Built in-house at Open Owl Studios, now opening up
Your whole studio,
from one perch.
PerchDeck is the operations platform for tabletop publishers. Crowdfunding, sales, manufacturing, freight, inventory, and customer support in one workspace, so you see what's coming before it lands.
Built by a publisher, not a software company
We're Open Owl Studios. We make and publish board games, and PerchDeck started as the tool that runs our own studio: every purchase order, pallet, and pledge. Now we're opening it to other publishers who are tired of running a serious operation out of seventeen spreadsheets.
13,230
units of inventory reconciled at our last month-end close
5
3PL warehouses on two continents, imported automatically
7
crowdfunding campaigns tracked day by day, ours and competitors'
Real numbers from the studio PerchDeck runs today.
From sketch to shelf, and back again
A board game lives seven lives, from the first sketch to the fan who backs your next one. PerchDeck keeps all seven in view.
Develop
Schedules that ripple forward when a milestone moves.
Rally
Landing pages and lead capture that build your launch list early.
Fund
Live campaign tracking, competitor watchlists, stretch goals that unlock themselves.
Make
Manufacturing and localization gates with every document in one place.
Ship
Freight milestones and 3PL inventory that reconciles itself monthly.
Sell
Distribution and retail orders that invoice straight into your books.
Support
A helpdesk that knows every order, and backers who come back for the next one.
Ten modules. One deck.
Each module is deep enough to replace a tool you're paying for today. But the real difference is that they share one dataset: the campaign page knows your inventory, the support ticket knows the order it's about, and the invoice already knows your terms.
Crowdfunding
Watch your campaign the way a publisher needs to.
- Live funding and backer counts, captured hourly
- See how your day 9 stacks up against any competitor's day 9
- Stretch goals unlock and email your backers on their own
- A daily digest of every live campaign in your inbox
Emberwild · Gamefound
Day 9 of 21 · Live
$412,860
4,213 backers
Sales & Invoicing
From retailer order form to paid invoice, without the chasing.
- Public order forms that show retailers live stock
- Distribution and retail POs with terms, fees, and freight
- QuickBooks and Stripe invoicing built in, 50/50 pre-orders included
- Overdue flagging and paid notifications, automatically
Submitted
Meeple & Co.
Invoiced
Dice Haven
Tabletop North
Paid
GameBurrow EU
Invoices sync to QuickBooks and Stripe. Payment status updates itself.
CRM
Every backer and customer in one file, across campaigns.
- Import backers from every campaign into one customer history
- Gamefound and Shopify orders linked to the same person
- See who backs everything you make and who never came back
- Segment by game line, spend, or region for your next announcement
Jordan Mercer
Backer since 2023 · Toronto, CA
$612
Lifetime
4
Orders
3 of 4
Campaigns
Marketing
Build the launch list before you need it.
- Describe a landing page and the AI builds it, on brand
- A/B variants with a visual editor, no developer required
- Leads flow straight into MailerLite, tagged by source
- See which version fills your launch list faster
Emberwild launch page
A/B test · 12 days running
Customer Service
A helpdesk that knows what the customer ordered.
- Every ticket sits next to the customer's orders and campaign history
- Canned responses and automations for the wave after fulfillment
- AI-drafted replies you review before they send
- CSAT surveys and a knowledge base built in
Missing meeple sprue
Jordan M. · Order EMB-1042
Address change before shipping
Priya S. · Tidefall pledge
Damaged box corner
Lena K. · CSAT 5/5
Inventory
Numbers your accountant will actually believe.
- Import CSV or spreadsheet stock reports from every 3PL
- Live available-to-sell across all warehouses
- Automatic month-end snapshots, broken down by partner
- One-click CSV exports for the books
| SKU | 3PL | On hand |
|---|---|---|
| EMB-CORE | US-West | 4,820 |
| EMB-CORE | EU-Rotterdam | 3,160 |
| EMB-DELUXE | US-West | 1,940 |
| TDF-CORE | AU-Sydney | 1,210 |
Logistics
Factory floor to warehouse dock, without the tracking sheet.
- Shipments with milestone timelines and live ETAs
- Regional fulfillment views for every market you ship to
- Freight documents filed against the shipment, not an inbox
- Discrepancy tracking for when cartons go missing
Manufacturing & Localization
Every gate, document, and language partner in one place.
- Inline-editable milestones with ETAs against actuals
- English and localized print runs tracked separately
- Documents attached at the gate where they belong
- Localization contracts and partner pipelines per language
Development
Schedules that plan backward from launch day.
- Pick a template, set your launch date, and every gate lands on the calendar
- Slip one milestone and downstream dates ripple automatically
- Sixteen stage gates from concept to crowdfund-ready
- Progress visible on every project card, not buried in a doc
Development schedule
Pivot · Launch Oct 14Owl Intelligence
An AI that holds your whole operation in its head.
- A morning brief on what needs your attention today
- Ask about any order, shipment, or campaign in plain English
- Long-term memory of your products, partners, and preferences
- Insight flags on orders where money is stuck
Good morning. 3 things need attention
- · Dice Haven's invoice is 12 days overdue ($2,860)
- · Emberwild is 97% of the way to its next stretch goal
- · EU freight quote expires Friday, 2 shipments unbooked
Take your seat on the perch
Early access is rolling out to a small group of publishers first.