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

Introduction

Check Your Fit is a short call to find out whether the math fits your operation, on your real constraints, with no commitment. If it does, the Pilot proves the return on your own data before you spend anything on production. Most software makes you pay first and find out later. This is the reverse. Here's exactly what each step involves and what you walk away with.

Three steps, and the first two carry almost no risk: a free call, then a contained-cost pilot, then production, only if the pilot earns it.

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 return on your actual plant before you commit to anything bigger.

Here's how it goes. You hand over a static snapshot of your operation, 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 actual constraints and show you what it finds: the capacity, the margin, and the working capital your current planning leaves on the floor.

That's the whole point of the pilot, the proof comes before the spend. For a fixed, contained cost, you see what a plan built around your real constraints is worth, before you put a dollar toward production. You watch the model run on your own plant, 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 comes later, only if you move to production. The pilot proves the value first and leaves the heavy lifting for after you're convinced.

Why it's structured this way

A configurable APS asks you to buy the license and fund the implementation on the promise it'll pay off. WonForge runs the other way: the Pilot proves the payoff first, on your data, for a fraction of an enterprise implementation. The proof comes before the spend, not after.

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