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LMBR is built by LBM operators for the operators.

LMBR ENTERPRISE · Synthetic demonstration

Your entire operation. One command center.

Explore what a connected, 12-location operating picture could look like. These screens use illustrative data from the LMBR Dashboard.

Explore the dashboard
A modeled desk and monitor in a lumberyard, with a synthetic LMBR dashboard showing colored location markers.12 LOCATIONS · SYNTHETIC DEMONSTRATIONExplore the dashboard
Synthetic LMBR ENTERPRISE command center showing a 12-location map with green, yellow, and red health markers.Explore this screen ↗
Imagine this being your real time dashboard. See your locations health scores by week, month, year. Then one click, you see what needs to be fixed with evidence.
Synthetic LMBR ENTERPRISE location league ranking locations across business metrics.Explore this screen ↗
Here’s where LMBR ranks each location by KPI’s that you decide on.
Synthetic LMBR ENTERPRISE buying and inventory screen with market, transfer, and slow stock panels.Explore this screen ↗
Manage all of your inventory and purchasing under one screen.
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Illustrative demonstration with synthetic data. Screens do not show a live customer deployment or measured results.

We’re former yard operators, not a Silicon Valley team or Harvard grads. We knew the work firsthand: how material gets purchased, sold, pulled, loaded, and delivered. Then we wrote the software around the way these businesses actually run. LMBR is the system we wanted when we operated yards.

We take a hybrid approach. Keep your ERP and choose how much LMBR does in each workflow. Start with read-only Shadow Mode, then use recommendations, drafts, or approved actions where you’re comfortable. It’s up to you—not an all-or-nothing rollout. Keep using your ERP in the areas where it works well, and bring in LMBR where you want more help.

Your workflows. Your comfort level. Your choice.

Hybrid by design. You set the pace.

Choose the level of authority for each workflow. Keep one read-only, ask another to prepare drafts, and allow a third to act within the permissions you approve. You do not have to give every workflow the same level of control.

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Read only

Observe the workflow and review its data without making changes.

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Read and Recommend/Draft

Prepare recommendations or drafts for your team to review, edit, and approve.

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Read and Act

Carry out approved actions within the workflow, permissions, and limits you choose.

Keep using your ERP and LMBR side by side for as long as you want. Choose the workflows, agree on the scope, and change the level of authority as your comfort grows. It’s up to you. It’s not all or nothing.

A delivery is promised. The material is committed elsewhere.

Take the controls.

Explore a sample operation. Follow the evidence. Make the next decision.

Explore the interactive sample

Prove the starting point

The first thing you buy is a controlled way to see what your own operation says.

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Authorize

One branch, named people, approved exports, defined success measures, and explicit boundaries.

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Reconcile

Normalize products and inventory while preserving the source and quarantining ambiguity.

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Review

Bring auditable observations and recommendations to management without taking operational action.

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Measure

Record decisions and referenced outcomes so verified savings, capacity, and opportunity stay separate.

The yard

Put a number beside every extra mile.

During Shadow Mode, a permitted aerial baseline and forklift travel measurements can expose repeated travel, bottlenecks, and layout questions. The point is not a colorful map. The point is a management decision backed by comparable before-and-after evidence.

Forklift travel measurements and a yard heat map are included in Shadow Mode at the agreed branch. Before collecting travel data, we agree on the equipment, site access, safety rules, data rights, and how routes and results will be measured.

Estimate the opportunity
Aerial photograph of a working lumberyard, with warehouses, storage rows and travel lanes.
Less travelMore travelReal yard aerial · Illustrative movement overlay, not measured customer data.Imagery: USDA/USGS NAIP · Public domain

Shadow Mode

Forty-five days. One authorized branch. Externally read-only.

The standard entry phase begins after data-readiness acceptance. LMBR stages approved product and inventory data, preserves lineage, identifies uncertainty, and presents recommendations for human adjudication. Missing customer data or access pauses the clock.

See how it works
  • Configured one-branch Shadow workspace
  • Forklift travel measurements and a yard heat map
  • Data-quality and ambiguity report
  • Auditable recommendation and outcome history
  • Executive evidence summary
  • Final limitations and conversion readout

The rules it runs by

Evidence first. Authority only when it is earned and approved.

Read-only first

Shadow Mode begins without an ERP write path. Production authority requires a separate, named approval.

Uncertainty stays visible

LMBR preserves source lineage and routes ambiguous records for review instead of silently guessing.

People decide

Management can agree, disagree, override, defer, and record the reason and outcome.

Math stays inspectable

Assumptions, source data, recommendations, decisions, and measured outcomes remain distinguishable.

Your ERP stays in place

BOLT-ON begins beside the system you already run. Shadow Mode does not replace it.

Every material decision leaves a trail

The evidence, reviewer, decision, and outcome remain connected for later review.

Security and governance

Questions worth raising

Better here than three meetings in.

“Are you replacing our ERP?”

No. The current BOLT-ON entry phase starts beside it. The ERP remains the agreed system of record.

“We do not want AI writing into our ERP.”

Shadow Mode has no external write path. Any later production authority requires separate evidence, security, testing, permission, customer authorization, and commercial gates.

“Our data is not clean enough.”

Shadow Mode is partly a data-readiness exercise. Ambiguous records are quarantined with the reason instead of being treated as fact.

“Are the savings guaranteed?”

No. The estimator is planning math. Shadow Mode distinguishes verified savings, validated capacity, identified opportunity, assumptions, and unresolved evidence.

Meet Kenny Mays

I never thought I’d be known as a “Tech Bro.”

Kenny Mays built his career in building materials before building the technology around it. He started in sales in September 1999 and worked in lumberyards, truss plants and roofing yards. He retired in June 2026, before building LMBR.

“Every decision came back to two goals: make LMBR feel like a member of your team, not another system, and build something this industry has never seen.”
Kenny Mays, founder of LMBR
Kenny MaysFounder · LMBR Technologies

Next step

See it before you decide anything.

Take the controls in the interactive sample, then book a 30-minute fit and data-readiness call with Kenny. Prefer a number first? The yard estimator is still one click away.