Agentic AI for operations means AI systems that check their own work. They do this before you ever see it. Most "agentic AI" today is different. It is a generic AI wrapper bolted onto a workflow tool. Or it is a consultancy's slide deck with no working software behind it. True North Solutions builds real tools instead. We ship working agentic AI as part of the engagement itself.
Every tool we provision runs on a draft-then-audit loop. One AI produces the first output. An independent second AI grades that output against a fixed rubric. If it falls short, it goes back for revision. This repeats until the output clears the bar. These are the production tools we provision as part of a True North Solutions engagement.
No login, no cost. Answer a short set of questions about your operation and get a scored breakdown of where agentic AI actually applies to your process, versus where it doesn't. This is the same lens used to scope every engagement below.
You upload an ERP event log, a Bill of Materials, a process inventory, or a supplier list. No template forms, no generic questionnaires. Each tool reads the file format your systems already produce.
A domain-tuned AI model builds the first version: a Value Stream Map, a ranked automation backlog, a cost-saving parts list, or a risk assessment. This draft follows the same structure a senior consultant would use.
A separate AI model reviews the draft against a fixed rubric. For BOM Breaker, that rubric checks footprint match, electrical specs, and lifecycle status. For ESG Risk Analyzer, it checks analytical rigor, actionability, and completeness against McKinsey-grade criteria.
If the draft fails any rubric criterion, it goes back to the first AI with specific feedback. This loop repeats automatically. You never see the failed drafts, only the version that passed.
Every deliverable ships with a documented quality score and a record of what the auditor checked. That is how you know the output was reviewed, not just generated once and handed over.
This loop is what separates a working tool from a single AI prompt. A single prompt gives you one draft with no check on it. Our tools give you a graded, revised, audit-trailed result — built to hold up when you show it to a plant manager or a CFO.
Process Miner doesn't guess at your bottlenecks. It calculates Takt Time, cycle time, and value-add ratio directly from your ERP event log, the same metrics a Lean practitioner would compute by hand.
BOM Breaker never suggests a part swap that fails on footprint, voltage rating, or lifecycle status. Every recommendation clears a hard engineering gate before it reaches your desk.
Every tool shows you the rubric it was graded against, not just a pass/fail stamp. You can see exactly why a recommendation earned its quality score.
These tools are not a standalone SaaS subscription. They ship as part of a True North Solutions engagement, alongside the Lean fundamentals work that makes their output actionable on your floor.
Transforms leadership vision into a Hoshin Kanri X-Matrix for strategic alignment.
Mines your ERP event logs to generate data-driven Value Stream Maps built on true Lean metrics — reconstructing the production flow that actually ran, not the one on the whiteboard.
Identifies and prioritizes automation-ready processes using a 7-criteria readiness rubric, turning a process inventory into a ranked, ready-to-build automation backlog.
Electronic components are 60–70% of a product's build cost. BOM Breaker scans your Bill of Materials for cheaper, verified drop-in-safe alternate parts, then runs every suggestion through a strict engineering risk gate — footprint, electrical specs, lifecycle status — before it ever reaches you. You get real savings with a documented audit trail, not a spreadsheet of maybes.
Environmental, social, and governance risk in a supply chain typically hides two or three tiers below your direct suppliers — and by the time it surfaces, it's a regulatory penalty, a lost contract, or a reputational crisis. ESG Risk Analyzer drafts a full Environmental, Social, and Governance risk assessment across your Tier 1/2/3 supply chain, then runs it through a strict McKinsey-grade audit gate — analytical rigor, actionability, completeness — before it ever reaches you. You get a boardroom-ready whitepaper with a documented quality score, not a generic AI summary.
We're actively building the next wave of agentic tools, including InventoryOracle, TariffShield, YieldMaximizer, AutoSource, RouteOptima, MaintenanceMind, ContractBot, S&OP Catalyst, CarbonTrack, QualityVision, WarehouseWizard, FleetCommander, SupplierPulse, CustomsClear, RecallRadar, LabToLine, ThrottleControl, and PriceNavigator — each targeting a specific point of friction in supply chain, manufacturing, and operations.
Agentic AI for operations refers to AI systems that take on multi-step work, like building a Value Stream Map or scoring automation candidates, and check their own output against a rubric before delivering it. That is the difference from a single unchecked AI draft.
RPA automates fixed, rule-based steps in an existing process. It does what it's told, the same way every time. Agentic AI handles work that requires judgment, like drafting a risk assessment or ranking automation candidates by ROI, and can revise its own output when it doesn't meet quality criteria. True North Solutions' Microbot Miner tool sits at the handoff point between the two: it uses agentic AI to identify and rank RPA-ready processes.
A single ChatGPT prompt gives you one unchecked draft. True North Solutions' tools run every output through an independent second AI auditor scored against a fixed rubric (for example, McKinsey-grade criteria for the ESG Risk Analyzer) before it reaches you, and revise automatically until it passes. The output includes a documented quality score and audit trail.
In production use at True North Solutions: turning ERP event logs into data-driven Value Stream Maps (Process Miner), ranking Bill-of-Materials cost-saving alternate parts with a full engineering risk gate (BOM Breaker), prioritizing automation-ready processes with a 7-criteria readiness rubric (Microbot Miner), compiling leadership strategy into a Hoshin Kanri X-Matrix (North Star Compiler), and drafting supply chain ESG risk assessments across Tier 1/2/3 suppliers (ESG Risk Analyzer).
No. The tools work with your existing data (ERP logs, BOMs, process inventories) whether or not you already run a formal lean program. Teams with lean fundamentals in place typically get more targeted results, since the tools are built on Lean metrics like Takt Time rather than generic process-mining heuristics.
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