Operational intelligence
The truth about your operation, around the clock.
An analyst, a data scientist and a project manager that never go home. VERUS watches your ERP, maintenance, HR and CRM data all day, every day, finds what’s going wrong and where the money is, and keeps the fixes on track.
Good morning! Here’s what I found.
VERUS found
- ScrapWork center HB03: $24,421 in scrap in March, against a usual $10,705.
- On timeFour customers below 85% on time last week. One at 33%.
- CustomerThe largest customer: no call, visit or email in 107 days.
On the demonstration group, before anyone asked a question.
Read-only
It cannot change your systems.
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Inside your network
Your data stays on your machine.
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AI optional
Turn it off and it all still runs.
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Shows its work
Every number says where it came from.
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What it does
Three jobs, done all day, every day
It does the reporting your people build by hand today, and points at the processes that need fixing. No new system to feed.
The analyst
Does the daily reporting, so nobody has to build it.
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- Yesterday's numbers by line and department, against the same day last week, on one page every morning.
- Dashboards for each job: the plant manager's plant, the owner's companies side by side.
- Plain answers to questions, with the number, how it was calculated and how current the data is.
- Your own documents searched too: the quality manual answers, with the page it came from.
The data scientist
Watches everything, all day and all night, for what has changed.
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- Every line, machine, customer and supplier watched for spikes, slow drifts and early warnings.
- Before a watch is switched on, it is tested against the past year, so you see what it would have caught.
- Need to dig deeper? Build your own agent in one sentence, run it once or on a schedule, and share it with your team.
- Scrap and downtime looked at again every 15 minutes as the data lands: a work center having its worst day in six months is flagged while the shift can still act.
- Bad data called out: catch-all reason codes, promise dates changed after shipping.
- Findings ranked by what they cost in dollars where that can be measured, with outside prices such as steel and resin brought in where they touch your costs.
The project manager
Keeps the fixes on track until they are done.
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- A finding becomes a plan with steps, owners and due dates.
- The plan carries the measure it will be judged by, taken when the plan is accepted.
- On the review date it measures again and says whether the plan worked.
- Open plans show up in the morning brief until they are closed.
What it catches
Found before anyone asked a question
On the demonstration portfolio: three manufacturers, three years of records. Two of these are problems in the data itself, which sit under every report built on it. VERUS calls those out first.
$24,421
in scrap at one work center in March, against a usual $10,705
33%
on time for one customer last week; four customers were below 85%
107 days
since anyone called, visited or emailed the largest customer at one company
1,252
order lines whose promise date was moved to the ship date after shipping, so on time looked better than it was
50%
of all downtime booked to one catch-all reason code, so the breakdown by reason means little
1 month
raised in a year by the scrap-against-steel agent: the one the market didn't explain
See it
Two minutes inside the real product
Told by VERUS himself: a plant manager’s morning, an agent described in one sentence, and the owner’s view.
Take a closer look. These are the real screens.
Yesterday, what crossed a line, and the plans under way, on one page before the first meeting.
Less work, not more
Manage by exception, not by meeting
Only what crossed a line
VERUS keeps the numbers current all day, and its agents look again as new data lands, so a bad day is flagged while the shift can still act. Everything else needs no meeting to review.
Works with what you have
It reads the systems you already have, where they are. Nothing to move, nothing new to feed, no data entry.
It finds the broken processes
Promise dates changed after shipping, a catch-all reason code, one shift coding scrap its own way. Fix the process, not the report.
The outside world, every morning
Prices for your key materials, industrial production, energy, rates and the trade news that names your materials, customers or competitors. It separates what the market did from what you did.
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Setting it up
Plugs into the systems you already run
I work out the rest myself. I only ask what I can’t.
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Connect
Give it the address and a read-only login. ERP, MES, maintenance, quality, warehouse, HR, CRM, your data warehouse, spreadsheets: if it has a database, an API or exports files, VERUS can read it.
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It maps itself
It works out your tables and codes, and already knows how many common products store their records.
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A few yes-or-no questions
Where it isn't sure, it asks your people. A maintenance system took five.
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It keeps itself current
Installed on one machine in about six minutes. Fast-changing records pulled through the day, the rest overnight.
Meet the team
One VERUS, a uniform for every job
The Detective digs into why. The Tracker hunts spikes. Red Alert blinks when something is wrong right now. And Sprocket, his robot dog, sniffs out bad data.
VERUS
The everyday VERUS
The Detective
Asking why; digging into a finding
On the Floor
Shift briefs and plant-floor numbers
The Tracker
Agents hunting spikes and drifts
The Mechanic
Maintenance agents
The Night Shift
Watching around the clock
The Numbers Guy
Costs, margin, where the money is
The Reader
The outside world: prices and news
The Sheriff
Keeps the peace: who may see what
On Patrol
The audit log: every action recorded
The Scientist
Tests an agent on last year first
The Firefighter
Putting out fires: urgent plans
Dr. VERUS
A health check of your data
The Coach
Keeps the plans on track to their dates
The Mail Carrier
The morning brief, delivered
The Captain
The owner's view across the fleet
The Forecaster
Leading indicators: what's coming
The Teacher
Shows you around
The Architect
Connects and maps your systems
It Worked!
A plan that worked on its review date
Red Alert
A big problem, right now
Sprocket
His robot dog: sniffs out bad data
Sprocket: Found One!
He flags a problem
Partners
The Detective and Sprocket on the case
Who it’s for
Built for the people who run the plants and own them
Plant managers
Their plant only. Yesterday's numbers, the problems that need a decision, and the plans under way, without waiting on an analyst.
Operations leadership
Every plant on the same definitions, straight from the systems, with a warning wherever the data can't be trusted.
Owners and boards
Every company side by side, from the portfolio down to one plant, read from the systems rather than from a monthly pack. The P&L of every level, what was reported against what the systems say, and a board pack with every number sourced.
Who built it
Built by an operator
VERUS was built by C. T. Herndon, who has spent his career running industrial operations: plants, people and P&L, most recently as a senior operations executive running a division of more than $500 million, and before that in military intelligence with the U.S. Army. It is published by The Resonance Institute, which he founded.
Where it stands
VERUS is built, and ready for its first companies. It runs today on a demonstration portfolio of three fictional manufacturers we built for demonstrations: two on one ERP, with three years of records and HR, CRM, maintenance and accounting systems alongside, and a third with six plants in two regions on a cloud ERP of its own. Several companies in one installation work today. One view across companies that each run their own installation is next, built with the first group that needs it. Every result we have measured is on the evidence page.