See the miles hidden in every shift.
Draw the path your team actually walks, measure the waste in metres, and rearrange the floor until the number drops. Trace turns motion into a number you can act on.
Motion is the waste you can't see.
Excess walking is one of the eight wastes of Lean — and the easiest to miss, because it hides inside "just doing the job." Cycle times and throughput get watched. The metres each person walks to fetch, fetch, and fetch again don't. Trace draws those paths and totals them, so motion stops being invisible.
Every extra metre is paid for again — every shift, every day.
A layout designed for storage isn't always designed for the walk.
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Three moves to the number.
Drop in your space
Import a DXF or floor plan and auto-trace the walls, or sketch the layout straight onto the grid. Set one known dimension and Trace scales it to real metres.
Trace the route
Draw the paths your team actually walks — pick loops, replen runs, handoffs — and mark where they stop and wait. Trace plays it back and shows where the dwell builds up.
Rearrange & compare
Drag racks, stations and drops. The walking distance — and the annual cost behind it — updates live, so you can hold the before against the after before anyone moves a pallet.
Built to measure the walk.
Quantified spaghetti
Turn a messy tangle of paths into hard distance — measured to your plan's scale, not guessed.
Dwell-aware playback
Replay a route and see where people stop, wait and hesitate — the pauses a stopwatch misses.
Scenario compare
Test layout what-ifs side by side. Hold the current floor against the proposed one, metre for metre.
The walking bill
Set your labour rate and Trace turns metres into an annual £ figure — the cost your layout is quietly charging you.
Sector templates
Start from a warehouse pick path, clinic flow, kitchen line or lab — then make it yours.
Runs in the browser
No install, no cameras, no special hardware. It even works offline — your layouts stay on your machine.
On the roadmap — mobile walk-recording & pick-data import. Want a say? Join the founding cohort.
Start with your sector.
Move the layout, not the people.
Before you shift a single rack, see what it saves — in distance, in time, and in the annual walking bill. No telling a team to walk faster. Just a shorter route.
Straight answers.
How accurate are the distances? add
As accurate as your plan's scale. Set one known dimension and every path is measured true to it. Trace follows aisles and obstacles, not straight lines through racking.
Do we need sensors or special hardware? add
No. Draw the paths from how the work actually runs — observation is enough. Trace is a sketch-and-measure tool, not a surveillance system. No cameras, no wearables.
Can we import existing CAD? add
Yes — import a DXF and auto-trace the walls, or start from a blank grid and sketch the layout by hand.
Is our data private? add
Your layouts stay yours. Trace runs in the browser and needs no cameras, no tracking and no personal data to do its job.
Find the miles in your floor.
Join the founding cohort — early access to Trace, and a say in what we build next.