// forward-deployed AI · manufacturing × operations

AI that shipsto where thework happens.

We embed with manufacturers and operations-led businesses to put working AI on the floor: quality, maintenance, scheduling, and the back office.

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Trusted acrossComposite manufacturingElectronics & assemblyHR & operationsRetail & design
What we deploy

Use cases, grounded in the shop floor and the back office.

Every engagement starts from one expensive problem, then proves AI on it before scaling.

Visual quality inspection

Computer vision tuned to your parts finds defects in milliseconds, and shows where.

Predictive maintenance

See failures forming before they stop the line.

Smart scheduling

Balance people, machines and materials automatically against real constraints.

Aging-stock & inventory

Move the oldest stock first, surface dead inventory, free up working capital.

Attendance & HR automation

Turn messy punch logs into clean, audited exceptions HR can sign off on.

Reporting & document automation

From raw exports to board-ready dashboards and filled documents in minutes.

Proof, not promises

What deployment actually delivered.

Identifying details withheld by request. Numbers are real.

X-ray defect detection on carbon-fibre structural parts

Composite manufacturing
98%
detection accuracy on graded parts
40%
less unplanned line downtime
50%
fewer escaped defects

Unifying four sales channels into one monthly report

Retail & design
4→1
channels unified into one view
231
SKUs reconciled across consignment
days→min
monthly reporting turnaround

Turning a multi-shift factory's punch logs into audited exceptions

Manufacturing · HR
19+
exception types codified from HR's rules
day→min
monthly reconciliation time
100%
of flags carry an audit trail

Automated scrap and quality-cost reporting for a quality team

Manufacturing · Quality
29 mo
of scrap detail reconciled
hours→min
to produce the monthly report
MoM·YoY
and 12-month trends, automatically

Cutting manual CAD work in a composites R&D team

Manufacturing · R&D
5/5
first engineer acceptance tests passed
wk→day
on the repetitive boundary work
advisory
the engineer keeps the final call
Insights

Where industrial AI is actually heading.

Field notes on deployment, governance and the gap between pilots and production.

Methodology · 6 min

Why most manufacturing AI pilots stall at POC, and how to design past it

Governance · 8 min

Governance-first AI: shipping under the EU AI Act and China's rules

Field notes · 5 min

The forward-deployed model: putting engineers on the factory floor

Let's talk

Find one expensive problem. Prove AI on it.

A 30-minute discovery call. No slides, just your operation and where AI would pay back fastest.

Discuss an operations problem