Overview & Strategy Plock product vision, Swedish WMS market, competitive position, pricing model Product Overview Product Overview What is Plock? Plock is an AI-native cloud Warehouse Management System (WMS) built from the ground up for Swedish SMBs. Unlike traditional WMS products that bolt AI on as an afterthought, Plock treats machine learning and natural language interfaces as fundamental product primitives. Tagline: Smartare lagerhantering. (Smarter warehouse management.) A warehouse manager should be able to ask how many units of SKU-1234 do we have in Swedish and get a real answer with context, trends, and a reorder recommendation in under 3 seconds. No training required. No Excel. No consultants. Brand Element Value Primary colour #1B4D3E — Deep Forest Green Secondary colour #2E7D5B — Medium Green Accent colour #F5A623 — Warm Amber (action, alerts) Surface #F7FAF8 — Light Mint Text Dark #1A2B23 Heading font Inter Body font Inter Mono font JetBrains Mono Icons Lucide React Grid 8px spacing system Domain: plock.se / plock.ai (TBD — availability check pending) Target Market Primary — Swedish E-Commerce Companies Size: 1-25 warehouse workers Order volume: 500-10,000 orders/month Accounting: Fortnox (primary), Visma (secondary) Pain: Outgrown Fortnox Lager, cannot afford Ongoing WMS Key jobs: Receive goods, store by bin location, pick orders, pack, ship Secondary — Small 3PLs in Sweden Size: 1-15 warehouse workers, 2-15 clients Pain: Need client isolation, per-client billing, multi-tenant inventory Tertiary — Swedish Wholesalers and Distributors Size: 5-25 warehouse workers Pain: High SKU count, complex inbound (POs), reorder management Market Context Metric Value Global WMS market (2025) 4.57 billion USD Global WMS market (2030) 10.04 billion USD CAGR 17.1% Swedish e-commerce companies 18,428 Fortnox customers 598,000+ Swedish e-commerce market 14.8B USD (2025), +5.7% annually Nordic 3PL market 7.22B USD (2024) to 9.34B USD (2030) Geographic rollout: Sweden first then Nordic expansion (NO, DK, FI) Pricing Model Pricing Model Plans Plan SEK/month Users Target Segment Starter 1,490 Up to 3 Micro e-commerce, first WMS Growth 2,990 Up to 10 Growing SMB, small 3PL Pro 4,990 Up to 25 Medium warehouse Enterprise Custom 25+ Large operations, custom SLAs Competitive Positioning Plock occupies the uncontested gap between basic inventory tools and enterprise WMS: Competitor Price Verdict Excel / Google Sheets Free Unscalable, no real-time Fortnox Lager 369 SEK/mj Not a real WMS — no scanner workflow, no pick routing, no carrier labels Plock 1,490-4,990 SEK/mj AI-native, full WMS, affordable Bitlog WMS ~5,000-7,000 SEK/mj Legacy tech, poor support Ongoing WMS 5,700+ SEK/mj Enterprise pricing, 3-month cancellation clause, zero AI No credible Swedish WMS exists at SEK 1,500-4,000/month with AI features. Plock owns that space. ROI Justification Cost Item Value Average warehouse worker cost 44,000 SEK/month (incl. 31.4% employer contributions) Picking time wasted on travel 30-70% of warehouse time Smart Picking savings (conservative 20% efficiency gain) 8,800 SEK/month per worker Cost per mispick remediation ~250 SEK Plock Growth plan 2,990 SEK/month ROI breakeven Less than 1 prevented mispick per day SAM/SOM Projections Scenario Market Share Customers ARR (SEK) Conservative (0.5% of 18K e-com) 0.5% 90 ~3.2M Base (2% of 18K e-com) 2% 360 ~13M Optimistic (5% of 18K e-com) 5% 900 ~32M Nordic expansion (NO, DK, FI) represents 3-4x the Swedish market. Pipeline Status Pipeline Status Gate Tracker (8-Gate Product Pipeline) Gate Name Status Notes 1 Market Research PASS Swedish SMB WMS gap confirmed 2 Competitive Analysis PASS Fortnox Lager vs Ongoing WMS gap validated 3 Tech Stack Decision PASS CEO approved 2026-03-03: Kotlin + Micro-Frontend 4 Product Requirements IN PROGRESS PRD v1.0 drafted — awaiting CEO sign-off 5 Database Schema IN PROGRESS Postgres 16 + Exposed ORM schema design in progress 6 UI/UX Design PENDING Requires frontend-design skill — ZAKON #3 7 Regulatory Compliance PASS Swedish moms, Intrastat, customs, GDPR reviewed 8 CEO Approval PENDING Final GO before build begins — ZAKON #2 Current Focus (Gates 4 and 5) Gate 4 — Product Requirements PRD v1.0 complete: vision, personas, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, roadmap BookStack documentation created (2026-03-04 session) Blocker: CEO approval required before build (ZAKON #2) Gate 5 — Database Schema Tech stack confirmed: PostgreSQL 16 + Kotlin Exposed ORM Schema design for: organizations, warehouses, products, inventory, orders, picking, carriers Multi-tenancy model: row-level isolation by organization_id Status: Schema draft in progress Next Steps CEO reviews PRD — approve or iterate (Gate 4) Finalise database schema (Gate 5) Invoke frontend-design skill for UI wireframes (Gate 6) CEO gives final GO (Gate 8) — build begins with hop-build Rules Active on This Project Rule Description ZAKON #2 Build requires explicit CEO approval — no solo GO ZAKON #3 Never create visuals without frontend-design skill ZAKON #5 Every implementation task uses hop-build ZAKON #9 Validator review mandatory after every build task ZAKON #14 19-point quality gate before any deployment