Documentation

A practical guide to changing how your team works in the first month with GoSmarter — parallel vs. cut-over rollout, shop-floor champions, and first-month KPIs to track.

GoSmarter uses Clerk for authentication and enforces tenant isolation on every API request.

How GoSmarter uses AI to process mill certificates - what data is sent, where it goes, and how it's protected.

GoSmarter provides a REST API and MCP server for third-party integrations, custom workflows, and AI agent connections.

Your discovery checklist, configuration guide, and ROI calculator for a GoSmarter implementation — designed for customers and implementation partners using any of the five rollout packages.

Your GoSmarter rollout plan based on your plant type, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) setup, and product mix — with clear milestones and outcome targets you can measure from day one.

Azure platform certifications that apply to GoSmarter's deployment, and how to request compliance evidence.

How GoSmarter aligns with SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and other compliance frameworks - what applies and what we can demonstrate.

A functional design document covering product flows, influence mapping, traceability, and buyer expectations.

Complete guide for system administrators and power users on configuring GoSmarter, using advanced features, and maximising ROI through customisation

Complete guide to the GoSmarter dashboard - navigate your AI production assistant and access key tools for metals manufacturing efficiency

Where GoSmarter stores and processes your data - UK and EU for our own infrastructure, with named US transfers for identity and billing sub-processors.

Complete guide for quality assurance managers and compliance officers on using GoSmarter's MillCert Reader AI to digitise mill test certificates and ensure material compliance

GoSmarter encrypts all data at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.2+ - across database, storage, messaging, and AI services.

Frequently asked security and compliance questions about GoSmarter - data residency, AI, encryption, and access control.

GoSmarter's browser security controls - Content Security Policy, secure token storage, and supply chain protections.

How to log in to GoSmarter, get set up, and meet Hex, your onboarding assistant.

Plain-English definitions of steel industry terms and software concepts: mill certificates, EN 10204, heat numbers, cutting optimisation, yield rate, AI, cloud platforms, and more.

Using the GoSmarter UI to filter, sort, search, see tutorials, and more.

GoSmarter runs on Microsoft Azure - containerised API, managed database, and isolated AI processing jobs in UK and EU regions.

Comprehensive roadmap for deploying GoSmarter across your metals manufacturing business with structured phases, best practices, and change management strategies

How GoSmarter detects, responds to, and communicates about security incidents.

Learn about GoSmarter's flexible integration approach: from independent use to full API integration, designed to work alongside your existing systems

Learn how to create and manage inventory items using our Production Planning Inventory

Complete guide for inventory managers and operations teams on using GoSmarter's Metals Manager capabilities to track materials, suppliers, and orders in real-time

Calculate the weight of steel, stainless, aluminium, and non-ferrous metal shapes by grade and dimension, including pipe by NPS or DN size.

See how you can upload and manage certificates for traceability

Complete onboarding guide for new GoSmarter.ai customers - setup, configuration, training, and first week action plan for operations and production managers

Generate optimised cutting plans from your inventory and open orders, review the proposed cuts, and track production through to completion

Production planners' guide to GoSmarter's Long Product Planning feature: create efficient first-draft cutting plans that minimise waste and meet order requirements.

Create and manage customer orders, track requirements and allocations

How GoSmarter handles personal data under GDPR - data processing practices, subject rights, and our sub-processors' DPAs.

Fast reference for common tasks and operations in GoSmarter

Learn how to log scrap, track waste trends, and review record history.

Calculate scrap rates instantly. Enter your bar length and cut dimensions to see waste percentage, pieces per bar, and how to minimise steel cutting waste.

GoSmarter's security, compliance, and data protection practices - built on Microsoft Azure with UK and EU data residency.

Understand and create Tags and Tag Rules, and see how they get automatically applied to your inventory.

Guide for production managers on using GoSmarter's scrap management features to track, analyse, and minimise waste in metals manufacturing.

Solutions to common problems and error messages in GoSmarter

What GoSmarter does, who it's for, and how to get started with AI-powered compliance and traceability for metals manufacturers.

Long products are steels in linear cross-sections: bars, rods, rebar, angles, channels, and beams. The flat-vs-long distinction matters for cutting and traceability.

A heat number identifies a steel batch from a single melt. Fundamental to traceability — losing them is how compliance falls apart. What they are and why they matter.

A mill test certificate (MTC) proves a metal batch meets a stated grade. What an MTC contains, why traceability depends on it, and how to stop drowning in PDFs.

Cutting optimisation calculates which cuts to make from stock lengths to fulfil orders with least waste. How it works and how AI makes it significantly better.

EN 10204 defines mill inspection certificate types in steel. Guide to types 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, and 3.2 — when each is required and how to manage them.

ERP software manages core business functions. Many metals manufacturers find it struggles with mill certs, cutting plans, and inventory.

Metals inventory means tracking material by grade, heat number, cert status, and order commitment — not just counting items. How to manage it properly.

Microsoft Project Bonsai is a low-code AI platform that can be used

Rebar is deformed steel bar embedded in concrete for tensile strength. For cut-and-bend manufacturers, it is a high-traceability, compliance-critical product.

Steel traceability means proving what material you used, where it came from, and which certificate backs it. Why it matters and how to maintain it.

Yield rate is the percentage of input that becomes finished product. In metals, every yield improvement goes to the bottom line. How to measure and improve yours.