I build AI automation for the back office of North Carolina manufacturers — quoting, production scheduling, compliance paperwork, and inventory reconciliation, wired into the ERP and spreadsheets your plant already runs. Software, not robots. Every engagement starts with a one-week, $4,500 operations audit — and if it doesn't surface savings worth more than its cost, you don't pay.
Charlotte, NC · On-site across the state · Audit first, always
The enterprise tools assume an integration team, a data warehouse, and a six-month rollout. A 40-person plant has none of those — it has an ERP that's half-trusted, an estimator who's irreplaceable, and office work that grows faster than office headcount. That's the gap I build in.
And to be clear about what this is not: no robotics, no machine vision, no hardware on the floor. This is the office side of the plant — the quoting, the scheduling, the paperwork, the re-keying between systems. That's where small plants leak, and it's all software.
Quote-to-cash automation, scheduling assistants wired into your ERP, paperwork agents that fill the compliance forms from data you already have, and inventory reconciliation that closes the floor-to-system gap. It's the same discipline I sell as workflow automation — scoped to the four places a small plant actually loses hours.
Quoting lives in one estimator's head — when they're out, quotes wait
An agent reads the incoming RFQ, pulls your past quotes and current material pricing, and drafts the quote in your estimator's own format — so approval takes minutes, not an evening. Your estimator stays the judge; the lookup and re-keying disappear. When the customer says yes, the same data flows into the order and the invoice instead of being typed three more times.
Production scheduling happens on a whiteboard that's wrong by 10am
Not new scheduling software — an assistant that reads open orders, inventory, and machine availability from the ERP you already run and drafts the day's schedule before the floor starts. When a rush order lands or a line goes down, it redraws the plan and shows exactly what slips. The whiteboard can stay; it just stops being the system of record.
Food-safety and compliance paperwork eats hours that should run the line
Most of what a food-safety or quality form asks for already exists in your systems — lot numbers, timestamps, supplier certs. An agent pulls that data, fills the forms, flags what's genuinely missing, and keeps the binder current — shaped to your compliance requirements. The hours go back to running the line, and the day-before-audit scramble goes away.
What's on the floor never matches what the system says
A reconciliation agent compares what the floor reports — scans, pick sheets, end-of-shift counts — against what the system says, every day, and surfaces mismatches while they're still small. Instead of a physical count discovering the gap after it has already cost you an order, someone clears a short exception list with their morning coffee.
I'm in Charlotte, and North Carolina audits run on-site. I walk the floor, sit with the person who does the quoting, and watch where the re-keying happens — you can't find the real leak from a discovery call. What you get at the end of the week is a build roadmap ranked by ROI, not "AI strategy."
Manufacturing is one of three North Carolina industries I focus on — the others are construction & specialty trades and independent medical practices. The full picture lives on the North Carolina page.
For a mid-market reverse logistics-tech company, I built the MCP server and agent tooling their internal teams use every day — Python on Google Cloud, wired into live inventory and truckload workflows, supporting 50+ internal users.
For a multi-brand field-services group, I built 14 field and back-office applications — the finance automation alone recovered 18 hours of weekly team capacity.
Inventory workflows, quoting pipelines, back-office reconciliation — the same shape of problem your plant has. It's the size of the leak — not a promise.
Every engagement starts with a $4,500 operations audit — fixed price, one week, and if it doesn't surface savings worth more than its cost, you don't pay. Build sprints are fixed-scope from $45,000, and the audit fee is credited toward your first build. Ongoing work runs from $8,500 a month, month to month.
Yes. I build on top of what you already run — ERP, accounting, even the spreadsheet workflows — through their APIs, databases, or exports. Nothing gets ripped out, and your team keeps working in the tools they know.
Your team does — that's the design constraint. Everything ships with documentation and training, you own all the code and infrastructure, and support is available without being mandatory. If a system needs a full-time engineer to babysit it, I built the wrong system.
No. I build software for the office side of the plant — quoting, scheduling, compliance paperwork, inventory records. If you need hardware on the floor, I'm the wrong hire; if the paperwork around the floor is the bottleneck, that's exactly what I build.
Yes. I'm based in Charlotte and run North Carolina audits on-site — walking the floor and sitting with the office staff is usually where the biggest leak shows up. Remote works too, but a plant is easier to read in person.
The operations audit: one week, $4,500, fixed. I walk your floor, sit with your office team, and hand you a roadmap ranked by ROI. The fee is credited toward your first build — and if the audit doesn't surface savings worth more than its cost, you don't pay.