Knurl · CMMSAbout

The CMMS for the
missing middle.

Knurl is a lightweight maintenance management system for the organizations stuck between spreadsheet chaos and six-figure enterprise software. Offline-capable, mobile-first, priced by the facility — never by the seat.

#01The gap

Excel on one side. Enterprise CMMS on the other. Nothing in between.

A maintenance team with 20 to 500 assets has outgrown spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups — but the established CMMS vendors are priced and scoped for hundreds of seats and a full IT department. Knurl is built for that middle: the factory, the hotel, the hospital, the mall, the property portfolio that needs real work-order tracking without an enterprise rollout.

#02What Knurl is

A maintenance loop, done well — then a platform around it.

The core is the loop every team runs every day: register the asset with a QR sticker, scan it, raise or pick up a work order, fix it, photograph the proof, close it. Around that core Knurl adds preventive maintenance, spare parts, analytics, multi-facility, procurement and integrations — one product, three honest tiers.

No per-user pricing

Invite the whole crew — night shift, seasonal hires, the on-call subcontractor. Tiers are bounded by assets, not seats.

Offline-capable

Technicians work through basements, freezer aisles and outages. The mobile app keeps a local copy and syncs cleanly when the signal returns.

Mobile-first

Built for the phone in the technician's pocket — not bolted onto a desktop app. Managers get a web dashboard; technicians get a native app.

Zero hardware

A printed QR sticker is the only physical artifact. No beacons, no gateways, no RFID. The phone is the reader.

#03The name

Knurl — get a grip on your maintenance.

Knurling is the cross-hatched texture machined onto metal tools and knobs so you can grip and control them. That is exactly what the product is for: a firm, deliberate grip on the work that keeps a facility running. Pronounced “nurl” — the K is silent, like in knife.

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