Unit economics
Material costs, labour and machine time compared to the price of a delivered unit.
Manufacturing playbook
An acceleration playbook for your manufacturing business, not generic business advice.
Your goal, roadmap and coaching adapt to how manufacturing actually makes money: yield, throughput, material costs and dependable orders.
How your AI coach reads the business
Your production, modelled the way it actually runs.
When you tell your AI coach you run a production business, it reads your numbers through a physical operations lens, not a software one.
Throughput and scrap
How yield and production waste affect margin on every batch.
Capital and stock
Cash tied up in inputs and work-in-progress before you collect payment.
Customer concentration
How dependent you are on a few buyers and what that risk does to your production plan.
YOUR ACCELERATION PLAYBOOK, BY GOAL
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Goals you choose, not steps in order. Your AI coach tailors the roadmap to your own numbers. Figures below are rules of thumb, not targets you must hit.
Win your first production orders.
What counts as proof
A handful of buyers who have paid for a defined batch, with specs you can meet profitably.
What your AI coach flags
- Quotes based on optimistic yield assumptions
- Buyers who want a sample but have no volume plan
- Taking on complex jobs that your current equipment cannot handle
Example roadmap moves
- Quote based on real material costs and a conservative scrap rate
- Define the exact specification and tolerance the buyer expects
- Secure a deposit to cover material costs before starting production
- Complete three batches and record the actual time and waste for each
How an operator helps
Where practices get stuck.
Operators who have run service businesses spot these early, and work through them with you.
The Just-in-case inventory
Tying up all your cash in raw materials that sit unused for months.
Under-quoted rework
Failing to account for the time and cost of fixing units that do not meet spec.
The capacity illusion
Assuming you can run at 100% capacity without accounting for setup, cleaning and breakdowns.
Custom job creep
Taking on 'special' one-off jobs that disrupt your standard profitable production flow.
What your operator works through with you
Unit margin audit
What they look at
Actual material, labour and overhead costs per unit.
What they push back on
Jobs that look busy but contribute almost no profit.
You leave with
A minimum viable price list for all future quotes.
Bottleneck analysis
What they look at
Where work piles up and which machines are idle.
What they push back on
Hiring more people when a machine is the real constraint.
You leave with
A targeted investment or process change for the primary bottleneck.
Supplier risk review
What they look at
Lead times, quality and pricing of your top three suppliers.
What they push back on
Relying on a single source for a critical material.
You leave with
A backup supplier identified and tested for key inputs.
Maintenance check
What they look at
Service logs and recent breakdown data.
What they push back on
Running machines to failure instead of planning downtime.
You leave with
A weekly maintenance schedule that the team follows.
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Buyers solve this today with spreadsheets and extra hours.
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A large order requires new tooling
Evaluate if the order margin covers the capital cost and risk.
02
Scrap rates suddenly spike
Pause production to find the root cause before wasting more material.
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A key supplier raises prices
Decide whether to reprice your products or find a new source immediately.
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