↘ our story
Abolyn started from firsthand experience on the shop floor — not a theory, but a problem. Our founder, Spencer Burleigh, previously ran a housing manufacturing company. Like many shops, his team spent countless hours sourcing materials, pricing jobs, coordinating vendors, and chasing down quotes. It wasn’t strategic work — it was overhead. And it was slowing the whole company down.
The big realization? This wasn’t just a startup problem — it’s every shop’s problem.
Even great shops spend too much time on material pricing, quoting bottlenecks, or trying to keep capacity full. Every hour spent on back-and-forth or spreadsheet math is time that could be spent machining, delivering parts, and growing the business.
We built Abolyn to fix that — starting with simple, useful tools that make quoting faster, margins tighter, and machine time more valuable. No complicated systems, no sales fluff. Just tools that helps shops run smoother and win more jobs.
↘ From our founder
In 2019 I left school to start Pippin, a house manufacturing company, and our backyard home (ADU) brand Rent the Backyard (YCs19). We grew the business past a $10m contracted revenue run rate but ran out of money before we hit a profitable scale.
I'm a deep believer that we need to make more progress in the physical world. Physical infrastructure like energy generation, factories, and transportation networks are the primitives of our society and its wealth. We need to invest in and develop our industry, our technology, and our communities to enhance this foundation and build our society's arsenal of tools to overcome any challenge. This strategy works! Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, the world has nearly eliminated extreme poverty, reduced child mortality by 10x, and nearly doubled the average lifespan.
I started Abolyn to help accelerate progress in the physical world so we can face and solve today’s greatest challenges. For the past five decades, Western society has focused on outsourcing, and economizing -- letting its physical capabilities stagnate or even diminish. Over the past few years, it feels like that’s started to change and a new ecosystem is emerging. My last company was part of that early ecosystem and while talent was pouring in and capital increasing available, it felt a lot like building software before infrastructure companies like AWS and Stripe. Our team spent countless hours determining what and how to buy the physical items we needed only to repeat the whole process as we grew larger or something broke. Building this infrastructure was both table stakes to enable our work and a distraction from the dimensions that defined the success of our company.
Abolyn exists to help American manufacturers focus on what matters most — making great parts, serving great customers, and building durable businesses.
We’re here to save you time, stretch every dollar, and help you win more of the right work — without getting buried in spreadsheets, emails, or bad material pricing.
Because when your shop runs better, all of American manufacturing runs better — and that’s how we build the future: one part, one job, one machine at a time.
