The traveler and the system disagree
On the floor the job lives on a paper traveler. In the office it lives in the ERP, updated at end of shift. The scheduler works from memory in between, and the customer gets a guess on delivery.
AI consulting · Valparaiso, Indiana
A county seat with a university, a regional hospital and industrial parks along US-30. The companies here passed twenty people years ago. We sit down with all of them and write the plan.
First call is free. Interviews happen at your plant or office.
Valparaiso is Porter County's seat, and it carries more kinds of mid-size company than any town around it. Manufacturers and shops in the industrial parks off US-30, where State Road 49 widens to four lanes on its way south. Medical practices, therapy groups and specialty clinics clustered around the regional hospital. Law, accounting, engineering and insurance firms within a few blocks of the courthouse square. Contractors and property companies working a university town and the subdivisions growing out toward the county line. Most of them passed twenty people years ago, and they show it the same way: the shop floor runs on a paper traveler while the office runs on a system nobody updates until Friday, the practice retypes a referral three times before a patient is seen, the firm's partners approve every invoice by hand.
That is the size the AI Opportunity Assessment is built for, twenty people and up. Over two weeks we sit down with people at every level, from the owner or administrator to the person running the press or the front desk, and follow real work from first contact to paid. Every step that eats hours or causes errors gets tagged and given a number. Then you get the written plan: where the week goes, the opportunity map by impact and effort, a ninety-day roadmap, the math in hours and dollars, and what to build and how. It is yours to keep whether Kadro builds it or your own people do.
Nothing goes in the plan you have not already seen and argued with. Nothing in it requires buying software from us, and if the honest answer is a better spreadsheet, the plan says so. We charge for the thinking. Building is optional. Valparaiso is about forty minutes from us, so the interviews happen at your plant or office, around your shift schedule, inside the first week.
What we tend to find
On the floor the job lives on a paper traveler. In the office it lives in the ERP, updated at end of shift. The scheduler works from memory in between, and the customer gets a guess on delivery.
A referral arrives by fax or portal, gets keyed into scheduling, then into the chart, then into billing. The front desk chases authorizations between calls. In a thirty-person practice that is one full-time job nobody hired for.
Firms around the square bill from time entries partners review by hand, one client at a time. Invoices go out on the tenth, collections start on the twentieth, and cash sits in the gap.
The assessment
The AI Opportunity Assessment runs the same way everywhere: we sit down with the people doing the work, map how a job actually moves, and hand you a written plan for where AI actually helps. Yours to keep, whether we build it or your own people do.
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Kouts and Hebron are twenty minutes south, Merrillville and Crown Point twenty minutes west. The assessment runs the same way in each.
Questions
Yes, that is the middle of the range. Past twenty people, work moves between the floor and the office, and the handoffs are where the hours go. If you are under twenty, book the call anyway. We will tell you straight if two weeks is more than you need.
Thirty to forty-five minutes per interview, somewhere between three and fifteen interviews depending on your size, all inside the first week. The delivery date is set on day one, and you see every finding before it goes in the plan, so nothing surprises you on day fourteen.
Yes. We schedule around the shift, at the plant, and we would rather watch a job move through the shop than hear about it in a conference room. The person running the press usually knows exactly where the hours go, and that is who we want to hear from.
Your next step
Forty-five minutes, free, at your plant or office in Valparaiso. You'll leave knowing the two or three places we'd look first, and whether the assessment is worth your team's time.
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