Case Study: Found Surface recovers $40K in inventory and scales 5x with Katana

How Found Surface recovered $40k in inventory and scaled 5x with Katana

Found Surface, a Cleveland-based textile manufacturer, was struggling with manual, disconnected operations as it shifted from fashion brand to full-service manufacturing. The team had no inventory management or manufacturing system, limited visibility into materials and finished goods, and a disorganized quoting and sampling process, leaving about $40,000 in raw material sitting unused.

Katana provided Found Surface with a unified manufacturing platform, including Shopify and QuickBooks integrations, guided onboarding, and tools for order, inventory, and production management. With Katana, Found Surface recovered more than $40,000 in inventory, gained real-time operational visibility, streamlined its sampling-to-production workflow, and built the foundation for a 5x facility scale-up.

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Gianmarco Rinaldi

Director, Business Development