Grow the plant.
Not the headcount.
A fixed-fee, two-day working sprint for mid-market manufacturers. Your team brings the manual work that eats their week — we leave you a signed 90-day AI agent roadmap and a working prototype, built in your environment, on the platforms you already run.
Sound familiar?
Every line below is a pattern we see across mid-market manufacturing — the numbers come from real plants, including a $1B manufacturer we ran this sprint with. If three or more read like yours, the sprint pays for itself in the first month.
Shipping paperwork — load sheets, schedules, carrier docs — assembled by hand every day from the ERP, spreadsheets, and a routing tool, against a hard afternoon cutoff.
Inventory and stock-availability reports take hours to build, so they're stale by the time sales quotes from them — and the same unit gets sold twice.
Estimates for custom and configure-to-order work are educated guesses dug out of old spreadsheets and senior engineers' heads — so 20 units get scheduled and 16 get built.
Safety incidents live on paper: handwritten form, scan, re-key into Excel — months from incident to closed corrective action.
A capable IT team spends its days on password resets and "how do I do this in the ERP" questions instead of projects.
One or two legal staff carry the entire contract load — first-pass reviews measured in days, on the other side's paper.
Two days. Your people. Their pain points.
No slideware audit. You nominate one champion per function — the people who actually do the work — and we facilitate. The decisions are theirs, which is why the roadmap survives after we leave.
Find where the hours go
- Pre-work review: your team's own AI-readiness scores and pain inventory, collected before we arrive.
- Process & data walk-through: map the manual work, the systems it touches, and where the data actually lives.
- Use-case generation: typically 20+ candidate agents surfaced across functions.
- Value-vs-effort scoring: every idea ranked on business impact and data readiness — in the open, with your team holding the pens.
Leave with a signed plan
- Consolidation: the long list becomes a short portfolio of agents, each with a one-page business case and a measurable KPI.
- Live build: we prototype the first agent in the room, in your environment, with your documents.
- 90-day roadmap: quick wins first, sequenced by data readiness — including what shouldn't be an AI project at all.
- Executive sign-off: your champions present the portfolio to your leadership. They own it; we support it.
The deliverables
Agent one-pagers
Each selected agent documented: the problem, the systems it touches, success criteria, KPIs, and effort size — ready to hand to any builder, including your own team.
Value / effort matrix
The full scored inventory of every idea raised — including the ones that didn't make the cut, and why.
90-day roadmap
Sequenced, owner-assigned, executive-signed. First agents live in month one, not quarter three.
Working prototype
The agent we build on Day 2 stays in your environment, with a step-by-step build runbook so your team can repeat the pattern.
Data readiness read
An honest assessment of which use cases your data supports today — and what the gaps will cost you if left alone.
Platform recommendation
Microsoft, Anthropic, AWS, OpenAI, Google — each use case matched to the right platform and model, with running costs. Never picked by default.
Built with a top-10 North American trailer manufacturer
A ~$1B, family-owned manufacturer facing a 43% market downturn — while opening new plants and targeting 50% growth without proportional hiring. Ten functional champions, three days, one signed decision.
"Drive the technology — don't let the technology drive you."
Client leadership, Day 1 of the sprint
Our ground rules
Augmentation, not replacement
The goal is your existing team handling more — not fewer people. That's the only version of AI a stretched workforce will actually adopt.
Your stack, not ours
The agent's logic lives in your workflow, not in a vendor. We've built the same designs on Microsoft Copilot, Claude, AWS, and OpenAI — so we start from what you already license and connect to the ERP and files you have. Nothing gets ripped out, and no platform locks you in.
Read-only until trust is earned
First agents observe, draft, and recommend under least-privilege access. Autonomy is increased only after measured performance — your IT and legal teams will thank us.
We tell you when it's not AI
Some of your worst reporting pain is a data-plumbing fix, not an agent. We'll say so — that honesty is why the roadmap holds up.
Your people own the result
Champions present the portfolio to their own executives and lead adoption in their functions. We facilitate, build, and train — you keep the capability.
Bring your worst spreadsheet.
A 30-minute scoping call is enough to tell whether the sprint fits your plant. If it doesn't, we'll tell you that too.
Book a scoping call