The Bottleneck Has a Name. We Just Bought the Solution.
By Marc Sanderson, CEO, INNERGY
Every conversation I have with a cabinet shop owner or millwork manufacturer eventually arrives at the same place. The shop floor is humming. Sales is closing work. The team is talented. But somewhere between the sold project and the finished cabinet, things slow down. The engineers can’t get drawings out fast enough. Projects sit. Deadlines slip. Overtime piles up. And the next job is already waiting.
It is the single most consistent piece of feedback I have heard in this industry. At our recent 2026 Summit, when we asked customers to rank the biggest problems facing their businesses, shop drawings came back as number one. Not pricing. Not labor. Not material costs. Drafting capacity.
Today, INNERGY acquired Archetype, the world’s largest woodworking drafting team. 220+ associates focused entirely on shop drawings for cabinet shops and millwork manufacturers. Their work is the answer to the bottleneck I just described, and starting now, it lives directly inside the INNERGY platform.
Why Archetype, why now
Archetype is not a generalist outsourcing firm. The team has been doing nothing but woodworking drafting for over a decade. They know the standards. They know the software. They know how a shop actually runs. Early-adopter INNERGY customers have been receiving shop drawings since 2025, and the feedback has been clear enough that demand is already outpacing capacity.
What gets me most excited is what happens when you combine a service like drafting with a connected platform like INNERGY. Drafting outsourcing has always been painful because the workflow lived outside your system. You sent files. You waited. You got drawings back. You found a problem. You sent more files. Repeat.
Inside INNERGY, that loop collapses. You request a drawing from inside the ERP. You see the status update in real time. Drawings in production, drawings in review, drawings delivered. Think Amazon order tracking. Over time, you will be able to watch the drafter work on your file and make annotations live, without the bounce-back of batch processing. The friction goes to zero.
What this means for you
If you are an INNERGY customer, this is one more tool in your kit, available when and if you want it. If you are a Microvellum customer, nothing changes about your software, your support, or your relationship with us. If you use Cabinet Vision, Mosaic, or another design package, Archetype’s service is still open to you.
Your existing contracts, your pricing, your support, all of it stays the same. Archetype is an addition, not a replacement.
And about AI
Yes, AI is part of this. The 220 associates at Archetype are also our incubator. We will test new AI-assisted drafting tools with the team, refine them in real production conditions, and then make them available to customers as they mature. The combination of expert humans and good AI is going to reshape this industry. Archetype is where we build it.
I am not going to make big AI promises today. What I will say is this: the workflow is going to collapse. The drafting workflow, the estimating workflow, the work-order workflow. The shops that adopt the new tools will run circles around the shops that don’t. We want our customers on the right side of that line.
Where we go from here
Both Archetype and Microvellum continue to operate under their own brands. Existing customers see continuity of service. We have a lot of work to do on integration, on AI, and on building this into something that genuinely changes how cabinet shops and millwork manufacturers run their businesses. We will get there one step at a time, listening to the voice of the customer every step of the way.
This is a big move. It is also a familiar one. INNERGY has always been about solving the bottlenecks our customers actually face, not the ones it is fashionable to talk about. Drafting is the bottleneck. Now we have the team to solve it.
Marc Sanderson
CEO, INNERGY