Washington · Packing houses · Machine shops · Seafood
Ducipont builds the system that turns the spreadsheets and sheets your office already keeps into finished, checked paperwork: grower settlement statements for packing houses, quoting and quality packs for machine shops, and vessel settlements and traceability for seafood processors and fleets.
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When a pool closes, somebody in your office figures out — grower by grower — what the fruit earned, what it cost, and what’s owed. By hand, that’s days of cross-checking bin tickets, packout sheets, and advance records, and one wrong number can cost you a grower. Ducipont’s system does that accounting step in minutes.
The records you already have — receiving and packout sheets, sales and advance records. Spreadsheets, or scans of the paper forms you’ve used for years. Both work.
You can send growers a mid-season statement — here’s where you stand so far — something almost no shed offers, because by hand it would double the office’s work.
| Fruit packed for you | 412 bins → 9,850 boxes |
| Your share of pool sales | $241,380 |
| DEDUCTIONS | |
| Packing charge · 9,850 boxes × $8.40 | −$82,740 |
| Cold storage | −$14,210 |
| Boxes & materials | −$19,305 |
| Assessments | −$6,840 |
| Advances already paid | −$60,000 |
| NET DUE TO GROWER | $58,285 |
Sample document with illustrative figures. Your statements use your pool rules, your deduction schedule, and your format — and your office approves every one before it goes out.
Names and figures below are illustrative, showing the shape of the work. A mid-size Yakima Valley shed — call it Cascade View Fruit — packs for about 60 growers. For the proof run, they sent the raw records from one pool they had already settled and paid: the December Gala pool. Nothing live, nothing at risk.
Receiving log, packout sheets, sales summary, and the advance ledger — as scans and one spreadsheet, the way the office actually keeps them.
The system rebuilds all 60+ grower statements for the pool from the raw records alone — no peeking at the shed’s finished versions.
Our statements are laid next to the ones the shed actually sent. Pool totals and grower nets are compared to the dollar.
Every difference — in either direction — is listed with the record it traces to, for the office to judge. See the samples below.
| Shed’s statement | Ducipont rebuild | |
|---|---|---|
| Gross pool sales | $3,912,450 | $3,912,450 |
| Total deductions | $1,684,902 | $1,681,517 |
| Net to growers | $2,227,548 | $2,230,933 |
| Grower statements | 61 | 61 of 61 matched* |
*One pool-level difference of $3,385 — traced by the checker to a storage charge the shed had applied twice to three growers. That single catch is the kind of thing the proof run exists to find: small on a pool this size, but it’s three growers who were underpaid, found on dead paperwork before a dollar of the build was committed.
Grower 118 — 14 bins on the receiving log have no packout record.Statements held for this grower until the office confirms: re-pack lot, or a receiving entry error?
Grower 042 — storage charged for 96 days; fruit shipped at day 71.Possible overcharge of $612. Office to confirm the storage end-date rule for this pool.
Grower 207 — advance ledger shows $25,000; signed advance slips total $20,000.Statements figured on the signed slips. Office notified of the ledger difference.
Nothing leaves the building with an open HOLD. Your office clears each flag — the system never quietly “fixes” a number on its own.
For machine shops
Buyers award work to the shop that answers first — and a shipment with one missing certificate can stall payment or worse. Ducipont builds the paperwork side of your shop so both move at the speed of the work itself.
Your estimator’s knowledge, out of his head and into a worksheet built on your past jobs, your rates, and your machines. Quotes that took days go out in hours — with the estimator still reviewing every number before it leaves.
First-article and inspection documentation assembled from your records instead of hunted down folder by folder — ballooned results, material certs, and process certs in one complete pack.
Every shipment’s certificates gathered automatically, and every part traceable back to its material heat lot. When a buyer asks, the answer is a search, not a weekend in the file room.
Names and figures are illustrative. A 28-person aerospace shop outside Everett sends ten RFQs it quoted last quarter — drawings, specs, and the prices it actually submitted. The proof run rebuilds each quote on a worksheet built from the shop’s own history: machine rates, setup times, material costs, and the margins the owner actually targets.
| Measure | By hand | Worksheet |
|---|---|---|
| Time to quote all ten | ~4 working days | Same afternoon |
| Prices within 5% of submitted | — | 8 of 10 |
| Quotes flagged for review | — | 2 |
The two flags are the point: on one, the original quote had used a superseded material price; on the other, a secondary operation (anodize) was priced but missing from the routing. The worksheet doesn’t replace the estimator — it hands him ten checked drafts instead of ten blank pages.
| Certificate of conformance | Included |
| Material cert · heat lot 8841-C | Included |
| Process certs — anodize, passivate | Included |
| First-article report (AS9102), when required | Included |
| Dimensional inspection results | Included |
| Traceability — part serials to heat lot | Included |
A pack with a missing item is flagged before shipment, not returned by the buyer after it. Records are archived and searchable for as long as your customers require them.
For seafood processors & fleets
A processor settles with every boat that delivers, and every boat settles with its crew — fish tickets, advances, ice and fuel supplied, shares figured by hand at season’s end, while traceability records pile up in dock-office folders. It’s the same disease as the packing shed, in oilskins: important paperwork, done slowly, checked by whoever’s still standing. Ducipont builds the system that does it as the season runs.
Fish tickets in, statements out: gross receipts by species and grade, shared expenses deducted, advances tracked, and the split figured on your lay — vessel, captain, and crew shares — with a checked statement per vessel and a share sheet per crew member. Retro bonuses are tracked and settled when the buyer pays them, not rediscovered in February.
Vessel and harvest area → landing → lot → case → shipment, kept as one searchable record. When a buyer, an auditor, or the FDA asks — trace records for listed species have to be producible within 24 hours — the answer is a search, not a week in the file room. Mock recalls run in minutes.
Seafood HACCP lives on clipboards: temperature logs, sanitation records, corrective actions. Scans of the logs you already keep are digitized and checked daily, so a gap is flagged the morning it happens — and your inspection binder assembles itself instead of being rebuilt before every audit.
Names and figures are illustrative. A tender-supported salmon vessel — call her the F/V North Haven — delivers to the same processor all season. The settlement below is what her owner and crew receive: every dollar on it traces back to a fish ticket.
| Gross receipts — fish tickets, all deliveries | $186,400 |
| SHARED EXPENSES | |
| Fuel & oil | −$14,820 |
| Ice | −$3,240 |
| Groceries & provisions | −$2,610 |
| Unloading fees | −$1,980 |
| Observer / monitoring fees | −$1,450 |
| Net to be shared | $162,300 |
| THE LAY | |
| Vessel share · 25% | $40,575 |
| Captain’s share · 20% | $32,460 |
| Crew pool · 55% | $89,265 |
| Less crew advances already paid | −$18,000 |
| CREW POOL PAYABLE | $71,265 |
Sample document with illustrative figures. Your lay, your expense categories, and your statement format — figured by the system, approved by your office, and every figure traceable to its fish ticket when a crew member asks.
Trip 14 — landing weight 41,260 lb; fish tickets total 40,890 lb.370 lb unaccounted for. This trip’s settlement is held until the office confirms: re-weigh, or a ticket written on the wrong trip?
Crew advances for D. Okafor total $6,500 against a current share estimate of $5,940.Flagged mid-season, while there’s still time to handle it — not discovered at settlement.
Lot 2214 (Pacific cod) is missing its harvest-area code.Needed for the lot’s trace record. Office to supply from the vessel logbook before the shipment’s pack is assembled.
The same checker discipline as the packing shed and the machine shop: figure everything, flag what doesn’t tie out, and never let a document leave with an open HOLD.
The difference
| The old way | With a Ducipont system | |
|---|---|---|
| Pool-close accounting | Days to weeks of spreadsheet work per pool, stacked on top of the next pool closing | Statements for every grower in minutes, the day the numbers are in |
| A grower questions a number | An afternoon digging through bin tickets and packout sheets | Every figure traces to its source record — answered in minutes, with proof |
| Mid-season grower update | Not offered — it would double the office’s work | A standing statement whenever you want one, at no extra office effort |
| Quote turnaround | Days, whenever the estimator can get to it between fires | Checked drafts the same day; the estimator reviews and sends |
| Cert pack for a shipment | Gathered by hand at shipping time; a missing cert surfaces at the buyer’s dock | Assembled and checked complete before the truck is booked |
| An auditor or buyer asks for records | Boxes, folders, and a long week | A search of the archive — lots, pools, and parts traceable end to end |
| Vessel & crew settlements | An end-of-season marathon of fish tickets, advance slips, and share math — per boat, per crew member | A checked statement per vessel and share sheet per crew member, figured from the tickets as the season runs |
| A regulator wants a trace, fast | Days assembling harvest and chain-of-custody records from dock offices and clipboards | Vessel-to-case trace records kept audit-ready — producible inside the 24-hour window |
How it works
No demos on made-up data. Every engagement starts by rebuilding work you’ve already finished, so you can compare our output against yours, line by line.
Send us the raw sheets from one job that’s already done — a settled pool, ten past quotes, or one vessel’s paid season. We rebuild the finished paperwork and put it next to yours. Fixed $1,200. If it doesn’t match, you’ve spent $1,200 finding out, not five figures.
We build the system around your rules, your formats, and your growers or buyers. It lives at your own private address — yourname.ducipont.com — behind individual logins for your office. Fixed price, quoted in writing after the proof run, before the build starts.
The first season, we run it alongside your office until your people are comfortable. Your office approves every statement and pack — nothing is ever sent by us. Your data stays yours, exportable any time.
Straight answers
No. Your existing software keeps doing receiving, inventory, and sales. Ducipont is the last mile it doesn’t do well: turning all of that into a finished, checked, grower-ready statement. Same answer in a machine shop — we don’t touch your machines or your CAD, just the paperwork around them.
Yes. Scans or photos of your existing forms go in the same door as a spreadsheet. If your office has run on paper for twenty years, the system is built for the paper you actually have.
Your office does both. The system figures and flags; your people review and approve every document before it leaves the building. We never send a statement and never touch a payment. Your office manager stays the accountant of record — the system is her leverage, not her replacement.
They usually do — a deduction schedule gets renegotiated, a pool gets split, a buyer changes a cert requirement. Rule changes are part of the service: tell us the change, it’s in the system before the next run, and statements already issued are never quietly altered — corrections are issued as corrections, with a paper trail.
The proof run takes about a week once we have your records. A full build typically takes a few weeks, fitted around your operation’s calendar. For packing houses, the smart start is right after your season winds down, so the system is proven and your office is comfortable before the first pool of the new season closes. Machine shops can start any time.
The sheds and shops this fits best pack for a dozen growers or more, or quote enough work that paperwork is visibly eating skilled people’s weeks. If one person settles your pools in an afternoon and never breaks a sweat, you don’t need us — and we’ll tell you that on the first call rather than sell you a system.
Each company gets its own login-locked space, and accounts only ever open their own company’s records. Your grower lists, prices, and statements are never visible to another operation, are stored privately — never on public links — and are backed up. Your data is exportable whenever you ask, in ordinary formats.
You keep everything that’s yours: your records, your archive, and your documents, exported in full. The system itself is a service — if the monthly fee stops, the page closes, but nothing of yours is held back and there are no exit fees. We’d rather earn the renewal than engineer the lock-in.
One person in your office who knows where the records live, and the raw records from one finished job — a settled pool, ten past quotes, or a settled vessel season. That’s the entire ask for the proof run. No cleanup project first; send them the way they actually are.
The proof run is a fixed $1,200. The full system is a fixed price quoted in writing after the proof run, based on the size of your operation — most land in the low-to-mid five figures, because a system that settles a season’s fruit or quotes a shop’s year is priced on what it returns, not on hours. After the build, one monthly service fee covers hosting, support, backups, and rule changes. No per-statement charges, no surprises.
About Ducipont
The name is coined from two Latin words: ducere, to lead, and pons, a bridge. That’s the whole idea — a bridge between the work your crews do and the paperwork your office drowns in, built and run by people who’d rather prove a thing on your own records than pitch it.
Ducipont works with a small number of operations at a time, on a fixed-price basis, in the three industries we know the paperwork of: Eastern Washington tree fruit, Washington’s aerospace and manufacturing shops, and the Northwest seafood fleet. When you write, you reach a person who knows your system — not a ticket queue.
“Send us the job you’ve already finished. If our rebuild doesn’t match your paperwork, you’ve learned it for $1,200 — and if it does, you’ve seen your next season, done in minutes.”
One email is enough to start. You’ll get a personal reply, and if there’s a fit, the next step is a fifteen-minute call — then the proof run on your old paperwork.
hello@ducipont.comPrefer to look first? Re-read the packing house or machine shop or seafood example above — that’s the actual shape of the work.