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How it works

One task done by hand today, running by itself at the end.

Kitting, loading, packing, palletizing, machine tending, inspection. One task, one station, then your team runs it.

Station walkthrough
A walkthrough of one station, from task selection to hand-over.

01

Pick the first task

We walk your floor and name the one task worth automating first.

What it is

We time the jobs done by hand — kitting, loading, packing, palletizing, machine tending, inspection — and rank them.

Problem it solves

A plan to automate everything is why nothing starts. One task is a decision you can make.

What ownership means here

You keep the task list and timings, even if you never hire us.

Pick the first task

02

Build and run one station

Working on your real parts before anything else on the floor changes.

What it is

We source the hardware, install it, train it on your parts, and run it until it holds pace on a normal shift.

Problem it solves

Nothing else gets disrupted. If it fails, you lost one station, not a line.

What ownership means here

Your team watches it learn your parts from day one.

Build and run one station

03

See what it's doing

What it picked, what it refused, where it hesitated.

What it is

Every cycle and exception logged in one place your supervisors can read without an engineer.

Problem it solves

A sealed machine blinks a code and tells you nothing.

What ownership means here

The record lives in your systems. Export it any time.

See what it's doing

04

Change it when the mix changes

New part, new carton — your team retrains it, not a vendor ticket.

What it is

Retrain on new parts and push to the station, with one-step rollback.

Problem it solves

Most automation was dropped because it couldn't adapt. That's what we design against.

What ownership means here

The trained model sits in your account and exports.

Change it when the mix changes

05

Engineers on your floor

On site until your people can run it without us.

What it is

Through install, training, and the first weeks of production.

Problem it solves

Automation dies at integration — your bins, your labels, your shifts.

What ownership means here

We're done when your team changes something and it works.

Engineers on your floor

06

Test before it hits the floor

Every update replayed against the station's past failures.

What it is

We keep the awkward cases from your line — crushed carton, bad label — and test changes on them first.

Problem it solves

On a live line, a bad update is a stopped shift.

What ownership means here

The failure library is built from your floor and stays with you.

Test before it hits the floor

07

Extend on your schedule

The second station is your decision, not our roadmap.

What it is

Same approach, next task — with the people and data already in place.

Problem it solves

Which job gets automated next should follow your staffing, not a vendor plan.

What ownership means here

No obligation to expand, no penalty for stopping.

Extend on your schedule

The honest version

What you keep if you drop us

Our hold is the tooling and the people, not the station.

What stays yours

  • — The station, running.
  • — The trained model, exportable.
  • — The record of what it did.
  • — Your library of awkward cases.

What you would give up

  • — Engineers on call.
  • — Staged updates and rollback tooling.
  • — The test harness.
  • — Help with the next task.

Switching costs you support, not the station. Nothing we hold can stop your line.

The doubts you already have

Straight answers

Our process changes too often. Can this keep up?

The station learns from examples of your parts, and your team retrains it when the mix changes, with one-step rollback. If your variation is beyond what's reliable today, we say so before you spend anything.

Do we have to automate everything at once?

No. One task, one station. If it doesn't hold up, you lost a station, not a line.

What happens to the people doing this task?

That position stops needing someone on it every shift. It's usually the hardest role to keep filled, so most operators move those people to other work and stop reposting the req. If your plan is headcount reduction, that's your call — we won't pretend otherwise.

We're not big enough. Is one station worth it?

The question isn't fleet size — it's whether one task costs enough in staffing, injuries, or lost pace. If it doesn't, we'll tell you.

We tried automation before and it couldn't adapt.

Fair. The difference is the station is trained on examples rather than programmed for one fixed case, and your team can change it.

Do we own what gets built?

Yes. Your data stays in your environment, the model is registered to your account and exportable. Ending the relationship doesn't stop your station.

Do you sell the robots?

No. We help you source hardware, then build and train the system on top. No hardware margin, no reason to steer you.

Pricing questions are answered on How we work.