LABELS AND PACKAGING OPERATIONS INTELLIGENCE
Even a well-run converting operation loses time and money in places no one has time to look. The answers are in your MIS, workflow tools and emails, but it's more than anyone can read while the presses run. An AI analyst reads all of it every day and finds the hidden losses. It takes routine office work off your team, so they have time for customers and operations. And before it suggests a change to how you work, it tests that change on your past jobs. You run the plant; GistBot does the looking.
You approve every action. If your team needs something automated that we don't have yet, we build it with you.
STEP 1
30 minutes with the owner or plant manager, then your exports. We map how the plant runs, what holds it back and what's still unclear, and that decides where the analyst starts.
RFQ, estimate, order entry, proof approval, invoicing. Hand-offs, sign-offs and where information arrives late.
Prepress, plates and dies, press scheduling, finishing, inspection, shipping. Queues, changeovers and the bottleneck that sets how much the plant can ship.
Substrate purchasing, roll stock, remnants, overs, waste and customer-owned finished goods.
MIS, PrintOS, accounting, spreadsheets and manual logs. Which decisions each one supports, and which records exist for each flow.
Management's current priorities, past improvement projects and their results, and features already bought but not in use.
STEP 2
Your team spends hours chasing, cross-checking and re-keying. The analyst does the reading and prepares each finding for your approval. The six below are where most plants start. Anything else your plant needs automated, we build with your team.
Artwork, quantity and spec changes after proof approval that never reached the invoice.
A change-charge summary for each job, with the proof, revision history and your terms.
Substrate, ink and liner costs moved. The repeat price did not.
A cost comparison for each repeat job and a price change with the numbers behind it.
Blanket-order goods sitting in the warehouse beyond the agreed period.
For each account: a release schedule, extension terms or a settlement figure.
A different substrate, roll size or finishing method could hit the price and still hold margin.
A costed alternative spec, with its margin and the approvals it needs.
Specs, plate and die history, material pricing and customer rules pulled before anyone can quote.
A first-pass estimate from your own rules, with missing specs flagged.
Incomplete plate and die requests and supplier quotes that cannot be compared.
Complete requests and a supplier comparison on spec, price, freight and lead time.
Tell us the routine that eats your team's week. We write down what starts it, what it needs, what you should get back and where you approve it. Then we build it on your data and add it to your analyst's skills. Requests from one plant become tools for the next.
Typical first findings, not a fixed menu. As each one closes, we report money recovered, margin kept, costs avoided and hours saved, separately.
STEP 3
We take a jobs basket, a fixed set of your recent jobs with their costs and delivery commitments, and run each possible change against it. If a change comes out ahead, we propose it with a plan to try it. If not, we drop it.
A credit for a wider delivery window when it lets you combine shipments or gang jobs. Checks: does the saving beat the credit and the risk to service?
Send repeat jobs that qualify to a spare inspection rewinder. Checks: is there staff to run it, and can the freed hours be sold?
Print to master rolls and finish to order. Checks: who takes the loss if stock goes obsolete, and does every release still ship on time?
Approved uses for remnants; layouts shifted so a known edge defect falls in the trim. Checks: how much can you actually recover after handling and re-approval?
Larger-diameter rolls on jobs that can take them. Checks: which jobs really benefit once every step is counted, rewinder included?
In-house versus a trade finisher or preconverted stock. Checks: do waste and bottleneck savings beat the extra cost and freight?
These are examples. We propose nothing until it has been tested on your jobs basket.
LATER
Most growth comes from accounts you already serve. The analyst reads your order history every week and flags what a good salesperson would act on.
Six-week reorders now at ten. You get: a reorder watch list with expected date, last spec and price, and a proposal the CSR can send.
Sleeves, pouches or variable-data work you could match. You get: a package proposal with costs based on your equipment.
Hours open next month; accounts due. You get: accounts and jobs to fill the gap, with offer price and margin.
Nothing goes to a customer until your sales team approves it.
WHO WE ARE
An independent AI company. We build AI systems that come up with many possible answers to a problem, test each against the data, and keep only what holds up. This page applies that approach to converting plants.
TRACK RECORD
InnoCentive is where global manufacturers and foundations post real problems and pay only for solutions that pass expert review. Our system has won several prizes there, including in a Gates Foundation-backed agriculture challenge.
LEADERSHIP
Second-time founder, a decade building AI companies. Co-founded Unbotify, acquired by Adjust in 2019.
HOW TO START
We agree what we'll cover and how your data is kept confidential in the first 30 minutes. The analyst starts the day the data arrives.
Book the discoverycontact@gistbot.ai
Standard exports from your MIS, ERP or accounting system, under a mutual NDA. Nothing to connect to get started.
You approve every customer email, commitment and operating change before it happens.