Develop industry-specific software for machine shops to address market fragmentation, reliance on legacy systems, paper processes, and generic horizontal solutions. The goal is to provide tailored solutions that increase revenue, decrease costs, prevent customer churn, and ensure compliance.
The machine shop industry is largely fragmented, still uses outdated methods (paper, generic software), and has low adoption of modern technologies like AI. AI tools can now significantly aid in initial market research and product development.
Lack of an all-in-one, modern vertical SaaS solution tailored specifically for machine shops, leading to reliance on disparate tools and manual processes. Significant opportunity for AI integration.
| Keyword | Volume | Growth |
|---|---|---|
| vertical SaaS | 720/mo | -18% YoY |
| machine shop software | 90/mo | -67% YoY |
| industrial software | 1,000/mo | -12% YoY |
| B2B SaaS | 6,600/mo | -18% YoY |
US English Google Ads volume from DataForSEO; growth uses returned monthly search history.
Luke: ...the first one that I love that I think is dying for a vertical SAS business is machine shops so — Greg: Why is machine shops interesting? Luke: well going back to that list it's 26 2 billion or 240 billion in Revenue there's 22,000 of them and it's beautifully segmented right so the higher this number is the better