear about Thursday.
By the time the report shows it, the contractor already called someone else.
02
The buy that looked fine on paper.
Nobody writes down why a decision was made, so nobody learns from it.
03
The savings nobody can prove.
Software promises a number. Your CFO asks for the evidence. There isn't any.
The yard
Easiest example of SHNGL savings
With your permission, we can put forklift travel over an aerial view of the yard. That shows repeated trips, crowded lanes, and layout changes worth testing. Your managers choose the test, and we measure the same work before and after.
Forklift travel measurements and a yard heat map are part of Shadow Mode at the agreed branch. Before collecting travel data, we agree on the equipment, site access, safety rules, and how the routes and results will be measured.
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Permit and baseline
Agree on the site, imagery, safety rules, and success measure.
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Map the travel
Compare observed movement with open aisles and operating constraints.
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Test the change
Management approves a controlled layout or staging experiment.
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Verify the result
Measure the same route before and after; keep estimates separate.
Example forklift travel heat map
Synthetic density overlay—not customer data or a customer result
Meet Kenny Mays
Built from a career in the work.
Kenny Mays built his career in building materials before building the technology around it. He started in sales in September 1999 and worked in lumberyards, truss plants and roofing yards. He retired in June 2026, before building LMBR.
Yard worker, dispatcher, purchaser, general manager, president. I have keyed the same list twice, watched a forklift circle the yard for one pallet, and bought without the whole demand picture in front of me. SHNGL is what I wanted on those days.
Then I built the thing I kept wishing somebody would.
Don't take our word for it.
Take your own history.
Start with one branch. Keep your ERP. See what SHNGL would have told you, and judge the evidence yourself.