Services · AI consulting and roadmap
AI consulting services for manufacturers in India: a roadmap you can sign, then the people who build it
- What will be running
- A written AI roadmap for your business: which agents, in what order, each with a saving, a date and a cost
- By when
- Roadmap in your hands within 10 working days of the plant visit; first agent live 30 days after you sign
- What it saves
- The roadmap ranks every agent by rupees saved per month of effort, so the first thing built is the thing that pays
Works with what you already have
What runs on Excel today
Everyone has told you to "do AI". The ERP vendor says buy an ERP. The consultant says run a workshop. Your son says ChatGPT. Nobody has sat with your plant head and said which three things, in which order, saving how much, by when.
So nothing starts. Or the wrong thing does: a chatbot on the website while the weighbridge is still a slip of paper.
What we deploy
Agents, not features. Each one is listed when it is live.
The deliverable is a document and a date, then the agents it names.
The plant visit
One day. Half with you, half on the floor with the people who fill the registers. We photograph every place a number is created by hand.
The roadmap
Ten working days later. For each candidate agent: what it reads, what it does, what lands on your phone, the saving per month and how it is measured, the implementation fee, the maintenance fee, the go-live date. Ranked by saving per month of effort. Usually eight to twelve agents, of which we recommend three to start.
The decision
One page you sign or do not. If not, you keep the roadmap.
The build
The same people. First agent live in 30 days. Every one after that appears on the weekly brief the day it is running.
What it saves
A roadmap saves the year most companies lose choosing. The first agent is chosen because it pays, not because it demonstrates well: the daily brief that reads the mess, the tendering agent on freight, the route and weight check on inbound metal. The roadmap's job is to say no to the chatbot.
The saving for each agent is agreed in writing before it is built. Not met in 90 days from that agent's go-live: we keep working at no charge for up to 90 more days until it is. The guarantee covers the first agent.
The guarantee
In writing, before we build.
One number for the first agent, how it is measured, and the date. Not met in 90 days from go-live, we keep working at no charge for up to 90 more days until it is.
How the first 30 days go
Plant visit.
Roadmap delivered and walked through with you and whoever else decides: the board, the senior family, the CA.
You sign, or you do not.
First agent live. The weekly brief starts the following Monday.
Every Monday
The weekly brief
One page. What is running, what it did, what we need from you. Figures illustrative.
Four things no vendor will put in a contract.
30
Days to the first agent
Not a demo. A date, in the proposal you sign.
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The saving, in writing
Agreed before we build. Not met in 90 days: we keep working at no charge for up to 90 more days.
1
Visit before any fee
We come to you. The first day costs nothing.
52
Briefs a year
Every Monday: what is running, what it did, what we need.
Where this runs
Chemicals and aromatics
First agent live in 30 days; all three in 90
Food and starch processing
First agent live in 30 days; ERP core in 120; audit-ready books in 12 months
Metals, wire and cables
First agent live in 30 days; all four in 120
FMCG contract manufacturing
First agent live in 30 days; all three in 90
Transport and logistics
First agent live in 30 days; whole fleet in 90
Family businesses preparing for investors
First agent live in 30 days; MIS adequacy in 6 months; audit-ready books in 12
Questions promoters ask
What does an AI consultant actually do for a manufacturer?
Finds where money leaks and hours are wasted, decides which of it software can now do reliably, and puts it in an order that pays for itself. Then, in our case, builds it. A roadmap that ends in a slide deck is not consulting; it is a brochure.
How is AgentJi different from a big-four AI consulting practice?
They write the strategy and leave. We write a shorter one and stay until it runs. Their teams have never stood at your weighbridge; ours have. And their fee for the strategy alone is usually more than our fee for building the first three agents.
Do we need to be ready for AI? Our data is a mess.
Nobody is ready. The roadmap starts from Tally, Excel, registers and WhatsApp, because that is where every Indian manufacturer's data lives. Agent one is almost always the one that reads the mess and makes it legible. Readiness is the output, not the prerequisite.
Can we take the roadmap and build it with someone else?
Yes. You own the document. The agents are named, the sources are listed, the savings are stated, and any competent team could build from it. Most clients ask us to, because the people who wrote it are the people who will be answering for it on the weekly brief.
What does AI consulting cost in India?
Strategy engagements from large firms run from ₹25 lakh to several crore before anything is built. Our roadmap is part of the implementation fee for the first agent. If you sign nothing, the plant visit and the first conversation cost nothing. See how we charge.
Tell us where the money leaks.
Tell us where the money leaks. A 30-minute call: we ask about the business, you ask about us. If AgentJi is not the right answer we will say so and tell you who is.