We've run Fishbowl Advanced for 10 years. We know what we need.
We've operated two manufacturing companies on Fishbowl Advanced. We purchase thousands of parts, manage dozens of suppliers, and run production schedules across product lines. Fishbowl handles the books and the inventory. Like many small and mid-sized manufacturers, we wrap our ERP with home-grown tools and spreadsheets.
We got tired of building those tools by hand. So we built Aquarium.
“Built by manufacturers.
For manufacturers.”
We didn't set out to build an AI company. We needed Fishbowl to do more.
Our CEO Scott has spent 40 years building manufacturing software, internally for the companies he's run and as products. He was there for early Oracle Manufacturing deployments. Today he runs Phoenix-Micron, a precision scientific instrument company.
Rochelle runs purchasing at Phoenix-Micron, sourcing thousands of parts from dozens of suppliers. For the last decade, Phoenix-Micron has run on Fishbowl Advanced. Like most manufacturers, we've surrounded it with Excel and homegrown tools.
So Scott built a standalone application for Phoenix-Micron, visualizing BOMs, generating production schedules, creating buying plans. It pulled from multiple data sources, Fishbowl among them. Talking to other manufacturers, he and Rochelle heard the same story everywhere. Productized, the tools could help all of them. And so the idea was formed: out of the Fishbowl, into the Aquarium. A digital workforce to create freedom to build.
Born on the shop floor.
Aquarium was founded by people who run manufacturing companies on Fishbowl Advanced every day. Our CEO built purchasing and planning tools for his own factories. Our partner IPS built Viper, a cloud MES that runs production floors today. The team includes purchasing operators who source thousands of parts from dozens of suppliers, product leaders, and engineers. All united by the conviction that Fishbowl manufacturers shouldn't have to spend their day on the plumbing around their ERP instead of building product.
Let AI assistants run the routine ERP work, so manufacturers can build product that delights their customers.
Track. Manage. Store. Report.
Angel investor John Herring spent 45+ years building A-1 into one of the leading roof truss manufacturers in the Pacific Northwest. He built Viper, a cloud-based MES that runs his own factory today, through his company IPS. Most manufacturers can't build their own Viper. Aquarium brings that same intelligence to manufacturers on Fishbowl Advanced through AI. We built Aquarium because we were tired of waiting.
Our parent company is named TMSR Holdings. Track, Manage, Store, and Report. The philosophy is the company.
We knew Fishbowl. We needed engineers who'd shipped AI in production.
An AI platform is a different kind of engineering. Kate, Head of Product, and Anna, Head of Engineering, came from 5x5 Technologies, where they spent years building AI-powered digital twins for critical infrastructure. Systems where bad data isn't a dashboard error, it's a structural failure. They lead the Aquarium build.
Since then, Cord, Álvaro, and Carter have joined the team, bringing experience from companies like Intel and CVBLab at UPV in Valencia, Spain. We continue to grow.
Freedom
Your buyer shouldn't spend half the day clicking through Fishbowl to issue a PO. Aquarium turns that into a conversation.
Clarity
Every action the assistant takes is logged. You see what it did, what data it used, and why. No black boxes.
Control
The assistant drafts. You approve. Nothing gets written to Fishbowl until you say so.
The AI layer for Fishbowl Advanced.
Start with the Buyer Assistant free today. Planner arrives June 2026. Manufacturing Manager, Business Analyst, and Assembler arrive summer 2026. Bring AI to the work that happens around Fishbowl Advanced every day.
Or email us at hello@aqmfg.com
We start with Fishbowl Advanced. We won't stop there.
We want to bring AI assistants to every ERP that small manufacturers actually use. Procurement, production, fulfillment. You tell it what needs to happen. It does the work. We're starting with Fishbowl Advanced because it's what we run every day. But every manufacturer deserves the freedom to build.