An engineer on your floor, building the tools your operation is missing.
Ovis embeds with manufacturers, quarries, and logistics operators to find the manual work that costs you the most, then builds the software, AI, and robotics to take it off your people's plates.
- engagement
- embedded pilot
- length
- 4 weeks
- cost
- $0
- hours
- up to 20 / week
- paperwork
- NDA, signed first
- contract
- none
- to buy
- nothing
- where
- on-site · Charlotte
- after week 4
- your call
- status
- accepting pilots
From spreadsheets to steel.
Most operating companies don't need a platform. They need the clipboard, the whiteboard, and the 40-tab spreadsheet replaced with something that works. Sometimes that's code. Sometimes it's a sensor or a robot.
Software & AI
Internal tools your team actually opens, with AI where it saves real time.
- Production & crew scheduling
- Maintenance & work-order tracking
- Quoting and estimating tools
- Automated reports & dashboards
- AI for documents, email, and data entry
Hardware & robotics
Getting data off the machine and work off people's backs.
- Sensors, IoT & machine monitoring
- Camera / vision inspection
- Robotic cell & fixture integration
- Embedded & controls work
- Prototypes built and tested on-site
Automation & integrations
Connecting the systems you already pay for so nobody re-keys data again.
- ERP / accounting / CRM glue
- Spreadsheet-to-system migrations
- Scale, PLC & telematics data feeds
- Alerts & approvals workflows
- Clean handoff to your IT team
Embed. Find the cost. Ship.
Anyone can write software. The hard part is finding the right process to replace, and that starts on your floor, with your people. So there's no discovery deck and no 6-month roadmap: we work where the work happens and ship something you can use within weeks.
Sign the NDA
We sign first. Your data, processes, and pricing stay yours.
Embed on-site
Shadow the floor, the office, and the yard. Talk to the people doing the work.
Find the costly manual work
Pin down the 1–2 problems that burn the most hours or money, and agree on what "fixed" looks like.
Build & ship
Working tools in your team's hands, iterated weekly, documented and handed over at the end of week 4.
Four weeks. Free. Under NDA.
One focused pilot: four weeks, up to 20 hours a week of hands-on engineering at your operation, aimed at the manual work that costs you the most.
I'm building my practice with industrial and operating companies, and I need real results to show. If the pilot works, I'd ask for a reference or a short case study, and first shot at paid work if you want to keep going. If it doesn't, you've lost nothing and you keep everything I built.
- NDA signed before we see anything
- No contract, nothing to buy, stop anytime
- Your company owns everything that gets built
- After week 4, paid work only if you want to continue
- Best fit: $10M+ operating companies in the Charlotte region
Built for companies that make and move things.
If your business runs on shifts, equipment, trucks, or tonnage, and still runs on whiteboards and spreadsheets, we should talk.
Manufacturing
Job scheduling, quoting, downtime tracking, quality and inspection.
Mining & aggregates
Scale-house data, equipment maintenance, load tracking, production reporting.
Logistics & distribution
Dispatch, yard and dock flow, driver paperwork, warehouse automation.
Other operators
Construction, fabrication, field services: any $10M+ company with manual work to kill.
Hi, I'm Sam.
I started in fintech, writing software for payment terminals. That meant working directly with the hardware and taking devices through EMV chip and contactless certification with the major card brands. From there I built software at larger companies, including Micro Focus (now part of OpenText) and Redo, an e-commerce software company out of Utah. Lately I've been embedding with home service businesses, building custom tools that take the busywork off their people so they can focus on the work only a person can do.
Before any of that, I spent two years as a self-funded volunteer in Mexico, talking with people every day. It taught me the part most engineers skip: anyone can build software, but it only pays off when you find the right process to replace, and you only find that by spending time with the people doing the work.
The obvious questions.
Why is the pilot free?
I'm building my practice with industrial and operating companies, and I need real results to show. If the 4-week pilot works, I'd ask for a reference or a short case study, and first shot at paid work if you want to keep going. If it doesn't, you've lost nothing and you keep everything I built.
What happens after the four weeks?
We look at what shipped together. If you want to keep going, we can scope paid work from there. If not, the pilot simply ends: no invoice, no hard feelings, and everything built stays with your company.
What do you need from us?
A signed NDA, a point of contact, access to the people doing the work, and a place to sit when on-site. That's it.
What kinds of problems are a good fit?
Anything repetitive, manual, error-prone, or tracked on paper: scheduling, maintenance logs, quotes, daily reports, data re-entry between systems, inspection, material handling.
Who owns the code and hardware?
Your company does. All code, documentation, data, and anything else built for you belongs to your company, during the pilot and after. It's documented and handed over so you're never locked in to Ovis.
What's the most expensive thing your team still does by hand?
Tell me in 15 minutes. If it's a fit, we'll set a start date together.