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One commerce platform for the print market, built in the open.

Brandhub lets print resellers run relationship management, quoting, orders and logistics in one place, with products, orders and suppliers managed centrally. In build since August 2024, live and growing.

PRJ-XXX  //  CONTENTS: PRINT COMMERCE PLATFORM  //  STARTED: AUGUST 2024  //  STATUS: IN BUILD, ~22 MONTHS

01 — The problem worth a platform

Off-the-shelf ERP and CRM never fit how the print market actually works.

Print resellers sit in the middle. Suppliers produce the work, customers place the orders, and the reseller has to manage relationships, quotes, orders, stock, logistics and finance across all of them at once. When those steps live in disconnected tools, the coordination cost lands on the reseller, every order.

We looked at adapting existing ERP and CRM systems. They assume a different shape of business and could not model the reseller, supplier and customer flow of the print market, or they did it so partially that the manual work stayed. A platform built around the market's real processes was the only way to fit all four parties into one system.

02 — What we're building

One platform, four connected workspaces.

Brandhub is a single platform with a dedicated workspace for each party in the chain. Each side sees only what it needs, and the data flows between them without re-keying.

  • Platform Admin. The Brandhub core: products, finance, orders, suppliers and logistics across the whole network.
  • Reseller Admin. The reseller's cockpit: companies, orders, sales, stock, finance, logistics and design.
  • Supplier Admin. A focused space for suppliers to manage incoming orders.
  • Customer Admin. Where a reseller's own customers handle their finance, orders and deliveries.
03 — The journey so far

Six phases, built one solid layer at a time.

PHASE 1

Foundation: the core architecture and the four-workspace model

Why: one platform with role-based workspaces instead of separate apps. The parties share the same data, so one model keeps it consistent.

PHASE 2

Products: central product management on the Brandhub side

Why: products owned centrally and surfaced to resellers, because one source of truth beats every reseller maintaining their own list.

PHASE 3

Quoting and catalogue: quoting, and a catalogue resellers can sell from

PHASE 4

Orders: end-to-end order flow across reseller, supplier and customer

PHASE 5

Logistics: logistics and deliveries wired into the order flow

PHASE 6

Finance: finance across the platform, rolled out broadly into daily use

Phase periods are approximate, anchored on the August 2024 start and the early-2026 go-live.

04 — Where it stands today

Live today, and growing every month.

All six areas are live: foundation, products, quoting and catalogue, orders, logistics and finance. All four workspaces are in production, and the platform has been in daily use since the start of 2026.

300+
Monthly active users, to date
~20% / mo
User growth, month on month, so far
4 workspaces
Live in production
05 — What's next

Where Brandhub goes next.

The roadmap ahead, as direction rather than promises:

  • A public API, so other systems can plug into Brandhub.
  • AI-supported management, to take routine decisions off people's plates.
  • A rebuilt customer dashboard, with Finance v2.
A multi-year build, in daylight

Trusted to grow in production, not rebuilt from scratch.

Brandhub is a multi-year, retained build. Metis runs the full development for the platform operator, shipping one layer at a time and keeping the work visible as it grows, rather than disappearing for a year and returning with a finished black box. The longevity is the proof: the platform has been trusted to grow in production, not rebuilt from scratch.

WE ARE NOT NAMING THE CLIENT HERE, BY CHOICE. THE PLATFORM, THE PHASES AND THE FIGURES ARE REAL.

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