We rebuilt our own back office, engineering support and sales operations around AI. We can help you do the same.
Global Gauge builds X-ray thickness and coating gauges for metals mills. We are a manufacturer, not a software company. Over the past year we put a team of AI assistants to work inside our own ERP, finance, email, CAD and PLC work, under written rules that keep a person in charge of anything that matters. We now offer that experience to a limited number of other small and mid-sized manufacturers.
Figures from our own operation.
A small team of AI assistants working under one written operating contract, with a shared procedure library, a company knowledge base, approval gates and a nightly loop that turns corrections into rules.
Legacy ERP to Odoo, with agents doing data mapping, migration waves and cutover reconciliation, plus a read-only link back to legacy history. Custom modules ship through staging, tests and independent review.
Daily bank import and clean-match reconciliation, card feed matching, AP inbox to draft bills with one-tap approval, ACH payment file preparation, AR follow-up drafts and a month-end close checker.
Meeting recordings, emails and paper scans turned into tasks with the source attached, plus management digests, follow-up drafts and monthly analysis. Built in n8n, or as tested code when reliability matters more.
CRM cleanup, trip preparation from the travel plan, prospect research, draft-only outreach on a compliant cadence, and email drafted in the sender's own voice.
PLC program decoding and simulation, firmware recovery over a remote bench, ADC and signal diagnosis, SolidWorks automation and PCB pinout recovery. It speeds up your engineers. It does not replace them.
Most of the value is in reading, reconciling and preparing. Agents never move money: they prepare payment files, and a person releases them at the bank.
Agents investigate and prepare. Any write to the ERP, the books or bank data needs approval for the exact action and the exact records, then a read-back.
Assistants prepare email in your mailbox and a person sends it. The mail tool has no send route, so the rule is enforced by the tooling.
Changes that touch inventory, WIP, cost or the general ledger are proven on a staging copy before anyone approves them in production.
When you correct an assistant, the fix is written into the shared procedures the same day, and every assistant picks it up overnight.
We map your systems (ERP, email, files, tasks, CAD and finance), find the highest-value automations, and identify gaps in data, access and governance. You get a prioritized roadmap and a written operating contract for your agents.
We set up the first assistants and workflows on your real systems, read-only first, with approval gates in place from day one.
Optional. Procedure and knowledge upkeep, new automations and monitoring, for teams that want help keeping it running.
Scope and pricing are set per engagement.
Our biggest lever is growing revenue without growing back-office and engineering overhead at the same rate. Practical AI lets a small company quote, engineer and deliver more systems, compete for larger projects, and put the growth into skilled manufacturing jobs.
No. It is a service built from what we run ourselves, on tools your company owns: Odoo, Microsoft 365, n8n, Python, GitHub and SharePoint. Your data and credentials stay with you.
No. Odoo is what we run, and migrating to it is one option. The assessment starts from the systems you already have.
No. Assistants draft email for a person to send and prepare payment files for a person to release. Every write to your books needs approval for the exact records.
No. AI speeds up analysis, documentation, review and testing. Releasing hardware or control logic still needs an accountable engineer and physical verification.
Yes. Measurement systems for metals mills are our core business. We take on a limited number of AI engagements alongside it.
Tell us about your systems and where the work piles up. We will tell you plainly what is worth automating and what is not.