The reliable spine
The non-AI spine is the source-linked workflow: clean records, rules, calculations, integrations, exception queues, approvals and reporting for Approval workflows.
Metals, Foundries & Steel
Approval workflows
Sign-offs (a scrap purchase at a rate, a credit limit for a dealer or a supplier, a payment, an off-rate concession, a price change, a PPAP submission) run on phone calls and "ask the boss", stall when the approver travels, and happen with no record of who said yes or why. In a trading business especially, an unapproved rate or credit extension is a direct loss.
Who has it
Across all segments for purchase and payment sign-offs, and sharpest for scrap and metal traders (credit and rate approvals on every deal), re-rolling mills (dealer credit and price), forging and heat-treatment units (PPAP and concession sign-offs) and fabrication shops (quote and concession approvals).
What we build
Defined approval rules (who signs what, at which limit), the request routed to the right approver with the figures and context attached (this supplier's rate history, this dealer's overdue balance), escalation if it sits too long, and a full record of every decision.
What is automated, where AI helps, who signs off
Automation for the routine. A person on every decision that matters.
Where AI helps
AI is limited to bounded reading, extraction, matching, clustering or drafting from the firm's own data for Approval workflows; it never owns the number, the approval, the promise or the decision.
Who signs off
A named person signs off anything touching money, stock, a customer promise, a regulated filing, a payment, a price, a credit decision or a people decision.
What changes day to day
Every consequential decision has a rule, an approver and a record; the owner stops being a bottleneck on the routine and blind on the exceptional. Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Illustrative outcome
Every consequential decision has a rule, an approver and a record; the owner stops being a bottleneck on the routine and blind on the exceptional. Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Path to the build
How this one gets built.
Book a free 60-minute call, then a free Blueprint on the firm's own records. Deep-dive and build, followed by run and govern so the workflow keeps paying back.
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