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Case studies

Proof it works.

Five operations, told the way they ran: the problem, what we built, and the numbers it moved.

Power infrastructure Poland & Saudi Arabia Grinea

Scaling Grinea for 3x revenue growth.

A 40-year power infrastructure engineering firm, modernising how it plans, purchases and delivers, in support of a 3x growth target across Poland and Saudi Arabia.

  • 40 hrs saved per month on recurring reports
  • 50% less admin work in procurement
  • Real-time reporting for operational decisions

The problem

Their systems worked, but they didn't talk to each other. Purchasing ran on email and paper with no approval trail, project data sat fragmented across separate tools, and getting a full picture meant piecing it together by hand.

Exhibit 01 Request for quotation register
The procurement platform's request for quotation register

Every RFQ, its bids and its deadline on one screen. Sample data.

Exhibit 02 Reports and insights
The procurement platform's reports and insights catalogue

The dashboard catalogue: executive, legal, finance and quotation views. Sample data.

What we built

  1. 01

    Every purchase against the bill of materials

    Requisition, quotation and order are one chain, not four inboxes.

  2. 02

    Suppliers quote in the portal

    No email thread to chase, every bid on the same sheet.

  3. 03

    The reports build themselves

    Executive, finance, project and contract views off one data layer.

What changed

  1. Data intake

    Before Typed by hand into the ERP, HR and project tools and shared drives.

    After Every system feeds one data warehouse: zero manual work, always current.

  2. Budget alignment

    Before Budgets cross-checked against schedules by hand.

    After Budgets and schedules sync automatically: hours of admin gone weekly.

  3. Request and bidding

    Before Purchase requests encoded manually; RFQs sent to suppliers over email, untracked.

    After Requests pulled from the digital bill of materials; RFQs auto-sent, bids submitted in the portal.

  4. Approval and delivery

    Before Print, sign, scan; delivery slips signed on paper, invisible to HQ.

    After Approvals and deliveries logged digitally, tracked the moment they happen.

  5. Executive review

    Before A static, compiled report: no way to see real-time project data.

    After 13 live dashboards, refreshed automatically every day.

Precision electronics Switzerland

They planned the week by hand, and found out on Wednesday.

A Swiss precision-electronics manufacturer, catching production risks before they cause delays, without changing the planning routine it already has.

  • 2 hrs saved every day, on planning alone
  • 25% more efficient planning process
  • 4–6 wks of production visible before it starts

The problem

Each week, teams planned production by hand with no easy way to know in advance whether the plan was realistic. A missing part, a busy machine or a staffing gap only became visible once the week was already under way.

Exhibit 01 Workshop by day
The planning board: workshops against days, each order marked red, amber or green

Every planned order red, amber or green, a week ahead. Order codes only.

Exhibit 02 Open a cell
A planning cell opened to show which component, machine or staffing check failed

Why it is red, down to the part, the machine or the person.

What we built

  1. 01

    The whole week, before it starts

    Every workshop against every day, on the plan they already keep.

  2. 02

    Material, machine and people, checked

    Three questions asked automatically for every planned order.

  3. 03

    A layer on top, not a replacement

    Read straight from their sheets and ERP. Nothing in it changed.

What changed

  1. Weekly planning

    Before Team leaders fill planning sheets by hand, one file per workshop.

    After The same plans, read automatically from the sheets and ERP each week.

  2. Feasibility check

    Before No automated check against components, equipment or staffing.

    After All three checked automatically: zero manual work, always current.

  3. Risk flagging

    Before Risk surfaces only once the week is already under way.

    After Green, amber or red: flagged before the week starts.

  4. Response

    Before The team scrambles once a shortage is discovered.

    After Problems fixed before they disrupt the floor.

Technology retail & distribution APAC

Five business units. Five separate front doors.

A technology retail and distribution group with five business units, each knowing the customer its own way. One portal now stands in front, with one customer record behind it, on the CRM they already run.

  • 5 business units behind one portal
  • 6 source systems, one customer view
  • 0 systems replaced

The problem

ERP, point of sale, web store and two marketplaces each held a piece of the same customer. Nobody saw the whole relationship, so the next offer, the next renewal and the next follow-up were guesses.

Exhibit 01 The lifecycle view
The customer lifecycle prototype's home screen, showing revenue left on the table and unified customer figures

What the lifecycle is leaving on the table, and what is recoverable. Prototype on synthetic data.

What we built

  1. 01

    Six systems, one customer

    ERP, POS, web store and two marketplaces resolved in real time. No migration.

  2. 02

    The next action comes with its reasoning

    Every recommendation shows the steps that produced it.

  3. 03

    On the CRM they already run

    The portal and the lifecycle layer sit on top of it, not in place of it.

Watch components Switzerland

Seven systems. None of them touching.

A Swiss maker of watch components running ERP, production planning, HR and documents on four separate stacks, with a hand-maintained BI on top. The brief, in their words: one platform they own, hosted locally, with no licence meter running.

  • 2 days on site to map the whole landscape
  • 5 days to the discovery assessment
  • 0 licence fees in the target state

The problem

Four stacks, four licences, none of them speaking to the others. And a BI nobody could keep up with: hand-maintained, constant effort, and still not the decision support they wanted.

Exhibit 01 Sector photograph
Close-up of a watch movement's balance wheel

A watch movement. Illustrative, not the client's own.

What we built

  1. 01

    The landscape, mapped

    Two days on site, every system and every hand-off drawn.

  2. 02

    The assessment

    Five working days to a prioritised plan the board could decide on.

  3. 03

    One platform they own

    ERP, production planning, HR and documents consolidated. Hosted locally, no licence meter.

Watchmaking components Switzerland

Sixty years of drawings, found in one search.

A Swiss watchmaking-components maker with six decades of technical drawings across binders, scans and spreadsheets. Finding the right one took hours. Now it takes a search, with the price last quoted beside it.

  • 7,338 files in 216 folders, indexed
  • 60 yrs of archive made searchable
  • 80%+ measured accuracy on their drawings

The problem

The right drawing already existed. Finding it took hours across binders, scans and spreadsheets, and every quote started from scratch.

Exhibit 01 Sector photograph
Detail of an old technical drawing

An engineering drawing. Illustrative, not the client's own.

What we built

  1. 01

    The archive, surveyed

    216 folders and 7,338 files, counted and classified before anything was built.

  2. 02

    Find the part, and the price you quoted

    Comparable jobs surface with a confidence score, so the quote starts from history.

  3. 03

    A design partner, not a pilot

    Their drawings are the proof case the reader is trained and measured against: four weeks and 24 drawings first, then the full archive in eight.

The first step

Start with one week,not a contract.

We spend a week inside your operation and show you, in numbers, where AI would pay for itself. What happens next is your call.

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