Apps
Filo builds simple apps for the work your team does by hand.
Describe a job, like counting a shelf or tracking open quotes, and Filo builds an app for it. Your team opens it on a phone, tablet or computer, and everything they enter updates your records.
Shown at the size of a real phone
The Count app on a phone, at real size: Luis is counting shelf B-3 in the back room. He has counted 18 drums of magnesium citrate, lot 2409-A, where the records say 20.
When to use an app instead of the chat.
Ask Filo in the chat when
- you need a decision made, like picking a supplier or approving an email
- the work happens once, or is different every time
- you want to see Filo’s reasons and evidence next to the answer
Ask Filo for an app when
- the same work is done the same way many times a week
- it happens on the floor, by people who would rather tap than type
- people need to glance at it on a tablet or a screen on the wall
- someone keeps it by hand in a spreadsheet today
Six Filo apps on phones, fanned across the page: Count, Quote board, Supplier book, Supplier qualification, Price watch and Award desk.
Eight apps contract manufacturers use today.
Count comes with every Filo account. The other seven were built for a purchasing and quoting team, each from the request quoted beside it.
- 01
Count
Your team counts one shelf at a time and saves. Filo sends any difference to the chat.
“Set up cycle counting for the back room.”
- 02
Quote board
Every open customer quote, sorted by what it is waiting on: supplier prices, a build, or the customer.
“A board of every quote we have open, and what each one is waiting on.”
- 03
Supplier book
Each supplier with what you buy from them, their last quote, their lead time and the documents on file.
“One place to look up a supplier before I call them.”
- 04
Supplier qualification
Each supplier’s questionnaire, who signed it and when it expires, with the ones expiring soon at the top.
“Track supplier qualifications so nothing lapses before an audit.”
- 05
Price watch
The materials you buy most, each with its last three quotes and how much the price has changed.
“Watch the prices on our top materials and tell me what moved.”
- 06
Award desk
Purchasing sees the quotes for each open price request side by side and picks one. The pick goes to the costing.
“Let purchasing pick suppliers without opening every chat.”
- 07
Formula what-if
R&D changes a material or a quantity on a costing and sees the cost per unit change before asking for a quote.
“Let R&D try swaps on a formula and see the cost right away.”
- 08
Quote review
A manager sees an estimate before it goes out, with its prices, its margin and what changed, and approves it.
“Let the GM see a quote and approve it on a phone.”
You describe the app. Filo builds it. You publish it.
Tell Filo in a chat who does the job, where they do it and on what device. Filo writes the app and opens a draft for you to try. Ask for changes the way you would ask a colleague.
When the app does the job, you publish it and choose who can open it. Changing it later is another request in the chat. Every version is kept, so you can go back to the one before.
A chat with Filo: Ana asks for cycle counting in the back room, two people on phones, one shelf at a time. Filo answers that it is making Count, which uses her locations, and shows its plan: read locations and items, write the screens, build a draft, then Ana tries it and publishes.
Everything entered in an app updates your records.
An app never keeps a separate list. Every entry is linked to a real record: an item, a lot, a location, a supplier, a product or an order. When Luis saves a count, the stock changes, and Filo uses the new number the next time anyone asks.
Every entry shows who made it and when, and anything an app writes can be undone from the chat.
A count saved in the Count app by Luis at 7:42: 18 drums of magnesium citrate on shelf B-3 where the records said 20. Stock on hand is now 18, and the difference of 2 went to the chat.
Everyone on your team gets a free account.
You don’t buy a seat before someone can count a shelf. Everyone at your company signs in with their own account, at no cost.
Apps run on a phone, a tablet, the desktop app and the web. An admin publishes each one and chooses who can open it.
Apps only use Filo’s own functions. An app never sees a password or a key, and never reaches Google, Fiddle or any other system by itself.