Asking the vendor doesn’t work.
It isn’t ill will: it’s their business model. Every change is a development job, queued behind all the others. Your urgency is not theirs.
Automations
beyond the limits of your vendor
We unlock the data stuck in your ERP and use AI to automate repetitive work.
- Your data stays in-house.
- Without changing ERP.
Why it happens
The data is yours. But it stays locked in.
To move it from one program to another, your people look it up, copy it and check it. Every day.
Changing ERP is a trap.
A migration takes time, resources and people who relearn how to work. And it doesn’t guarantee that the next vendor will let you use the data the way you need.
Generic AI licences are not enough.
A generic assistant doesn’t know your codes, price lists and rules. Without access to your data, the steps between systems are still left to do.
The same company, three different problems.
The people in the field
They have to deliver results, but lose hours doing a copyist’s work: copying data between spreadsheets and programs that don’t talk to each other. Automation is needed; meanwhile the work is done by hand.
General management
It approves the budgets, then bears extra costs for “out of scope” work and the vendor’s delays. The priorities have been decided, but the work stays stuck.
The IT department
It gets involved once the contracts are already signed, when it has to deal with the problems. And it blocks projects, rightly, to protect the data and ensure the continuity of the systems.
At the same table, before development.
With Athena, management, the people in the field and IT define together the process to unlock and the constraints to respect. A shared decision: what to automate, on what terms and with which responsibilities.
What we do
We don’t sell you another piece of software. We make the one you have work.
The ERP stays where it is. In between we place AI agents that go and find the data, apply your rules and hand the finished work to whoever has to decide.
The work stays the same. What changes is who does the manual, repetitive steps.
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Connections created by Athena
Read the comparison
- Today
- The work starts from an email, a call or an order and passes from one person to the next. Someone has to search the systems, fill in and copy, phone and check again. Whoever has to decide waits for the work to be ready.
- With Athena
- The work starts in the same way. Athena creates the connections between the systems you already use and the AI agents, without replacing them. The agents consult the systems and prepare the work. Whoever is responsible checks, corrects and decides.
An example: technical quotes
€36,000 a year
of work spent gathering data, copying information and preparing quotes.
Athena automates the repetitive steps. People check and decide.
Illustrative estimate of labour cost. The actual saving depends on the process.
How we calculate it
300 quotes/year × 3 hours/quote × €40/hour = €36,000/year
Assumed full company hourly cost: €40/hour.
Case studies
Where we were put to the test.
Real processes and systems: the conditions we worked in, case by case.
Other case studiesMade-to-order machinery
The warehouse was managed on a separate sheet.
30,000 item codes in the ERP, about 1,000 of them moving. Availability was not visible and shortages were noted on paper.
Read the caseInsurance services
Managers built two processes around problems from their own work.
We guided them in building two working prototypes. For one, focused on handling health claims, staff estimate that 192 hours a year could be recovered. Management has asked to assess how to bring them into daily work.
Read the caseHow we work
We start from a concrete process.
First we verify what can be unlocked. Then you decide how to go on, based on the work to be done.
Kleis The test on your process
We start from your data to verify the feasibility of the automation, the constraints to respect and the value for the company. Management, the people in the field and IT define the scope of the test together.
It is the starting point: a concrete basis for deciding whether to invest in development.
How Kleis worksMetis Operational automations
We develop and maintain the automations on the verified processes, one process at a time. The systems prepare the work; people check and approve.
From the test to daily work.
More on MetisNómos Rules and responsibilities for AI
We define who can use the AI systems, for which activities and with which controls. We organise responsibilities, checks and documentation for the systems in use.
Also as a stand-alone service, on the systems already in the company.
More on NómosAbout us
The business owner’s neutral ally.
We don’t resell software and we don’t take a percentage on licences.
Francesco De Sario
Processes and management
Twenty-five years in industrial operations. He brings the real work, the priorities and the constraints of the company to the table.
Michele Balsamo
Systems and automations
He verifies technical feasibility and builds the automations on your processes.
You talk to us from start to finish.
The people and the method The qualification call
Let’s start from the process you want to unlock.
In a 30-minute call we look together at your ERP, the process and the constraints, to understand whether it makes sense to go ahead.
- Thirty minutes, no commitment. Michele Balsamo runs it.
- We look at your ERP and at the process that costs you the most.
- If there is no net return, we are the ones who tell you not to go ahead.