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INSART · Capabilities & Engagement Deck · 2026

AI Powerhouse
by INSART.

We engineer AI into how industrial businesses already run today — to cut costs, boost output, and tighten control of what's happening on the floor.

Founded 1993 · 33 years
Engineers ~80 across 4 countries
HQ Boca Raton, FL · US
Free proposal 4 pages · 5 business days

The shift

In 18 months,
AI moved from experiment to expectation.

78%

of industrial leaders now report active AI deployment in at least one production workflow — up from 23% in 2024. The companies that win this decade aren't the ones with the best AI strategy. They're the ones that shipped AI into operations first.

Source: McKinsey Global Survey on AI · 2026

The gap

Most industrial businesses are
stuck at the pilot stage.

Vendors sold them dashboards. Consultants sold them strategy decks. Both stopped before AI actually changed how the floor runs. INSART picks up where they leave off.

01 · The dashboard problem

"We have data. We can't act on it."

Investments in BI tools and IoT sensors that produce reports nobody reads — and certainly don't change Tuesday's production schedule.

02 · The slide-deck problem

"We have a strategy. Nothing shipped."

Six months and $400K spent on a roadmap from a Big Four firm. Zero AI in production. Operations team never met the consultants.

03 · The vendor problem

"We bought the tool. It doesn't fit."

A best-in-class AI platform that can't read the MES, won't talk to the ERP, and treats every plant the same. Shelfware in 90 days.

Who we are

33 years building software
that runs real businesses.

INSART has spent three decades shipping production systems for some of the most regulated, demanding industries on earth. Our fintech work runs payments, lending, and trading at scale. We brought that same engineering discipline to industrial AI.

  • Founded 1993 · US-incorporated, Boca Raton FL · ~80 engineers across Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and Uruguay
  • Long-term partners · Franklin Templeton, iCapital, Accel KKR portfolio companies, Bonterra, Equifax
  • Built on AWS, Anthropic, Google Cloud · official partner status with the platforms we deploy on
  • $150M+ raised by INSART-built portfolio companies — we know how to ship things investors and operators trust
33yrs Engineering tenure
80+ Engineers on staff
35+ Portfolio companies built
$150M Raised by our builds
4 Delivery countries
100% In-house engineering

The opening offer

The AI Plan.
Free. 4 pages. 5 days.

A focused, no-fluff document that maps exactly where AI pays for itself in your operation — and what it would take to ship it. Built specifically for your business, not a templated “industry brief.”

Page 01

Where the money is

Top 3 AI opportunities in your operation, ranked by 12-month ROI and implementation risk.

Page 02

What we'd build

Concrete architecture for the highest-leverage opportunity — system diagram, integrations, data sources.

Page 03

How we'd ship it

Phased rollout plan, team composition, week-by-week milestones to first production pilot.

Page 04

What it costs

Honest budget bands, risks called out, and what success looks like at 30 / 90 / 180 days.

No NDA required to receive it. No commitment after. If we're not the right fit, you keep the plan.

What we do

Three things. Done well.

We don't sell “AI transformation.” We do the three things that turn AI investments into operational outcomes.

Pillar 01

Identify

Walk the floor, talk to operators, sit in the war room. We find the workflows where AI moves the needle — and the ones it doesn't.

Workflow mapping · Data audit · ROI modeling · Risk scoring

Pillar 02

Build

Production-grade engineering, not POCs. Vision systems, predictive models, agent workflows that ship and stay shipped.

Computer vision · Predictive ML · LLM agents · Workflow orchestration

Pillar 03

Integrate

Wire it into your MES, ERP, WMS, SCADA, telemetry — wherever the data and the decisions actually live. No shelfware.

SAP / Oracle / NetSuite · MES / SCADA · Custom legacy · API + event streams

How an engagement runs

From first call to first pilot in 9 weeks.

We don't start with research phases that bill for months. We bring engineers into your operation in week one and ship production code by week nine.

Weeks 0 – 1

Discovery

Site visit, system access, and data audit. We meet operators on shift, not just executives in conference rooms.

Weeks 2 – 3

Plan & align

4-page proposal becomes a signed scope with named integration points, success metrics, and stage gates.

Weeks 4 – 8

Build

Engineering team embedded with your data and your stack. Weekly demos. Monthly steering reviews.

Week 9+

Pilot & scale

First production pilot live on one line / one site / one fleet. Then we scale across the rest of the operation.

Capabilities

What we ship into production.

Not a theoretical capability list. These are systems we have running today across our portfolio.

CV

Computer vision

Defect detection, inventory ID, safety monitoring. Edge or cloud, real-time or batch.

PD

Predictive maintenance

Vibration, thermal, acoustic, telemetry → ranked work queue for mechanics.

QC

Quality & QC

Inline vision QC, statistical control, automated batch traceability for audits.

DM

Demand & planning

Forecasting, S&OP automation, dynamic routing, inventory optimization.

AG

Agent workflows

LLM-powered automation: tickets, reports, exception handling, supplier comms.

RT

Routing & ops

Fleet routing, pit routing, line scheduling — anywhere a sequencing problem lives.

DA

Data & integration

ETL pipelines, MES/ERP/SCADA bridges, event streams, and the boring plumbing that makes the rest work.

IA

Intelligent automation

RPA + ML hybrid for back-office workflows: invoicing, claims, compliance, scheduling.

OB

Operator-facing tools

Mobile, tablet, and floor-display interfaces designed for shift workers, not analysts.

The stack

Best-in-class platforms,
fit-for-purpose to your stack.

We are platform-agnostic with strong opinions. We pick what works for your data residency, latency, and compliance — not what wins us a partner discount.

LLMs

Anthropic Claude · OpenAI · Mistral · Google Gemini · Open-source (Llama, Qwen) for on-prem.

Vision

YOLO · Roboflow · OpenCV · Custom PyTorch · Edge inference on Jetson / Coral.

ML / Data

PyTorch · scikit-learn · LightGBM · Polars · DuckDB · Databricks · Snowflake.

Cloud

AWS (primary partner) · Google Cloud · Azure · On-prem & air-gapped where required.

Orchestration

LangGraph · Temporal · Airflow · Dagster · Custom event-driven pipelines.

App layer

Next.js · React Native · Flutter · FastAPI · NestJS · Custom legacy bridges.

ERP / MES

SAP · Oracle NetSuite · Microsoft Dynamics · Plex · Ignition · Custom MES.

Observability

Datadog · Grafana · Sentry · Custom drift / model monitoring dashboards.

Industries

Operations-heavy businesses
where AI moves the bottom line.

If your business has plants, fleets, fields, or facilities — and margin comes from execution, not branding — we know your pain.

Manufacturing Metallurgy & Steel Agriculture Logistics & Distribution Food Production Mining Oil & Gas Construction Energy & Utilities Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Pulp & Paper Cement & Aggregates Aerospace Automotive Heavy Machinery Maritime & Shipping Warehousing Forestry & Lumber Dairy & Beverages

"INSART's team didn't ask us what AI we wanted. They asked where we lose money on a Tuesday. That's the difference."

VP Operations · North American steel processor

Case study · 01 of 03

Four plants. One truth
for every ton on the floor.

Metallurgy · Cold rolling & coil logistics

AI-assisted coil ID, yard reconciliation, exception routing

A North American steel service center stopped fighting spreadsheets and reclaimed floor time. Computer vision + ERP automation across four plants — planners now trust the WMS.

$2.4M Avoided / year
18k Hours saved / Q
41% Fewer variances
9wks To first pilot

Case study · 02 of 03

320+ lines.
One ranked queue for mechanics.

Manufacturing · Predictive maintenance

Vibration, temperature, MES → one prioritized work queue

Multi-line manufacturer reduced unplanned downtime and stopped firefighting. Mechanics now work from a model-ranked priority list, not a noisy alarm board.

37% Less unplanned downtime
$3.1M Annualized savings
320+ Lines monitored
11wks To first pilot

Case study · 03 of 03

Regional LTL fleet.
Live-traffic routing that holds up to dock reality.

Logistics · LTL routing & dispatch

AI-sequenced routes vs traffic, dwell time, dock constraints

A regional carrier replaced static manifest planning with adaptive sequencing. Fewer missed windows, less fuel, calmer dispatchers.

14% Lower fuel cost
28% Fewer missed windows
6min Avg dwell saved / stop
7wks To first pilot

Outcomes

What an INSART engagement
actually delivers.

Composite outcomes from the case studies above. Your numbers will be different — but the pattern of savings, speed, and adoption holds.

$2 – 5M Annualized savings · year 1
7 – 12wks To first production pilot
30 – 45% Fewer exception events
~80% Operator adoption · pilot 1

Before INSART

  • Dashboards nobody acts on; KPIs lag reality by days
  • Investments in AI tools that don't fit existing systems
  • Strategy decks from consultants — no shipped code
  • Operators still rely on tribal knowledge and spreadsheets

After INSART

  • AI in production on the floor — not in pilot purgatory
  • One source of truth across MES, ERP, and operator tools
  • Decisions made in minutes that used to take days
  • Engineering team trained to extend and own the system

Engagement model

Two ways to start.
One way to scale.

Most engagements start with a focused pilot to prove ROI on one workflow. From there, we scale across plants, lines, or regions.

Discovery sprint
$0
5 business days · The free 4-page proposal
  • 2x discovery interviews with your operations leadership
  • Async review of available data & system documentation
  • Top 3 AI opportunities ranked by ROI
  • Architecture & rollout sketch for #1
  • Honest budget bands · no NDA required

Goal: a clear go / no-go on the highest-leverage opportunity.

Pilot engagement
$80k – $220k
8 – 12 weeks · Production pilot on one line / site / fleet
  • Embedded engineering pod (3 – 5 senior engineers)
  • Architecture, build, integration, and pilot deployment
  • Weekly demos · monthly steering reviews
  • Operator training & runbook handover
  • Fixed-fee with named milestones — no T&M surprises

Goal: one workflow live in production with measured ROI.

Scale phase (post-pilot) is scoped against the actual deployment surface — typically $400k – $1.5M / year for multi-site rollouts.

Why INSART

Engineering shop, with the
discipline of a consulting firm.

Most teams pick one or the other. We deliberately built the firm to be both — strategic enough to scope honestly, technical enough to ship.

 
Big Four / strategy
INSART
Time to first shipped code
3 – 6 months
3 – 4 weeks
Engineers vs slide-makers
~10% engineers
100% engineering
Integration with your stack
"Out of scope"
Day-one priority
Pricing model
T&M, blended rates
Fixed-fee milestones
Team continuity
Rotating partners
Same team start to finish
Operator-facing tools
"You'll need a vendor"
We build them
Industrial domain depth
Cross-vertical generalists
Operations engineers on staff

Next steps

Where would AI
pay for itself in your operation?

Two ways to find out — both start the same call.