For mid-sized manufacturers
The ERP says one thing. The spreadsheets say another. The real number lives on somebody's desktop. Compass pulls it all together so you can actually see your operation.
No pitch. We look at where your data lives and tell you what one view of it would take.
Hours saved / mo
Tasks automated
On-time delivery
Throughput
1,894 orders / wk
Where time goes
Weekly report generated automatically
No one touched a spreadsheet · just now
Built for US manufacturers doing $20M to $200M. No new ERP. No dev team required.
What scattered data actually costs
of annual revenue lost to inefficiencies caused by data silos
Cherry Bekaert
of companies name data silos as their top data problem
DATAVERSITY, 2024
of big ERP projects fail to meet their goals. This is not an ERP project.
NetSuite
average annual cost of poor data quality per organization
Gartner
typical lag before job costs surface at month-end close
What we see in plants
hours per month of re-keying removed in typical engagements
Compass AI
Today, your numbers live everywhere.
Compass pulls them into one place.
Your plant, one view
One place. Every number. Live.
Sound familiar?
We work with plants every week. It is almost always the same three problems.
Your numbers live in five places
The ERP has half the story. Scheduling is a spreadsheet. Quotes are an Access file on a PC in the front office. Quality is on paper. Nobody has the full picture of a single job.
What it costs
Silo inefficiencies eat 20 to 30% of revenue
One spreadsheet, one person who gets it
There is a schedule_FINAL_v7.xlsx somewhere in your plant, and exactly one person who understands it. When they are out, everyone guesses. When they retire, it is gone.
What it costs
Every vacation becomes a fire drill
You find out at month end
Job costing shows up three weeks after the job shipped. By the time you see the margin, you have already quoted the next one the same way.
What it costs
Decisions made 3 weeks too late, every month
From spreadsheets to one system
Right now, this lives in seventeen spreadsheets
We do not hand you another tool to babysit. We connect the spreadsheets, the ERP exports, and the files on local PCs, and turn them into one system that keeps itself current.
Try it. Click an Hours cell and type. Watch everything below stay current.
Your live system
Hours logged
0
Labor cost
$0
Orders done
0%
Weekly report ready · always current
You changed one cell. Everything downstream stayed current. That's what we build.
The machine we build
Your files go in. Answers come out.
Compass watches the folders, the inbox, and the ERP. Whatever lands there becomes live numbers, morning reports, and alerts. Nobody retypes anything.
Compasswatches, matches, updates
What we do
One plant. One set of numbers.
Each capability attacks one way your data gets scattered. Most plants need two or three.
One source of truth
We connect the ERP, the spreadsheets, and the files on local PCs into one place. Same numbers for everyone, updated on their own.
Live plant dashboards
Orders, throughput, margins, and late jobs on one screen, live. Not a report someone builds every Friday.
Kill the re-keying
Every place someone copies numbers from one system into another, we automate it. Quotes, POs, travelers, invoices.
Systems that talk
Your ERP, accounting, shipping, and shop-floor tools connected, so data entered once shows up everywhere it should.
Workflow fixes
We trace how an order actually moves through your plant, find where it stalls, and fix the handoffs.
Not sure where to start? That's what the first call is for.
The process
How it works
A focused sprint, not a year of consulting. We work from your data, not interviews.
Map
Week 1We find every place your numbers live. The ERP, the spreadsheets, the Access files, the PCs on the floor. You get a map of where data hides and where it dies.
Connect
Weeks 2-4We pull it into one live view and automate the worst re-keying. Real improvements running in your plant in weeks, not quarters.
Own it
DeliveredEverything is documented and runs in your accounts. Your team keeps the keys. We stay available, but you are not locked in.
Honest fit
This is built for you if...
Good fit
- You run a US manufacturer doing roughly $20M to $200M a year
- You have an ERP, plus a wall of spreadsheets doing what the ERP cannot
- Job margins are invisible until weeks after the work ships
- Critical numbers live on one person's PC, in one person's head
- You want working systems in weeks, not a slide deck
Probably not the right fit if...
- You want to rip out and replace your ERP. We build on what you have.
- You have no systems or data at all yet
- Nobody can give us 2 to 3 hours to walk through how the plant runs
This list exists because we only take engagements where we can genuinely help. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you on the first call.
Questions
Common questions
Still have questions? Let's just talk through it.
Let's talk
Tell us where the numbers hide.
A short call, no pitch. We will tell you honestly what one view of your operation would take.