INDUSTRY
Manufacturing
Engineering for manufacturers who outgrew spreadsheets and brittle portals.
Most of the deepest work lives here: dealer and customer portals built to actually get used, production and KPI visibility rebuilt from exports, and ERP-connected workflows that stop silently failing. It is the same field experience behind the first vertical slice of the Northwerk Platform.
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RELEVANT_SERVICES
Applied AI & Agentic Systems
MCP platforms, agentic workflows, and retrieval + evaluation
Custom Software
Portals, internal tools, and workflow software
ERP and Data Integration
ERP fixes, integration work, and remediation
Data and Reporting
KPI reporting, dashboards, and pipelines
Technology Assessment
Scoped audits and findings reports
CASE_STUDIES_IN_THIS_INDUSTRY
Agentic AI & MCP Platform
→Built an internal AI platform that gives engineers and applications governed, auditable access to enterprise data through MCP, plus the retrieval and agentic workflows that run on top of it.
Ad-Hoc AI → Governed Platform, In Daily Use · 0.1 OUTCOME_METRIC
Production Visibility & KPI Platform
→Took a 200+ employee plant from zero production visibility to real-time dashboards and structured KPI reporting.
Zero Visibility → 30+ Live KPIs · 0.1 OUTCOME_METRIC
ERP Data Integrity Recovery
→Found and fixed a 7-year systemic ERP data integrity issue that multiple consultants missed, eliminating an estimated $1M+ per year in manual reconciliation.
$1M+/yr reconciliation burden eliminated · 0.1 OUTCOME_METRIC
Enterprise Dealer Portal Replacement
→Replacing a failing ERP-connected dealer portal, 1 to 2 minute load times and no useful order data, with a custom platform built to be the primary channel between manufacturer and dealer network.
Failed Portal → Production Platform · 0.1 OUTCOME_METRIC
EDI Integration Rebuild
→Rebuilt a failing EDI integration for a key customer account, replacing an error-blind implementation with a pipeline that actually handles failures.
Silent Failures → Full Visibility · 0.1 OUTCOME_METRIC
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Working in manufacturing?
If any of the above sounds like your environment, the first step is a direct conversation about what is actually breaking.