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Hypothetical examples of problems we solve, filed by industry. The businesses in them are made up; each one shows how we find the real cause, what we would build, and what we would measure.
Case studies
14 stories
Hypothetical example
From finished job to invoice without the paper chase
Crews finish extra work on site, but the tickets reach the office days later with hours, materials or a signature missing. Here is how extra work becomes invoice-ready the day it is done, without replacing the project software.
Field serviceAtlas Mechanical
Hypothetical example
Orders lost between the customer email and the ERP
Industrial customers order by email, phone and spreadsheet. Some orders wait, some get lost, some get entered twice. Here is one front door for all of them.
Distribution and wholesaleGulf Coast Industrial Supply
Hypothetical example
Purchase orders that nobody retypes
A precision manufacturer gets orders as PDFs in a dozen layouts, with quality clauses at the back. Someone types every line into the ERP. Here is how that typing goes away while a person still checks every order.
ManufacturingPrecision Component Industries
Hypothetical example
Change orders kept in one place, not three
Change orders live in emails, texts, the job file and the books. Here is how to keep them in step without asking anyone to change how they work on site.
ConstructionMesa Construction
Hypothetical example
Sign-ups that reach their first useful result
People download a shift-work app and stall before it does anything for them. Here is how to find where they stop and redesign the first hour so more of them reach the point where it works.
SaaS and softwareShiftwell
Hypothetical example
From proof of delivery to invoice, the same day
Delivery paperwork comes back as photos and scans, and on refrigerated loads the temperature record has to come back too. Here is how signed paperwork becomes an invoice-ready record without a week of chasing.
Logistics and warehousingSummit Logistics, Inc.
Hypothetical example
Machine maintenance that does not live on a whiteboard
Breakdowns are reported by word of mouth and tracked on a whiteboard. Spare parts are found by asking around. Here is how a plant gets one list of what is broken, who is on it and which parts are on the shelf, without buying a maintenance suite.
ManufacturingSummit Packaging Systems
Hypothetical example
A website that never sells what the shop already sold
The shop and the website share stock, but not in real time. Here is how a stock sync stops overselling without replacing the till or the store.
Retail and e-commerceTrailhead Outfitters
Hypothetical example
RFQs that reach the estimator ready to price
Requests for quotes sit in a shared inbox with drawings attached and no owner. Here is how each one gets sorted, summarised and handed to an estimator the same day.
ManufacturingSummit Machine Works
Hypothetical example
Returns back on sale in a day, not a fortnight
A boutique's online returns pile up in the back room for two weeks before anyone checks them, refunds are late and returned stock misses its season. Here is how each return gets graded, refunded and relisted the day it arrives.
Retail and e-commerceWillow & Grace Boutique
Hypothetical example
Turning first orders into second orders
Most people who buy a bag of beans online buy once and never come back. Here is how to tell who is likely to return, and what to send them, without spamming everyone.
Retail and e-commerceEmber Coffee Co.
Hypothetical example
Why production keeps slipping, in one view
Delivery dates slip and everyone has a theory. The reasons sit in three spreadsheets and a downtime log. Here is how they become one view the plant manager trusts.
ManufacturingMidwest Fabrication
Hypothetical example
Catching defects at the line, not at the customer
Visual inspection depends on who is on shift. Here is how a camera pilot proves, on your own parts, whether software can catch defects reliably before anyone buys hardware.
ManufacturingPioneer Plastics
A sample, not the whole list.
Every story here is one problem we solved for a client. Most of what we build started as a problem that was not on any page: if your team does it by hand, or your business needs something built, we can most likely build it.
Every story, told the same way.
Most agencies show screens. We show the reasoning: what was wrong, why, and what changed because of it. Client projects name the client only with their permission, or describe them without a name, and show a number only once it is measured.
- 01
The problem
What was going wrong, in the words of the people it was happening to.
- 02
The real cause
What the data, the workflow and an honest look at the work showed.
- 03
What we build
The software, automation or connection, and what stays as it is.
- 04
What changes
Measured against where it started, and shown once it is measured.
- 05
What is next
Where it can go from here, as the business grows.
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