American Outdoor Shades
FPO · wide factory floor at golden hour through bay doors, real crew working

Made in the USA

Built here. Signed here.

Every system is custom made in our California facility — engineered, assembled, and quality-tested by the people who sign their work.

The process

01

Engineer

Every order drawn and load-checked before metal moves.

02

Cut and assemble

Precision components, custom made to order, fitted by hand.

03

Motorize

Somfy motors, fabric, and hardware installed and cycled in-house.

04

Inspect and ship

Rigorous quality-control testing before it leaves the dock.

120,000

square feet of production

1/16 in

cutting tolerance

48-point

final inspection

10 days

average lead time

figures FPO — replace with verified numbers before launch

The details your customers will never see. We obsess over them anyway.

FPO · macro

powder-coated aluminum frame

FPO · macro

Somfy motor, fitted in-house

FPO · macro

Twitchell weave, UV-resistant

FPO · portrait, floor lead at station, natural light
“If my name’s on the inspection tag, it’s right. That’s the whole system.”

— production floor lead, name FPO · 14 years at AOS

Our promise

An industry-leading 15-year bumper-to-bumper warranty.

Frame, fabric, Somfy motor, hardware — the complete system, in writing. We can make that promise because we engineer, assemble, and support every system as one American company.