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Open standards
America needs an open ecosystem of full-stack business software standards — building blocks for ERP, CRM, WMS, martech, and more — so operators can compete without renting their future from a patchwork of vendors.
The operating fabric for Main Street
Open software standards. Operational intelligence from your real systems. Capability tied to deployable work.
We help operators own their data, displace brittle vendor stacks, and put proven people on real missions - delivered through Forward Deploy and GS Cloud.
Launching September 2026
Why we exist
Main Street is shackled with fragmented tools that encourage vendor dependence and block domestic competition. Software standards, data ownership, and capability tied to real work have to move together.
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Data ownership
As more work moves into opaque systems, data ownership is the difference between investing in your team and quietly selling them off to someone else's platform.
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Capability ↔ real work
Standards and software aren't enough. Capability has to connect to deployable work — so skilled people can pioneer and build again, not only caretaker systems they didn't choose.
One fabric. Four layers.
Forward Deploy connects how you actually operate. Open Kit sets the standards. Intelligence and coordination run on that substrate. Capability products put ready people on missions. GS Cloud hosts it.
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Open Kit
Purpose-built open resources and contracts that establish standards for business software building blocks — so stacks stay interoperable and owned.
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Ops Intelligence Network
360° operational intelligence from connected data sources — stood up and operated through Forward Deploy, not a dashboard you configure alone.
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Capability (Hangar)
Prove skill, close gaps, run missions. People and work emulators against real work.
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GS Cloud & partners
Run the fabric on GS Cloud. Extend delivery through the FDE Console for approved Forward Deploy squads.
What's in the fabric
Each piece has a job. Together they're one operating system for industrial Main Street — not a pile of disconnected tools.
Open Kit
For builders, technical operators, implementation partners
Purpose-built open-source resources to establish standards for business software.
Ops Intelligence Network
For operators who need a live picture and a coordination layer
360° ops intel from the systems you already run — connected, normalized, and made actionable through Forward Deploy.
Hangar
For people getting mission-ready; orgs closing capability gaps
Capability operations: prove skills, build a Passport, close gaps by upskilling, posting missions, or assigning work emulators.
GS Cloud
For teams that want the fabric hosted
Hosted runtime for Kit, Ops Intelligence, and related workloads. AWS to start; path to owned infrastructure.
FDE Console
PARTNERS ONLY
For approved channel partners — Forward Deploy squads
Approval-only console for partners delivering Garage Shop outcomes in the field.
We don't throw software over the wall.
Forward Deploy squads connect your data sources, land Open Kit standards in your environment, stand up Ops Intelligence, and leave you with ownership — not another opaque vendor cage.
Buy an outcome. The fabric is how we deliver it.
You don't have to buy everything. Choose the outcomes that matter — we'll assemble the layers that produce them.
Who it's for
OPERATORS / MAIN STREET
Own the stack. See the operation. Ship work without renting your future.
BUILDERS
Implement on open standards and shared contracts.
PEOPLE & CAPABILITY LEADS
Prove skill and close gaps against real missions.
FORWARD DEPLOY PARTNERS
Deliver Garage Shop outcomes with an approval-only console.
Build with us.
For builders, operators, organizations, and communities ready to do real work.
Garage Shop Inc. · Texas, USA