Who it’s for

Filo for brands that work with contract manufacturers.

Get quotes from suppliers and manufacturers, cost a new product before you commit, and keep your inventory sheet up to date.

What Filo does for a brand.

Get quotes from your suppliers and manufacturers.

Filo emails your co-packer and your packaging suppliers from your own Gmail, reads their replies and records every price, minimum and lead time.

How supplier pricing works →

Cost a new product before you commit.

Give Filo the formula or recipe and the packaging. It prices every line at each quantity you are thinking about, and tells you which line costs the most.

How Filo costs a new product →

Keep your inventory sheet up to date.

Filo writes prices into the Google Sheet you already keep, and leaves a comment on every cell it changes saying where the number came from.

See the integrations →

Tuesday, 9:04 p.m.

Filo reads your supplier replies so you don’t retype them.

Suppliers answer in the email, in a PDF or in a spreadsheet. Filo records each price with its minimum and lead time, and tells you who hasn’t answered yet. If a supplier goes quiet, Filo drafts a follow-up for you to send.

A founder’s inbox at 9 p.m.: three supplier replies Filo has read and summarized.

Filo writes the price into your sheet and says where it came from.

Filo reads the tabs you keep and checks the layout before it writes. It never overwrites a formula. Every cell it changes gets a comment with the old value and the email the new one came from, and you can undo the change from the chat.

Cell G4 of Ridgeline Labs’ sheet, enlarged: the 120 g pouch price, now $0.17. Filo’s comment on it says it was $0.21 and the new price is from Northstar’s quote on Tuesday at 6:12 p.m., at 50,000 pouches.

Ridgeline Labs’ own Google Sheet, Inventory tab: five rows of SKUs and components. Filo changed one cell, the pouch price, to $0.17 from Northstar’s quote, and left a comment on it saying where the price came from.

Ridgeline Labs’ own Google Sheet · the Inventory tab

Coming next

Filo will tell you what to order before you run out.

Once Filo can read your Shopify orders, it will work out how fast each product sells and how long each supplier really takes, and draft the order for you to approve.

We run on a Google Sheet and Shopify. Does Filo work with that?
The Google Sheet works today. Shopify is coming next. Until then, Filo works from the stock you already keep in your sheet.
Can Filo ask our contract manufacturer for a quote?
Yes. A co-packer is a supplier to Filo. It sends the request from your Gmail and reads the quote when it comes back.
We don’t have a spreadsheet for this yet.
Filo can keep your suppliers, items and prices for you. You can move them to a sheet later.

Bring your sheet and one new product to a demo.

In a 45-minute call we run one of your products through Filo with you, on your own sheet and your own suppliers.