Built around your floor. Not a 20-year-old job shop ERP with a new skin.
JobBOSS² is ECi's job shop and make-to-order ERP - decades of features, but a legacy data model and a 4-9 month implementation. SimpleGrid is a modern AI-native system built around the way your factory actually runs - live in 7-14 days, paid only if you keep using it.
Modern system built around your floor. Not a legacy job shop ERP.
JobBOSS² is a long-tenured job shop ERP - deep feature surface, but you adapt to its data model and live with a 4-9 month rollout. SimpleGrid is built around your floor in days, with AI baked into how work gets logged and reported.
How they compare.
| SGSimpleGrid | JB²JobBOSS² (ECi) | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Modern, AI-native, event-ledger based | Legacy job shop ERP (JobBOSS lineage, now cloud-hosted) |
| Target customer | Owner-operated mid-market manufacturers | Small / mid US job shops, make-to-order, machine shops |
| Manufacturing depth | Multi-stage, contractors, QC gates, costing - first class | Deep job shop / MTO heritage (quoting, routing, job costing) |
| Fit to your process | Built around your floor; we adapt to your terminology | You adapt your workflow to JobBOSS²'s data model |
| UX / floor usability | Chat-driven logging, schema-aware AI, mobile-first | Form-heavy classic ERP UX; shop floor data collection add-on |
| AI capability | AI baked in - chat-driven floor logging, schema-aware automation | Limited; reporting and analytics, not AI-native |
| Ownership / direction | Operator-led, capital-efficient, single product | One of many ECi ERPs (Leap, M1, JobBOSS²) - PE-owned roll-up |
| Deployment timeline | Live in 7-14 days | 4-9 months typical; partner-led implementation |
| Pricing model | Built at our cost; paid only if you keep using it | Per-user subscription + implementation fees up front |
Three reasons it fits a manufacturer.
Built around your floor.
Your routings, your terminology, your QC gates - first-class, not a custom field. With JobBOSS² you adapt to its data model; with SimpleGrid we adapt to yours.
AI-native, not bolt-on.
Chat-driven floor logging, schema-aware automation, an event ledger you can query in plain English. JobBOSS² is a classic ERP with reports - we're an AI system with an ERP underneath.
You see it work before you pay.
Every ERP vendor makes you pay first and hope it works. We flipped it. Built at our cost, run free for 30 days on your real floor - we're the only vendor here that lets you see it work before you pay. Built by a team that ran a $30M factory and survived two ERP failures, not just AI.
Built around your floor. Not a legacy job shop ERP.
Live in 7-14 days, not 4-9 months. Paid only if you keep using it.
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