Maker's Yield & Cost wasn't designed in a boardroom. It started as a Google Sheet on a production floor, and it grew because every problem it solved revealed the next one.
At FIT — the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York — I was developing real handbags with patterns, leather, hardware, and lining. To price them accurately, I needed true yield math. No existing software did that, so I built the calculator myself on the workshop bench.
During my MBA in Footwear & Apparel Production Management, the reality became sharp: small-batch makers were abandoned between hobbyist apps and six-figure enterprise ERPs. Nothing in between was built for the actual artisan workroom.
Maker's Yield & Cost is not built by software engineers guessing at the craft. Every formula, yield calculation, and BOM rollup was forged on cutting tables and sourcing meetings where the numbers had to balance down to the cent.
It started with a Google Sheet.
At FIT — the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York — I was developing handbags. Real ones, with patterns, materials, hardware, lining, and all the cuts in between. To price them properly, I needed to know my actual yield: how much leather was really ending up in the product versus what was being wasted. No software did that. So I built a calculator in Google Sheets and made it work.
That spreadsheet became the idea.
Later, during my MBA in Footwear & Apparel Production Management, the problem came into sharper focus. The industry runs on complexity — BOMs, landed costs, FOB, duty rates, supplier margins — but the tools available to small-batch makers are either hobbyist apps or enterprise systems with six-figure contracts. Nothing in between was built for the actual workroom.
So I built it myself.
Maker's Yield & Cost started as a simple cost and yield tool. It grew into something far bigger than I planned — not because I set out that way, but because every problem I solved revealed the next one. Mobile-first data capture so you can log a batch yield on the floor. A web interface for the tech pack and costing. Reports that tell you your real margin, not the one you hoped for.
This is not a tool built by engineers who guessed at the workflow. Every screen reflects a decision that was made on a production floor, in a sample room, or at the end of a sourcing meeting where the numbers didn't add up.
We're still building. But the foundation is the same one that started in a classroom — the belief that small makers deserve the same precision as the big ones.
We understand upper patterns, tooling, bottom units, and irregular yields. The data model is specialized for your reality.
Landed costs, FOB, duties, and DTC margins. We do the real math required to keep a brand profitable.
Your factory floor might not have Wi-Fi. The app works completely offline and syncs seamlessly when you reconnect.
Maker's Yield & Cost is in open beta for students, alumni and faculty with an active school or university email. Complimentary during the beta, no contracts.