ISSUE 01 · A FIELD MANUAL FOR MAKERS

Your supplier admin, handled.

Snap a receipt, tap approve. Nougat reads every invoice, updates your ingredient costs, recalculates your margins, and files everything — so you can get back to making.

  • ForMakers
  • InputsPhotos · CSV
  • EffortOne tap
CH. 1 · THE PROBLEM

You make things. The boring part has been winning.

Three small fires that, taken together, quietly turn a craft business into a paperwork business. None of them are why you started.

  • 01

    Invoices pile up.

    You’re hand-typing supplier prices into a spreadsheet — or, honestly, not typing them at all. The shoebox grows. The numbers age.

  • 02

    Costs drift quietly.

    An ingredient went up two months ago and nothing in your software told you. You only feel it later, in a month that should have been a good one.

  • 03

    Suppliers live everywhere.

    Pricing in old emails. Contacts in your head. Terms on a sticky note. Re-ordering means a half-hour scavenger hunt every single time.

CH. 2 · COSTS, HONEST

One price moves. Every margin reacts.

Most tools tell you what you spent. Nougat tells you what it did. Pick an ingredient, nudge its price — watch your products feel it.

This is the same calculation Nougat runs every time you approve a receipt, against your actual products.

1 · CHOOSE AN INGREDIENT
2 · NUDGE THE PRICE
Pistachios per kg$17.50$20.65
−10%+18%+40%
3 · YOUR PRODUCTS REACTMARGIN · Δ POINTS
  • Pistachio nougat bar

    Cost $3.47 · Price $8.50

    59%-2.9 pt
  • Honey caramels · 12 pc

    Cost $5.74 · Price $14.00 · NOT IMPACTED

    59%0.0 pt
  • Sourdough loaf

    Cost $2.43 · Price $9.00 · NOT IMPACTED

    73%0.0 pt
  • Almond brittle

    Cost $4.62 · Price $11.00 · NOT IMPACTED

    58%0.0 pt
SUPPLIER · TRUSTWEEK 01
  • Acme Foods

    Bulk dry goods

    0/3 approvals
    Manual review
  • Sweetwater Supply

    Packaging & boxes

    1/3 approvals
    Manual review
  • Harper & Sons

    Specialty nuts

    2/3 approvals
    Manual review

✓ APPROVED · ▒ PARTIAL · ░ PENDING

CH. 3 · IT LEARNS

Approve three times. Then go make things.

After three clean approvals from the same supplier, Nougat earns your trust and starts handling their documents on its own. You’ll see them already done in the inbox. Undo is always one tap.

Week one, you approve carefully. By month two, the regulars flow through on their own and you only glance at the exceptions. The work goes down over time — not up.

CH. 4 · THE VAULT

Every supplier, organised once. Never lost again.

The agent quietly files every receipt and every price change into each supplier’s drawer. Five tabs, the same place, every time.

“What did Sweetwater charge me for kraft boxes in March, and what’s their minimum order?” Ten seconds. Not a hunt through your inbox.

S

Sweetwater Supply Co.

PACKAGING · NET30 · SINCE 2024

AUTO

Kraft boxes · 200 ct

Tracked across 8 months

OCTNOVDECJANFEBMARAPRMAY

CURRENT

$0.39

PER BOX

CHANGE

+25.8%

Price drifted up 25.8% between January and March. Worth asking about next order.

SAME RECEIPT · TWO WORKFLOWS
Today’s proposal · Acme Foods
#00471

6 items extracted · +$426.17 inventory

Pistachio nougat margin 62%58%

Filed to · Vault › Acme Foods on approval

Time≈ 4 sec
Steps1
SurfacesOne card
CH. 5 · ONE TAP

From twenty-three minutes to one tap.

Compare the old way — opening the email, downloading the invoice, re-keying line items into a spreadsheet, hoping you didn’t fat-finger a digit — with what happens in Nougat.

Flip the switch on the figure to see both ends of the workflow, side by side.

CH. 6 · TWO SCREENS

Two screens. On purpose.

We could have built ten. We didn’t. Nougat is shaped like the two questions makers actually ask: what do I do with this document, and what do I know about this supplier.

SCREEN · 01

Agent

The inbox for documents.

Hand it a receipt, an invoice, a CSV. It reads everything, sorts it, does the maths against your products, and hands you a single proposal card. You tap Approve. Or Reject. Nothing changes until you do.

  • ·Photos, CSVs · drop or snap
  • ·Line-item extraction
  • ·Auto cost & margin recalculation
  • ·Approve · Reject · Undo
SCREEN · 02

Vault

The brain for suppliers.

Every supplier becomes a drawer. Documents and pricing fill themselves. You add Contacts, Terms, and Notes once. Then it’s ten seconds to answer any question about anyone you buy from.

  • ·Documents — every receipt, filed
  • ·Pricing — running history per item
  • ·Contacts · Terms · Notes
  • ·One source, all suppliers
CH. 7 · BY DESIGN

Different on purpose. Quietly so.

Four things Nougat deliberately isn’t — and why each one makes the tool sharper for the way makers actually work.

  1. Not a spreadsheet.

    You don’t feed it manually. It reads the documents you already get and does the typing for you.

  2. Not a bank connection.

    A bank line says “$312 at a supplier.” A receipt says what you bought and what it did to your margins. That’s the part Nougat cares about.

  3. Not a black box.

    Nothing changes until you approve. Undo is always one tap. You teach it, it earns trust, and you stay in the driver’s seat.

  4. Not your accountant.

    Nougat sits upstream of bookkeeping. Keep the accountant or app you already use — Nougat just makes sure the inputs are correct, current, and findable.

EPILOGUE · ONE SENTENCE

Hand Nougat the documents you already get. It keeps your costs honest, your margins visible, and every supplier organised — and does more of it for you every week.

FREE TO START · NO BANK CONNECTION · PHOTOS & CSV