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Use-case stack · print farms, labs

Inventory & spare-parts ops

Track filament lots, resistors, and DevKit inventory with sheets + light automation.

System of record in a sheet or DB. AI helps formulas and reorder blurbs — not magic stock counts.

Preferred / primary

Hybrid Research

Excel / Sheets + LLM

Spreadsheet as system of record; LLM helps formulas, cleanup, and explanations.

In this stack: Inventory sheet + reorder formulas.

Supporting tools

Self-hosted Automation

n8n

Self-hostable workflow automation; can call LLMs as steps.

In this stack: Low-stock alerts to chat/email.

Web Automation

Make (Integromat)

Cloud automation with AI modules — glue SaaS tools without self-hosting.

In this stack: Cloud alternative for SaaS shop stacks.

Web LLM / chat

ChatGPT

OpenAI’s mainstream chat + tools product for writing, code, and analysis.

In this stack: Help with sheet formulas.

Self-hosted Automation

Dify

Self-hostable LLM app builder (RAG, agents, workflows) with a polished UI.

In this stack: Optional internal “where is part X?” bot over SOPs.

Stacks are editorial starting points — swap tools when policy, budget, or hardware demands it.