The manufacturer-owned alternative to platform dependency
Large platforms use technology and scale to insert themselves between you and your customer — taking 30–40% and the relationship along with it. Fleet is the alternative: a network of independent shops that band together to protect their margin and own their customer relationships. Free RFQ tools to help manage your existing and new customers. And you get 1% back on every dollar your customers spend across the Fleet network.
Large platforms have a structural advantage: technology, capital, and a buyer-side brand. They use it to insert themselves between your shop and your customer permanently — turning your capability into their product and your margin into their revenue. The work still gets done by shops like yours. The relationship doesn't belong to you anymore.
A shop in Denver gets an RFQ for a part that needs CNC machining and anodizing. They do CNC. They don't anodize. So they…
Email a contact at another shop. Wait two days for a quote.
Mark it up manually. Go back to the buyer with a number.
Hope nothing falls through the cracks. No paper trail.
Get paid nothing for making the connection happen.
This happens thousands of times a day across American manufacturing — with no tracking, no accountability, and no one getting paid for the connection. It is the primary way manufacturing work gets distributed in the U.S. and it is completely invisible to any digital system.
Fleet is a different answer entirely. Instead of a platform that owns your customers, Fleet is a network your shop owns a piece of. Shops share work, refer jobs they can't run, and earn on every dollar that moves through the network — while keeping full control of their customer relationships.
Existing platforms solve the buyer's discovery problem by hiding your shop behind theirs and taking 30–40% of every job. You don't own the buyer relationship. The platform does.
Fleet only earns when it creates new value — when work crosses from one shop to another through the network. Your existing revenue, your existing customers: Fleet never touches them.
No IT staff required. No contracts. No upfront cost. You earn even on jobs you can't run.
Paste two lines of code on your site. The Fleet RFQ form goes live instantly — branded to your shop. Every quote request flows into your dashboard. No IT staff needed.
5 min setupJobs you can run are yours at full margin — Fleet takes nothing. Jobs outside your capability get flagged automatically and routed to the right shop in the network.
0% on your own jobsWhen your customers buy from other Fleet shops, you earn 1% of their spend — automatically. No invoicing. No chasing. Tracked in your dashboard, paid monthly.
1% lifetime · paid monthlySmall and mid-sized manufacturers, and the reps who place their work. If you're tired of platforms taking your margin and owning your customer, Fleet was built for you.
You have great machines and solid customers. When a job needs finishing or additive work you don't offer, you lose the job or manage it manually. Fleet routes it and pays you for the connection.
You're the downstream shop — the one getting the referral call. Fleet gives you structured inbound RFQs instead of informal handoffs, with automatic payment and full job tracking.
You place custom work across multiple shops and manage commissions by hand. Fleet gives you a platform to submit, track, and get paid — and earns you recurring income as the network grows.
Platforms charge 30–40% and keep your customer. Fleet charges 15% only on net-new work — work you never would have seen — and you stay the vendor of record throughout.
Fleet is building its founding vendor cohort now. Early members shape the network — and as the network grows, so do the benefits. We're building toward a model where being a Fleet member means access to preferential pricing, shared tools, and collective buying power that no single shop could get alone.
Questions? witt@fleetmfg.com
Ten minutes to go live. Tell us about your shop — we'll send your widget code and dashboard access the same day.
"You built the relationship.
Fleet doesn't touch it."