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MaxCut is cut list optimization software for professional cabinet makers, joiners, and woodworking shops. It reduces sheet material waste, speeds up cut planning, and gives small-scale cabinetry businesses accurate control over job costing and profit margins. Key features include: professional cutting diagrams and order lists, grain alignment across panels, tension-free cuts, accurate job and labour cost calculations, professional report and panel label printing, a reusable cabinet library, and CSV export. MaxCut is available as a free Community Edition and a paid Business Edition for professional use.
Topolog turns any goal into a dependency graph and schedules your days around it. You get a structured plan, a completion spectrum, and a task list that adapts as you mark them done. Every plan is a real program, so the dates and odds are computed, not guessed.
MaxCut
TopologMaxCut's answer
At MaxCut, we stand out by hyper-focusing on making complex cutlist tasks simple for our target audience. We cater specifically for small businesses in cabinetry and joinery and offer a remarkably capable free edition that covers the most important optimization needs without excessively pressuring users to upgrade. We've taken a targeted, opinionated approach to building MaxCut, focussing on what a small cabinerty and joinery business will need. This keeps MaxCut straightforward and easy to use for that audience.
Topolog's answer:
Topolog treats every plan as a program. Plans are written in TOL (Total Orchestration Language), a formally total, decidable language where the scheduler and Monte Carlo engine compute dates and probabilities deterministically. The AI drafts structure but never touches the maths. You get a completion spectrum (a probability distribution over outcomes), honest deadline ranges (a floor and a ceiling, never one date you'll miss), and a Bayesian self-tuning scheduler that learns your real pace from timestamps alone. The planning language is public, you can author plans with any AI and run them through Topolog's engine.
MaxCut's answer
Topolog's answer:
Anyone running a goal with real dependencies and real stakes: technical project managers, engineering managers, founders, and ambitious individuals planning complex personal projects like home renovations, album productions, or marathon training. The unifying characteristic is feeling the pain of planning tools that lie about deadlines. Topolog is for people who want to know their actual odds, not a false sense of certainty.
MaxCut's answer
While we do serve larger clients with multiple licenses, our real pride lies in the tens of thousands of active small to medium-sized businesses around the globe that use MaxCut every day. Theyโre the heart of our community and the driving force behind our commitment to making professional cutlist optimization accessible and user-friendly for all.
MaxCut's answer
After spending over a decade in a previous business building complex software that required months to set up and years to master, the founders of MaxCut decided never again! That decision gave birth to MaxCut. Driven by talented software engineers passionate about creating a software product thatโs incredibly quick and simple to set up (you can do it in minutes), easy to use, and immediately valuable. MaxCut is our passion project. Weโre continually evolving MaxCut to meet the real-world needs of small and medium-sized businesses in the cabinetry and joinery industry. Keeping things simple and easy to use.
Topolog's answer:
Built by a solo founder with 14 years across Meta, Media.net, Amazon and others. After watching countless projects miss deadlines, not from incompetence but from tools that gave one fake date, I set out to build a planning engine that takes uncertainty seriously. The result is Topolog: a formally total scheduling language, a deterministic Monte Carlo engine, and a Bayesian self-tuning scheduler. Built entirely solo with Claude Code and Devin as AI engineering partners. Zero VC, zero team, 100% ownership.
MaxCut's answer
Focussed on Cabinetry and Joinery Industry: Rather than trying to serve every industry, MaxCut concentrates on the specific needs of small businesses in cabinetry and joineryโensuring each feature is directly relevant to users in those industries.
Simplicity: MaxCut is designed with ease of use in mind, making even complex tasks intuitive and straightforward.
Generous Free Edition: Our free version delivers robust optimization tools without pressuring you to upgrade.
Reliable Support: When you need assistance, our support team is quick to respond and genuinely helpful.
Regular Software Updates: We frequently improve MaxCut, often releasing new functionality each month.
Great Value for Money: The savings in material and time youโll gain from MaxCut significantly outweigh the cost of the software.
Topolog's answer:
Every other planning tool gives you one deadline, the one you'll miss. Topolog gives you the full picture: a dependency graph that knows what blocks what, a Monte Carlo completion spectrum showing your real odds, a critical path that updates as you execute, and a budget tracker tied directly to your probability of success. MS Project has critical path but no probabilistic engine. Monday and Asana have boards but no complete dependency model. AI tools hallucinate dates. Topolog computes them.
Topolog's answer:
Topolog is a TypeScript-first web app built around a custom stochastic-planning engine:
Frontend: Next.js 15 (App Router) with React 18 and TypeScript, styled with Tailwind CSS. The interactive plan canvas uses dagre / ELK (elkjs) for graph layout.
Core engine: an in-house DSL ("TOL") plus a Monte Carlo stochastic-forecasting engine, written in pure isomorphic TypeScript so it runs identically on the server and in the browser.
Backend & data: Supabase (PostgreSQL, auth, and SSR), with the API layer on Next.js route handlers. Stripe handles billing.
AI authoring: a model-router layer that calls GPT (OpenAI), and Mistral for plan authoring and review.
Infra & quality: deployed on Vercel (Analytics + Speed Insights), error monitoring via Sentry, and tested with Jest + Playwright.
Running my business as a skilled joiner focusing on custom kitchen and bathroom cabinets means I'm constantly seeking tools that boost efficiency and precision in my work routine.MaxCut quickly became a tool, in my daily tasks and heres my truthful assessment after incorporating it into my workflow for a few months.
Running my business as a joiner at Craftsmanship Creations requires me to be meticulous and efficient with a keen eye for detail. Introducing MaxCut into my work routine has significantly boosted both my productivity and precision levels. I must say I am thoroughly impressed, with this software!
Ever since I began using MaxCut software tool I've been impressed by its user intuitive interface. Although I was a bit hesitant at first to try out this technology, the clear layout and helpful tutorials of MaxCut made it simple to grasp and even simpler to excel at. This was especially important for me, as someone who didn't feel very confident when it came to design software.
MaxCut is a dependable tool that supports me throughout the journey empowering me to embrace more complex tasks, with assurance and ease without any hesitation or doubt.
I've been a user of MaxCut since its inception, in the days which dates back, to 2016. MaxCut has truly made things more convenient, for me helping me save time and resources in the process. The customization features and informative reports have greatly enhanced my project management capabilities.
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