Start with the shop floor
The useful product is the one that fits the pace, interruptions, and handoffs of a real tire shop—not a generic software checklist.
Why Treadforge
Forged Around the Work.
Treadforge is an independent software project focused on the daily operating work of independent tire shops. It is currently in private development.
The New Blacksmiths
The Trade That Keeps People Moving
The independent tire shop is the direct descendant of the village blacksmith.
The name is no accident. Tread is the tire. Forge is where the smith worked iron over fire.
For centuries the village blacksmith was the reason people could travel at all—shoeing horses, banding wagon wheels, and mending the axles that carried families and freight down every road. When the wheel changed, the trade didn't die. It evolved.
Today that work happens in the bay. Treadforge builds the tools for the people who carry the trade forward—the shops that still keep everyone moving.
Earn the first customer
Treadforge is not pretending to be finished. The goal is to listen closely, show real progress, and earn adoption one shop at a time.
Make daily work clearer
Inventory, work orders, customer updates, and crew coordination should reinforce each other instead of creating more duplicate work.
Current Stage
Building toward the first live demos
The immediate focus is a credible core product, practical Shop Intel, and conversations with operators who can pressure-test the assumptions before launch.
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