Investor Overview

Executive Summary

Reeder Automation is seeking $250K–$1M in seed funding to commercialize Mainsail — a purpose-built operational resource scheduling platform developed over two years by a founder with direct, hands-on experience running and automating airline operations at scale.

Mainsail solves a problem that costs operations-intensive businesses significant money every day: the inability to coordinate people, equipment, and time-sensitive tasks in real time, with automatic conflict detection, delay modeling, and location tracking built in. It is not another generic project management tool. It is operational infrastructure — built by an operator, for operators.

The product is complete, deployed, and publicly accessible via a live demo. What Reeder Automation needs now is the capital to take it to market.

The Opportunity

Operations teams across construction, equipment rental, utilities, maritime, healthcare, and logistics manage billions of dollars of assets using spreadsheets and whiteboards. Existing software is either too generic, too expensive, or built for aviation enterprises only.

Mainsail is the first modern, affordable, configurable platform that gives any operations team real-time scheduling intelligence — at a price point that works for mid-market businesses.

The Problem

Every operations-intensive business faces the same core scheduling challenge: resources — whether aircraft, cranes, trucks, vessels, or clinical staff — must be assigned to time-bounded tasks with location constraints, minimum turnaround requirements, and maintenance windows. When those assignments conflict, the cost is immediate and real.

• Equipment gets double-booked and job sites sit idle
• Resources complete a job in one location but are scheduled to start elsewhere in two hours — nobody caught it
• One delayed job cascades invisibly through the rest of the day
• Maintenance windows overlap committed customer deliveries — discovered the morning of
• Supervisors spend 30–60% of their shift on coordination instead of decision-making

Why Current Solutions Fall Short

• Generic PM / Scheduling Tools — Built for projects, not operations. No resource location, no conflict detection, no delay cascading. Heavy customization that breaks in real operational environments.
• Spreadsheets & Whiteboards — Still the dominant tool. No real-time visibility, no conflict detection, no history. One mistyped cell can cause multi-hour disruptions.
• Enterprise Aviation / Logistics Software — Products like Jeppesen or ARMS target large airlines. Six-figure licensing, 12-month implementations, no flexibility for non-aviation use cases.
• Custom-Built Internal Tools — Expensive to build and maintain. Inaccessible to the thousands of mid-market operations businesses that cannot staff a development team.

The result: a large, underserved market segment — operations teams too sophisticated for spreadsheets, but too small (or too multi-industry) for enterprise aviation software. Mainsail is built specifically for them.

The Solution: Mainsail

Mainsail is a web-based operational resource scheduling platform. It gives operations teams a real-time, interactive Gantt view of all resource assignments, with:

• Automatic conflict detection (double-booking, maintenance overlap, location discontinuity)
• Delay cascading to preserve minimum turnaround times
• Location tracking and configurable resource types
• Role-based access control
• Access from any browser — no special training required

Funding Summary

Target raise: $250K–$1M

Model: SaaS revenue

Stage: Seed round | 2 years in development | Day 1 revenue-ready