Phoenix, AZ · AI and process automation · Two-week operations audit from $1,500
Tell us what's broken. We put the fix in writing, even when it isn't software. We build it if you choose.
Two weeks with the people who do the work puts a cost on every bottleneck and a written fix beside each one. The blueprint is yours to hand to your own team. Or the people who wrote it build it, in-house, at a fixed price, on the ERP, CRM, or plant system you already run. We are a US team of technologists, and AI implementation is one of our specialties.
An audit can end with us recommending nothing be built. The blueprint is yours either way.
1345 E Chandler Blvd, Suite 117, Phoenix, AZ 85048 · (602) 271-4000 · In person across the Phoenix metro, remote anywhere in the United States.
Problems we have already solved. Each figure is the client's, not ours.
We built the case-management platform inside a 120,000-employee semiconductor manufacturer, the patented assessment system behind the leading US glass-claims processor, and the program that placed 97% of more than 1,000 university students at graduation. Different buildings, same shape: work that crosses systems and people, held together by someone's spreadsheet. Every percentage below is client-reported and links to the write-up behind it. Where there is no write-up, we say so.
A semiconductor manufacturer with 120,000+ employees
The problem: retention and satisfaction across a 120,000-person global workforce, with no system surfacing retention risk before it escalated. What we built: an end-to-end employee case-management platform, with workflow automation for cases, analytics across workforce data, and predictive modeling for retention risk. Client-reported: 67% faster case resolution, 23% higher retention, 34% higher employee satisfaction. This was workforce software, not the plant floor; what carries over is that we have shipped inside a semiconductor manufacturer at that scale, and we say so because a manufacturer will ask.
The leading US glass-claims processor
The problem: cycle time lost in assessment queues, manual routing, and rework from inconsistent decisions. What we built: the computer-vision assessment system behind their claims flow, with confidence thresholds that route uncertain cases to a person rather than to a guess. It is covered by a granted US patent that the client owns; all three of our founders are among its named inventors. Client-reported: 75% faster processing at 99.2% assessment accuracy, sustained in production.
A 75-attorney law firm
The problem: attorneys losing hours a day searching case law, contracts, and precedent across databases, with documents that had to stay inside the firm. What we built: a private retrieval assistant over the firm's own documents, every document kept in-house, delivered in six weeks. Firm-reported: 85% faster client responses, 3x case capacity.
A public research university
The problem: graduates leaving with the skills a curriculum written years earlier assumed, not the ones employers were screening for. What we did: treated employer demand as the specification, designed the program, and taught it ourselves, with delivery built and tested to WCAG standards. Six-month cohorts, more than 1,000 students, nearly three years. Measured at graduation: 97% placed, sustained across many cohorts rather than achieved once. The university is anonymized at its request.
An enterprise logistics operation
The problem: throughput time absorbed by handoffs between planning, warehouse, and transport, and working capital trapped in inventory. What we did: the unglamorous cycle-time and inventory work inside the operation, and the systems behind warranties and returns. The client reached and held a top-five placement in Gartner's Supply Chain Top 25 across multiple years. We contributed; the ranking reflects the whole operation, and we would not claim otherwise. No public write-up, so no percentage; ask on the call.
Ask us how any of these was built. We will walk you through it, and we will tell you which parts would not carry over to your situation. Practices: Manufacturing · Logistics & supply chain · Insurance & claims · Education & workforce programs · HR & workforce operations. How every number on this page is sourced.
You don't have to know what to call it. You have to get it fixed.
The problems worth two weeks rarely arrive as a requirements document. They look like this. Each one is written as the situation, not as a claim about who has called us. If one of them is yours, you already know more about it than any vendor's demo does.
You are about to supply semiconductor fabs overseas.
The records, paperwork, and handoffs a fab customer will expect do not yet live in any system you run. What matters is having them right and kept, without buying a plant-sized system to keep them. Our founders spent more than 40 years between them in chip manufacturing itself, from running fab engineering around the clock to raising yield. Our published semiconductor case study covers workforce software, inside a manufacturer with 120,000 employees; on the first call we will tell you what does carry over.
Every event, your team rebuilds the season from scratch.
Sponsor deliverables, vendor paperwork, and volunteer shifts live in email, a shared drive, and last year's spreadsheet. The fix is the sponsor, vendor, and volunteer setups running from one place, so a season is set up once and the next coordinator inherits it. If the honest answer is an off-the-shelf tool and an afternoon of setup, the blueprint will say so.
You need to certify the people who sell or apply your products.
You need to know who is current, you need it to look like your brand, and nothing off the shelf teaches the way you do. That is curriculum, assessment, credentialing, and the tracking that tells you who is certified. We have designed and taught a program at scale before: more than 1,000 students, 97% placed at graduation, delivered to WCAG standards.
You have a product in your head for the people you serve, not a bottleneck to audit.
You know what the people you serve should go through, and nothing off the shelf does it. The first two weeks are the same either way: listen, map what a new client goes through today, then put the build in writing. A founder-led business gets the same two weeks as a global workforce, and the prices are on this page so you can decide before you call.
Production data gets re-keyed between the plant system, the ERP, and quality.
Headcount grows with the reporting, not the output. The gap between systems is usually cheaper to build than to keep staffing, and closing it does not require replacing either system.
If your problem looks like one of these, the first conversation is thirty minutes: at our office in Phoenix, or on a call anywhere in the United States. If it looks like none of them, bring it anyway. The ones that fit no list are usually the ones we want.
First the blueprint. Then the build, if you choose it.
Nutron is a software company that audits, not an advisory firm that subcontracts. A recommendation is only worth what gets built from it, so the people who write the blueprint are the people who can build from it, and every recommendation is constrained by what they would actually have to build against your existing systems, not by what looks good in a slide deck. Because the blueprint is yours, you can build from it with us, with your own team, with someone else, or not at all.
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Two weeks with the people who do the work.
It starts in a room with whoever owns the problem, the owner, the COO, the program director, and then with the people doing the work. We trace how a job actually moves from intake to delivery, including the handoffs, rework loops, and spreadsheet workarounds that never appear in the documented version. In person across the Phoenix metro; over video anywhere in the United States. Your assumption about the cause is the starting hypothesis, not the conclusion. If the cause turns out to be somewhere else, we say so before you spend a build budget on it.
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What you walk away with.
A process map of your current state, a prioritized list of bottlenecks with the annual cost of each one quantified, a recommended fix for each, and an implementation roadmap with sequencing and effort estimates. It is written to be actionable by any competent team: Nutron's, yours, or a third party's. An audit can end with us recommending nothing be built, or an off-the-shelf tool and an afternoon of setup. The fee is the same, and the blueprint is still yours. We would rather refute an assumption than manufacture a project.
What the audit covers - 3
If you want it built, the people who wrote it build it.
In-house, by our US team, nothing subcontracted. Fixed price, scoped from the audit: custom builds start at $15,000, and the quote is fixed before work starts, so the scoping risk sits with us. We integrate with the ERP, CRM, or operational system you already run, a plant system, a learning platform, a ticketing tool, rather than replacing it; most of the value sits in the gaps between systems, which is a cheaper and lower-risk problem than a migration. We build it with you, not off in a corner: you see working pieces as they come together and weigh in before the next one is built. Where a model earns its place, we put one in; where a rule does the job, we use the rule.
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You keep the system.
Every build ends with a working system, its documentation, and training for the people who will use it. You own the code. If you want us to keep operating and improving it, support arrangements for systems in production are available, priced up front; if you want your own team to, enablement runs alongside delivery so they can. Either way, nothing depends on Nutron staying in the room.
Two weeks. Fixed fee, from $1,500. The blueprint is yours whether or not we build it.
Who you'll sit across from, in Phoenix or on the call.
Nutron is a US-based company with a US workforce, run by its three founders from Ahwatukee in Phoenix. We are technologists, and we still do the work ourselves. Nothing we deliver is subcontracted or offshored, and the people who take your first call are the people who will do the work. Between us we come from manufacturing, human resources, and software technology, which is where an understanding of scale comes from: a system that has to hold for 120,000 employees, a claims flow that has to hold in production for the leading US glass-claims processor, a program that has to hold cohort after cohort.
Three founders, all in the room
Nutron was founded in 2019 and is run by its three founders, all in Phoenix and all still doing the work. All three are engineers by training, with more than 70 years between them inside global semiconductor manufacturers, each of them 15 years or more. Their experience includes running a round-the-clock chip-factory engineering organization of more than 200 people. The first conversation is with one of them or with the people who would build.
If you are in Arizona
You do not need to look out of state. We are at 1345 E Chandler Blvd, Suite 117, Phoenix, AZ 85048, in Ahwatukee, in the corridor where US semiconductor manufacturing is being built. The number is (602) 271-4000. We pick up, and we will meet you at your site or ours anywhere in the Phoenix metro.
If you are anywhere else in the United States
Nutron is a US-based company with a US workforce, and we deliver remotely across the country. Our sense of what breaks at scale comes from manufacturing, human resources, and software technology, and from the work: a system that had to hold for 120,000 employees, a claims flow still in production for the leading US glass-claims processor, a program that held cohort after cohort. We have tackled enough different problems to know the hard ones are the ones worth taking, and we run toward the problems other firms turn down.
What we run ourselves
We also build and operate two products of our own, TalentCafe (talentcafe.net) and PopCV (popcv.me), which is how we know what keeping software alive actually costs. They are proof of execution, not services on offer.
Ask us how any of the work above was built. We will walk you through it, in our office or on a call. More about who we are.
We don't just build for clients. We build and run our own.
Live products with real users, designed, built, and operated by the same team, which is how we know what keeping software alive actually costs. They are proof of execution, not services on offer.
TalentCafe
Business operating system for independent experts
Client management, scheduling, video with AI transcription, invoicing, and digital product delivery in one white-label platform — built so consultants can productize expertise instead of billing hours.
PopCV
Resume and portfolio builder for job seekers
Generate a full resume from a prompt or a conversation, with drag-and-drop editing, ATS optimization, and a shareable portfolio with its own QR code.
What your auditor can hold us to.
We built the computer-vision system the leading US glass-claims processor runs. These rules are what it took to keep that system accountable in production, and we build to them whether the job is a model, an integration between the systems you already run, or the workflow that replaces a spreadsheet. Each one is something a COO, an auditor, or a program director can check.
Your data stays in your systems.
When we built a 75-attorney firm's retrieval assistant, every document stayed in-house. That is the default, not an upgrade.
Read the case studyA model only where it beats a rule, and a person wherever it is uncertain.
Where a deterministic rule does the job, we write the rule. In the glass-claims system, an assessment below the confidence threshold routes to a person rather than to a guess, and that handoff was designed in from the start. Wherever a system touches an employee's case, a policyholder's claim, or a student's credential, a person stays accountable for the decision.
Read the case studyNothing we cannot explain to your auditor.
Every automated decision is logged with its inputs, the model version, and its confidence, so you, an auditor, or a regulator can reconstruct it later. We do not automate anything we cannot explain to your auditor.
You own the code, and we publish a number only with the engagement behind it.
Every build hands over the code and the documentation, and you can take it elsewhere. Every figure on this page is client-reported and links to the work behind it; how every number on this site is sourced, and how to get one corrected, is on the editorial standards page.
How every number on this page is sourced
How it starts: two weeks, a fixed fee from $1,500. The blueprint is yours.
The first two weeks are the same whether you run a plant, an event company, a brand, or a founder-led business. We interview the people doing the work, map how it actually moves from intake to delivery, put an annual cost on each bottleneck, and hand you a prioritized blueprint. It is yours whether or not you continue with us. Fixed pricing puts the scoping risk on us rather than on you and makes the return calculable before the work starts; we price up front wherever the work can be scoped, and say so where it cannot.
Operations audit: two weeks, fixed fee from $1,500
Interviews with your team, workflow analysis, and the written blueprint: a process map, a prioritized bottleneck list with the annual cost of each, a recommended fix for each, and a roadmap with sequencing and effort estimates. Larger or multi-department audits are scoped individually. Yours whether or not you continue.
Internal knowledge assistant on your own documents: $4,000 setup plus $300 per month
A private assistant over your PDFs, handbooks, and SOPs, so staff retrieve company knowledge instantly. Your documents stay in your systems.
Custom build: from $15,000, fixed
Scoped from the audit findings; the quote is fixed before work starts, so the scoping risk sits with us. Built in-house by our US team on the systems you already run. You own the code, the documentation, and the training.
Support for systems in production: priced up front
If you want Nutron to keep operating and improving what was built, support arrangements for systems in production are available and priced up front. If you want your own team to run it, enablement runs alongside delivery so they can.
Questions we get on the first call
What does Nutron actually do?
Nutron is a Phoenix, Arizona AI and process automation company. We sit down with a decision maker who has a hard operating problem, find what is really causing it, and put the fix in writing. If you want it built, we build it: in-house, at a fixed price, on the systems you already run, and you keep the system. If you would rather your own team build from the blueprint, it is written for that. We are technologists: integrations, workflows, and applications built around your process, and AI implementation, which is one of our specialties. What matters most is that you get the outcome you asked for.
How do engagements start?
With a thirty-minute conversation, then the two-week operations audit, from $1,500. We interview your team, map how work actually moves from intake to delivery, put an annual cost on each bottleneck, and deliver a prioritized blueprint. It is yours whether or not you continue with us.
What if our assumptions about the problem are wrong?
That is a common and useful outcome. The audit is designed to validate or refute the presenting problem, and the expensive bottleneck frequently is not the one that prompted the call. Refuting an assumption before you spend a build budget on it is the point. An audit can end with us recommending nothing be built.
Do we have to use Nutron to build what the audit recommends?
No. The blueprint is written to be actionable by any competent team: ours, yours, or a third party's. There is a reason to ask the people who wrote it: the recommendations were constrained by what is actually implementable against your systems, and on a fixed-price build the scoping risk sits with us. But that is your call, and the audit fee is the same either way.
Are we too small for this?
No. A twenty-person company and a 120,000-person one get the same first conversation and the same kind of audit. Smaller teams usually see the fastest return from one well-placed system: a vendor onboarding flow, an internal assistant over your own documents, a single automated workflow. The audit is priced so an owner can say yes without a committee, and the prices are on the page so you can decide before you call.
Who will we actually be working with?
The people you meet during the audit are the people who build. Nutron is a US-based company with a US workforce, founded in 2019 and run by its three founders from Phoenix; nothing we deliver is subcontracted or offshored. The first conversation is with a founder or the people who would do the work.
We're in Arizona. Do we need to look for a firm out of state?
No. Nutron is at 1345 E Chandler Blvd, Suite 117, in Ahwatukee, and the number is (602) 271-4000. We pick up, we will meet you at your site or ours anywhere in the Phoenix metro, and the people you meet are the people who build. Chandler, Tempe, Scottsdale, Mesa, and Gilbert are a short drive; Tucson and Flagstaff get the same team over video.
Do you work outside Arizona?
Yes. Nutron is a US-based company with a US workforce, and delivery is remote across the United States by the same people who take your first call. Our sense of what breaks at scale comes from manufacturing, human resources, and software technology, and we have shipped inside a 120,000-employee manufacturer and behind the leading US glass-claims processor, where the system is still in production.
Do we have to replace our existing systems?
No. Nutron integrates with the CRM, ERP, and operational tools you already run rather than requiring a rip-and-replace. Those systems are usually working as intended; the loss is in the gaps between them, which is a far cheaper and lower-risk problem to solve than a migration.
What does business process automation actually involve?
Connecting systems that do not currently talk to each other, removing manual handoffs between them, and automating the decisions that follow fixed rules. In practice that means API integrations, data pipelines, and custom applications built around your process rather than a product's assumptions.
Is AI implementation something you actually do?
Yes. It is one of our specialties: we built the computer-vision assessment system the leading US glass-claims processor runs in production, and a 75-attorney firm's private retrieval assistant with every document kept in-house. The claims system is covered by a granted US patent that the client owns. AI implementation is not everything we do; what matters most is getting you the outcome you asked for, and where a model is the way there, we build it. The rules when we do: a model goes in only where it beats a deterministic rule, anything uncertain is routed to a person, and every automated decision is logged so it can be reconstructed.
What does it cost?
Fixed price wherever it can be scoped. The two-week operations audit starts at $1,500; larger or multi-department audits are scoped individually. An internal knowledge assistant on your own documents is $4,000 setup plus $300 per month. Custom builds start at $15,000, scoped from the audit findings, with the quote fixed before work starts. Support arrangements for systems in production are priced up front. Fixed pricing puts the scoping risk on us rather than on you.
How long does it take?
The audit is two weeks. Build timelines are in the fixed quote, with a date; the 75-attorney firm's retrieval assistant was delivered in six weeks. Larger systems are phased, and the quote says what is live when.
Who maintains it after launch?
Whoever you choose. Every build hands over the code, the documentation, and training for your team, and enablement runs alongside delivery rather than after it, so the next coordinator or the next engineer inherits a system, not a mystery. If you want Nutron to keep operating and improving it, support arrangements for systems in production are priced up front. Nothing depends on us to keep understanding what was built.
Which problems does Nutron know best?
Manufacturing and supply chain, workforce and HR operations, insurance claims, and legal document retrieval, where we have delivered production systems and can point at the outcomes; and education and workforce programs, where we designed and taught a program that placed 97% of more than 1,000 students at graduation. Behind that sits experience across enterprise, startup, industrial, municipal, social-service, and university settings, and an understanding of scale that comes from manufacturing, human resources, and software.
What won't Nutron sell us?
A model where a rule works. A new ERP, CRM, or learning platform when the one you have works. A build without a fixed price. A chatbot or a content engine as the answer to an operations problem. And a project the audit did not justify: an audit can end with us recommending nothing be built, and the blueprint is still yours.
Start with the problem, not the pitch.
Thirty minutes. Tell us what is slowing you down and we will tell you whether the two-week operations audit is worth it for you, and what we would look at first.
Book thirty minutes with Nutron.
No prep. Bring the problem in your own words. We will ask what is slowing you down, who touches the work, and what you have already tried. If the problem warrants it, the next step is the two-week operations audit, from $1,500.
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We are at 1345 E Chandler Blvd, Suite 117, Phoenix, AZ 85048, in Ahwatukee. In the Phoenix metro, we will meet you at your site or ours. If you are anywhere else in the United States, the call works the same, with the same US team.
If the audit finds nothing worth building, you will hear that from us in writing, and the blueprint is still yours.