Houston, TX · Gulf Coast Manufacturing

Most AI firms have toured a factory. We ran one.

20 years in Gulf Coast precision manufacturing — aerospace components, bellows for oil & gas, industrial parts. We didn't study this industry. We operated in it. Now we bring AI into the workflows we know from the inside: quoting, compliance, sales follow-up, the things that eat your team's day.

Book a Discovery Sprint → See client results No find, no fee · Full refund if no opportunity found
4 hr → 22 min
RFQ generation
8 hr → 45 min
Compliance packages
$340K
Pipeline added in 90 days
8 wks
Kickoff to deployed system
§ 01 · Results

What actually changed for clients

These are real engagements. We use placeholder names until clients approve attribution; the numbers aren't rounded.

Precision Manufacturer · Houston, TX
4 hr
→ 22 min
RFQ turnaround time
Automated quoting for a 47-person bellows manufacturer
Their quoting team was pulling from three different systems, two spreadsheets, and a shared drive that nobody trusted. We built a single pipeline that pulls live inventory, historical pricing, and spec sheets into a draft quote in 22 minutes. They reviewed and sent more quotes in month one than in the previous quarter combined.
Mid-size precision manufacturer · Aerospace & oil & gas supply chain · 11 weeks kickoff to full deployment
Industrial Distributor · Texas
$340K
pipeline
Added in 90 days, no new headcount
AI outbound revived a lapsed-account programme that had sat dormant for two years
The sales team had a list of 400 accounts that had gone quiet. Nobody had bandwidth to work them. We built an AI-assisted outreach sequence that segmented by purchase history and personalised at scale. 6.2× increase in qualified conversations. The two reps running it spent their time on calls, not on CRM data entry.
B2B industrial distributor · Oil & gas sector · Houston Ship Channel supply chain
Contract Manufacturer · Gulf Coast
8 hr
→ 45 min
Per compliance package
AS9100 and ISO certification documentation — from a full day to less than an hour
Their quality team was spending 8 hours per certification package pulling data from three systems and reformatting it into the required documentation structure. We built an automated pipeline that generates the package from existing data. Zero defects in six months of production use. The quality manager now uses the freed time for actual quality work.
Aerospace subcontractor · 120 employees · Gulf Coast, TX
§ 02 · Fit

Three kinds of calls we get

If one of these sounds familiar, we're probably the right conversation.

01
"We've watched a competitor automate their quoting. We don't know where to start, but we know we're behind."
You've seen it at a trade show or heard it from a customer. The technology is real but the path to your specific operation isn't obvious. The Discovery Sprint gives you a concrete plan — not a slide deck, a working proof of concept — in three weeks.
02
"We ran an AI pilot 18 months ago. The team used it for three weeks, then went back to the spreadsheet."
This is the most common call we get. The technology wasn't the problem; the adoption approach was. We've seen this pattern enough times to know exactly where it breaks and how to fix it. We build for the shop floor, not for the demo.
03
"We have capable engineers. What we don't have is anyone who understands AI in a manufacturing context."
Your team can build. What they need is a partner who has seen the specific failure modes of AI adoption in operations environments — and who can tell them what to build before they build the wrong thing. That's our Virtual CTO service.
§ 03 · Entry point

The Discovery Sprint™

A fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement. Three weeks from kickoff to a working AI prototype and a 90-day implementation roadmap with a budget attached.

We audit your operations, identify the highest-ROI AI opportunity, build a proof of concept on your actual data, and present to your leadership team. If we don't find a real opportunity, you don't pay.

  • Operations audit and stakeholder interviews
  • Opportunity scoring across three ranked use cases
  • Working prototype built on your data, not a demo environment
  • 90-day implementation roadmap, scoped and budgeted
  • Leadership presentation included
Discovery Sprint™
Fixed scope. Fixed price.
Three weeks.
Delivered remotely or on-site · Houston & Gulf Coast
No-find, no-fee guarantee
If we don't identify a real AI opportunity in your operation, we refund the Sprint fee in full. No questions.
1.Operations audit & stakeholder interviews
2.AI opportunity identification and ROI scoring
3.Proof of concept built on your actual data
4.Roadmap delivery and leadership presentation
Book your Discovery Sprint →

"I'd been burned by consultants before. They show up, present slides, and disappear. Orvelo stayed until it worked. That's the difference."

VP of Operations · Precision Parts Manufacturer · Houston, TX
§ 04 · Services

What we build after the Sprint

The Discovery Sprint is the entry point. Most clients move into one of two ongoing engagements — or both — depending on where the biggest leverage is.

Service 01

AI Sales & Marketing Automation

We build and run the AI systems that generate, qualify, and follow up on leads. Your team focuses on relationships; the system handles the repetition.

  • Automated RFQ and quote generation
  • Lead scoring and follow-up sequences
  • Customer inquiry routing and response
  • Pipeline reporting from live data
  • CRM integration and data hygiene
Start with a Sprint →
Service 02

Virtual CTO — AI Direction

A senior technology partner embedded in your business. Not a consultant who presents and leaves — someone who owns the outcomes with your team.

  • AI strategy and vendor evaluation
  • Technical direction for your existing team
  • Build-vs-buy decisions, contract review
  • Data infrastructure and integration planning
  • Monthly executive reporting
Learn more →
§ 05 · Market

We work in the Gulf Coast corridor.
Not just in it — from it.

Most AI consulting firms are remote-first generalists who have visited a plant once for a pitch. We've spent 20 years operating inside Gulf Coast manufacturing businesses — running RFQ processes, managing aerospace compliance stacks, selling into the oil & gas supply chain.

In this market, local presence and operational credibility aren't nice-to-haves. They're how decisions get made. When we walk into a plant in Pasadena or La Porte, we're not introducing ourselves to the industry. We're coming back to it.

Meet the founders →
01
Petrochemical corridor
Pasadena, La Porte, Deer Park, Bayport. The densest industrial concentration in North America.
02
Oil & gas supply chain
Precision parts, bellows, valves, instrumentation. We know the specification requirements and the buyer relationships.
03
Aerospace cluster
Clear Lake, Webster, the JSC corridor. AS9100 compliance, ITAR, traceability requirements — we've navigated all of it.
04
Industrial distribution
Houston Ship Channel accounts, MRO suppliers, specialty distributors. We know how this market buys.
§ 06 · FAQ

The things people actually ask

Same questions on every first call. Real answers below.

Yes. It's happened once. We told the client we didn't find a strong enough use case, refunded the Sprint fee, and explained why. We'd rather lose a Sprint fee than build something that doesn't deliver. The guarantee exists because we're confident enough in the process — and because a client who signs up for a Sprint that doesn't deliver isn't someone we'd see again anyway.
No. We've worked with companies where the owner is also the IT department. The Sprint is designed to work with whatever infrastructure you have. We handle the build, document everything in plain language, and train whoever needs to use it. You don't need technical staff for the Sprint or for most of what follows.
We ask this question on every first call, and the answer is almost always the same: the tool was built for a demo environment, not the actual workflow. Or adoption wasn't designed into the project — it was assumed. We build for the specific process your team actually runs, train against real objections, and stay through adoption. The technology is the easy part; getting a manufacturing team to change how they work is the hard part, and it's where we focus.
The Sprint is priced between $7,500 and $12,000 depending on the size of your operation and whether we're on-site or remote. It's a fixed price — no hourly billing, no scope creep. Ongoing engagements start at $4,000/month for automation retainers and $6,000/month for Virtual CTO work. We'll give you an exact number before you commit to anything.
The Sprint delivers a working prototype in three weeks. That's built on your data and connected to your systems — not a demo we made in isolation. Clients who move into a full build are in production within 8 to 12 weeks of the Sprint kickoff.
It's the most common thing we hear, and it almost never turns out as bad as people expect. The Sprint includes a data readiness assessment — we'll tell you honestly what state you're in and what it'll take to clean up. In most cases, we can build a working proof of concept around what you have right now.
No. We don't take referral fees or vendor kickbacks. We recommend what's right for your stack and your budget, document everything thoroughly, and build in a way that your team can maintain without us. Independence is the goal, not dependency.
Because knowing how to build software and knowing how to implement AI in a manufacturing operations context are two different things. Your engineers are capable. What they're missing is experience with the specific patterns and failure modes of AI adoption on the shop floor. Think of it as augmenting your team, not replacing them.
§ 07 · What clients say

In their words.

"We tried to build this ourselves for six months. Orvelo had a working prototype in three weeks and our team actually adopted it."

CEO Industrial Distributor, Texas

"I didn't need another vendor. I needed someone who understood what it meant to quote a bellows assembly for a refinery. They did."

General Manager Precision Manufacturer, Houston Ship Channel
§ 08 · Start

Three weeks.
A working system.
Or a refund.

Book a free 30-minute call. We'll tell you honestly whether the Sprint makes sense for your operation — and if it doesn't, we'll say so.

Book a call →

No sales deck. No follow-up sequence. Just a real conversation.