COBALTWorkflows
Cylinder tracking software

The software the giants have used for decades, finally at your scale.

Built specifically for small US gas and propane distributors. Without the $30,000 setup fees and integration projects.

Decades of operational discipline. New tools at your scale.

You’ve already built an operation that works. Most small distributors don’t survive this long without serious operational discipline and personal knowledge of every customer, every cylinder, every route.

For more than thirty years, enterprise tracking software has helped the giants like Airgas manage rental balances, audit cylinder inventory, and replace manual reconciliation with structured data. Setup fees of $30,000 and integration projects measured in quarters kept those same tools out of reach for distributors operating at your scale.

Cobalt Workflows is built specifically for the operators those vendors priced out of the market.

Four steps. One workflow.

From the moment a cylinder gets a QR sticker to the moment its rental gets billed automatically — no manual data entry in between.

01 / LABEL
Label
Every cylinder gets a durable QR code. Applied once.
02 / SCAN
Scan
One second per cylinder with a phone camera. Works offline.
03 / AUTOMATE
Automate
Cylinder stages logged. Invoices generated. No manual entry.
04 / VISUALIZE
Visualize
Lost revenue recovered. Locations and balances, one view.

What this software has done for the distributors who use it.

Published case studies from distributors who deployed cylinder tracking software. Cobalt Workflows brings the same capabilities within reach of smaller shops.

01

Cylinders pulled back into circulation.

Huber Supply, a packaged gas distributor, recovered $30,000 worth of cylinders within their first year by running audits against tracking data and pulling assets back from customers who were over-stocked.

Source: Datacor — Huber Supply case study

02

Reconciliation time cut by 75%.

The same operation reduced daily gas return processing from two hours to thirty minutes. Time that previously went to manual reconciliation went back into the business.

Source: Datacor — Huber Supply case study

03

Rental balances increased by 8%.

Across the tracked distributor base, rental balances increased by an average of 8% after deployment — demurrage that had previously fallen outside the visibility of paper-based tracking.

Source: GAWDA Media — Packaged Gas Distributors Achieve Strong ROI

Built for the operators the enterprise vendors ignore.

Cobalt Workflows is built by Theodore Weicker, a Computer Engineering and Data Science student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo who has previously built and shipped multiple large-scale enterprise CRM systems for paying clients.

Cylinder tracking software has existed for decades. It just hasn’t been built at your scale. We’re fixing that.

Cobalt Workflows is currently working with a Central Valley gas distributor as its first design partner. The software is being built specifically for small and mid-sized US gas and propane distributors — the operators Airgas-class vendors price out of the market.

If this sounds like your shop, get in touch directly.

Phone is fastest. No forms, no gated demos, no salesperson hand-offs.

Phone
(650) 304-9747
Email
theo@cobaltworkflows.com
Location
Bay Area, California