4 Patents Pending · FSMA 204 Ready · 2+ Years Live

The Operating System for
Fresh Food Manufacturing

Replace spreadsheets and disconnected tools with the operating system for fresh food production.

The platform powering the next generation of institutional food production — traceability, shrink analytics, and invoicing in one system deployed in weeks, not months.

Currently powering multi-site production serving hospitals, universities, and corporate dining · generating recurring SaaS revenue · $10K–$15K per site annually
15% average shrink reduction across live production sites
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10+
Production Sites Live
150+
Institutional Partners Served
2+ Yrs
Live Operational Data
FSMA 204
Audit-Ready Workflows
Trusted by operators supplying
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Hospital Systems
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Sodexo Accounts
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Aramark Partners
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University Dining
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Corporate Dining
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Operations Dashboard
Orders Today
247
↑ 12% vs last week
Shrink Rate
4.2%
↓ 0.8% this month
FSMA Compliance
98.7%
↑ Audit-Ready
Revenue (MTD)
$84.2K
↑ On Forecast
Recent Production Orders
Auto-synced · 2 min ago
LocationProductProducedShrinkCTE StatusStatus
Kitchen — Site AFresh Protein Bowl340 units14 (4.1%)Auto-capturedDelivered
Kitchen — Site BGarden Salad Kit218 units43 (19.7%)Auto-capturedReview
Kitchen — Site CGrain & Veggie Bowl412 units18 (4.4%)Auto-capturedDelivered
Kitchen — Site DFresh Wrap Entrée180 units9 (5.0%)Auto-capturedIn Transit
10+
Production Sites
2yr
Live in Production
40%
Labor Cost Reduction
15%
Shrink Reduction
4
Patents Pending
"We implemented NetSuite for $80,000. It couldn't tell us our shrink rate. So we built the tool we actually needed — inside our own production kitchens."
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Dr. Brad Oostindie
Dr. Brad Oostindie, Co-Founder · Channel Development, Shrink Software
Built From the Inside

The product real operators built for real operators

Shrink Manager was developed inside Anu Sushi LLC — a multi-site institutional food manufacturer supplying hospitals, universities, and corporate dining through Sodexo and Aramark. The founders didn't theorize. They ran the operation that exposed every gap this platform fills.

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Built in a Live Production Environment
Every feature was tested and refined across 10 active production sites before commercialization.
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2+ Years of Real Data
Forecasting and analytics are trained on actual shrink events and order patterns — not simulated data.
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Defensible by Design
4 USPTO provisional patents protect core workflows that took years of operational iteration to develop.
The Vertical SaaS Origin Pattern
Operator builds internal tool → internal product → spins out SaaS. The most credible vertical software companies follow this exact path.
Toast — restaurant operator → restaurant OS
Procore — contractor → construction platform
ServiceTitan — trade contractor → field service OS
Shrink Software — food operator → fresh food OS
Built For

Is this your operation?

Shrink Manager is purpose-built for institutional fresh food manufacturers — operators producing high-volume, perishable product for managed dining accounts.

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Fresh Food Manufacturers
Multi-site operations producing daily for retail, hospital, university, or corporate dining. You need real-time visibility into production, waste, and margin — not monthly reports.
Sushi manufacturers Salad producers Fresh meal prep Prepared foods
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Hospital & University Food Ops
In-house production kitchens with strict compliance requirements, multiple sites, and institutional buyers demanding traceability documentation on demand.
Health system kitchens University commissaries Sodexo suppliers Aramark suppliers
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Food Franchise Operators
Central kitchen plus franchise distribution — the exact architecture Shrink Manager was built on. Standardize compliance and track franchisee performance from one dashboard.
Central production hubs Multi-unit franchisors Ghost kitchen networks
The Problem

Food manufacturers are flying blind

Manual processes and disconnected tools create compliance exposure, invisible waste, and labor hours spent on paper instead of production.

  • 📄 Compliance records in spreadsheets — hours of labor, high error rate, worthless in an audit
  • Shrink tracked at month-end — too late to change anything
  • 🔗 Production, invoicing, QA, and compliance in separate tools that don't talk to each other
  • FSMA 204 deadlines are real — institutional buyers require compliance before the FDA does
The Solution

One platform. Complete visibility.

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Compliance Captured Automatically
Every label print, receiving event, and production step creates a Critical Tracking Event — no manual entry, no missing records.
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Shrink Visible the Moment It Happens
Monitor waste by product, site, and operator in real time. Intervene same-day instead of discovering the problem in next month's P&L.
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Finance Flows from Production
Production orders drive invoicing via QuickBooks integration. No double-entry, no reconciliation, and margin visible at the product level.
Platform Capabilities

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

No features added to sell demos. Built from 2+ years of live production use across 10 facilities — only what actually matters on the floor.

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Smart Label & Traceability
Barcode-driven labeling creates automatic Critical Tracking Events at every production step. Full chain-of-custody without a single manual entry.
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Production Order Management
Create, dispatch, and track production orders across multiple sites. Mobile-native for floor operators and delivery drivers.
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Real-Time Shrink Tracking
Record unsold product at delivery and surface waste patterns by location, product, and day. Act before it becomes a monthly loss.
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QuickBooks Integration
Automated invoicing from order completion. Reduce accounting labor by up to 40% and eliminate reconciliation entirely — based on time tracking across live Anu Sushi production sites.
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Multi-Site Management
Unified dashboard across all production kitchens, franchisee locations, and customer sites. Role-based access for Admin, Production, and Driver roles.
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Demand & Shrink Forecasting
Forecast production quantities and flag shrink risk from historical order and waste patterns — reducing overproduction before it happens.
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FSMA 204 Compliance Forms
Hardcoded, audit-ready Receiving Logs, Lot Code / Transformation Logs, and Cooling / Label Check Logs — auto-populated from live operations data.
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Product Profitability
Real-time cost, shrink percentage, and margin by product and customer. Know your best and worst SKUs every day — not every quarter.
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Mobile-First Field Operations
Driver and production apps built for real kitchen environments — fast and designed for non-technical operators to use on the floor.
Platform Expansion

From operational software
to industry infrastructure

Shrink Manager begins with compliance and production operations, then expands across the entire institutional food supply chain. The long-term opportunity is to become the operating system connecting production kitchens, distributors, and institutional buyers through a unified platform.

Phase 1 — Live Today
Operational Core
The foundation — already deployed and generating revenue across 10 production sites.
Production Orders
Shrink Tracking
FSMA 204 Traceability
Labeling & CTEs
Delivery Confirmation
QuickBooks Integration
Phase 2 — 2026–2028
Operational Intelligence
Building on the data layer — turning production history into predictive insight.
Demand Forecasting
Inventory Optimization
Dynamic Production Planning
Waste Analytics
Supplier Performance Metrics
Franchise Network Dashboard
Phase 3 — Vision
Industry Network
The full platform — where large SaaS companies emerge as category infrastructure.
Supplier Traceability Network
Institutional Buyer Portals
Distributor Integrations
Food Safety Data Exchange
Compliance Verification Layer
API Ecosystem & Partner Network

Every phase builds on the data captured in the previous one. The operational data Shrink Manager collects today becomes the intelligence layer of tomorrow's platform — and the network effects that make the category defensible.

FSMA 204 Compliance

Compliant in
30 days.

FSMA 204 enforcement begins July 20, 2028. Institutional buyers will require supplier compliance 12–18 months before that. The window to act is now.

30
Days to deploy
100%
Auto-captured CTEs
Jul '28
FDA deadline
2022–2024
FSMA 204 Rule Finalized
FDA establishes electronic traceability requirements for high-risk food categories
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2026–2027 · Now
Buyer Requirements Begin
Sodexo, Aramark, and health systems begin requiring supplier traceability documentation — ahead of FDA enforcement
July 20, 2028
FDA Enforcement Begins
Full enforcement — non-compliant operators face contract termination and legal exposure
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Operators deploying now build a 12–24 month compliance moat
Competitors implementing later face a compressed timeline with no proven platform and no operational data history.

* Timeline reflects latest FDA guidance and Congressional directive (Continuing Appropriations Act of 2026) — enforcement no earlier than July 20, 2028.

How It Works

Zero extra work.
Full compliance.

Compliance happens automatically, as a byproduct of normal operations. No extra steps. No dedicated staff. No retroactive documentation.

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Receiving — Scan Incoming Product
Receiving CTE captured automatically: supplier, lot code, quantity, timestamp.
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Production — Print Labels
Every label print creates a Transformation CTE — fully linked to source ingredients and lot.
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Delivery — Confirm & Record Shrink
Driver app captures shipping CTE and logs unsold product. Full chain complete. Audit-ready instantly.
Proven Results

Numbers from live production

Measured across 2+ years of deployment at 10 production sites serving 150+ institutional partners.

40%
Accounting Labor ReductionInvoicing and reconciliation automated from order completion — measured across live production sites
30%
Operational Labor ReductionManual order entry and compliance logs eliminated
15%
Product Shrink ReductionAveraged across 10+ live sites over 2+ years of production data
98.7%
FSMA Compliance RateAudit-ready Critical Tracking Event documentation
Market Opportunity

The institutional fresh food
supply chain

Three converging segments — all running on spreadsheets, all facing FSMA 204, all underserved by existing software. Shrink Manager is the first platform purpose-built for all three.

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Institutional Food Production
Hospitals · Universities · Corporate Dining · Managed Food Services
Centralized production hubs serving hundreds of points of service. High compliance pressure, high volume, zero purpose-built software.
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Fresh Prepared Food Manufacturers
Sushi · Salads · Meal Prep · Ready-to-Eat · Deli Programs
Multi-SKU fresh production for institutional buyers. Short shelf life, complex traceability, shrink-sensitive margins. Exactly what Shrink Manager was built inside.
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Commissary & Central Kitchen Networks
Ghost Kitchens · Franchise Production Hubs · Regional Production Kitchens
Centralized production scaling across franchise and delivery networks. Multi-site coordination, lot traceability, and cost visibility are all unsolved.
Platform Network Map
Hospitals
Universities
Commissaries
Shrink Manager
Production · Traceability · Shrink · Finance
Distributors
Buyers
FDA Compliance
Every node generates data. The platform that owns the data layer owns the network.
$60B+
Institutional fresh food supply chain — hospitals, universities, managed services, and fresh food manufacturers combined
47K+
FDA-regulated food manufacturers required to comply with FSMA 204 traceability rules
~0%
Current software penetration for FSMA 204 compliance in fresh food production — greenfield category
Jul '28
FDA enforcement deadline — creating a defined, time-bound acquisition window for the category leader
Comparable Market Plays

FSMA 204 is
our wedge

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Vanta → SOC 2 compliance automation
Compliance mandate created a massive software category. Vanta became dominant before the market consolidated around it.
Rippling → HR compliance platform
Regulatory complexity drove operators to a single integrated platform rather than a patchwork of tools.
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Shrink Manager → FSMA 204 automation
The only platform purpose-built for institutional fresh food, deployed and proven before the compliance wave hits.
Why Now
The category is about to
explode.

Four converging forces are creating a narrow window for the infrastructure layer of institutional fresh food to be defined — and owned.

FDA Enforcement
Jul 2028
~28 months away
FSMA 204 Mandate
FDA enforcement begins July 20, 2028. Every produce-touching operation in the US must have digital traceability — or face contract termination and legal exposure.
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Institutional Compliance Pressure
Sodexo and Aramark supplier requirements are already ahead of the FDA deadline. Suppliers without traceability systems are losing bids today — not in 2028.
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Labor Shortages Accelerating
Institutional food operators can't hire their way out of production complexity. Automation and digital workflows are no longer optional — they're the only path to margin.
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Fresh Prepared Foods Growth
Hospital systems and universities are consolidating production into centralized hub-and-spoke models — exactly the architecture Shrink Manager is already running.
Platform Architecture

Every layer of the operation.
One connected system.

Shrink analytics and FSMA compliance run continuously across every production step — captured automatically, not entered manually.

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Receiving
Supplier, lot code, quantity logged at intake
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Production
Orders created, batches tracked, yield recorded
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Labeling
Barcode print triggers transformation record
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Delivery
Driver confirms, unsold product recorded as shrink
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Invoicing
QuickBooks sync, auto-invoice, zero data entry
FSMA 204 Compliance
Critical Tracking Events auto-generated at every step. Audit-ready documentation requires zero manual entry.
Receiving CTE Transform CTE Shipping CTE
Shrink Analytics
Real-time waste visibility across every production step. Shrink is measured — and actionable — before month-end.
By site By product Real-time
Financial Intelligence
Margin, cost, and profitability flow automatically from production events. QuickBooks sync eliminates manual reconciliation.
Auto-invoice Margin by SKU
Platform Roadmap

The platform powering the
next generation of fresh food ops

Shrink Manager began as a solution for operational shrink and FSMA traceability. But the data layer created by daily production events unlocks a much larger platform opportunity.

Shrink Manager Platform — Core Data Layer
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Production
Orders, batches, yield
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Traceability
CTEs, lot codes, chain
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Shrink
Waste, site, product
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Finance
Invoicing, margin, cost
↓ Expanding data layer ↓
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Demand Forecasting
Site-level prediction from historical patterns
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Procurement Optimization
Ingredient cost and supplier scoring
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Franchise Network Mgmt
Multi-operator performance and compliance
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Supplier Traceability Network
End-to-end supply chain visibility
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Institutional Buyer Integration
Direct feeds to Sodexo, Aramark, health systems
Phase 1
Live Today
Operational Control
Production orders, labeling, traceability, shrink analytics, and automated invoicing — fully deployed across live multi-site operations.
FSMA 204 auto-capture
QuickBooks integration
Real-time shrink tracking
Mobile driver & production apps
Phase 2
2026–2028
Compliance Infrastructure
FSMA 204 compliance automation and audit-ready traceability hardened for institutional buyers — becoming the compliance layer that suppliers must have to keep their contracts.
Hardcoded FSMA 204 compliance forms
Institutional buyer API feeds
Multi-site franchise compliance dashboard
Supplier scorecards & ingredient traceability
Phase 3
Vision
Food Supply Chain Intelligence
Demand forecasting, supplier traceability networks, and integrated procurement across multi-site fresh food operations — the full operating system for the category.
Demand forecasting engine
Procurement optimization
Supplier traceability network
Institutional Food Supply Chain Platform
The Toast Parallel
Toast began as a restaurant POS. It became payroll, inventory, analytics, and payments — the full operating layer for the industry. Shrink Software is building the same playbook for institutional fresh food production.
Toast started with
POS & payments
Shrink starts with
Production OS
Toast became
Restaurant platform
Shrink becomes
Supply chain platform
Strategic Exit Path
Large platforms acquire companies that control critical operational data flows. Shrink Software already owns the data spine of the fresh food supply chain.
Oracle
SAP
Toast
Aptean
FoodLogiQ
SafetyChain
Tyler Technologies
The 2028 FSMA enforcement deadline creates a defined acquisition window — platform data becomes most valuable precisely when compliance becomes mandatory.
Investment Opportunity

Seeking strategic
early investors

Raising a late pre-seed round to accelerate FSMA 204 compliance form completion, enterprise sales, and customer acquisition ahead of the 2028 enforcement wave. Full terms available to accredited investors upon request.

Current Deployment
Deployed across 10 production sites serving Sodexo and Aramark accounts at hospitals, universities, and corporate dining. SaaS pricing: $10K–$15K per site annually.
4 USPTO Provisional Patents Pending
Workflow Enforcement System
Sequential step enforcement for food production traceability
Automatic Artifact Generation
Real-time compliance record creation from operational events
Predictive Intelligence System
Historical pattern-based demand and shrink forecasting
Dual-Source Corroborative Verification
Cross-validation system for critical traceability data integrity
Investor Brief Available
Full offering details — including round structure, valuation rationale, financial projections, use of proceeds, and cap table — are available to accredited investors under NDA upon request.
Round TypeLate Pre-Seed · Equity
SaaS Pricing$10K–$15K / site / yr
Current ARRLive · 2+ Years Revenue
Patents Pending4 USPTO Applications
Exit StrategyStrategic Acquisition
Target CloseQ2 2026
Comparable vertical SaaS companies in regulated industries have reached multi-billion-dollar valuations. This offering is made only to accredited investors. Nothing on this page constitutes an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy securities.
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Leadership

Operators who built this
for themselves first

No theorizing. The founders ran the operation that needed this platform. Every feature exists because someone on this team needed it at 2am in a production kitchen.

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Tim Schierbeek
Co-Founder · Strategy
Serial entrepreneur with decades of experience building global companies across multiple industries. Co-founded the platform's anchor customer.
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Daniel Bradish
Co-Founder · CTO
Architect and maintainer of the full platform stack. Built and iterated in live production environments across multiple states for 2+ years.
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Bawi Lian
Co-Founder · Operations
Director of Operations at Anu Sushi LLC. Primary platform user — shaped every feature through daily production use across 10 sites.
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Dr. Brad Oostindie
Co-Founder · Channel Development
Channel development lead. Drives relationships with food service management companies, franchise partners, and institutional buyers.
See it in your operation.

Whether you're an operator who needs compliance and cost visibility, or an investor looking for the infrastructure play in institutional food — let's talk.

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Deploy in 4–6 weeks · $10K–$15K per site annually · No long-term contract required