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For owner-run Canadian manufacturers · $1M–$50M

Find the one thing in your business AI should do first.

I put the systems you already run to work: which customers went quiet, what to quote first, where the money leaks. Most consultants vanish after the invoice. I stay at your side, training your people, until it sticks.

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Steve Walters Steve WaltersFounder · Connect on LinkedIn

The gap isn't knowing.
It's doing it.

Every manufacturer I talk to is stuck on the same four things. None of them are about whether AI matters.

The four blockers standing in your way.

Relevance

Nobody has shown you where AI actually applies in a company like yours.

The pitches are generic and the examples never look like your operation. I start where it hurts: quoting, month-end, customers going quiet. And I only reach for AI where it beats plain technology.

Sunk software

You already pay for powerful software your team barely uses.

The ERP, the CRM, the licenses and modules nobody has opened since training. Before you buy anything new, I make what you already own earn its keep: my engineers connect by API and pull the answers out.

Failed rollouts

You're not against new software. You're against being the one who bought the system nobody logged into.

Fair. Most tools die because nobody stays past the install. I stay. That's the part that makes the rest work.

Time

You don't have time to keep up with AI. You can't afford to ignore it either.

The tools change monthly, nobody in your building owns learning them, and your competitors aren't waiting. So I keep up for you: I track what's new, test it, and bring you only what pays in your company. You stay ahead without adding a job to your week.

That's the whole job. And it starts with 15 minutes.

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Free · 15 minutes · you leave with one fix either way

Real numbers. Real companies.

Industrial manufacturer

A third of their customers had quietly stopped buying.

Six years of orders sat in an Infor VISUAL ERP that couldn't answer a single question. I built an AI system that classifies every account by trajectory and refreshes itself every quarter. The ERP never said a word. Now it does.

  • 264lapsed accounts found (33%)
  • $67Ktop account, gone to zero
  • 199cross-sell openings surfaced
Same manufacturer · 2nd project

One pitch for every buyer became six playbooks.

800+ accounts were all treated the same, and new reps took months to learn the base. I classified every account into segments and matched 152 net-new prospects to specific products.

  • 804 → 6accounts into clear segments
  • 152net-new prospects, SKU-matched
  • 6sales playbooks built
Same manufacturer · 3rd project · Infor VISUAL

Every report meant exporting the ERP into Excel and rebuilding it by hand.

Their VISUAL ERP held the numbers but couldn't show them. My engineers built a custom API straight into VISUAL, read-only, and a KPI dashboard tailored to the numbers they actually watch. It refreshes itself, live, and gives them three hours a week back. VISUAL kept running exactly as it always has.

  • 3 hrs/wkback from manual export reports
  • Liverefreshes by API, not by month-end export
  • 3rdproject with this client
Construction & trades

Quotes and invoices were eating six hours a week.

Intake orders sat in an inbox, reps sent requests from the field, and one in-house employee typed every quote and invoice by hand. I built her a dashboard that triages both streams into drag-and-drop templated quotes and schedules the follow-ups, with confirmations sent back to the reps and logged in the CRM.

  • 6 hrs/wksaved on quoting and invoicing
  • 2 streamsinbox orders + field requests, one dashboard
  • Autofollow-ups, confirmed to reps, logged in CRM

All figures drawn from real engagements. Clients de-identified at the client level.

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“They've become a huge resource for us in AI and data intelligence. What stands out is their practical, business-focused approach. They don't just provide theory, they build real tools on our own data.”

Senior ExecutiveIndustrial Equipment Manufacturer, Canada

References available on request. Ask on the call and I'll connect you with a current client.

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Three steps, in order.

You don't pick a service today. You book a call. Each step earns the next one.

  1. Free

    The 15-minute call.

    One call, one problem. You leave with one fix you can make this week, whether or not we ever talk again. No prep needed.

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  2. $1,497 flat · one hour · credited

    The Assessment.

    I go through your operation and hand you three to five moves, ranked by dollar impact and how easy they are to ship. Small enough to say yes without a board meeting. The full $1,497 comes off your build if we keep going.

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  3. $10K–$95K fixed, by scope

    The Build.

    One painful workflow, gone, or a full live dashboard on your ERP. Smaller builds start at $10K; the biggest system builds run to $95K. For scale: the live VISUAL dashboard build above ran about $55K. Either way it's one fixed number, quoted in writing before work starts, first proof in 14 days, and I don't leave until it's running without me.

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You walk away with

Your one-page plan

The workflow, the tool, the guardrail, and the next move, with an owner on each.

“I ran exactly this across a six-department engineering firm. Twenty-plus pain points scored, and one automation surfaced worth an estimated $15,000–$40,000 a month.”

Is Wallai right for your company?

You're a fit if

  • You run a Canadian manufacturing or industrial business doing $1M–$50M
  • Your team is 10–500 people
  • Your systems hold years of data nobody can question
  • You want a payoff you can point to, not another pilot
  • You'd rather start this quarter than someday

Skip Wallai if

  • You want a magic button with zero effort
  • You want a six-month strategy engagement
  • You can't share any operational or sales data, even under NDA with guardrails we set together
  • You want to talk about AI without building anything
  • You're shopping purely on lowest hourly rate

Book the free 15-minute call.

Proof in 14 days. Adoption for as long as it takes. The call is where it starts: one problem, one quick win, no prep needed.

  • A working session, not a sales pitch
  • One fix you can make this week
  • A straight answer on what's safe with your data
  • My engineers connect by API, read-only. Nothing in your ERP changes without your say-so

Want the numbers first? See the work.

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Pick a time above, or email [email protected]. I reply personally, usually within a business day. No spam, no drip sequence. Same calendar for everything: if it's about the Assessment or a build, say so in the booking notes.

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