How SUNiCE got the inventory system it never had

3 months to go from no formal inventory system to one fully centralised system covering raw goods, production, and sales

The most architecturally complex Notion system Comma has built — and now the template for any company assembling raw materials into finished goods

SUNiCE makes pouch-packaged, ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages assembled and shipped to distributors across the US. Wyatt, whose more established venture Su Casa Mezcal had spent years fighting Cin7 — the kind of large, expensive inventory platform that forces a business to run its operations the software's way, instead of the other way around — knew exactly what he didn't want to repeat for SUNiCE. When he brought Comma on, there was no inventory system to fix. There wasn't one at all.

Centralised first, then built to bend around SUNiCE

There was no legacy system to migrate and no habits to unlearn. SUNiCE was tracking raw materials, production runs, and finished goods well enough to ship, but not well enough to know true cost of goods or margin. Comma centralised all of it — raw goods, finished goods, production runs, stock movements — into one connected system, then built collaborative dashboards around how SUNiCE's team actually manages each piece: raw goods, production runs, vendors, sales. It's the same throughline behind every Comma build — centralisation, collaboration, personalisation — just mapped onto inventory instead of sales or operations. That distinction is also what makes it repeatable: most manufacturing and assembly businesses end up adapting themselves to whatever rigid, expensive system they're sold — Cin7 included — instead of having a system that adapts to them. Because this one was built around how SUNiCE actually works, it became the template for a service Comma can now bring to any company assembling raw materials into finished goods.

One centralised view, instead of five separate places to check

Vendors, raw goods, production runs, and distributor orders each used to live wherever they landed, if they lived anywhere formal at all. Centralising them changed what SUNiCE can see, not just what it can store — raw goods, production, and sales each get their own dashboard, but all of them pull from the same underlying data, so nothing has to be reconciled by hand across systems that don't talk to each other.

The result: instant answers, not detective work

SUNiCE can pull up its raw goods data and immediately see where a shortfall is coming — and exactly which vendor to reorder from. When a cost moves, up or down, it shows immediately, and checking cost of goods sold or margin is no longer a separate exercise, because everything is linked and centralised. If a production run's costs come in high, the team can trace straight back to see which vendor or shipment drove it, including whether transportation costs quietly ate into the margin. The system runs close to 50 SKUs today, and it's already caught real problems before they hit the floor — weeks after launch, it flagged a genuine ~24,000-bottle shortfall against an upcoming run before it became a shipping problem. And because it was built as a template from day one, it's now the reference build for a service Comma can bring to any company fighting the same battle against inventory software that makes them adapt to it.

If your inventory system doesn't exist yet — or exists but doesn't work — this is solvable, and it doesn't require an ERP.

Matt has been excellent at quickly learning new, industry-specific concepts, skills, processes, and workflows. He picks things up fast, runs with them, and consistently comes back with real progress each time we meet. We've really appreciated his ability to turn new information into action, and we're looking forward to continuing to work with him as we grow the business.

Wyatt, Founder, Su Casa Mezcal