Cabinet manufacturing consulting
Most shop
problems are not software problems.
We work with production shops on the systems behind the work. How a job gets designed, engineered, and handed to the floor without living in one person’s head.
Who we work with
Cabinet and millwork shops that build for real. Running CNC or moving that direction, and past the point where workarounds still scale.
What changed
For years this was a Cabinet Vision consultancy. That is not where the work is going.
I spent a long time fixing setups, writing scripts, and untangling standards inside one vendor’s software. That work helped a lot of shops. It also made something hard to ignore: too many jobs in this industry exist to compensate for tools shops cannot change themselves.
So I am building Grainwork, a cabinet platform for production shops that want control back. That is where most of my time goes now.
Cabinet Explore stays open, but with a wider lens. Process, standards, handoffs, and the technology decisions around them. Not tied to one vendor, and not selling anybody’s license.
Myron Wittmer
Cabinet Explore
Founder, Grainwork
Where shops get stuck
Different shops, same four patterns. None of them are about somebody not working hard enough.
01
Too much lives in one person's head
If one person knows how everything works, that is not a process. That is a dependency, and it walks out the door eventually.
02
The setup grew instead of getting designed
Materials, methods, and settings nobody uses anymore. When a library is full of noise, the parts you do need get harder to trust.
03
The office and the floor disagree
If the designer, the engineer, and the guy at the saw are working from slightly different information, something wrong gets built eventually.
04
Every change turns into a side project
A new drawer guide or a door standard should take an afternoon. When it takes a phone call and three weeks, the shop stops improving.
Consulting
Ongoing, not project by project.
Most of this work does not fit inside a fixed scope. A shop untangles one thing and immediately finds the next one behind it. Quoting that by the hour turns into a bad conversation for everybody.
So the arrangement is simple. A standing engagement, a regular working call, and access in between when something comes up. We look at the whole picture: how work moves, where it stalls, what should be written down, and which technology decisions are worth making next.
There is no package to compare and no product page. If it is a fit, we will figure out what it should look like for your shop. If it is not, I will tell you that too.
Availability is limited on purpose. Most of my week belongs to Grainwork, so I take on a small number of shops at a time.
Where my time goes
The better answer is software your shop can change on its own.
Cabinet software has spent twenty five years training shops to need somebody else. Buy it, pay for setup, pay for training, pay for support, then pay again when the shop changes.
Grainwork is the cabinet platform I kept wishing I could recommend. Layout, cabinet logic driven by your standards, and manufacturing output you can inspect and trust. First shops come in August 2026, a small closed group.
What it is built on
No consultant required
Strong defaults and a real working setup out of the gate.
Custom work is normal
Not an exception, and not the point where the system falls apart.
Manufacturing comes first
The test is whether the output works on the floor, not how it renders.
No IT circus
No dedicated cabinet computer, no server in the corner, any browser.
What it is built on
Shops that manufacture, at whatever size that happens
Running CNC, or building toward it
Someone accountable for how work actually flows
Willing to change how things are done, not just what tool does it
Not a fit
Hobby work and weekend projects
Design only businesses with no manufacturing
Shops looking for a one time software install
Anyone who wants a vendor to hand them a scope and a price
Contact
Tell me what is slowing the shop down.
A few sentences is plenty. I read every one, and I will tell you honestly whether this is something I can help with or whether you are better off somewhere else.
