AI-Native Consulting

McKinsey ships strategy.
We ship the system.

Forward-deployed engineers embed on your shop floor.
Co-build the AI roadmap. Ship Cortex on your stack. Stay with you forever.

Strategy without an AI-native implementer is just a deck that decays.

What consulting delivers

Slides. Roadmaps. Hours.

✕A 12-week engagement, mostly senior strategists

✕A strategy deck and target-state architecture diagram

✕Hourly-billed analysts who model your future, not your floor

✕Team rolls off Day 91. Implementation is your problem.

✕~80% of the gains decay within 18 months

What Carbyn delivers

Working systems. Shipped code.

✓An AI agent that actually runs on your floor

✓Integration with your ERP, MES, QMS. Built, not described.

✓Engineers who fight in the software trenches with you

✓The capture infrastructure that catches what the master knows

✓Engineers who stay after Day 91. The brain compounds.

Value delivered over time

Day 91 - team rolls off

Consulting: decays

Carbyn: compounds

Our Model

Forward-deployed engineers for your shop floor.

Co-build the strategy. Ship the system. Stay with you forever.

Strategy

AI-Native Strategy + Architecture

We co-design the AI roadmap with your ops and engineering leads. Not a slide deck. An executable architecture mapped to your floor, your ERP, your QMS.

Implement

Cortex + Custom AI Agents

We ship Carbyn Cortex on your stack and build customized AI agents for your shop's workflows. No SoW handoff to your IT team. We are the implementers.

Maintain

Forever-on Partnership

We stay embedded. Cortex compounds with every shift you run. We monitor, retrain, and extend agents as your floor evolves.

Strategy stays. Engineers stay. The brain compounds.

Engagement

90 days. Three phases. Hard deliverables.

Time-boxed. Metric-anchored. No open-ended retainers.

WEEKS 1-4

Diagnose

●Day-in-life observation across owner, floor manager, operator
●Mom-Test interviews to surface the real $-leaks
●Baseline NCR cycle time + rework cost (data quality audited)
●Ranked leak map + AI strategy spec

WEEKS 5-12

Implement

●Carbyn Cortex deployed on your stack
●2-3 custom AI agents shipped for priority workflows
●Tribal knowledge captured via AI glasses + voice
●Super-users trained. IT + security signed off.

WEEK 13+

Operate

●Forever-on Cortex license + agent maintenance
●Quarterly ops review with operating leadership
●Agent retraining as workflows evolve
●Expansion roadmap (next workflows, next sites)

Guaranteed deliverables: Leak map. Cortex deployment. 2-3 AI agents live. Captured tribal knowledge. Trained super-users.

Economics

McKinsey-grade outcomes. A brain that stays.

McKinsey / BCG

12 weeks. Hours-billed.

✕Deck deliverables

✕~80% gains decay by mo. 18

✕No residual system

✕Team rolls off Day 91

AI Software Vendor

Annual license. No service.

✕IT-stalled deployment

✕Unproven shop-floor ROI

✕No embedded ops capability

✕Sits in pilot purgatory

Carbyn

Brain stays.

Outcome-aligned. Fees tied to your rework reduction.

✓Cortex compounds every shift you run

✓ex-McKinsey & Kearney operators + AI engineers on floor

✓ERP-integrated. Audit-trail by default.

✓The system stays after Day 91

Proof Point

3 months at a Bay Area aerospace CNC.

~200 employees. Live engagement.

SOPs captured

20+ yrs of senior operator know-how codified

-42%

Rework cost

NCR count down sharply. Auditable in QMS.

Faster onboarding

3 yrs to ~6 months ramp to productive

-30%

Spec deviation

Real-time compliance checks via vision AI

Built By

ex-McKinsey operators + AI engineers.

Jungkeun Hong

CEO

ex-McKinsey & Kearney. Family manufacturing business. Berkeley Haas MBA.

Jeremy Toce

CTO

Ex-Vanta, Webflow, Shipt. 10+ years shipping software.

Two ways to start.

Both credited toward a full engagement.

Option A · Single Shop

2-week paid diagnostic

Embedded observation + leak quantification + go-forward scope. 100% credited if you proceed.

Option B · PE Portfolio Sweep

3-shop diagnostic

Parallel observation across 3 portfolio cos. Cross-portfolio playbook + Cortex pilot path.

Book a 30-minute scoping call

AI-Native Consulting

McKinsey ships strategy.
We ship the system.

Forward-deployed engineers embed on your shop floor.
Co-build the AI roadmap. Ship Cortex on your stack. Stay with you forever.

Strategy without an AI-native implementer is just a deck that decays.

What consulting delivers

Slides. Roadmaps. Hours.

✕A 12-week engagement, mostly senior strategists

✕A strategy deck and target-state architecture diagram

✕Hourly-billed analysts who model your future, not your floor

✕Team rolls off Day 91. Implementation is your problem.

✕~80% of the gains decay within 18 months

What Carbyn delivers

Working systems. Shipped code.

✓An AI agent that actually runs on your floor

✓Integration with your ERP, MES, QMS. Built, not described.

✓Engineers who fight in the software trenches with you

✓The capture infrastructure that catches what the master knows

✓Engineers who stay after Day 91. The brain compounds.

Value delivered over time

Day 91 - team rolls off

Consulting: decays

Carbyn: compounds

Our Model

Forward-deployed engineers for your shop floor.

Co-build the strategy. Ship the system. Stay with you forever.

Strategy

AI-Native Strategy + Architecture

We co-design the AI roadmap with your ops and engineering leads. Not a slide deck. An executable architecture mapped to your floor, your ERP, your QMS.

Implement

Cortex + Custom AI Agents

We ship Carbyn Cortex on your stack and build customized AI agents for your shop's workflows. No SoW handoff to your IT team. We are the implementers.

Maintain

Forever-on Partnership

We stay embedded. Cortex compounds with every shift you run. We monitor, retrain, and extend agents as your floor evolves.

Strategy stays. Engineers stay. The brain compounds.

Engagement

90 days. Three phases. Hard deliverables.

Time-boxed. Metric-anchored. No open-ended retainers.

WEEKS 1-4

Diagnose

●Day-in-life observation across owner, floor manager, operator
●Mom-Test interviews to surface the real $-leaks
●Baseline NCR cycle time + rework cost (data quality audited)
●Ranked leak map + AI strategy spec

WEEKS 5-12

Implement

●Carbyn Cortex deployed on your stack
●2-3 custom AI agents shipped for priority workflows
●Tribal knowledge captured via AI glasses + voice
●Super-users trained. IT + security signed off.

WEEK 13+

Operate

●Forever-on Cortex license + agent maintenance
●Quarterly ops review with operating leadership
●Agent retraining as workflows evolve
●Expansion roadmap (next workflows, next sites)

Guaranteed deliverables: Leak map. Cortex deployment. 2-3 AI agents live. Captured tribal knowledge. Trained super-users.

Economics

McKinsey-grade outcomes. A brain that stays.

McKinsey / BCG

12 weeks. Hours-billed.

✕Deck deliverables

✕~80% gains decay by mo. 18

✕No residual system

✕Team rolls off Day 91

AI Software Vendor

Annual license. No service.

✕IT-stalled deployment

✕Unproven shop-floor ROI

✕No embedded ops capability

✕Sits in pilot purgatory

Carbyn

Brain stays.

Outcome-aligned. Fees tied to your rework reduction.

✓Cortex compounds every shift you run

✓ex-McKinsey & Kearney operators + AI engineers on floor

✓ERP-integrated. Audit-trail by default.

✓The system stays after Day 91

Proof Point

3 months at a Bay Area aerospace CNC.

~200 employees. Live engagement.

SOPs captured

20+ yrs of senior operator know-how codified

-42%

Rework cost

NCR count down sharply. Auditable in QMS.

Faster onboarding

3 yrs to ~6 months ramp to productive

-30%

Spec deviation

Real-time compliance checks via vision AI

Built By

ex-McKinsey operators + AI engineers.

Jungkeun Hong

CEO

ex-McKinsey & Kearney. Family manufacturing business. Berkeley Haas MBA.

Jeremy Toce

CTO

Ex-Vanta, Webflow, Shipt. 10+ years shipping software.

Two ways to start.

Both credited toward a full engagement.

Option A · Single Shop

2-week paid diagnostic

Embedded observation + leak quantification + go-forward scope. 100% credited if you proceed.

Option B · PE Portfolio Sweep

3-shop diagnostic

Parallel observation across 3 portfolio cos. Cross-portfolio playbook + Cortex pilot path.

Book a 30-minute scoping call

McKinsey ships strategy.We ship the system.

What consulting delivers

What Carbyn delivers

Value delivered over time

Forward-deployed engineers for your shop floor.

Strategy

Implement

Maintain

90 days. Three phases. Hard deliverables.

Diagnose

Implement

Operate

McKinsey-grade outcomes. A brain that stays.

McKinsey / BCG

AI Software Vendor

Carbyn

3 months at a Bay Area aerospace CNC.

ex-McKinsey operators + AI engineers.

Jungkeun Hong

Jeremy Toce

Two ways to start.

2-week paid diagnostic

3-shop diagnostic

McKinsey ships strategy.We ship the system.

What consulting delivers

What Carbyn delivers

Value delivered over time

Forward-deployed engineers for your shop floor.

Strategy

Implement

Maintain

90 days. Three phases. Hard deliverables.

Diagnose

Implement

Operate

McKinsey-grade outcomes. A brain that stays.

McKinsey / BCG

AI Software Vendor

Carbyn

3 months at a Bay Area aerospace CNC.

ex-McKinsey operators + AI engineers.

Jungkeun Hong

Jeremy Toce

Two ways to start.

2-week paid diagnostic

3-shop diagnostic

McKinsey ships strategy.
We ship the system.

McKinsey ships strategy.
We ship the system.