For buyers
Listings with nothing hidden.
Every aircraft shows its logbooks, title and damage history, and a live valuation up front. Buyers can filter, estimate financing, ask public questions, and make offers.
Client platform · Aircraft brokerage
An aircraft brokerage that runs on software we built.
Open Pattern's goal is a clearer way to buy and sell aircraft. We built the platform behind it: public listings, a guided workspace for sellers, online payments, nine core integrations, and a back office that moves every aircraft from first contact to listed.
The challenge
Selling an aircraft is mostly paperwork.
A single aircraft sale involves years of logbooks, title and damage history, valuations, hundreds of photos, and long walk-around videos. Most brokerages handle all of it over email and spreadsheets, and buyers rarely see the full picture until late in the deal.
Open Pattern wanted to flip that. They wanted full transparency for buyers, a clear, guided path for sellers, and a back office that keeps the brokerage team on top of every aircraft without the email chaos.
What we built
One platform for buyers, sellers, and brokers.
For sellers
A guided seller workspace.
Sellers sign in with a passwordless email link and work through an 11-section guide: checklists, photo shot lists, walk-around videos, documents, and disclosures. Large files upload straight to storage, in parts.
For the team
A back office that runs the deal flow.
A review queue to approve sections or send them back with a note, a five-stage seller pipeline, a leads inbox, seller profiles with notes and activity history, and a full listing editor.
Automation
Listings that fill themselves in.
Enter a tail number and the listing fills in registry, ownership, and accident records automatically. Facts refresh daily and valuations refresh weekly.
Payments
Listing fees, collected online.
Sellers pay listing fees on a hosted checkout, and a webhook confirms the payment and moves them forward. Card numbers never touch our servers.
Content
Marketing pages the team edits.
The public site runs on Inlay, so the brokerage team can edit pages, team bios, and listings in place without calling a developer.
By the numbers
Built fast, built thoroughly.
9core integrations, working together
~15listing fields filled in from just a tail number
20 GBof photos, video, and documents per aircraft
2,400+commits in the first three months
Integrations
Nine services, connected into one workflow.
Each integration handles one job and passes its result to the next. A tail number turns into a filled-in listing, a payment unlocks the seller guide, and a submitted section notifies a broker. Video embeds come from YouTube and Vimeo.
Windsock
Tail-number autofill, aircraft records, and valuations
Authorize.net
Listing-fee payments, confirmed by webhook
Resend
Lead alerts, confirmations, and team notifications
Clerk
Staff sign-in and admin and member roles
Cloudflare Stream
Converts phone video so it plays in every browser
Cloudflare Turnstile
Invisible bot protection on every form
Google Analytics 4
Public pages only, off under Do Not Track
OurAirports
Distances from each aircraft to local shops
GitHub
Versioned storage for every content edit
Under the hood
Private, secure, and fast.
- Server-rendered on Cloudflare Workers. Pages load fast everywhere and still work with JavaScript turned off.
- Hardened sign-in. Login tokens are stored only as hashes, email scanners can't use up sign-in links, and rate limits block guessing.
- Privacy by default. Location data is stripped from every photo before it's published, personal data can be deleted on request, and analytics respect Do Not Track.
- Scoped permissions. Team members can edit only what their role allows.
- Accessible. Built to WCAG 2.2 AA, including a dyslexia-friendly font option.
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What's next
A CRM built for aircraft brokerage.
The groundwork is already live: a seller pipeline, a leads inbox, and seller profiles with notes and activity history. The next phase turns that into a full CRM, with buyers, sellers, aircraft, and deals in one place, connected to every lead and listing the site already captures.
Let's talk
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