AI automation for manufacturing & distribution

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.

現場  Gemba — “the place where the real work happens.” AI automation, built on the floor.
Cut manual reportingHours of shift & status reports, automated
Kill repetitive data entryInvoices & records into your systems
Catch errors before they shipChecks that run on every record
Services

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.

01

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.

02

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.

03

Team Training & Workshops

Get your ops team fluent in AI for their workflows — practical, floor-specific training, not generic ChatGPT 101.

04

Fractional AI Advisor

Ongoing monthly advisory to keep automating as you grow — a steady hand on the roadmap without a full-time hire.

Why GembaOps

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.

現場
Gem·ba
“The actual place” — where value is created and problems are seen.
How it works

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