Owner-run companies that still run on spreadsheets, phone calls, and one person's memory.
Manufacturers, distributors, certification agencies, property managers: businesses with real volume and no software that fits. Gildwright turns manual workflows into software. Hand us the one job that eats your week and we'll build software that does it exactly the way your people do it, or we'll pull the whole operation into one system built around how you already work.
One person knows the job cold
Quoting, intake, scheduling, dispatch, billing. Someone does it by hand, from memory, and everything waits on them. When they're out, it stops.
The tools don't talk to each other
An accounting app, a scheduling app, six spreadsheets, and a group text. Every answer means opening three of them and retyping what's in the fourth.
Off-the-shelf never quite fit
You've tried the software built for everyone. It made your people work its way instead of yours, so half of them went back to the spreadsheet.
That's who we work with. Below is what we're building for one of them right now, then a finished system you can click through yourself.
On the bench right now
Quoting automationFrom a request for quote to a finished, priced quote.
Today that work is manual. An estimator reads a dense spec sheet, decodes each opening by hand, looks up prices, and assembles the quote in a spreadsheet. It is slow, and mistakes slip through: a misread dimension or a missed opening becomes a correction after the fact.
The software takes the request in whatever form it arrives and reads each opening into structured line items: size, wall depth, jamb and stop profile, hardware machining, material, finish, and fire rating, translated from the customer's shorthand into the shop's own terms. It prices each line from the shop's rules, with adders for options and then crating and freight. Anything it cannot read with confidence, or any price it does not have, it flags for the estimator to answer instead of guessing.
What comes out is a clean, branded quote with the line table, totals, terms, and the next quote number, ready to send. Before it goes out, the owner can move the whole quote up or down by a percent or a dollar figure, his call on what the client will bear. The rules behind it are set once, and the reading gets sharper as more past requests are fed in.
| Opening 12 · Pair 30704-9/16 wall · 90-min fire · birch, cherry finish · 161 prep | $2,485 |
| Opening 13 · Single 30684-9/16 wall · 20-min fire · paint grade | $1,140 |
| Opening 14 · Single 2868Wall depth unclear on sheet 3 | Ask estimator |
| Crating & freight | $610 |
| Total | $4,235 |
A highlight: KIA OS
Live demo belowA closer look at one build: the daily operations of a kosher certification agency.
The entire agency, run from one screen.
A kosher certification agency vouches for what comes out of a kitchen. To do that, it stations trained supervisors, called mashgichim, inside restaurants, hotels, factories, and catering halls. They check deliveries, watch the cooking, and sign off that the standard was kept. Multiply that by hundreds of establishments, each with its own hours, shift schedule, inspection calendar, and certificate that has to stay current, and the coordination alone can swallow an office. Most agencies run it on phone calls, spreadsheets, and one coordinator's memory. When a supervisor calls in sick, somebody has to notice, find a replacement, and be sure the kitchen was never left open with no one watching.
KIA OS puts all of it on one screen. The dashboard shows every location, who is on shift, and where the gaps are, live on a map. Scheduling and replacements, inspections, certificates, catered events, incident reports, and billing all run inside it, in English or Hebrew. When something needs a decision, the right person gets asked. What used to take a coordinator all morning arrives as a short list of things to approve. Some of the largest kosher agencies run their operations on it.
The morning view: coverage, gaps, and what needs attention, before the first phone call.
The activity log: every clock-in, checklist flag, approval, and shift change across the agency, in one running record.
The trained supervisor an agency stations in a kitchen. Plural: mashgichim. Every open kitchen needs one on duty.
The agency-side overseer for a group of establishments. Reviews reports, approves exceptions, makes the judgment calls.
The letter on the wall that tells the public a kitchen is kosher. It expires, so every one has to be tracked and renewed.
More of our work
Also oursSmaller products we built and run ourselves, newest first. Everything is live, and the links go to the real thing.
Działo się w mieście Łodzi, dnia piątego marca 1858 roku. Stawił się…
It happened in the town of Łódź, on the fifth of March 1858. There appeared…
Zichronos Family Histories
LiveFamily histories, researched in the archives that hold a family's records and published as hardcover books. The site lets a family read a finished example before they inquire, turning its pages or opening any page at full size, with archive numbers and family photographs masked out of the scans by script.
zichronos.com →Siyata Storage
LiveThe website for a 558-unit self-storage facility in Rockport, Texas. Nobody types the price list: every hour the site reads the facility's own rental page and republishes only when a rate or an open unit changes. A read that looks wrong changes nothing, and the prices say when they were checked.
siyatastorage.com →Kosher Education for Homes, Kitchens and Agencies
Home cooks, kitchen staff, mashgichim, and the agencies that certify them.
Kosher Institute of America
LiveThe institute's own site. Home cooks, kitchen staff and mashgichim each get their own track, forty-three agencies run a branded edition of the mashgiach course for their own people, and anyone can search the credential database to confirm a mashgiach's training before putting him to work.
kosherinstitute.com →Mashgiach jobs, posted by the employers who need you.
KIA Jobs
LiveA job board for mashgiach work in restaurants, caterers, plants, camps and hotels. Employers post for free, every listing has to state the pay, and applying takes three clicks and a six-digit code by email instead of another account and password. Just opened.
jobs.kosherinstitute.com →Klal Chat
LiveGroup chat over plain text message. The group gets one phone number, anyone can text it, and every member receives the message with the sender's name in front, on anything from an iPhone to a twenty-year-old flip phone.
klalchat.com →Keelworth
LiveA fifteen-minute work-style assessment for hiring. The report shows how a candidate tends to work and suggests interview questions built from their own answers. It makes no claims about skill or character, and says so plainly.
keelworth.com →What do you remember about their Friday nights?
The house smelled like kugel by Thursday afternoon, and by candle-lighting there were always two extra places set…
Zichronos
LiveA private page where a family gathers the stories, photos, and voices of someone they lost, one gentle prompt at a time. A yearly reminder on the Hebrew calendar brings everyone back. Built as a public service, kept free.
zichronos.org →How we work
Three habitsYour rules, written down
The software runs on the rules you already use: how you price, who approves what, what counts as done. You set them once, adjust them yourself, and the system gets sharper as your past work is fed in.
It asks instead of guessing
Anything the software cannot read with confidence goes to a person, with a clear question attached. A quote, a schedule, or a certificate is worth nothing if you can't trust what's on it.
It fits how you already work
The software takes what your company already produces: emailed POs, job sheets, spec PDFs, texted photos. Your team keeps working the way it works, and the retyping goes away.
Which workflow eats your week?
Send a paragraph about your company and the work you want off your plate. You'll get a plain answer about whether software can take it over, what it would cost, and how long it would take.