AA Ferro Lanka — Precision Stirrup Fabrication

🔗 Live app: https://aaferrolanka.base44.app/

The business

A family CNC steel workshop in Piliyandala, Sri Lanka. They bend custom reinforcement stirrups — the steel rings inside every concrete column and beam. A WG-12 CNC bender, accurate to ±1mm, capable of 1,200 stirrups an hour.

Real business. Real machine. Real customers. Zero digital presence.

Proof - Google Map

BEFORE

Orders taken by phone. Dimensions written on scrap paper.

Every quote calculated by hand, on every call — steel weight, cutting length, price per kg.

No record of who paid a deposit and who didn't.

Customers ringing all day to ask "is it ready?"

Steel running out mid-job, discovered at the machine.

Offcut waste on every single bar — never once measured.

AFTER

A live, mobile-responsive platform that runs the entire business — quoting, ordering, payments, production, delivery, and the owner's daily operations — with WhatsApp as the interface, because that's where he actually is.

THE PRODUCT

Public site Home · Products · Our Story & Team · Workshop Gallery · Track Order · Support · Get Quote · Customer testimonials from real partner stores

The configurator — quote in one second, not one phone call

Shape: rectangular, square, round, custom

Rebar size: 6mm / 8mm / 10mm / 12mm — each showing live stock in kg

Dimensions + quantity

Returns exact cutting length, weight per stirrup, total material weight, price per kg, total price and 50% deposit — calculated from today's live steel rate, read from the database, never hardcoded

Stock is checked before the price is quoted. An out-of-stock size is hard-blocked. The workshop cannot sell steel it doesn't have.

No account required to get a price.

The collection network 21 real hardware stores pulled from Google Places across the delivery corridor, sorted by distance from the customer's site — plus collection at the workshop. Any hardware store can self-register as a partner and become a collection point.

Owner Control Room (secret route — not /admin, linked from nowhere)

KPI cards: total orders, awaiting deposit, in production, deposits collected, avg rating

Order pipeline: Pending → Confirmed → In Production → Ready → Delivered, advanced with one tap — and every tap messages the customer automatically

Live steel price + stock editing with visual stock bars — change the rate, and every quote on the public site is new one second later

Full WhatsApp activity log — every message the system ever sent

Lead pipeline: New → Contacted → Quoted → Won → Lost

Hardware business verification (Verify / Unverify)

Hardware store dashboard Its own incoming orders, its own stock, its own price, its own margin, its own QR scanner. 21 drop-off points become 21 sales channels.

Steel supplier dashboard Restocks and re-prices the workshop directly — and cannot see one customer, one phone number, one message. That's row-level security, not a hidden button.

Customer portal My Orders + Track Order. Order ID, items, total, deposit status, live production status. Nobody has to phone and ask.

QR delivery verification Every bundle carries a QR tag. The store scans it. Delivery confirmed.

THE AUTOMATIONS — 17 live

On order creation

Owner alert — WhatsApp + email in seconds, with full spec, deposit and bank slip Customer confirmation — order number + exact deposit due Stock deduction — steel deducted from inventory automatically Low-stock alert — the owner is warned before the machine stops Order sanity check — catches a typo before steel is cut. 2500 instead of 250 is 500 stirrups of scrap. It freezes the order. Nobody starts the machine until a human approves. Steel Waste Optimizer — see below. This is the one.

Scheduled 7. Deposit chaser — 09:30 daily. Chases three times, then escalates to the owner to call. Recovers revenue that used to just vanish. 8. Morning briefing — 08:00 daily: new orders, money owed, what's on the machine, what steel to buy 9. Production batching — groups the day's jobs by rebar size, so the machine is threaded once, not ten times 10. Steel purchase plan — tells the owner exactly what to buy, before he runs short 11. Weekly summary — Monday: orders, revenue, steel used 12. Post-delivery follow-up — 3 days after delivery. 5 stars route to Google. 1 star routes privately to the owner — before it becomes a public review. On status change 13. Status updates — Confirmed / In Production / Ready. Kills every "is it ready?" phone call. 14. Ready-for-collection — store name, address, Google Maps pin, balance due 15. Honest ready dates — a real date from the real production queue, with an automatic warning the moment it slips Inbound 16. Instant lead capture — every enquiry auto-replied before it goes cold 17. QR delivery confirmation — bundle scanned at the store, order closed Reliability: nothing ever fires twice. Every automation is locked behind an idempotency flag on the order itself. A retry cannot spam a customer. A re-run cannot deduct the same steel twice. And with zero API keys configured, nothing breaks — every message queues as a one-tap wa.me link. Value on day one, with no setup.

THREE AI AGENTS ON WHATSAPP

Customer Assistant — quotes today's real price from live stock, at midnight on a Sunday. Photograph an engineer's drawing and it reads the stirrup off the page. It can take an order. It can never mark one paid.

Manager Agent — the owner's control room, in a chat window. "How much am I owed?" "What's on the machine?" "Make 8mm 290." He speaks; the website changes. It can move a price. It cannot move an order — that permission does not exist.

Production Planner — the CNC cut-list optimizer. Groups jobs by diameter, calculates bars to load, stirrups per bar, offcut per bar, and warns when the steel runs short before the machine starts

BONUS CRITERIA

✅ Live and published · ✅ Mobile-responsive · ✅ Real business, actively using it · ✅ Before/after documented · ✅ AI Superagent implemented (×3) · ✅ Automation demonstrably drives business outcomes (deposit recovery + LKR 8,144 material saving) · ✅ Real Google Places data, real partner store network

Built entirely on Base44.

Fully documented - https://drive.google.com/file/d/19UgLHlrUFlkQkLCFHmLQKrHJBMFQEbpB/view?usp=sharing

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