345 Intelligence

Your data belongs to you. Not your ERP vendor. Not your implementation partner. You.

Help your team understand and trust your data.

Manufacturers have spent years inside systems that treat their operational data as a vendor asset, locked behind a login you don’t control, on infrastructure you don’t own. This runs on hardware you already have. No data team required.

Three problems. One question underneath all of them.

Starting with Epicor shops moving on-prem to Kinetic, and built to grow from there. Whether the data is mid-move, just landed, or running your floor every day, the question is the same: can you trust the numbers your business runs on? Find the work that fits where you are right now. Each door below leads to a piece of the OIM, the Operations Intelligence Model this site is named for.

What this returns to you

The plant manager who has to ask IT for a number that used to be on his own screen.

That is who this is for. The person who used to be able to see the floor, and lost that when the system changed underneath them.

A few principles, held without exception.

The same convictions run through all three engagements. They are why the work looks different from the software you have been sold before.

The work runs on hardware you already have

Your data lives with you, not on my servers. There is no per-seat fee, no vendor lock waiting on the other side. You own what gets built. That is the whole arrangement.

Independence is the product

An outside check holds up in front of leadership. An in-house analyst, checking their own migration, structurally cannot give you that.

Built for a plant, not a data team

Modeling this thorough used to require a data department. Most plants never had one.

75M rows

Twenty-five consecutive runs, 75 million rows, 76 minutes total. Zero failures. No infrastructure, no intervention. If it survives that on a laptop, it runs on whatever you already have.

“I migrated 30,000+ orders feeding five public-facing metrics. Being wrong wasn’t an option.”

I’ve spent more than fifteen years at a major electric utility, over a decade of it in operations: designing work orders, coordinating with operations teams, running planning and scheduling. Along the way I built and delivered data products that gave entire organizations a shared view of the truth. I know what it costs when the numbers don’t survive a system change, because I’ve been the one accountable for them.

That’s why the work starts with proof. The numbers have to be trustworthy before anything gets built on top of them.

The thinking behind the work.

Short, opinionated writing from someone who’s actually run operations.

Read the Dispatch →

I Built Both Systems. The Numbers Still Didn’t Match.

The migration vendor confirmed the data loaded. That is not the same thing as your metrics surviving the move. Why independent verification matters, even when the same person architected both ends.

Get in touch

If your data is at risk, let’s talk.

I’ll tell you exactly what I can do and what I can’t. Fair value exchange starts with the first conversation.