What "Check Your Fit" Actually Means, and What a Pilot Looks Like

Introduction

Most enterprise software makes you commit before you know anything. You sit through demos, sign a multi-year contract, start a year-long implementation, and only then find out whether the thing actually works on your plant. By the time you know, you've already paid.

WonForge runs the opposite way. Check Your Fit is a short call — you find out whether the math fits your business on your real constraints, with no commitment. If it does, the Pilot proves the ROI on your real data at minimal client investment, before you commit to production. Here's exactly what each one involves and what you walk away with.

Check Your Fit: a conversation, not a commitment

"Check Your Fit" is a short call. Nothing more, and nothing you have to prepare for. The purpose is honest qualification, in both directions. You walk us through how your plant runs, the constraints that drive your schedule, the changeovers, yields, blends, shelf-life, the part of the plan that always ends up in a spreadsheet. We tell you, plainly, whether a WonForge model would find enough to be worth the effort. If it's not a fit, we'll tell you, before you've spent anything. If it is, you leave the call knowing how the optimization would apply to your constraints and what a pilot would set out to prove. No deck, no pressure, no contract. The only thing that happens on a Check Your Fit call is that you find out whether this is worth a next step.

The Pilot: proof on your real data, before any production commitment

If the fit is there, the next step is the Pilot, what we call Proof of Value. It runs three months, and it exists to do one thing: prove the ROI on your actual plant before you commit to anything bigger. Here's how it goes. You hand over a static snapshot of your real data, the kind of extract you can pull without an IT project, demand, recipes, capacities, changeover rules, the constraints your planners work around every day. We build a custom optimization model of your plant from it. Not a configured template, not a generic demo, a model of your physics. Then we run it against your real numbers and show you what it finds: the capacity, the margin, the working capital that a plan built around your actual constraints surfaces, and your current process leaves on the floor. That's the whole point of the pilot, the proof comes before the spend. It's a fixed, contained cost that shows you the value on your own plant before you put a dollar toward a production deployment. You see the model work, with your numbers, and then you decide whether to go further. And there's a practical bonus: because the pilot runs on that static snapshot, there's no integration to stand up, no connector, no IT lift to get started. That work only comes later, if you move to production. The pilot is designed to prove the value first and leave the heavy lifting for after you're convinced.

Why it's structured this way

The whole point is to put the proof before the spend. A configurable APS asks you to buy the license and fund the multi-year implementation on the promise that it'll pay off. WonForge inverts that: the Pilot proves the payoff first, on your data, for a fraction of an enterprise implementation, and only then do you decide whether to take it to production. That structure is deliberate, and it's only possible because the model is custom and focused rather than a heavy configured suite. There's no year of configuration to sit through before you see a result. You see the result, on your plant, in the pilot.

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