Automate the manual work that's eating your operations.
GembaOps builds automation — clean rule-based workflows and AI — for manufacturers and distributors, designed on the floor by someone who's actually run one.
- Cut manual reporting hours
- Kill repetitive data entry
- Catch errors before they ship
現場 Gemba — “the place where the real work happens.” Automation, built on the floor.
Illustrative — based on typical manual reporting workloads. Your numbers, measured during the audit.
Outcomes, not software.
You don't buy automation for its own sake. You buy back hours, fewer mistakes, and throughput you can't get by hiring. That's what we measure.
Less downtime
Status, alerts, and handoffs move on their own — work doesn't stall waiting on a person to copy a number.
More throughput
The same team clears more orders, invoices, and reports because the busywork runs itself.
Lower cost
Reclaimed hours go to higher-value work instead of another headcount on the same manual task.
Fewer errors
Validation runs on every record, so the typo that becomes a wrong shipment gets caught up front.
AI is the sharpest tool in the kit — not the whole kit.
Half of what slows a floor down doesn't need AI at all; it needs clean, reliable logic. We pick the right tool for the job, and tell you which one it is.
AI Workflows
For the messy stuff — reading invoices and PDFs, classifying email, drafting replies, summarizing reports. Where judgment used to be required, AI does the first pass.
Explore AI workflowsClean Logic Workflows
For the predictable stuff — Power Automate, Power BI, and the Microsoft 365 stack moving data, triggering approvals, and building the dashboards your team refreshes by hand today.
Explore clean logic workflowsFour ways to get the floor running itself.
Start small and low-risk. Scale into a full build or ongoing advisory when the ROI is obvious.
AI Readiness Audit
A fixed-scope review of your operation to find the 3 highest-ROI automation opportunities. Fast, low-risk — the best place to start.
Process Automation Build
I design and build the automation end-to-end. You get a working system plus documentation your team can run.
Team Training & Workshops
Get your ops team fluent in automation for their workflows — practical and floor-specific, not generic ChatGPT 101.
Fractional AI Advisor
Ongoing monthly advisory to keep automating as you grow — a steady hand on the roadmap without a full-time hire.
What is that manual task actually costing you?
A simple rule from a mentor: take the salary, divide by 2,000 to get an hourly cost, and price the task. If you can automate it for a quarter of what it costs you every year, that's a 4× return — you do it.
every year, in loaded labor.
Enter your numbers to see the return.
Estimates only — for a real number we measure your actual workflow during the free audit.
No black boxes. You see the workflow before anything gets automated.
Discovery
I go to the gemba — map how the work actually flows today and find where the hours and errors leak.
Design
We agree on the target: what stays human, what gets automated, and the measurable result we're after.
Implementation
I build it, document it, and prove the before/after in real numbers — then hand you a system that runs.
Most automation advice comes from people who've never stood on a plant floor.
I spent years in production operations before I learned to build with AI. So I start where the work actually happens — not in a slide deck. An ops person who learned AI, not a tech person who learned to talk to clients.
Be the first named result.
GembaOps is taking on its first floor partners now. Early clients get founder pricing on the audit — and become the before/after numbers everyone else reads.
Claim a founding audit slotFind your three biggest time-wasters — free.
Book a 20-minute ops audit. We'll walk through where your team is losing hours, and I'll tell you what's worth automating first. No pitch, no obligation.
Book your free ops audit Prefer email? frank@gembaops.com