Solution Overview
Introduction
Ai-Butler Biz
Daily profit and loss for small and mid-sized manufacturers | Ontology knowledge DB + LLM (RDF RAG)
AI that explains your profit and loss, every morning
Not just what changed? → but why, where and when it changed
Management decisions based on Daily P&L rather than a month-end roll-up
RDF Triples5M+
Instances3M+
IP5 patents filed
The limits of conventional ERP reporting vs Ai-Butler Biz
Legacy ERP (month-end, account-centric)
Late to tell you
• Focused on totting up results (late to tell you)
• Hard to trace causes (why / where / when)
• Reliant on tacit knowledge held by individuals
• Managed piecemeal, department by department
• Hard to trace causes (why / where / when)
• Reliant on tacit knowledge held by individuals
• Managed piecemeal, department by department
Ai-Butler Biz (Daily P&L, with explanations)
Cause-centric
• Detects daily P&L changes & explains the cause
• Traces them through events and cost drivers
• Turns knowledge into structure via an ontology
• Answers questions on the spot through a chatbot
• Traces them through events and cost drivers
• Turns knowledge into structure via an ontology
• Answers questions on the spot through a chatbot
5 Key Cost Drivers
Spec
Volume
Defect
Yield
Innovation
Features
Features
How it works (Ontology RDF RAG + Daily P&L)
1
Shop-floor and business data
PLM·BOM·MES SCM·QMS·ERP
2
Event extraction
Change Event ID mapped to cost drivers
3
Ontology knowledge DB
RDF/OWL · SPARQL GraphDB
4
LLM dialogue and reasoning
Qwen·Llama3 RAG Q&A
5
Daily P&L
Explains the cause Suggests what to do
Cause-based decisions
Why, where and when,
explained at once
Minimal losses
Early warning on defects,
yield and volume
Knowledge made your own
Tacit know-how
turned into an ontology
Value for small and mid-sized manufacturers (End-Customer Benefits)
1
One-day cycle
Problems found sooner
2
Standardized explanations
Cost drivers connect the floor to head office
3
Knowledge that stays
Kept even when staff change
Quick Matrix: what sets it apart
| Item | Typical ERP | Ai-Butler Biz |
|---|---|---|
| Cycle | Monthly / quarterly | Daily |
| Viewpoint | Accounts | Events / drivers |
| Explanation | Reports | Explanation + dialogue |
| Knowledge | Documents / people | Ontology DB |