Our story at NutraSoft began with a team of software developers in a food manufacturing plant in the late 1990s… Quite literally on the production floor of a rapidly growing Montreal-based food manufacturer. At the time, the goal was to create a software system that could manage operations, traceability, nutrition and order fulfillment of a relatively large company. The program worked, it was a success, however, after years of working with larger companies in a very competitive environment, we noticed that small food manufacturers had very few affordable software options... In 2018, almost 20 years on from our very first customer, we decided it was time to create something truly unique. A software that addressed all the needs of a small food manufacturer in a package that all small food manufacturers could afford. The challenge was to create, sell and support an affordable solution and, frankly, how to make money in the process. So we decided to consult our roots, create the minimum viable product based on our largest software, and go out to local food manufacturers to see if the program met their needs. Which initially and to our surprise didn’t! But those first few small food manufacturers, who were encouraged by the initial attempt and promised pricing, allowed us to use them as a sounding board in order to improve the software to a point where it did everything they needed. Our first customers were our most important partners, and there is no better way to develop a solution than to work hand-in-hand with those who experienced the challenges without it, every day. Fast forward to 2021, we are proud to report that our sounding board, our customers, our partners, now make up over 1,000 small food manufacturers who trust us enough to use NutraSoft every day, for all their operations. When we say that NutraSoft was developed by food manufacturing people, for food manufacturers, we mean it.