Free assessment · industrial teams up to 200

Most consultants tell you what's possible.
We tell you what to build.

We interview every person in your industrial operation — operator to COO — in fifteen minutes on their phone. You get a field report with named AI products worth building, hours saved per week, and a four-to-six-week build estimate. If your team blocks off fifteen minutes today, you have the report by EOD.

Run your free pilot →See a sample report
One day end-to-end · 15 min per respondent · no credit card · no sales call required
What you're seeing · three people on the floor all report the same bottleneck — waiting on one manager's approval. Their supervisor and plant manager confirm it when asked. Two tools (the ERP and a paper form) are entangled in it. That pattern becomes one finding in the report.
Field report · approval bottleneckLive
§ The 60-second version

What this is, in one minute.

If you'd rather watch than read — here's the whole pitch on video.

§ 01 / What you actually get

Not a deck. A decision document.

Every claim is anchored to a real quote from a real person on your team. Numbers come from what they told you. Recommendations are specific enough to forward to engineering on Monday.

§ from a recent assessment

A 52-person industrial vacuum-pump manufacturer.

8 days end-to-end
47
quantified findings
218
hrs/wk of friction
3
composite builds proposed
12
non-AI recommendations

Top priority fix picked by 23 of 38 respondents: “Unify the work-order system across SAP and the line spreadsheet.”

If the three composite builds shipped as proposed, the report estimated ~$430K/year in saved labor and a 19-day reduction in average quote-to-close time. They engaged Cirql for the quoting build the week after.

§ four sections from the report itself

This is what each part actually looks like.

§ 0 · top priority fixes

What people would fix first.

  1. i.Unify work-orders across SAP + line spreadsheet
    23 of 38 · 61%
  2. ii.Faster, less error-prone quoting
    9 of 38 · 24%
  3. iii.Better hand-held scanners in the freezer aisle
    4 of 38 · 11%
§ iii · friction log entry

QA sign-off is a single-supervisor bottleneck.

9.1
sev-adj impact
“Every lot waits on Dan. If he's in a meeting, the line sits. I've waited 45 minutes for a sign-off on a lot that took 20 minutes to run.”
— A floor operator
Dread it · 5/532.5 hrs/wk cost · 13 respondents
§ iv · composite build proposal

Quote Engine for Becker.

Composed from 4 friction-log items

Ingests an inbound RFQ email or PDF, looks up the right pump against the configurator, drafts a quote with margin guardrails, routes for approval if >$50K, and emails the finished quote back to the rep within four minutes.

Saves
~21 hrs/wk
Replaces
Steps 2–6 of quoting
Effort
4–6 weeks
§ v · what your team should handle

Buy a second forklift for the back dock.

Equipment · 5 mentions · raised by floor + supervisor

Operators line up an average of 15 minutes per shift waiting on the single forklift. At three shifts × 250 working days, that's ~187 hours per year of pure standing-around. A second unit pays for itself in under six months.

Not a Cirql build. Listed because it scored higher than two of our AI proposals on respondent-impact — and an honest report says so.

The full report adds another 18–22 pages — friction log ranked by severity, the org chart with what each person actually owns, severity heatmap, what's working well, tribal knowledge at risk, hidden stakeholders. See the full sample report →

§ 02 / Vs. hiring a consultant

What you'd pay $80K and wait four months for.

Strategy consultancies sell “AI readiness assessments” for $50K–$150K. Same problem. Very different deliverable.

§ option a

Hire a consultancy.

$50K – $150K · 3–6 months

  • Interviews with 5–8 senior people the partner already knows
  • 60-page PowerPoint deck with an "AI maturity model"
  • Generic recommendations: "Invest in data infrastructure"
  • "Phased roadmap" with effort sized in quarters
  • Engagement extension proposed at the readout
  • You still don't know what to actually build
Cirql
§ option b

Run the pilot.

$0 · one day

  • Interviews with EVERY person — operators, supervisors, plant leaders, exec
  • 15–25 page field report with named products ("Quote Engine for Becker")
  • Specific recommendations: "Build this, replaces steps 2–6 of quoting"
  • Hours saved per week, build effort in weeks, frontier notes on the tech
  • Both AI and non-AI fixes — forklifts and SOPs ranked alongside builds
  • You leave with a list you can email to engineering on Monday

We'd rather you skip the consultant, see what the report turns up, and decide from there. If we got it right, you have a real build candidate. If we got it wrong, you're out one working day — not six figures and a quarter.

§ 03 / How it works

One day. End-to-end.

For an industrial operation up to 200 employees, the full assessment fits inside a single working day. Most teams take 3–5 working days instead — the platform doesn't care.

i.Hour 1

Morning: we provision your campaign.

Send us your company name, admin email, and the team you want interviewed. We spin up your assessment in under an hour, generate per-person invite links, and hand you a distribution kit with copy-paste email + Slack templates ready for an all-hands push.

ii.Hours 1–6

Through the day: your team takes 15-minute interviews.

Each person opens their link, confirms their role, and has a real conversation with an AI that knows their job. Phone or laptop. Pause-and-resume built in. Anonymized by default. If you tell them to finish by 4pm, most do — even at 200 people.

iii.Hour 7

End of day: you get the report.

Click Generate. In under two minutes you have a 15–25 page field report — composite product proposals, an automation shortlist, friction log ranked by severity-adjusted impact, what's working well, tribal knowledge at risk, and the team-handled side too. Print-ready or share via link.

§ 04 / Why it's free

The report is the demo.

Cirql makes money on the builds — Quote Engines, Service Copilots, Schedule Replanners. Not on assessments. The honest version of an AI-strategy sales call is to just show you what we'd actually build, anchored to evidence from your own team.

For industrial operations up to 200 employees, the full assessment is on us. You get the report. If we've done the work right, one of the composite proposals is interesting enough to talk about. If not, you keep the report regardless — same format we sell to enterprises.

Why industrial specifically? It's where the gap between what's possible with current AI and what's actually deployed is widest — and where 15 minutes with each person produces the sharpest signal. Operators know exactly which jobs would benefit from automation; nobody usually asks.

Above 200 employees we'd split the assessment into per-site or per-department campaigns so the report stays specific — tell us in the form and we'll scope it.

§ 05 / Questions

The honest answers.

Genuinely free for industrial teams up to 200 employees. No credit card, no obligation, no sales call required to get the report. The expectation: if a composite proposal in the report looks like something you'd want built, we'd love a conversation. If not, you keep the report and we part friends.

§ 06 / Get started

Run your free pilot.

Two minutes to fill out. Your campaign goes live within the hour during business hours.

Free for industrial teams up to 200.

We'll only use this to set up your pilot. No newsletter, no autoresponder cadence, no forwarding to anyone outside Cirql. If you decide not to proceed, your info gets dropped.