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Operations consulting for small manufacturers

We make your shop floor readable, before you spend money on software to read it.

Most systems assume your floor already records what each machine is running, what got used, and what's left. In most growing shops, it doesn't. We find where that breaks and fix the smallest gap that pays, with the systems you already run.

Free 30 minute call. No pitch. No software to buy.

Quick win optimization

The biggest gains are rarely the biggest projects.

There's a platform, a tool, or an AI promising to fix every corner of your operation, and it's easy to chase all of them at once. But the changes that actually move your margin are usually small.

They aren't hidden. They're just so familiar that nobody stops to count what they cost.

Small thingA handoff nobody owns
Small thingA count that goes into the system a day late
Small thingA sheet someone walks across the floor six times a shift
That's where we start. Find the smallest fix that pays, prove it on your floor, and let the results decide what's worth doing next.
Why this happens

You grew. The way you track things didn't.

Nobody starts a business with a plan for their systems. You start with a spreadsheet. When it gets messy, you add an inventory app. Then something for scheduling. Then a shared inbox, a group chat, a whiteboard. Every one of those made sense when you added it.

Inventory
An app, or a spreadsheet
Scheduling
Another app, or a whiteboard
Orders
Email and a shared inbox
Everything else
Somebody's memory
Nobody made them work together, because that was never anyone's job. The money leaks in the gaps between them.
The 7 common leaks

Your system says 400 on hand. Your floor says 350. That gap has a price.

It usually comes from one of these seven. Read them and ask yourself: is this us?

01

Phantom inventory

The system says you have it. You go get it, and it isn't there. After a while, people stop trusting the system and walk to the shelf to check.

Costs you: rush orders at higher prices, people standing around, late deliveries.

02

Typing the same thing twice

An order comes in and someone types it into one system, then again into another. Every extra copy takes time and invites a typo.

Costs you: paid hours, and every mistake turns into a wrong shipment or a wasted run.

03

The update shows up too late

Your systems do share information, just not right away. Overnight, or whenever someone remembers to run the report. In between, everyone works off old numbers.

Costs you: promising dates you can't hit, and buying things you already have.

04

Someone's real job is fixing the numbers

One person spends hours every week comparing reports and correcting mistakes. It wasn't their job when you hired them. It just became their job.

Costs you: a big piece of a salary spent keeping things from falling apart instead of moving the business forward.

05

Changes that don't reach everyone

A customer changes an order. The update makes it into one place but not the other, and production makes the old version.

Costs you: rework, wasted material, and a customer who's now watching you closely.

06

Numbers nobody can pull

A simple question like "how often do we ship on time?" takes a day of digging through reports, if anyone answers it at all.

Costs you: decisions made on gut feel instead of real numbers.

07

It all depends on one person

Things work because one person knows where everything is and which report to trust. Nobody finds out how much you depend on them until they're out for two weeks.

Costs you: a real risk to the business that doesn't show up anywhere until the day it happens.

Quick check

How many of these sound like your place?

Check every one that's true. Be honest. The ones that sting are usually the ones costing you the most.

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Straight answer

What we fix, and what we don't.

You've probably been pitched before. So here's the honest line, up front.

Gaps between your systems. Usually in weeks.

  • Two systems showing different numbers for the same thing
  • Typing the same information into more than one place
  • Updates that arrive too late to be useful
  • Checking and correcting numbers by hand
  • Reports that take a day to put together

These get fixed with small tools that work alongside what you already use. Sometimes a spreadsheet, sometimes a simple automation, sometimes AI when it actually helps.

People problems. We'll tell you, not sell you.

  • A process that exists but gets skipped
  • A handoff nobody was ever shown how to do
  • "We've always done it this way"

If that's what's really going on, we'll say so on the call. That's training and leadership, not software, and pretending otherwise is how businesses end up paying for tools that don't help.

How it works

Start small. See it work. Then decide.

Step 1 · Free

A 30 minute call

Tell us what's going on. We'll map where things are slipping and roughly what it's costing you. You keep the notes either way.

Free · No obligation

Step 2 · Fixed price

Your first quick win

We pick the fix that pays back fastest and build it. Something that runs on your floor, not a report that sits in a folder.

Price agreed before we start

Step 3 · Optional

Keep going

If you want more, we take on the next one and keep what we built running. If not, it keeps running without us.

Monthly · Cancel anytime

What this isn't: replacing your systems, or new software your team has to learn. We work with what you already have. And if a bigger system really is the right move for you, we'll tell you that too.
Who you'd be working with

Been on the floor. Builds the fix.

  • Over a decade running operations and leading teams. Scheduling, inventory, and the late call when the numbers don't add up.
  • Builds tools people actually use. Automation running on a live production floor, and a working AI assistant built from scratch.
  • The help you'd get from a full-time hire, without the full-time hire. Bigger companies pay $150K or more for a director to do this. Most growing businesses can't, and shouldn't have to.
  • No slide decks. You get something that works, not a recommendation to go buy something.
The short version We've been the person stuck between two systems that don't agree, with a truck waiting at the dock. That's the problem we fix, because we've lived it.
Free 30 minute call

Tell us what's slipping. We'll help you find where it starts.

No cost and no pitch. If it turns out to be a people problem instead of a systems problem, we'll tell you that too.

Tell us what's not working and we'll figure out where the gap is together. 30 minutes, no prep needed. You'll leave with a clearer picture of what's going on, whether we work together or not.

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