Manufacturing back-office automation, built for plants with fewer than 100 people.
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.
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Charlotte, NC · On-site across the state · Audit first, always
The vendors assume an IT department. Your plant runs on a plant manager and a spreadsheet.
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.
Four leaks. Four builds. None of them robots.
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
What I build · Quote-to-cash automation
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
What I build · Scheduling wired into your ERP
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
What I build · Compliance-paperwork agents
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
What I build · Floor-to-system inventory reconciliation
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.
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Based in Charlotte. On-site at your plant.
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.
In production today. Not a pilot.
A mid-market reverse logistics-tech company runs its live inventory and truckload workflows through an MCP server and agents I built in Python on Google Cloud — 50+ internal users, every day.
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.
Built for plants with real volume — and no IT department.
A fit if you're…
- A North Carolina manufacturer or food processor doing $3M–$50M
- Running real order volume on spreadsheets, a whiteboard, and an ERP nobody fully trusts
- A plant manager or owner who can name the bottleneck but has nobody to build the fix
- More orders than office headcount — and no room to hire
Skip it if…
- You want robotics, machine vision, or plant-floor hardware — that's not what I build
- You already have an internal software team solving this
- You want a tool recommendation, not a look at your actual process
- You need a vendor of record for a 200-page RFP — I work for owners, not procurement departments
What plant managers ask on the first call.
What does manufacturing back-office automation cost?
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.
Will it talk to our ERP?
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.
We're not a technical shop. Who runs this after you leave?
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.
Is this robotics or machine vision?
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.
Do you come to the plant?
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.
Start smaller
Where's the busywork? One hour, $300, credited in full.
Before a week-long audit: one hour on a call with you and whoever runs the spreadsheets. We walk the way work moves through your business, name the leak worth fixing first, and you leave with a written list of what to fix, in order. Yours to act on with anyone.
The $300 is invoiced before the hour and comes off the $4,500 operations audit or an agent's first month in full. Book the 15-minute call first: it sets the hour and the invoice.
The 15-minute call itself is free.
A note from Nick
From one operator to another.
If the work keeps outgrowing your team, your team is doing something right. The busywork grew with it, and that part can be fixed.
Before I wrote code, I built a sales company with 120+ reps on contract and 77 consistent producers. It taught me that a system only pays off when the people doing the work actually use it, so I build for the person who runs it every day, not for the demo.
We start by asking your team for their advice: where the week really goes, and what they'd fix first. The plan comes out of their answers, so it's already theirs when it ships.
Nick George · Charlotte, NC
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“His code was elegant and precise, and his communication was clear and prompt. … The task was extremely complex … Nicholas diligently worked, and implemented an impeccable solution.”
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Your back office is leaking hours. In one week, I'll show you exactly where.
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.
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- What manual work costs you Your team, your rates, a yearly number.
- Find your bottleneck yourself A checklist you can walk in an afternoon.
- What to automate first A way to pick the first fix from your own numbers.
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