Carlo (founder) spends 9 months helping a $14M apparel wholesaler escape NetSuite. Realizes the SMB ERP gap is structural.
We're building the ERP we wish we had.
Every founder we know running a $5M–$50M business is stuck between two bad ERP choices. QuickBooks + 12 spreadsheets + an ops manager who carries the system in their head. Or a Netsuite quote that takes 6 weeks, costs more than the operations team it serves, and requires an integrator to add a custom field. MetaERP exists because the gap between those two should not be “hire an integrator.”
Four principles, none of them negotiable.
Bundle, don’t unbundle.
Per-module pricing is the SMB tax. We charge for users, not for which corner of your business you let us see. All 49 modules are included from Starter.
AI in the workflows, not on top of them.
The market is full of “AI chatbots” bolted onto legacy ERPs. We trained ours to forecast demand, reprice across channels, extract data from supplier PDFs, and flag anomalies in your day dashboard — all in the modules you actually open.
Multi-tenant means RLS, not “we check it in middleware.”
Tenant isolation is enforced by PostgreSQL Row-Level Security on every business table. A bug in our service layer cannot leak data across tenants. We publish the architecture because we mean it.
Fast, even when honest is faster than fast.
30 minutes from request to a demo tenant with your CSVs in it. 5 days from kickoff to a live tenant for spreadsheet-only teams. Some ERPs make you wait 6 months to see how slow they will be.
How we got here.
- 2023 · Q4
- 2024 · Q2
First commit on what would become MetaERP. Inventory module first. Then receipts. Then “wait, all of this should live in one tenant.”
- 2024 · Q4
Module-architecture rewrite: every domain becomes self-describing. Adding a module requires zero changes to core. The 49-module promise becomes possible.
- 2025 · Q3
AI capabilities land: demand forecast, repricing, document understanding, anomaly detection. Not chatbot-on-top — woven into the modules.
- 2026 · Q1
Three SMB customers live. 49 modules. Three tiers. SOC 2 audit in progress. This website.
Four words that show up in every PR review.
Craft
Linear-grade polish on every surface, not just the homepage. If a screen looks dashed-off, it gets sent back.
Density
Information per square inch matters. Whitespace is a tool, not a religion. Ops teams scan, they don’t browse.
Honesty
We publish what we do — the auth flow, the RLS implementation, the AI prompts, the pricing. No “starting from $X*” with an asterisk.
Speed
Days, not weeks. Weeks, not quarters. We ship the same week the customer asks.
Small team. Big surface area.
- People5Founders + early hires
- Modules shipped49One platform, no à-la-carte
- Paying customers3Wholesale, light manufacturing, distribution
We expect to be twelve by year end. Most of the next seven sit on the Careers list below.
See open rolesOpen roles.
Senior Backend Engineer
RemotePostgres, async Python, RLS. Build the next 10 modules.
Senior Frontend Engineer
RemoteReact 19, design system, signature interactions on a 49-module surface.
Customer Engineer
RemoteLive on customer calls. Translate ops problems into modules. Sometimes write code.
Founding Account Executive
US / EUFirst sales hire. Multi-channel commerce + light manufacturing focus.
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Want to talk to a human?
Carlo answers his own email. carlo@metaerp.com. Or book a demo.