Built by an operations person. For operations teams.
My name is Aashish Verma. I'm the founder of GoPal and I've been working in operations since 2019 — across manufacturing, airport operations in New Zealand and Australia, traffic management, and logistics.
In every single role, the procurement process looked the same. Someone — usually the operations coordinator, the site manager, or the office admin — was maintaining a spreadsheet. They'd place an order on a supplier website, then manually copy every detail into the sheet. Item by item. Price by price. Order number by order number.
And then the spreadsheet would grow. And grow. And eventually something would go wrong. A formula would break. Someone would overwrite a row. A staff member would leave and take the spreadsheet with them on their personal laptop. A manager would ask "how much did we spend with that supplier last quarter?" and it would take two hours to find the answer.
I looked for a tool that solved this and found two options: spreadsheets, or enterprise ERP systems that cost $500 to $1,500 per month and required a dedicated implementation team. Nothing in between was built for the way NZ and AU operations teams actually work.
So I built GoPal. A tool that sits between the supplier website and the spreadsheet — capturing order data automatically, keeping everything in one place, and giving managers instant visibility into what's been ordered, received, and spent. No IT department required. No six-week onboarding. No per-seat licence anxiety.
GoPal is incorporated and based in Auckland, New Zealand. It's built for NZ and AU businesses first — and priced for them too.