Operational AI for asset-heavy businesses

Make the physical world run smarter.

We deploy AI systems for procurement, quotations, inspections, permits, and collections—on top of the tools you already use.

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One workflow. One target metric. No rip-and-replace.
Industrial operations across the sectors Zanarkand serves
Physical operationsManufacturing floors
01Procurement02Quotations03Inspections04Permits05Collections
Systems we deploy

Start where friction costs money.

Five repeatable systems. Each starts with the operational result—not the technology.

01
Commercial operations

Procurement agent

Buy better, with every quote and exception in view.

Compare vendors, normalize bids, flag leakage, and route the final decision to the purchasing owner.

  • Sourcing cycle time
  • Purchase-price variance
  • Leakage avoided
02
Revenue operations

Quotation agent

Turn requirements into accurate quotes before the opportunity cools.

Assemble scope, pricing, precedent, and approval rules while keeping a human accountable for margin.

  • Quote turnaround
  • Win rate
  • Gross margin
03
Vision + augmented work

Inspection copilot

Move from field evidence to corrective action faster.

Turn images, video, notes, and standards into findings, priorities, and controlled follow-up.

  • Inspection-to-action time
  • Rework avoided
  • Defect closure
04
Document operations

Permit agent

Prepare complete submissions and keep approvals moving.

Extract requirements, populate forms, validate evidence, and track every outstanding response.

  • First-pass acceptance
  • Days to approval
  • Backlog cleared
05
Cash operations

Collections agent

Pursue the right receivable before cash gets trapped.

Monitor aging, assemble evidence, draft follow-ups, and escalate exceptions to the account owner.

  • DSO
  • Overdue cash recovered
  • Collector hours
Built around the operation

Different context. The same economic discipline.

Choose a sector to see four systems we would evaluate first.

Mining operations
Mining
Operating contextMine operator
Primary economic lensMargin per tonne
01Procurement agent

Contractor bid comparison

Normalize commercial and technical bids before award.

  • Sourcing cycle
  • Unit-cost variance
02Vision + field

Site inspection copilot

Turn images and notes into prioritized corrective action.

  • Action time
  • Repeat defects
03Permit agent

Regulatory submissions

Validate evidence before forms enter the approval queue.

  • First-pass rate
  • Days to approval
04Cost-control agent

Contractor invoice verification

Match claimed work to approvals and operating evidence.

  • Leakage detected
  • Processing time
Works with your stack

Your systems stay. The operation gets smarter.

We begin with controlled access and deploy above the tools your teams already trust.

Existing operational dataSAP / ERPEmailDocumentsCamerasSensorsAccounting
Operational AI systemsProcurementQuotationsInspectionsPermitsCollections
Read-only startPrivate by designHuman approval
Connects to what already runs the operation

No rebuild. No replacement. Controlled access first.

Deployment pathBound the risk. Prove the value.

Start with one costly workflow.

Build an operation that gets smarter.

DAYS 1–2

Find the constraint

Map one recurring decision, establish the baseline, and choose the metric that matters.

BY DAY 7

Prove the workflow

Test a working system on real operational data with the people who own the result.

AFTER PROOF

Deploy into operations

Connect the controls, approvals, and integrations required to run it safely.

SYSTEM BY SYSTEM

Compound intelligence

Retain approved context, rules, and evaluations so the next system starts smarter.

One workflowOne deploymentOperational intelligence
An industrial operator reviews field evidence beside operating equipment at dusk

The system should know how the operation actually runs.

Documents, images, approvals, commercial history, and field evidence become faster decisions—with an accountable operator still in control.

Proof

Systems that changed the operating cadence.

Prior work proves delivery speed and AI system judgment. Your first operational proof validates the workflow baseline.

Goldman Sachs

AI strategy and training

Retrained 1,000+ developers and supported AI strategy across treasury, controllers, legal, and document QA workflows.

  • 1,000+ developers retrained
  • Document QA: 3 mo → 2 wks
  • 4 AI solutions built
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Lightbulb

AI training generator

Dense manuals and SOPs turned into publishable courses with lessons, quizzes, assessments, and simulations.

  • Course creation: 6 wks → 20 mins
  • 40,000 SOPs
Case study
YOYABA

Client intelligence platform

Slack, HubSpot, Airtable, and meeting data turned into live client risk flags and bi-weekly account intelligence.

  • QBR prep: 4–6 hrs → automated
  • 6-day prototype
Case study
60x AI BrainS&P 500 AI tracker
  • 500 companies tracked
  • Realtime signal monitoring
Prosus / ToqiLife assistant infrastructure
  • Production handover: 3 months
  • 5,000-user scale
ZalosAI PowerPoint agent
  • Deck draft: 1 hr → minutes
  • Editable PPTX output

Kenji brings deep AI fluency, but what stands out most is his judgment. He knows which problems are worth solving, and he cares enough to get them right.

Your AI Partner

Keep the business current as AI moves.

Models, tools, regulations, and unit economics will keep changing. We stay close to the systems we deploy, translate what matters, and improve the operation without turning every advance into a new transformation project.

An industrial site at dusk with connected routes between physical assets
Operational context / liveModels · data · controls

AI will not stand still. Your operating advantage should not either.

A long-term AI partner, not a one-off prototype team.
01

See what changed

Review the material shifts in models, infrastructure, deployment patterns, and governance.

02

Make it useful

Test what earns a place in your operation against the outcome, evidence, and controls you already own.

03

Keep compounding

Refresh the workflow, train the team, and use every approved improvement as a stronger starting point.

Buying questions

What operators need to know.

01Do we have to replace our current systems?

No. We begin above your existing ERP, documents, communications, cameras, and operating tools. Replacement is never the default assumption.

02How do you decide which workflow comes first?

We look for a recurring decision with an owned baseline, accessible evidence, a clear approval path, and enough economic consequence to justify deployment.

03Can sensitive operational data stay controlled?

Yes. Access, hosting, retention, review, and write-back controls are designed around the workflow. Early proofs can begin with exports or read-only access.

04Will an agent act without human approval?

Not by default. High-consequence actions remain drafted, reviewed, and approved by the accountable operator until the control case earns a wider boundary.

05What do we own?

The agreed workflow assets, context, evaluation rules, integrations, and deployed system defined in the engagement—not a dependency on unexplained prompts.

Additional services

More ways to build an advantage.

When the right answer reaches beyond one workflow, we can design and deliver the underlying AI capability too.

Edge computer, machine vision camera, lidar sensor, and field equipment on an industrial workbench
Capability atlasThe equipment behind the intelligence.Collect · deploy · learn
01

Local model deployment

Run suitable language and vision models inside the environment, network, and control boundary your operation requires.

02

Digital twins

Create living operational models that connect assets, constraints, scenarios, and decisions before they play out in the field.

03

Custom machine learning models

Build models around the signals, outcomes, and edge cases that generic software cannot learn for you.

04

Web scraping and data pipelines

Collect, normalize, and maintain external and internal data so agents work from current, usable evidence.

05

AI cost reduction

Reroute, cache, and right-size inference to reduce AI costs by up to 90% where workload and architecture support it.

06

Custom AI training

Train teams, operators, and leaders to use new AI systems with better judgment, adoption, and control.

07

Data collection

Design the document, field, image, sensor, and human-feedback loops that make an AI system more useful over time.

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