February 2026

I’m spending this week working from Nigeria, where I lived for 4 or 5 years before starting Authentise. I’ve had a soft spot for the country ever since. Most of you know that the Dana Air crash in the country in 2012 inspired Authentise. But the country’s function in disfunction has struck me in other, more positive ways too. There is true hustle in making stuff work here, and great humanity. Some impressions below:

And yet… I run a software company dedicated to managing workflows, so clearly, I’m thinking about how to bring order to the place. Fortunately, the task of bringing order to inventories is slightly simpler. 

We’re rolling out Finished Goods Inventory (Part 1) to give you clear visibility and control over parts that are already built. The big shift is precision: finished goods are now tied to version-controlled definitions in the Model Library, so you know exactly which material, spec, and revision is physically on the shelf, not just “some part.” Add real storage locations (shelf, rack, zone, third-party), and the system can match available stock the moment you start a new order, so you can decide quickly whether to ship from inventory, top up, or build fresh. And because additive is full of one-offs, you can also turn a “single build” into a properly stocked, traceable finished good as soon as repeat demand shows up.

Next up, we’ll make the whole loop feel intentional rather than accidental. Build to Stock will let you create inventory on purpose, with a lightweight flow that keeps stock levels healthy for repeat parts. Pull from Stock will guide allocation into new orders so your team can reserve the right items with confidence and traceability. After that comes the power move: assembly-level integration, so inventory isn’t just parts on shelves, but multi-level products you can manage end-to-end, without losing track of what’s where and which version it is.

I’m proud of this because it’s bringing a whole new inventory concept into Authentise’s remit – and extending our view well beyond additive. It’s remarkable that the team has been working on this in addition to so many other projects. Whisper, for example, the agentic collaboration capture tool that we’re launching at the end of the month. It’s possibly the most exciting thing we’ve worked on in the last few years – take a sneak peek here.

Happy to discuss more at AMUG this March. Are you going to be there?