Tri-State Digital Operations Platform .
The digital operating system behind sales, engineering, production, inventory and installations.
Overview
Tri-State Awnings needed more than isolated tools: it needed one digital backbone for the way the company sells, engineers, manufactures and installs its products. I helped build the web ERP and the mobile operating layer that connect those workflows, replacing fragmented processes with shared job data, production instructions and operational visibility.
What I worked on
- ERP workflows for sales, jobs, engineering, production, inventory, scheduling, routes, billing and collections
- Engineering workspaces for awnings and sukkahs with calculations, drawings, measurements, shop instructions and production documents
- React Native mobile app used by sales representatives and installers as the field operations layer
- Applied AI expansion with a Lead Engineer, specialist agents, deterministic calculations and human approval
Architecture & decisions
The core web platform is a Next.js and TypeScript application backed by REST services, with domain adapters, React Query, Zustand/Redux state and authenticated operational workflows. The React Native app extends the same operational model into the field. The AI initiative adds a role-agnostic Python, Flask and Celery service around Anthropic tool calls; it invokes the existing TypeScript calculation engine as a deterministic tool and writes proposals into a human-reviewed path rather than bypassing production controls.
Project note
This case study describes a professional platform without exposing customer data, credentials or proprietary implementation details. The AI layer is documented as an active architecture and development initiative inside a much broader production operations system.