Moving a Cabinet Manufacturer Off Make.com
Dreamline Inc, custom cabinet manufacturer
By Mikhail Oskola, Founder & AI Automation Architect · Engagement in progress — as of 2026
Dreamline ran sales, production, invoicing and its excise tax report on Monday.com and 130 active Make.com scenarios that nobody fully understood. We are moving that work to a monitored Windmill platform we run for Dreamline, one checked switch at a time.
What was the problem?
Dreamline Inc makes custom cabinets. Its sales pipeline, production scheduling, installer payments, invoicing and monthly excise tax report all ran on Monday.com boards tied together by Make.com scenarios. An independent contractor built most of them and is no longer involved.
Nobody at the company could see the whole setup: what each scenario did, which ones still worked, and what would break if one stopped. Some had already stopped working, and nobody had noticed.
How did Retailbox solve it?
We started by counting. On July 31, 2026 we mapped 3,715 automations across Monday.com, Make.com and Windmill: the first full count of the setup.
Then we started moving the work, one scenario at a time, to a Windmill platform we run for Dreamline: scheduled jobs and webhooks, with the code in Dreamline's own GitHub repository. Before each switch, the new version ran next to the Make scenario on live data and we compared the two. Make stayed in place as the way back until the new version had proved itself. Every run is logged, repeated failures send an alert, and the Twilio and Google connections are checked every three hours. Every month Dreamline gets a written report on what moved, what is left and what comes next.
Along the way we also took on the owner's requests: an excise tax report that matches the filed July and August returns to the cent, 136 duplicated QuickBooks customer names cleaned up, all seven website forms moved off Make with a spam filter, Shopify orders landing in Monday.com, and contract signing set up on DocuSeal on Dreamline's own server.
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What were the results?
- ✓Active Make.com scenarios: 130 on Jul 27, 47 on Aug 28, 24 on Sep 14 and 12 on Oct 8, 2026
- ✓Make.com usage down 84%: about 73,900 operations in 30 days at the end of July, 11,841 in the 30 days to Oct 8
- ✓45,583 automation runs from Oct 1 to Oct 8, 2026 at 99.9% success, with no gap longer than 3 minutes between runs
- ✓64 scheduled jobs and 112 live connections are now live on a Windmill platform we run for Dreamline, with the code in Dreamline's own repository
- ✓First full map of the setup on Jul 31, 2026: 3,715 automations, 73 of them broken and 224 silently disconnected
What we found
Problems that were already in Dreamline's setup, and what we did about each.
- Calls to the sales line had stopped creating leads in April 2025, a year before we started. They create leads again.
- Make had stopped sending delivery-date notices to customers on July 22, and nobody had switched them off. We moved the notices to the new system, and customers have been getting them again since August 21.
- 15 completed jobs had never been invoiced. A weekly check now reports any new ones.
- An old Make defect, going back to at least October 2024, stopped some invoices with a "Duplicate Name Exists" error. We fixed it.
- Three installer boards had never moved jobs along the way the other ten did. They do now.