Owner-run and mid-sized plants
Job shops, stampers, fabricators and made-to-order manufacturers where a handful of experienced people hold the plant together.
AI for manufacturing, built on the systems your plant already runs
A plant runs on what a few senior people know. Which press jams when the coil is over-oiled. How a quote for a familiar part was really built. Why one fault code clears itself and another means call maintenance now.
We build AI for manufacturers that puts that knowledge on the floor for every shift, drafts quotes from past jobs, forecasts demand against capacity and keeps maintenance from slipping. It runs on your ERP, documents and production data. It doesn't control equipment.
Who this is for
Plants with a seasonal rush
Businesses where most of the year's demand lands in a few months, and a late material order or a bottleneck work center decides the season.
Food and process manufacturers
Plants where demand moves with weather and holidays, inputs move with commodity prices and quality drift has to be caught early.
Operations and finance leaders
Teams spending days every month building plant reports by hand from the ERP, the floor and spreadsheets.
Where plants lose time
Knowledge in people's heads
When the night shift hits a problem, they wait for someone to pick up the phone. When a veteran retires, the knowledge goes with them.
Slow quotes
An estimator digs through old jobs to price a part that looks like one you made two years ago.
Late surprises
A material runs short, a work center becomes the bottleneck or warranty claims spike, and it shows up in the monthly review instead of weeks ahead.
Maintenance that slips
Recurring tasks get pushed, and nobody sees the pattern across presses, lines or sites.
Reports built by hand
The data to see it coming exists. It's spread across the ERP, the floor, inventory and the online store, and nobody has time to pull it together every morning.
What we build for manufacturers
| Problem | What we build | Demo build |
|---|---|---|
| Knowledge lives with a few people | A shop-floor assistant that answers by role from your manuals, setup sheets and past work orders, with sources | Stamping plant knowledge assistant |
| Quotes take hours | Quote drafting that reads the part spec, finds similar past jobs and estimates material, setup and run time for an estimator to review | Stamping plant, seat manufacturer |
| Seasonal demand and capacity | Demand by product family against build capacity, with the bottleneck flagged weeks ahead and materials reordered against lead time | Seat manufacturer command center |
| Warranty spikes | Warranty clustering that traces a spike back to a supplier lot, a shift or a material spec | Seat manufacturer |
| Forecasts, inputs and quality | Demand forecasts adjusted for weather and holidays, input price risk, plant use, cold chain exceptions and early quality drift | Dairy and food supply chain |
| Maintenance follow-up | Press health signals and recurring delays flagged, with drafted work orders waiting for approval | Stamping plant |
All three are demo builds on sample data. We keep the manufacturers' names private.
How the shop-floor assistant stays safe
Answers by role
An operator, a maintenance tech and a tooling manager can ask the same question and get different answers. An operator gets the checks they're allowed to do and a clear point to stop and file a work order.
It won't guess
Every answer shows the approved documents it came from, tied to a specific machine. If there's no verified fix on record, it says so and escalates. It won't borrow one press's fix for another.
New knowledge is approved first
Knowledge captured from experts waits in a queue until a manager approves it. Safety items sort to the top.
Out of the control loop
The system supports workflows, knowledge and reporting. It doesn't control equipment or safety systems, and it doesn't replace operators, engineers or safety teams.
How a manufacturing build goes live
- Time on the floor. We learn the machines, the products, who's allowed to do what and where the knowledge lives today.
- The real documents and data. Manuals, setup sheets, closed work orders, ERP and production data, plus sessions with your senior people to capture what isn't written down.
- A first version in about 10 days, usually one module, like the knowledge assistant or the morning briefing.
- Out from there, one line, site or module at a time.
Deployment can be hosted by us, run in an account your business owns or partly on hardware at your site. Your plant owns its data. See data and security.
How pricing works
Every build is quoted after the first call, based on the systems involved and how many lines or sites go live. There's a one-time setup fee and a monthly fee after launch that covers hosting, monitoring, fixes and the next items on your roadmap. A pilot on one line or one workflow has a fixed setup fee.
Frequently asked questions
Something else on your mind? Ask us directly or call 416-262-2723.
Does the AI control machines or safety systems?
No. It supports knowledge, quoting, planning, maintenance follow-up and reporting. Control of equipment and safety stays with your systems and your people.
Can it work with our ERP and maintenance system?
It's built to sit on top of the systems you already run, through their official connections or exports. Which ones get connected is agreed in the written scope before we build.
Where does the assistant's knowledge come from?
Your manuals, setup sheets, past work orders and interviews with your experienced people. New knowledge goes live only after a manager approves it.
Is AI worth it for a small manufacturer?
Often, if a few people hold most of the knowledge or quotes take too long. Start with one module and judge it on your own data. See AI for small business for how we scope smaller builds.
Is our data used to train outside models?
The plant owns its data, and the demo builds are designed for a private deployment. Model providers and their terms are set out in the written scope so you can check them before anything is built.
Do you build for plants in the US and Europe?
Yes. We're based in Vaughan, Ontario, and work with businesses in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe.
Case studies
- Demo: shop-floor knowledge assistant for a stamping plantAnswers by role with sources, an approval queue for new knowledge, quote drafting and press health alerts.
- Demo: command center for a seasonal seat manufacturerDemand forecasts, capacity, material reorders, warranty root cause and builder quoting.
- Demo: supply chain command center for a dairy and food makerDemand forecasts, feed costs, plants, cold chain exceptions, shelf availability and quality.
Keep reading
- Enterprise AIData ownership, hosting choices, governance and how procurement works with us.
- Executive dashboardEvery store on one screen, with operational reports by group.
- Workflow automationPOS to QuickBooks, follow-ups, reports and approvals, built around your tools.
- AI consulting & implementationA one-year roadmap, a written spec, the build and the running of it, from one team.
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No long discovery project and no new software for your team to learn first. We start with what costs you most and ship it.
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One 30-minute call
You walk us through how the business runs and where the time goes. We show what we’ve built for other operators and sketch your one-year roadmap.
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You give us access
Logins or read access to the systems involved: phones, POS, accounting, cameras. We handle the setup from there.
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We build, you check
We build around your own data and show it working before anything goes live. Your part is a short review.
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Live in about 10 days
Then we keep it running every month and work down the roadmap with you. Bigger builds go live in phases.
Run a plant that depends on a few experts?
Book a call and we'll show you the demos, as an operator and then as maintenance, and sketch what we'd build first for your plant.