Industry
Manufacturing
Estimation, bill of materials and production data
The constraint
NIST CSF · CMMC · export control
Estimating is where manufacturers lose money quietly. A bid priced too high loses the work; one priced too low wins work that erodes margin for eighteen months. Most estimating still runs on spreadsheets and the memory of whoever has been there longest, so pricing accuracy depends on the availability of two or three people. Where the work is defence-adjacent, none of that data can leave the environment cleared to hold it.
What applies here
AI Engineering
Building AI systems and getting them into production, inside the constraints the environment imposes.
87% forecast precision on consumer transactions
Data Engineering
The pipelines, models and platforms that make an organisation’s own data usable.
Hundreds of sites, thousands of updates a minute
Where it starts
Most work in manufacturing begins one of two ways.
Discovery
Consultancy & diagnostics
Consultancy. We work with your teams to understand the data you hold, the processes running on top of it and where optimisation is genuinely available, then say plainly what is worth building and what is not.
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Engineering & delivery
Building. A senior-led team takes a decision, yours or one that came out of Discovery, through architecture, delivery and release, then stays with the system as load, scope and the business around it grow.
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