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    Case StudiesStructured Honestly

    Client work is confidential, so the scenarios below are illustrative composites rather than named engagements. What is real is the structure: what got scoped, what got ruled out, and how the result was measured.

    These are composite scenarios used to show how we scope work. They are not client testimonials, and no performance figures are claimed. Named references are available under NDA during an engagement discussion.

    Manufacturing

    Quality inspection triage

    Starting problem

    Inspection notes lived in free text, so recurring defect causes were invisible until a customer complained.

    What was scoped

    Classification of existing inspection notes into defect categories, with a supervisor confirming any low-confidence label.

    Where AI was ruled out

    Automated line-stop decisions. The cost of a false positive was higher than the cost of the manual check it replaced.

    How results were measured

    Time from defect occurrence to identified root cause, compared against a four-week baseline.

    Professional services

    Proposal drafting support

    Starting problem

    Senior staff spent hours reassembling past proposals, and the reuse depended on who remembered which document.

    What was scoped

    Retrieval across approved past proposals with a drafted first section, always edited by the owning partner before sending.

    Where AI was ruled out

    Automatic pricing generation. Pricing depended on judgment the documents did not contain.

    How results were measured

    Hours to first complete draft, and the share of drafts partners kept rather than rewrote.

    Healthcare operations

    Intake document sorting

    Starting problem

    Incoming faxes and scans were sorted by hand, creating a queue that grew every Monday.

    What was scoped

    Document type classification and routing only, with all clinical content left to staff review.

    Where AI was ruled out

    Any extraction of clinical values. The accuracy and audit requirements exceeded what the workflow could verify.

    How results were measured

    Queue age at end of day and rework rate on misrouted documents.

    Logistics

    Exception handling in dispatch

    Starting problem

    Dispatchers rewrote the same explanatory messages dozens of times a day during delays.

    What was scoped

    Drafted customer notifications from delay reason codes, sent only after dispatcher approval.

    Where AI was ruled out

    Autonomous rerouting. The systems of record could not expose live constraints reliably enough to trust.

    How results were measured

    Notifications sent per hour and inbound status calls per hundred shipments.

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