For job-shop and contract machine shops
Stop re-ordering material you already own because you can't find the cert
CertDeck gives machine shop owners a single place to track material certs against inventory and organize customer prints by job status — so nothing falls through the cracks.
Join the CertDeck early list — shape what gets built and be first in when we launch.
Today
A customer asks for a material cert on a shipped part, and you're digging through email threads, vendor packing slips, and a shared drive full of unlabeled PDFs — then ordering fresh material anyway because you can't prove what's already on the shelf meets spec.
With CertDeck
You pull up the heat number, see the cert attached, confirm the alloy and temper match the print callout, and email it to the customer in under two minutes.
Conceptual — the workflow CertDeck is being built to handle.
What we keep seeing
This comes up repeatedly across machinist forums and QMS discussion threads: shops describe re-purchasing material or issuing NCRs not because the stock was actually non-conforming, but because the original PO skipped the cert requirement and nobody can reconstruct the heat trace after the fact.
Observed across public operator forums — the reason this page exists.
Without it
A customer asks for a material cert on a shipped part, and you're digging through email threads, vendor packing slips, and a shared drive full of unlabeled PDFs — then ordering fresh material anyway because you can't prove what's already on the shelf meets spec.
With CertDeck
You pull up the heat number, see the cert attached, confirm the alloy and temper match the print callout, and email it to the customer in under two minutes.
We're building CertDeck specifically for this workflow: cert-to-inventory linking and print lifecycle management built around how a machine shop actually runs jobs.
How CertDeck works
Log your stock with certs attached
Tie mill certs directly to a heat or lot number so every piece of bar, plate, or tube on the shelf has its documentation linked — not buried in an inbox.
Organize prints by job state
Upload customer prints once and move them through estimate, active, and archived states so your team always knows what's current and what's been superseded.
Answer cert and print requests instantly
When a customer or QC auditor asks for documentation, you retrieve and share it from one screen — no hunting, no re-ordering to cover a paper gap.
Straight answers
Can I use CertDeck today? +
We're building CertDeck now, and early users directly shape what gets built first — the cert-to-inventory linking, the print status workflow, the search. You get first access when we launch, and your input determines the exact features that ship.
What happens after I sign up? +
Within a few days you'll get a short email asking about your current cert and print workflow — specific questions, no fluff. We'll share where the build stands and give you a direct line to the builder before anyone else sees the product.
Who's behind CertDeck? +
An independent builder who has gone deep on the machine shop documentation problem — studying how job shops actually handle material traceability, cert storage, and print lifecycle across real shop workflows. No VC-funded feature factory; a focused tool built for one problem.
We already use an ERP — why wouldn't it handle this? +
Most ERPs, including shop-focused ones, track jobs and scheduling well but treat cert documents and print revisions as file attachments with no structure around them — they don't enforce cert-to-heat-number linking or give you a retrievable print state workflow. CertDeck is built specifically for that gap, and can sit alongside whatever scheduling or quoting tool you already use.
Get early access
Join the CertDeck early list — shape what gets built and be first in when we launch.
You're on the early list.
Expect a short, direct email within a few days with specific questions about how you currently handle certs and prints — your answers shape what CertDeck builds first. Nothing generic, no drip sequence.
Tell us a little about your shop so we build the right thing for your situation: