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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Fulcrum: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/fulcrum/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/fulcrum/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/fulcrum.md",
  "title": "Fulcrum: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Fulcrum is on 2 Newsprint research maps: the AI supply chain planning software map and the AI manufacturing operations software map. We record 3 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 14, 2026.",
  "period": "Nov. 19, 2025 to Oct. 14, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "site": "https://fulcrumpro.com/",
    "summary": "Cloud ERP, MRP and shop-floor software for small and mid-sized job shops, mostly CNC and sheet metal. It covers jobs, purchase planning, quoting with capable-to-promise, and Autoschedule, which builds a finite-capacity schedule in seconds. The AI is Archie: chat on live shop data that can change a due date or add a job note, Builder for custom apps, and agents still coming. Buyers are shop owners and production managers.",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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      "Manufacturing ERP and MRP"
    ]
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  "summary": {
    "text": "Cloud ERP, MRP and shop-floor software for small and mid-sized job shops, mostly CNC and sheet metal. It covers jobs, purchase planning, quoting with capable-to-promise, and Autoschedule, which builds a finite-capacity schedule in seconds. The AI is Archie: chat on live shop data that can change a due date or add a job note, Builder for custom apps, and agents still coming. Buyers are shop owners and production managers.",
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      "title": "The AI supply chain planning software map",
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      "name": "Fulcrum",
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      "what": "Cloud ERP, MRP and shop-floor software for small and mid-sized job shops, mostly CNC and sheet metal. It covers jobs, purchase planning, quoting with capable-to-promise, and Autoschedule, which builds a finite-capacity schedule in seconds. The AI is Archie: chat on live shop data that can change a due date or add a job note, Builder for custom apps, and agents still coming. Buyers are shop owners and production managers.",
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      "price": "not found on the pages opened",
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      "scale_tier": 3,
      "scale": "Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (Institutional funding disclosed: $39.9M total through an $18M Series A2 led by Bessemer (closed May 2023, announced 2023-08-09).)",
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          "url": "https://fulcrumpro.com/article/archie-fulcrums-native-manufacturing-ai-takes-action-on-your-shops-data"
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        {
          "name": "fulcrumpro.com",
          "url": "https://fulcrumpro.com/article/connect-2026-fulcrum-customers-are-building-their-own-software"
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        {
          "name": "fulcrumpro.com",
          "url": "https://fulcrumpro.com/article/job-shops-built-their-own-apps"
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        {
          "name": "fulcrumpro.com",
          "url": "https://fulcrumpro.com/article/how-to-increase-throughput-with-auto-scheduling"
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      "map": "manufacturing-operations-software",
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      "name": "Fulcrum",
      "site": "https://fulcrumpro.com/",
      "category": "Manufacturing ERP and MRP",
      "what": "Cloud ERP, MRP and shop floor software for job shops. Its Autoschedule \"continually parses your production data and creates the most optimal schedule in seconds, adjusting to priority changes on the fly\", and live job tracking feeds it. The AI is Archie: chat on live shop data that can show which jobs are at risk this week and can change a due date or add a job note, plus Builder, which makes apps from a typed request. Buyers are shop owners and production managers.",
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        "name": "fulcrumpro.com",
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      "price": "not published; sales-led",
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          "name": "fulcrumpro.com",
          "url": "https://fulcrumpro.com/article/connect-2026-fulcrum-customers-are-building-their-own-software"
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          "name": "fulcrumpro.com",
          "url": "https://fulcrumpro.com/article/job-shops-built-their-own-apps"
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          "name": "fulcrumpro.com",
          "url": "https://fulcrumpro.com/article/how-to-increase-throughput-with-auto-scheduling"
        },
        {
          "name": "fulcrumpro.com",
          "url": "https://fulcrumpro.com/article/announcing-a-new-partnership-fulcrum-x-datanomix"
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    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/fulcrum/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-10-14",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Builder opens to every Fulcrum shop",
      "summary": "Fulcrum says Builder 'is now available to every Fulcrum shop'. A shop types what it wants, such as 'Show me every job behind schedule, grouped by department', and Builder makes an app on live shop data. Fulcrum says hundreds of apps are running that its team never touched.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI supply chain planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/supply-chain-planning-software/#co-fulcrum"
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        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://fulcrumpro.com/article/job-shops-built-their-own-apps"
      }
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    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/fulcrum/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-05-08",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Fulcrum shows Archie AI in beta at Connect 2026",
      "summary": "At its user conference Fulcrum let customers try Archie, its AI embedded in the ERP. It surfaced jobs at risk of running late, invoice totals and stale open jobs. Fulcrum said Archie would get write access to take real action in three to six months, and showed MCP and API use for custom dashboards.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI supply chain planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/supply-chain-planning-software/#co-fulcrum"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://fulcrumpro.com/article/connect-2026-fulcrum-customers-are-building-their-own-software"
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    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/fulcrum/#event-3",
      "on": "2025-11-19",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Fulcrum and Datanomix link planning and live production tracking",
      "summary": "Datanomix and Fulcrum announced a partnership and integration that joins job planning, scheduling and live production tracking, without middleware or manual data entry.",
      "kind": "Partnership",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI supply chain planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/supply-chain-planning-software/#co-fulcrum"
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      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://fulcrumpro.com/article/announcing-a-new-partnership-fulcrum-x-datanomix"
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