Manufacturing
AI consulting for manufacturers
Manufacturers carry more repeated admin than almost any other sector. Custom quotes priced by hand from drawings. Production schedules rebuilt in spreadsheets because the ERP module was never set up. Quality, batch and compliance records kept in folders. When a customer or auditor asks, nobody can search them. And the knowledge of how to run the place lives in three people with twenty years each.
Where the hours go
- Custom quoting
- Estimators pricing bespoke jobs from drawings and specs while historical job costs sit unused in the ERP.
- Production planning
- Schedules rebuilt in spreadsheets each week from orders, stock and capacity data the system already holds.
- Quality and compliance records
- Batch records, test certificates and supplier declarations filed by hand and hunted for at audit time.
- Knowledge in a few heads
- Setup, pricing and customer history that only long tenured staff know, and that leaves when they do.
How we build
We work with fabricators, food and beverage producers, building product and component manufacturers to find where those hours go and remove the repeated part. Most of what we build sits beside the ERP you already run.
Software we usually meet
- MYOB Acumatica
- Pronto
- NetSuite
- SAP Business One
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Unleashed
- Fishbowl
- Xero
What we build
Quotes from your own cost history
Drafting quotes for custom work from drawings, specs and what similar jobs cost, The estimator prices risk instead of measuring.
Documents into the ERP
Reading customer orders, supplier invoices and certificates and putting them where they belong, with exceptions routed to a person.
Searchable quality and compliance records
Making batch, test and supplier records findable by product, date and customer, so an audit question takes minutes.
A company brain for the floor and the office
Capturing setup notes, process knowledge and customer history so the answer is reachable when someone needs it.
Case studies
How it works
- 01
Intro call
A short call to talk through your objectives, goals and timeframes, and agree what success looks like. No problem is too big or too small, whether that is construction estimation, materials procurement, job quoting or AI SEO.
- 02
Discovery
We sit with your team for an extended stretch to understand your business, the systems you run and how the work gets done day to day.
- 03
Roadmap
We put together a roadmap of action items, in order, that takes you from where you are today to what we agreed success looks like.
- 04
Execution
We do the work, check it against the goals we set on the first call and do not call it finished until you are satisfied.
Questions
Our ERP is old. Is that a problem?
Rarely a blocker. Most systems can be read from and written to, even older ones. If the ERP itself is the constraint we will say so in discovery rather than build something that papers over it.
Can AI price our custom work?
It can draft the price from drawings, specs and your own cost history. Your estimator owns the final number. What changes is the time it takes to get to a number worth reviewing, and the consistency between estimators.
We have strict quality and traceability requirements. How does that work?
We design around them. Records stay in your systems, everything we build cites its source, and nothing is changed or approved without a person. We have found searchable quality records are often the highest return piece of work in this sector.
How do we start?
Book a 30 minute intro call. We talk through what you want to achieve and what success looks like. Then we scope a discovery period on the floor and in the office and quote it before it starts.
Solutions we build here
Other industries
Next step
We map where your hours go and price the work that is worth automating.