Buckhorn AI for manufacturers
Know your margins by job and product. Without a night of spreadsheets.
Materials, work in progress, labor and the books each hold part of the answer. Ask Buckhorn AI across all of them in plain English, from the floor or the office.
$500 per seat per month, $2,000 monthly company minimum, 12-month term, auto-renews.
Sound familiar?
The answers are in your systems. Getting them out takes all evening.
Margins you can’t see by job
The P&L says how the month went, not which products or orders made the money.
Inventory and WIP that never tie out
Raw materials, work in progress and finished goods in three places, none agreeing with the books.
Answers that wait for month end
By the time the numbers are ready, the jobs they describe are long shipped.
What you could ask
Plain-English questions, answered from your own systems
Examples of what an owner in your business asks. Actual answers depend on the systems connected, the data in them and your team’s permissions.
- “Which products lost margin this quarter, and was it material cost or labor?”
- “What raw materials are we short for the orders due in the next two weeks?”
From our demo of a fictional business in your industry:
Manufacturer · One plant, sold through dealers
Harrowgate Steelworks Co.
Gates, panels and trailer parts, built in one plant
You ask
“Can we build Tallgrass’s 60 gates by 10/30, and what do we run short of?”
You get
46 of the 12 ft gates are in the yard, so 14 to build: 42 sticks of 1-5/8" tube (120 on hand), 28 hinge kits, 14 latch kits and 0.7 box of green powder. Building them leaves 78 sticks, under the 150 reorder point, the same month Ardent’s quote raises that tube 7.0%.
A fictional company with sample numbers, on the real product and real connectors.
An owner, in his own words
An evening back, in his words
Jesse Wickel runs Wickel Tire Pros and uses Buckhorn AI on his own business. His industry is tires; the questions in yours are different. What he describes is what we set out to build for you.
His evening back
“if I didn't have Buckhorn AI, I would've sat in the office till 8:00 or 9:00 last night. … with Buckhorn AI, I got so much more done yesterday that at six o'clock I was like, "Well, I guess I'll go watch my daughter. I don't have anything to do." So, so I went and watched her.”
Knowing what to stock
“I don't know what to stock. You're just guessing. I don't have to guess anymore.”
See what your own systems would tell you.
Book a callHow it works
Connected to what you already run
We build your connections
Your books, inventory, operations software and email - each connection built and managed by us.
You ask in plain English
One question can reach every system at once, from a desk or a phone.
You approve what changes
Lookups are read-only. Anything that writes or sends is a draft you approve first.
Pricing
Plain pricing
$500 per seat per month, $2,000 monthly company minimum, 12-month term, auto-renews.
Rather have someone run the numbers with you? See Buckhorn Advisory →
Book a call
See it on your own systems
Tell us what you run. We’ll set up a call and walk through the questions you ask every week.