MANUFACTURING · DISTRIBUTION · MEAT & SEAFOOD

AI Automation for Meat & Seafood.

Harmony digitizes paper cutting tests and cooler logs, reconciles catch weights automatically, prices from the USDA markets daily, and puts AI on your AR and traceability. One AI-native operating system over everything: your floor, your machines, and the software you already run. No rip-and-replace.

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THE PROCESS

First a digital transformation. Then an AI transformation.

FIG. 01 · THE TWO ARCS

ARC 1 · DIGITAL

ARC 2 · AI

Data engineering is the work.AI is what it unlocks.

THE PHASED ROLLOUT

Three phases of a digital and AI transformation.

PHASE 01

PHASE 1

Lay the Data Foundation · Digitization

Every pen-and-paper record digitized at the station, every software system connected, and all of the data unified into one live layer. The digital transformation starts here.

PHASE 02

PHASE 2

Production & Operations Scale

Factory operations turn proactive: live sensors and machine data, the AI scheduling board, predictive maintenance before failure.

PHASE 03

PHASE 3

AI-Native Operations

Agents across the floor and the back office act on the live layer: quality signals, reports, copilots. Humans approve.

AI USE CASES

Twelve ways the AI layer earns its keep.

Index · 10 use cases

U1

Paperwork Digitization

Use case 01 · PEN, PAPER & EXCEL

Problem. Paper cutting tests at the block, cooler temp logs walked on a clipboard, catch-weight reconciliation sheets rebuilt in Excel days after the product shipped.

Harmony AI Solution. Captured once at the block and the dock on tablets. AI flags out-of-range entries the moment they are written.

U2

AI Search Across All Data

Use case 02 · AI SEARCH

Problem. "What's this account's margin trend?" "Which lots shipped to that customer?" means an ERP export, an inbox dig, and a call to the sales rep.

Harmony AI Solution. Answered in seconds with sources shown, across the ERP, inboxes, and SKU history. Department-scoped agents for sales, purchasing, and AR.

U3

AI Production Scheduling

Use case 03 · AI SCHEDULING & ROUTING

Problem. Order cutoffs, cutting-room capacity, truck capacity, and delivery windows juggled by hand every afternoon, and re-juggled when the late orders land.

Harmony AI Solution. AI scheduling sequences orders and routes against inventory, capacity, and delivery windows, and proposes the per-stop plan. The router stays in charge and approves.

U4

Live Machine Data

Use case 04 · LIVE EQUIPMENT DATA

Problem. Weights on a printout, cooler temps on a clipboard, dock status by shouting across the warehouse.

Harmony AI Solution. Direct PLC and sensor connections, Allen-Bradley/Rockwell, Siemens, Omron, or any other brand, via OPC UA or whatever the equipment speaks.

U5

AI Workflow Automation

Use case 05 · CATCH-WEIGHT RECONCILIATION

Problem. Nominal weights in the ERP, actual weights on the labels, and the gap reconciled on Excel sheets days later. Give-away surfaces at month end, if at all.

Harmony AI Solution. Actual weights captured at the station flow straight into the AI layer. Bought versus cut versus shipped reconciles continuously, and the gap is flagged the day it opens.

U6

Yield Optimization

Use case 06 · CUTTING-ROOM YIELD

Problem. Cutting tests tallied on paper after the fact. A drift in yield runs for weeks before anyone sees it, and your largest input cost drifts with it.

Harmony AI Solution. Yield tracked live by primal and by cutter. ML flags the drift in-line and signals the cutting floor the same shift, not at month end.

U7

Back-Office AI Automations

Use case 07 · FULL-SCOPE AI AGENTS · FINANCE, SALES, PROCUREMENT, LOGISTICS

Problem. The aging lands daily as thousands of rows. Collectors work it top-down from memory.

Harmony AI Solution. Full-scope AI agents run the workflows across financial, sales, procurement, and logistics: deductions and AR worked automatically, POs parsed from the inbox, and reports written before the morning meeting.

Scope. Financials, sales, procurement, and logistics automations, in the same platform.

U8

Churn Detection

Use case 08 · CHURN DETECTION

Problem. A customer's orders shrink case by case, SKU by SKU. By the time the rolling average shows it, the business has already moved to a competitor.

Harmony AI Solution. ML watches case and SKU-level erosion and flags at-risk accounts weeks ahead of the rolling average, with the pattern shown, so the rep calls while the account is still winnable.

U9

Inventory + Shortage Intelligence

Use case 09 · INVENTORY & ROTATION

Problem. Counts drift across dry, cool, and frozen. Short-dated product is found when a picker finds it.

Harmony AI Solution. An AI-maintained true-stock layer across dry, cool, and frozen. Short-dated lots flagged before they become shrink.

U10

RFID + Serial Genealogy

Use case 10 · HACCP & TRACEABILITY

Problem. A traceback request triggers a day of binders, label rolls, and phone calls, with the clock running and a customer waiting.

Harmony AI Solution. Lots captured at receiving, storage, pick, and delivery. One-up/one-back traceback answers in seconds, with the records attached in formats your auditor recognizes.

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YOUR LIKELY STACK

The systems and machines we meet on your floor.

SYSTEMS

NetSuiteAptean / AFSProduce ProNECS entréeSageHomegrown AS/400-era ERPsOmnitracs / RoadnetDescartes routingWMSExcelCustom appsLocal servers

MACHINES

Floor and bench scalesCatch-weight stationsBarcode scannersCooler and freezer temperature sensorsDock equipmentLabel printers

You might run any of these. Or none of them. Harmony is software and hardware agnostic, and we connect live machine data from any PLC brand and any software or custom app.

AI AGENTS

Agents that watch, flag, and act. Humans decide.

Catch-Weight Reconciler

Cutting Yield Watch

Cooler Temp Sentinel

HACCP Trace Agent

USDA Price-to-Cost Agent

AR Collections Copilot

Account Churn Watch

Route Profit Agent

Morning Report Writer

Custom Agents, built for your floor and back office

THE PATTERN WE SEE

The problems we see on every meat & seafood floor, and why they happen.

The ERP, routing, and catch-weight stations never connect

The same customer is named three different ways across the AS/400, the WMS, and the inbox.

Cutting tests and cooler logs are on paper

Cutting tests are written at the block, cooler temps are walked on a clipboard, and catch-weight reconciliation is rebuilt in Excel days after the product ships.

AR aging is thousands of rows, worked from memory

Invoices are keyed by hand, and collections run on memory and whoever shouts loudest.

Margin loss shows up at month end

Commodity markets move daily while price sheets lag a week, yield drift surfaces at month end, and a shrinking account shows up only when it stops ordering.

The back office runs on manual work

POs are typed in from emails, invoices keyed into the ERP, deductions and AR worked from spreadsheets, and reports built by hand before the morning meeting.

THE PILOT

$15–20K. 4–6 weeks. One painful problem.

We pick one specific pain point, send engineers to live in your factory for 4–6 weeks, and solve it. One-time payment, working software by week 3, and no obligation to go further. If you do, you choose the modules that you like.

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QUESTIONS, ANSWERED

Can you actually handle catch weights?

Yes. Actual weights captured at the scale and the catch-weight station flow directly into the AI layer, so bought versus cut versus shipped reconciles continuously instead of on an Excel sheet days later. Nominal-versus-actual gaps and give-away are flagged the day they open.

Does this cover HACCP and lot traceback?

One-up/one-back lot capture goes in at receiving, storage, pick, and delivery as part of the digital transformation. Traceback that used to take a day of binders and phone calls answers in seconds, with records kept in formats your auditor recognizes.

Do you replace our ERP or routing software?

Additive by default. The AI layer sits on top of what you already run, and when a system deserves to be replaced, we replace it. NetSuite, Aptean, Produce Pro, NECS entrée, Sage, a homegrown AS/400-era ERP, Omnitracs or Descartes routing: software and hardware agnostic. First a digital transformation. Then an AI transformation.

How does the AI get our data?

Read-only connections, scheduled exports, or on-prem. Security is reviewed together in scoping. Read-only pilots: every agent proposes, a person approves. Data engineering is the work. AI is what it unlocks.

Do you work remotely?

No. We always start a pilot in person and on-site, with forward-deployed engineers on your floor. Very rarely do we do anything remotely.

What does it cost after the pilot?

A per-facility annual platform: unlimited seats, no user fees, hardware at cost. The pilot itself is $15-20K over 4-6 weeks against one painful problem, with working software by week 3.

When every pound and every account is reconciled in real time, margin loss is caught the day it starts.

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ADJACENT FLOORS WE RUN

Produce →Dairy →Bakery Ingredients →Bakery & Snacks →