built with your team · used through youno

AI for small & medium manufacturers

Your business lives in WhatsApp, Excel sheets, emails, phone calls, registers and people's heads.Bring it into one place.

  • Run smoothly even when key people are away
  • Spot problems while they're still small
  • Grow without hiring people to chase people

Enquiries in email, updates on WhatsApp, plans in Excel, orders in the ERP, know-how in people's heads. We help small and medium manufacturers bring it all into one place, where AI turns it into owned, tracked work, with a person approving what matters.

your system — enquiries to ordersupdated 2 min ago

incoming — this morning

  • 09:12 · email

    “Please quote your best price for 14 sizes. Drawings attached.”

  • 09:40 · whatsapp

    “Any update on the bush quote? Need it by Friday.”

  • 10:05 · email

    “PO attached against last week's quotation.”

every enquiry — owned and followed through

  • Enquiry · Sharma Fabricators

    14 items · checklist done · in costing

    Owned
  • Quote · Precision Gears

    Approved · sent 10:20 · follow-up tomorrow 9 am

    Sent
  • Order · Apex Valves

    Quote won · work order ready for production

    Your call

3 messages since morning — all picked up. nothing missed.

illustrative · the kind of system we built with Yogeshwar Engineering — every enquiry owned, quoted and followed through

one client story · told in full

We'd rather show you one business up close than a wall of logos.

Every business we take on gets this depth. Yours would be the next story here.

read their story ↓

client

Yogeshwar Engineering

50%shorter cycle,
enquiry to quotation

built with their sales, costing and production teams

01 · the-problem — software that made you work its way

You bought the software. Your team went back to WhatsApp.

pain-01

You bent your process to fit the software

Months of setup. Fields that don't match how you quote, cost or plan. Workarounds on top of workarounds — and the software still doesn't know how your business actually runs.

pain-02

The real work moved back to WhatsApp and Excel

Enquiries in one inbox, changes in a group chat, the real plan in someone's spreadsheet. Things slip through, nobody sees the full picture, and margin leaks quietly, job after job.

pain-03

You know AI matters. Nobody has shown you where.

Your customers talk about it. You've tried a chatbot or a note-taking app — useful, but nowhere near your shop floor. Nobody has sat down with you to show where it would actually pay off.

it's not just you · why two-thirds of software rollouts die on the shop floor →

02 · why-now — yesterday's limits

Software built around your business used to cost a fortune. Not anymore.

A few years ago, a system shaped to how you work meant a big budget, a long project and a team of developers. So you made do with off-the-shelf software, or stayed on spreadsheets.

That trade-off no longer holds. AI has made building software dramatically faster — so the hard part isn't the code any more. It's understanding your business well enough to build the right thing.

then

  • Software built for an average business — so you bend to it
  • A big budget and a long project before anything works
  • Or you stay on spreadsheets and WhatsApp, and make do

now

  • Systems shaped around how you already work
  • A small working proof first, on your real problem
  • Improved step by step, with your team using it every day

03 · how-we-work — small steps, your team in the loop

You don't need to know where AI fits. Finding that is our job.

step/01

We start with what hurts most

We sit with you and your team to find the problems that cost you most — what causes them, where your data lives, and how work really flows between people and systems.

step/02

A small proof, fast

Before anything big, we build the smallest working version that tackles your real problem — on your real data, not a demo.

step/03

Your team runs it. We sit beside them.

We don't test it in a lab. Your people use it in their daily work while we watch closely — so every rule and every screen is shaped by how they actually work.

step/04

Small steps, sharper every round

Each round of feedback becomes the next improvement. Every suggestion shows its reason, and a person approves what matters. Over time, it carries your best people's judgement.

04 · youno — where your team works with it

Your team keeps chatting. The work gets done.

Nobody on your floor wants another app to learn. So your team works through Youno — a work chat app as simple as WhatsApp, on ordinary Android phones. It reads Hindi, Marathi, Hinglish and English, and turns what people say into owned, tracked work.

It's also the front door to the systems we build for you. Same chat, same habits — with your business behind it. Where a judgement call is needed, it waits for a person.

visit youno.si ↗talk to us about youno →
youno · monday morningillustrative
Youno · Sales group9:12 am

“Sharma Fabricators wants a quote for 14 sizes by Friday.”

Enquiry logged · owner assigned
Youno · Floor group9:40 am

“CNC-2 down. Bearing gone. Fitter called.”

Planner told · jobs moved to CNC-1
Youno · Purchase10:05 am

“EN8 rods kal subah tak aa jayenge, pakka.”

Task: confirm EN8 arrival · tomorrow 11 am
Youno · Engineering10:15 am

“Drawing rev 3 for Job 1136. Bore size changed.”

Floor notified before cutting
Youno · Owner10:30 am

“Send me today's pending quotes before 6.”

Your call — 3 quotes waiting for approval

Your team just kept chatting. Nothing got lost.

05 · client-story — yogeshwar engineering

That problem you've learned to live with? It can be fixed now.

before

Enquiries arrived by email and were tracked in a Google Sheet. With so many coming in, enquiries were regularly missed — and with them, orders.

what we built

We sat with their sales, costing and production teams and built a system around how they already worked: every enquiry picked up, given an owner, checked, costed, approved and quoted — with a follow-up the next morning.

after

Enquiry to quotation, 50% faster. A person still reviews every step. Now we're taking the same approach onto the shop floor.

Enquiries used to come in by email and sit in a Google Sheet until someone remembered them. We were losing work we never knew we had lost. Now every enquiry is picked up, owned and followed through, and our quotations go out in half the time.
AK

Alok Kanani

CEO, Yogeshwar Engineering Pvt. Ltd.

client

06 · why-trust-it — built around how you work

Built around how you already work.

Keep what works. Fix what doesn't.

Your current software stays if it does the job — that's your call. Where it's limiting or too rigid, we build custom workflows for the parts it doesn't handle, and bring the rest together in one place.

emailWhatsAppExcelregistersone place

It never decides behind your back

Every suggestion comes with the reason, in plain language. You approve, change or reject. The system does the legwork — you keep the control.

suggestion · needs your call

Pull Job 1130 ahead? EN8 stuck till Monday.

ApproveChange

One version of truth

Sales, production and the shop floor work from the same picture. When something changes, everyone knows at the same time.

salesproductionshop floor

built on the floor, not in a slide deck · read why we started Wisemove

07 · who-its-for — the people who run the business

Made for the people who run the business.

for the owner

Stop wondering where AI fits. See it working on the problem that was costing you most — and know what to point it at next.

for the production head

Your years of experience get built into the system, not replaced by it. Fewer surprises on the floor, and the reason behind every suggestion.

for sales & business development

Every enquiry owned and followed through. Promise dates and prices you know the business can keep.

supplying large companies? they're reshaping how they work with AI — and sooner or later they'll expect their suppliers to keep pace.

08 · working-together — scoped to one problem

Software built for you. And people who keep it sharp.

There's no price sheet, because no two businesses have the same problem. Every engagement is scoped to the problem worth solving first — and grows one step at a time from there.

We stay close long after the first version works. That's the difference between buying software and having a partner who keeps making it better.

how an engagement starts

Start with one problem

step by step

You see it working on your own business before you commit to anything bigger.

  1. A conversation about what hurts most — in Hindi or English
  2. Discovery with your team: the causes, your data, how work flows
  3. A small working proof, on your real problem
  4. A pilot your team runs — with us sitting beside them

Scoped to your business

Your team uses it through Youno, which has its own simple plans · see youno plans ↗

Book a call

09 · frequently-asked — before you book a call

Questions we hear from business owners.

We don't know where AI fits in our business. Is that a problem?

Not at all — that's where most businesses start. Finding the right problem is the first part of our work. We sit with your team, look at where time, money and orders slip away, and pick the one worth solving first. If AI isn't the right answer for it, we'll tell you.

We already use Tally, SAP or another ERP. Do we have to replace it?

No — that's your call, not ours. If your current software does the job, keep using it. If you find it limiting or too rigid for the way you work, we can build custom workflows for the parts it doesn't handle well.

We tried an ERP or CRM before and the team stopped using it. Why would this be different?

Most software fails on the floor because it asks your team to work its way. We build around the way your team already works, and we sit beside them while they use the first versions — so what doesn't fit gets fixed, not ignored.

Will this replace my people?

No. It takes away the chasing, re-typing and remembering, so your people spend their time on the calls only they can make. Their experience is what shapes the system — every suggestion shows its reason, and a person approves what matters.

What is Youno, and does my team have to use it?

Youno is our work chat app — as simple as WhatsApp, and it works on ordinary Android phones. It turns what your team says in chat into owned, tracked work, and it's the simplest way for your people to work with what we build. We'll decide together what fits your business.

How long before we see results?

We start small on purpose. The first working proof tackles one real problem on your real data, and your team starts using it while we sit beside them — so you see whether it's working long before any big commitment. At Yogeshwar Engineering, the enquiry-to-quotation cycle came down by half.

What does it cost?

Every engagement is scoped to your business and the problem we're solving — there's no one-size price sheet. We start small, so you can judge the value before you commit to more. Book a call and we'll talk it through before you commit to anything.

Is our order, pricing and customer data safe?

Your data is used only to run the systems we build for you, and is never shared outside your business. If your team has specific security or compliance questions, we're glad to walk through them on a call before you share anything.

Do you only work with manufacturers?

Yes — only small and medium manufacturers. Staying in one industry is how we get close enough to your problems to solve them properly, and why we understand your shop floor from the first conversation.

10 · next-step — bring us your hardest problem

Bring us the problem that costs you most.

Tell us what you make and what keeps going wrong. In one conversation we'll tell you honestly whether and where AI can help — even if the answer is “not yet”.

45 minutes · in hindi or english · nothing to install first