4 Patents Pending · FSMA 204 Ready · 2+ Years Live
The Operating System for
Fresh Food Production
Shrink Manager™ helps multi-site food producers run daily operations, reduce waste, and meet FSMA 204 compliance — live in weeks, not months.
Built for real production environments — not dashboards — Shrink Manager™ captures operational data at the source, where compliance and margin are determined.
Currently deployed in multi-site production environments serving hospitals, universities, and corporate dining — with recurring SaaS revenue per site · $10K–$15K per site annually
15%
average shrink reduction across live production sites — measured over 24 months
Currently deployed across 10 production sites within a single enterprise operator, with additional pilot customers onboarding ahead of FSMA 204
Trusted by operators supplying
Hospital Systems
Sodexo Accounts
Aramark Partners
University Dining
Corporate Dining
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
| Location | Product | Produced | Shrink | CTE Status | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kitchen — Site A | Fresh Protein Bowl | 340 units | 14 (4.1%) | Auto-captured | Delivered |
| Kitchen — Site B | Garden Salad Kit | 218 units | 43 (19.7%) | Auto-captured | Review |
| Kitchen — Site C | Grain & Veggie Bowl | 412 units | 18 (4.4%) | Auto-captured | Delivered |
| Kitchen — Site D | Fresh Wrap Entrée | 180 units | 9 (5.0%) | Auto-captured | In Transit |
10+
Production Sites
1M+
Annual Units
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."
BO
Dr. Bradley Oostindie
Co-Founder, 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.
Built in a Live Production Environment
Every feature was tested and refined across 10 active production sites before commercialization.
2+ Years of Real Data
Forecasting and analytics are trained on actual shrink events and order patterns — not simulated data.
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.
Multi-Site Fresh Food Manufacturers (2–10 Sites)
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
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
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.
Compliance Captured Automatically
Every label print, receiving event, and production step creates a Critical Tracking Event — no manual entry, no missing records.
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.
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.
Built from 2+ years of live production use across 10 facilities — focused only on what operators actually use.
Already deployed across multi-site production environments, with additional operators onboarding ahead of FSMA 204.
Smart Label & Traceability
Barcode-driven labeling creates automatic Critical Tracking Events at every production step. Full chain-of-custody without a single manual entry.
Production Order Management
Create, dispatch, and track production orders across multiple sites. Mobile-native for floor operators and delivery drivers.
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.
QuickBooks Integration
Automated invoicing from order completion. Significantly reduces administrative labor by eliminating manual reconciliation — based on time tracking across live Anu Sushi production sites.
Multi-Site Management
Unified dashboard across all production kitchens, franchisee locations, and customer sites. Role-based access for Admin, Production, and Driver roles.
Demand & Shrink Forecasting
Forecast production quantities and flag shrink risk from historical order and waste patterns — reducing overproduction before it happens.
FSMA 204 Compliance Forms
Hardcoded, audit-ready Receiving Logs, Lot Code / Transformation Logs, and Cooling / Label Check Logs — auto-populated from live operations data.
Product Profitability
Real-time cost, shrink percentage, and margin by product and customer. Know your best and worst SKUs every day — not every quarter.
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. Expansion builds on the operational core already deployed — extending the same system across adjacent parts of the supply chain.
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
!
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
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.
Receiving — Scan Incoming Product
Receiving CTE captured automatically: supplier, lot code, quantity, timestamp.
Production — Print Labels
Every label print creates a Transformation CTE — fully linked to source ingredients and lot.
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.
Up to 40%
Administrative Labor ReductionInvoicing and reconciliation automated from order completion — based on internal deployment across live production sites
30%
Operational Labor ReductionManual order entry and compliance logs eliminated
15%
Product Shrink ReductionMeasured across 10+ live sites over 24 months 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.
🏥
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.
🥗
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.
🏭
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 window to establish category leadership and build an unassailable data advantage
Comparable Market Plays
FSMA 204 is
our wedge
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.
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.
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.
🏥
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.
👷
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.
📈
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.
📥
Receiving
Supplier, lot code, quantity logged at intake
↓
🏭
Production
Orders created, batches tracked, yield recorded
↓
🏷️
Labeling
Barcode print triggers transformation record
↓
🚚
Delivery
Driver confirms, unsold product recorded as shrink
↓
🔗
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
Deployment Snapshot
Live today.
Scaling now.
Shrink Manager™ is already running in live production environments — with additional operators onboarding ahead of FSMA 204. Built for real-world production, not theoretical workflows.
Live Production Sites
10+
Active across multi-site fresh food production environments
Deployment Time
4–6 wks
From onboarding to full operational use — including staff training and workflow integration
System Role
Daily Ops
Production, labeling, compliance, and invoicing — the operational backbone, every shift
Pipeline
Expanding
New operators onboarding ahead of FSMA 204 institutional buyer requirements
Live today
Scaling now
Built for 2028 and beyond
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
📦
Production
Orders, batches, yield
🏷️
Traceability
CTEs, lot codes, chain
📉
Shrink
Waste, site, product
💰
Finance
Invoicing, margin, cost
↓ Expanding data layer ↓
🔮
Demand Forecasting
Site-level prediction from historical patterns
🛒
Procurement Optimization
Ingredient cost and supplier scoring
🤝
Franchise Network Mgmt
Multi-operator performance and compliance
🌐
Supplier Traceability Network
End-to-end supply chain visibility
🏥
Institutional Buyer Integration
Direct feeds to Sodexo, Aramark, health systems
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 Positioning
As more production sites adopt Shrink Manager™, the platform becomes the system of record for operational data across the category — positioning the company to scale independently or partner strategically with the platforms already serving this market. Paradoxically, projecting confidence that we can build independently may be exactly what makes us most attractive to those partners — the perception that we don't need a buyer is often what brings the right ones to the table.
Oracle
SAP
Toast
Aptean
FoodLogiQ
SafetyChain
Tyler Technologies
The 2028 FSMA enforcement deadline creates a defined window to establish category leadership — and the operational data advantage that makes the category defensible.
Investment Opportunity
Growth &
Partnership
We are expanding with new production partners — operators who need compliance and control now — while selectively engaging investors who want early access to the category infrastructure layer for fresh food. 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 PathScale or Strategic 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.
Request Investor Brief →
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.
TS
Tim Schierbeek
Co-Founder · Strategy
Serial entrepreneur with decades of experience building global companies across multiple industries. Co-founded the platform's anchor customer.
DB
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.
BL
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.
BO
Dr. Bradley Oostindie
Co-Founder · Channel Development
Channel development lead. Drives relationships with food service management companies, franchise partners, and institutional buyers.
Case Study
Proven Across 10 Live Production Sites
Shrink Manager™ was developed and deployed inside a multi-site institutional food manufacturer — and has been running in daily production for over two years.
Before Shrink Manager™, production, compliance, and invoicing were managed across spreadsheets and disconnected tools. Today, all operational data is captured in real time at the point of production.
Initial Deployment — Enterprise Operator
Operator Profile
Multi-Site Fresh Food Production Operator
Institutional food manufacturer supplying hospitals, universities, and corporate dining accounts through national foodservice providers.
Production Sites
10
Delivery Locations
150+
Time Live
2+ yrs
System Role
Daily Operations
Results
📉
15% reduction in shrink — measured over 24 months
Tracked across live production sites through real-time waste monitoring at every delivery
⚡
Same-day visibility into waste and performance
Operators intervene immediately instead of reacting to month-end reports
🔒
FSMA 204 audit readiness built into operations
Compliance captured automatically through production workflows — zero manual entry
💰
Production → invoice automation
Integrated QuickBooks workflows eliminate manual reconciliation entirely
🏭
System of record for daily operations
Production, compliance, and financial data unified in a single platform
This deployment reflects a single enterprise operator. Additional pilot customers are onboarding ahead of FSMA 204 compliance requirements.
See it in your operation.
We're actively deploying with new customers — operators who need compliance and cost visibility now, and investors who want early access to the category leader.
Deploy in 4–6 weeks · $10K–$15K per site annually · No long-term contract required