AI & Data Practice

We build AI and data systems inside your operations.

We work with operating and finance leaders to choose the use cases worth funding, scope the data and integration work, build the systems, and hand them over to your team.

THE FIRST QUESTIONS WE HELP YOU ANSWER
DATA FOUNDATION
6 SOURCES · SCANNED
DATA READINESS · WEIGHTED
62/ 100below the build threshold
ERP
OK
MES
OK
PI
GAP
CMMS
OK
LIMS
GAP
CRM
GAP
READINESS GAPS3 BLOCKING
Customer master: 3 systems disagreeOPEN
CRM, ERP, billing hold different IDs · uniqueness
Downtime events: no lineageOPEN
PI historian · no traceable source · accuracy
Asset register: 12% of fields emptyOPEN
CMMS · completeness gap on critical assets
RECOMMENDED FIX
Consolidate the customer master to one authoritative record and map the CRM, ERP, and billing IDs to it.
owner recorded
CAPABILITIES
AI & Machine LearningGenerative AI & AgentsData EngineeringData Lakes & WarehousesAnalytics & BIAutomationSystems IntegrationIT/OT ConvergenceSaaSApplication DevelopmentCloud & MLOpsAPIs & MicroservicesAI & Machine LearningGenerative AI & AgentsData EngineeringData Lakes & WarehousesAnalytics & BIAutomationSystems IntegrationIT/OT ConvergenceSaaSApplication DevelopmentCloud & MLOpsAPIs & Microservices
INDUSTRIES
ManufacturingLogisticsUtilitiesIndustrialBankingInvestment BankingFintechHi-TechSoftwareRetailManufacturingLogisticsUtilitiesIndustrialBankingInvestment BankingFintechHi-TechSoftwareRetail
01 / What The Work Involves

What makes an AI program work

01
Business value

We identify the opportunities worth pursuing, estimate the financial impact, and agree on who owns the result before development begins.

02
Data and integration

We identify the source systems required for each use case, resolve important data and definition issues, and scope the integration work early.

03
Workflow and adoption

We design the solution around the existing business process and integrate it into the systems people use to do the work.

04
Internal capability

Your team works alongside us during delivery and takes on more responsibility as the program develops.

02 / Program And Office

How the capability is organized

The program is the use cases running in production. The office is the standing group that builds and supports them. A central group owns the platform, the standards, and the specialists who are hard to hire. The rest of the team sits in the business units, close to the process being changed.

See the full operating model
CENTRAL
  • DATA & PLATFORM
  • DATA SCIENCE & ML
  • PLATFORM & MLOPS
  • GOVERNANCE
EMBEDDED
  • BUSINESS OWNER
  • PROCESS EXPERT
  • DELIVERY ANALYST & ENGINEER
OWNERSHIP
OperateIQ leadsJoint deliveryYour team leads
03 / The First 24 Months

Delivery approach

MONTHS 1–3
Discovery & Strategy

We review the business, assess data readiness, agree on the first use cases, and design how the office will be staffed and governed.

MONTHS 2–9
Foundations

Enough platform to serve the first use cases, starting with the integration and data quality work that decides when the first release can go live.

MONTHS 3–9
First Delivery

The first use cases go into production and into daily use, measured against the business case finance agreed to.

MONTHS 9–24+
Scale & Sustain

Working solutions extend to other business units, and your team takes over delivery, support, and the intake of new work.

04 / Portfolio

Choosing what to build

Each candidate is scored on the value at stake, the source data available, the integration work required, and whether the people doing the job will use the result. The funded set is balanced across four categories.

Quick Wins

Modest value and low delivery risk, so a few go first and the program produces results while the platform work continues.

Major use cases

High value and harder to deliver, carrying most of the business case and taking the longest to build.

Big Bets

High value, but constrained by regulation or by source data that is not ready, and scheduled once the platform and controls can support them.

Fill-ins

Low value and low effort, picked up when there is capacity to build them properly.

05 / Experience

Where the team has worked

The practice exists to help build a strong American industry. Our team has spent careers doing this work inside some of the largest operations in the country.

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PLUS ENTERPRISE EXPERIENCE ACROSS FORTUNE 500 INDUSTRIAL, FINANCIAL SERVICES, AND TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES.

06 / Insights

Recent writing

Start with one use case

A discovery call is enough to walk through one process, the systems behind it, and what building it would involve.

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