The Digital OS for Sawmills

Sawmill optimization software to grow margin & efficiency.

SawmillSmart is the sawmill planning and optimization platform European mills use to close the yield gap — turning 2–4 points of recovery into margin, without new equipment.

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✓ Built & implemented on real engagements✓ EU-hosted · Frankfurt✓ GDPR by design
Built on real sawmill production logic — trusted across the EU timber belt
Scandinavian sawlineEUDR-readyFrame & band sawMulti-week horizonCut-map optimizationRecovery +3.7pp Scandinavian sawlineEUDR-readyFrame & band sawMulti-week horizonCut-map optimizationRecovery +3.7pp
The Digital OS

Flexible software for every sawmill.

A comprehensive set of sawmill planning, optimization and inventory tools — designed to work individually or together, from the yard to the sawline.

Sawmill optimization

Optimize every cut, across every week

Sawmill optimization that evaluates thousands of cut-maps over a multi-week horizon and ships one executable plan.

Recovery gain
+3.7pp
vs manual planning
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D24 SPRUCE · CUT-MAP71.4% recovery
D24
50×150
25×100
22×75 side
22×75 side
Any planning horizon

See recovery rise as you plan further out

From a single shift to six weeks ahead.

Recovery by horizon
71.4%
Inventory · Mobile

Inventory in your pocket

Mobile-first, works offline, syncs automatically.

SawmillSmart Inventory — mobile dashboard
Compliance

EUDR, built in

DDS-ready from day one.

Geolocation captured
Due-diligence statement
Inbound registry synced
Sawmill planning

One plan, every team

Sawmill production planning, sequenced across weeks.

Wk1Wk2Wk3Wk4
Line A
Line B
Drying
The Proof

Same logs. Same machines. +3.7 points of recovery.

As the sawmill planning horizon widens from a single shift to multiple weeks, SawmillSmart's optimization evaluates exponentially more combinations — and finds margin you couldn't see.

0
cut-map combinations evaluated per run
0
forward planning horizon
0
of production cost is raw material
0
annual yield gap on a 200K m³ mill
46%
Manual / single shift
~12 combos
48%
Short-horizon software
~150 combos · 1 week
51%
SawmillSmart
1,000s+ · 6+ weeks
* Figures shown are from a Scandinavian sawline · typical recovery improvement of 2–4 pp · Source: Elsevier / ScienceDirect, 2023
Pricing

Two products. Pick what fits your mill.

Honest, size-based pricing for sawmill software — start small and self-serve with inventory, or scale into full sawmill optimization.

SawmillSmart Inventory

For small mills · 1–50K m³/yr

€99 / mo per mill excl. VAT
  • Mobile-first, works offline
  • EUDR compliance ready
  • Multi-user team · EU hosting
  • Free forever, no card
See Inventory pricing →
SawmillSmart Planning

For large mills · 50K+ m³/yr

Run · Optimize · Enterprise
  • Multi-week cutting optimization
  • Production planning & sequencing
  • Bespoke algorithms (Enterprise)
  • Sales-led · audit & pilot
See Planning pricing →
Need something we don't list? Tell us what your mill needs — we build around real operations.
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Estimate Your Upside

What is one recovery point worth to your mill?

Move the sliders. The math is brutal — and it's why every mill should run this number.

Annual margin recovered
€1.44M
on 200,000 m³ at €240/m³, +3.0 pp recovery
Monthly equivalent€120K
Per 1,000 m³ processed€7,200
Typical payback1–3 months
Find Your Path

Which mill do you run?

50K+ m³ / year

I run a large mill

Scandinavian sawline, production & sales teams, margin under pressure from log costs.

See SawmillSmart Planning →
1–50K m³ / year

I run a small mill

Frame saw / breakdown / band saw, lean team, EUDR deadline approaching.

Try SawmillSmart Inventory →
Questions

Frequently asked.

No. SawmillSmart improves the decisions made on the machines you already run. The gains come from optimized cut-maps and multi-week planning, not from hardware.
It's built on sawmill production logic — log diameters, kerf, side-board yield, cant geometry, drying and line constraints — not a generic solver pointed at wood.
Planning is multi-week cutting optimization for large mills (sales-led). Inventory is a mobile-first, EUDR-ready app for small mills (self-serve, one subscription per mill).
In the EU (Frankfurt), GDPR by design. Every optimization decision is auditable and traceable.
Yes. SawmillSmart's interface and reports are available in all major European languages — 16 in total — so your team works entirely in its own language.
No. SawmillSmart runs in your browser — no special hardware and no dedicated IT team needed. We handle the setup and configuration for you.
Spreadsheets are fine. SawmillSmart has a built-in Excel upload, and the system works directly on that data — the orders, log supply and line setup you already keep. No ERP integration needed to start.
Yes — that's exactly what the demo is. We run SawmillSmart on your real data, so you see the result for your own mill before committing.
No long lock-in. SawmillSmart is a subscription — monthly or annual — so you choose the commitment that fits.
From the Blog

How leading mills think about yield.

All articles →

The complete guide to sawmill optimization in 2026. Six levers and five principles to recover margin — without CapEx.

Read article →
What we believe

Three theses we built the product on.

SawmillSmart isn't a feature list. It's a position on what's wrong with sawmilling — and what would fix it.

01
For the Production Director
Excel is documentation, not management.

Excel is great at recording what happened and terrible at deciding what happens next. A mill that runs on Excel is running on a postmortem of itself — the plan is always one step behind reality.

02
For the CFO / Owner
The equipment was already bought. The yield decisions weren't.

Every modern mill has spent millions on scanners, optimizers and edgers. But the layer above them — what to cut, when, against which orders — still runs on intuition. That's where the next 2–4 points live, and they cost nothing to install.

03
For the CEO / Group
1% of yield equals 2% of total cost.

This isn't our number — it's published in Computers & Electronics in Agriculture (Elsevier). When raw material is 60–70% of production cost, recovery is the most leveraged variable in the entire operation.

Our Vision
Sawmilling is still running on 1970. We're building 2026.
Read why we're building this →

Ready to optimize your next cut?

See SawmillSmart run on a real mill's data in a 30-minute demo — or start with Inventory, free forever.

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