The printed brochure · 24 sheets
The full illustrated document - every workspace drawn, the worked examples, the parts list and the six rungs. Attach it to an email, or read it here.
Below: the same brochure to read on screen, in Hindi or English.
Aakar One
FROM SHAPE TO SHIPPED
One thread, from the product to the invoice.
Factory software for Indian manufacturers, on your own computer. The part you draw works out its own cost, becomes the job card the floor runs, and arrives at the invoice without a single figure being typed twice.
Aakar OneBrochure
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Chapter 01 · The problem, in your words
The four systems that disagree
A costing sheet in Excel. A book of job cards. Tally for the ledger. A register for attendance. Each is right on its own, and no two agree - so somebody spends every Monday making them match, and the cost of a part is whatever the last person to touch the sheet believed.
We did not imagine this from an office. We walked rubber, polymer and metal factories and sat with the people who run them - owners, supervisors, storekeepers, accountants - and collected the problems no software had ever handled. Wastage that ends in an argument instead of a number. Rates averaged across sizes until margin quietly leaks. Stock only the old storekeeper can find. The 2B-matching nights before every filing. Then we built each one in.
Aakar One replaces the joins, not the people.
One record, read by every room.
Chapter 02 · The thread, step by step
What replaces them
Draw it, drop the CAD, weigh it, or just list it
Five doors, one product record. Ten shapes and eight joins build the part - layers pressed together, a tube inside a tube, a skin on a body, a hollow inside. Already have the CAD? The file IS the drawing. Built from parts you stock rather than shaped from material? Pick the parts and that list is the recipe, each part still a product with its own cost and its own life as a spare. If you compound rather than draw, type the recipe instead: parts by weight, a mixing loss, and it publishes as a material with its own rate. And what you only buy and resell, you simply list. Whichever door you come through, the record downstream is the same one.
It costs itself
Nobody types a cost. The product works out its own material, its own weight and the factory time it needs, at the size actually being quoted. Three prices come off that one cost - a floor you never sell under, a target, and a premium.
The order becomes a job card
The card freezes its rates, its weigh-list and its route the moment it is issued, so history never rewrites itself. It prints in Hindi with numbered sections - "section 6, line 3" works over a phone call.
The floor answers back
Four honest outputs from every run - good, seconds, scrap, byproduct - each a real record carrying real cost. Wastage gets a verdict against a standard measured from your own clean cards: OVER, SAVED or WITHIN.
Every lot carries its story
A lot knows its size, its grade, the order it was made for and the instructions it carries. It can be cut, split, sorted into qualities or sent back - and at every step it can still say where it came from.
And the invoice is the same record
Dispatch, e-invoice, e-way bill, GSTR-1 and 2B, the customer’s khata - none of it retyped, because none of it is a separate system. On Enterprise the ledger is derived from those documents rather than typed beside them.
Chapter 03 · What you actually get
The rooms, and the numbers
13
workspaces, one record
170
printable sheets in the Print Centre
10+8
shapes and joins that draw any part
4
honest outputs from every floor run
Every plan is a set of WHOLE rooms - never half a workspace - so a plan, a quote and your own sidebar always describe the same shape.
Catalogue
Drawings, CAD imports, variants, materials, rates, batches, the estimator
Costing
Cost price, margin map, price sheets, wastage allowances
Production
Job cards, live floor board, machines, maintenance, QA & COA
Stock
Finished lots, material stock, cuts, splits, quality sorts, audits
Purchasing
POs, bills, suppliers, landed rates, GSTR-2B reconciliation
Logistics
Transporters, freight, an offline India map, Trace-a-Lorry, delivery proof
Sales
Orders, challans, invoices, e-way, collections, customer khata
People
Attendance where the manual register decides, badge QR, contractors, CLRA
Payroll
PF, ESI, PT, LWF, overtime, advances, full-and-final, ECR, 24Q, Form 16
Accounting
Books derived from the documents themselves - no journal to fiddle, bank recon, month close
Compliance
31 obligations on one board, statutory registers, safety, POSH, the audit file
Workplace
The no-login notice board for the shop TV, chat, tasks, approvals, helpdesk
System
Encrypted backups with a restore drill, TOTP step-up, a tamper-evident audit log
The Print Centre - 170 sheets, from live records
Every register, card, certificate and statutory form your desk already knows - job cards in Hindi, stock registers, wage registers, COAs, Form 16 - printed from the records themselves, never retyped into a template.
Chapter 04 · Built for what you make
Born on running shop floors
The same ten shapes describe very different trades - which is the whole reason one product can serve all of them without becoming a blank template you configure for a year. A belt is layers pressed together. A hose is a tube inside a tube. A paver is a solid with a face. Your part is already in the engine.
Conveyor belting · Hose & tubing · PVC & polymer sheets · Rubber moulding & injection · Tyres, tubes & retreading · Metal casting · Gaskets & oil seals · Profiles & seals · Cable & wire · Rubber lining & rollers · Coated fabric · Foam & sandwich panels · Plywood & panels · Concrete pavers & RCC · Steel re-rolling · Tiles & ceramics · Aluminium extrusion · Ropes, cords & slings · Pipes & tubes · Wire, mesh & fencing · Tapes, straps & elastics · Mats, flooring & roofing · Springs & wire forms · Forging & fasteners · Footwear & soles · Buckets, crates & bottles · Boxes & packaging · Safety gear & PPE · Auto & electrical parts · Paints, inks & adhesives · Compounds & granules · Dyeing & process houses · Machinery & equipment · Furniture & fixtures · Lighting & electricals · Farm equipment & implements · Kitchen & houseware · Solar & renewables · Sheet metal fabrication · Shape of Shapes: assembled products
"Aaj rate aapke dimaag mein hai. Kal beta puchega: papa, rate kaise nikalte the? Ab jawab software mein hoga, sirf yaadon mein nahin."
Your life’s knowledge, made permanent.
Chapter 05 · How much of it to buy
Six rungs, one product
Trial
Everything, briefly, with your own parts in it.
Aakar Staff
The workforce side alone - payroll, attendance, registers. Works for a firm that makes nothing.
Aakar Design
Design and price the product, and all of Aakar Staff with it. Draw it, mix it or just list it - it costs itself, and nobody types a cost.
Aakar Design Plus
The same, now making it: job cards, the live floor, stock, and your customers and suppliers. Billing stays in the software you already use.
Aakar Factory
The whole thread - supplier to customer, buying to billing. Most factories buy this one.
Aakar Enterprise
Everything, plus the books - and every module that ships later, included.
One-time licence, on your own machine, with a small predictable yearly AMC. Prices are not printed here on purpose: they mean nothing until you have seen your own part costed on your own screen - so we show you that first, then talk money.
Chapter 06 · What is coming
Aakar Sense - the six roles, as AI
In the works, and named as such. A product designer, a compounder, a storekeeper, an estimator, a process engineer and a planner - each doing the one job it is named for, inside a system that already holds your drawings, your rates and your floor. It will suggest and never post.
Working today: the Aakar Assistant sits in the corner of every screen, answers from this software’s own manual rather than the open internet, and hands you to a human when it does not know.
Chapter 07 · The four questions everybody asks
Asked, and answered straight
"We already have Tally."
Keep it if you like - the cutover carries your opening balances across rather than asking you to retype a year. But Tally keeps books. It does not know what a part costs to make, which is the number every quote you send depends on.
"Our data will sit on somebody’s cloud."
It sits on your computer, in your building. It keeps working when the line goes down. Backups are yours to hold, and nobody can price you out of your own records later.
"My people will never use it."
Most of them never log in. The floor board, the badge scan and the kiosk exist so a worker touches a screen for three seconds, in Hindi, and gets on with the job. A five-hundred-man factory typically has twenty-five logins.
"What if we outgrow it?"
The rungs go up, not sideways - you switch on rooms that already share your records, rather than migrating to a different product. On Enterprise, every module that ships later is already included.
Chapter 08 · How to start
Send one part you actually make
We draw it with you, on a call, and you watch it cost itself. That takes about twenty minutes and settles the question better than any brochure can - including this one.
Naman Bhandari
A factory person like you
+91 98151 81222 · namaste@aakarone.in · aakarone.in