Agentic AI in practice · 6 min
What the manufacturing result teaches about where AI pays back.
Matt Mahoney, MBA · Managing Principal ·

Most companies point AI at marketing first. The faster payback is often in operations, where decisions repeat and errors are expensive.
Manual ordering drove costly overstock for a large manufacturer. Agentic AI workflows now run ordering, cutting labor costs 12% and reducing excess inventory.
Pick one repeated decision with a clear cost. Put an agent on the routine work, keep a person accountable for the call, and measure the result in the P&L.


