Automate the manual work that's eating your operations.
GembaOps builds AI automation for manufacturers and distributors — designed on the floor, by someone who's actually run one.
Four ways to get the floor running itself.
Start small and low-risk. Scale into a full build or ongoing advisory when the ROI is obvious.
AI Readiness Audit
A fixed-scope review of your operation to find the 3 highest-ROI automation opportunities. Fast, low-risk, fixed fee — the best place to start.
Process Automation Build
I design and build the automation end-to-end (Make, Zapier, n8n, Power Automate). You get a working system plus documentation your team can run.
Team Training & Workshops
Get your ops team fluent in AI for their workflows — practical, floor-specific training, not generic ChatGPT 101.
Fractional AI Advisor
Ongoing monthly advisory to keep automating as you grow — a steady hand on the roadmap without a full-time hire.
Most automation advice comes from people who've never stood on a plant floor.
Gemba is the lean term for the place where the real work happens — the floor. The first rule of operations is go to the gemba: don't fix a process from a spreadsheet, go see it.
That's how I build automation — on the floor, with the people doing the work, not from a slide deck. I spent years in production operations before I learned to build with AI. So I'm an ops person who learned AI, not a tech person who learned to talk to clients.
If your team is spending 15–20 hours a week on work a system should do, that's exactly where I start.
A simple, three-step process.
No black boxes. You see the workflow before anything gets automated.
Discovery
I go to the gemba — map how the work actually flows today and find where the hours and errors leak.
Design
We agree on the target: what stays human, what gets automated, and the measurable result we're after.
Implementation
I build it, document it, and prove the before/after in real numbers — then hand you a system that runs.
Find your three biggest time-wasters — free.
Book a 20-minute ops audit. We'll walk through where your team is losing hours, and I'll tell you what's worth automating first. No pitch, no obligation.
Book your free ops audit Prefer email? frank@gembaops.com