AI & automation consultancy · Indian MSMEs under ₹100 Cr
Every hour your people spend moving data between systems is an hour nobody paid you for. We take that number to zero, and we measure it before we start.
§ 01 The condition
A ₹40 Cr manufacturer runs on Microsoft 365, a cloud accounting package, and eleven spreadsheets that only one person understands. The licences are paid. The capability sits unused, because nobody had time to connect anything to anything else.
§ 02 Services
We do not sell a platform. We work inside the systems you already pay for, connect them, and automate the handoffs between them. Every engagement below is scoped, priced and measured on its own.
One company login across every internal system. Multi-factor authentication, role-based access, department groupings, and a real audit trail of who opened what and from where. Shared passwords go away.
Removes: per-app accounts, password sheets, orphaned logins after staff leaveYour spreadsheets migrated into a structured cloud store that everyone reads from, inside your own tenant. Offline-tolerant, with a health panel so a broken connection is visible instead of silent.
Removes: version arguments, laptop-local data, re-keying between sheetsA live read from Tally or Zoho Books into a dashboard the owner can open any morning. Cash position, receivables, payables, burn rate, and a forecast built on committed bills.
Removes: waiting on the CA, month-end reconstruction, board-pack assemblyCompany mailboxes read into a pipeline. Genuine RFQs separated from noise by a classifier trained on your own mail, contacts lifted from signatures, and the right brochure attached to the draft reply.
Removes: manual triage, lost enquiries, CRM data entryA bid library that reads itself. Each document classified as a real specification or paperwork, technical parameters extracted into a comparable table, and purchase orders parsed straight out of PDF.
Removes: manual spec extraction, PO re-keying, missed closing datesProduction orders, batch traceability, service contracts, and a component store where parts are added by scanning the supplier's barcode. Specifications decode from the part number without a network call.
Removes: physical stock counts, paper job cards, missed AMC renewalsA seventh engagement, a private AI assistant grounded on your own business data, is deliberately sold last. It is only worth building once the data underneath it is clean, and selling it first is the most common way these projects fail.
§ 03 The metric contract
Before anything is built we measure the current state, agree the target in writing, and agree how it will be read back. If the number does not move, you stop paying. This is the whole of our differentiation and we would rather lose the work than drop it.
| Measure | Typical starting point | Contracted target | How it is read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff hours per week re-keying data | 18 – 25 hrs | under 3 hrs | Two-week timesheet sample, before and after |
| Days to close monthly books | 21 – 30 days | 5 – 7 days | Close date stamped in the accounting system |
| First response to an enquiry | 2 – 5 days | under 4 hrs | Mailbox timestamps, full month |
| Enquiries closed with no reply at all | 12 – 20% | under 2% | Inbox audit against pipeline records |
| Tender documents screened per person-day | 6 – 10 | 60+ | Document log, per bid cycle |
| Stock record accuracy at audit | 60 – 78% | above 97% | Physical count against system count |
These are the ranges engagements are scoped against, not results claimed on your behalf. Your own baseline is measured in the audit, and the targets in your contract are set from that reading.
§ 04 Method
A business this size cannot absorb a two-year transformation programme, and should not be asked to. Every phase stands alone, ships in weeks, and gives you a clean point to stop.
Three days on site and in your systems. Every manual handoff mapped and costed in hours, the baseline readings taken, and a phased plan with prices against each phase. You own the document whether or not you continue.
Identity, access and the tenant tidied up. Nothing else can be built safely until one login controls everything and the right people see the right things.
Data consolidated and the finance dashboard live. This is where you decide whether we are worth keeping, on evidence rather than on a proposal.
The two or three processes that cost the most hours, automated and measured against the baseline. Usually enquiry handling, tender screening, or inventory.
A private AI layer on your own cloud tenant, reading your own data. Built last, on clean foundations, so it answers correctly instead of confidently.
Training and adoption support runs through every phase. A system staff work around, while quietly maintaining their old spreadsheet, has failed no matter how well it was built.
§ 05 Rates
Open-ended IT billing is the reason most businesses this size never start. Our rates are fixed and stated here. Programme work is quoted as a firm price per phase after the audit, never as an hourly estimate that drifts.
Consultation
₹20,000
per hour
Single sessions. A second opinion on a vendor quote, an architecture review, a decision you need to get right this week.
Advisory day
₹1,00,000
per day
On site or remote, with your team. Workshops, hands-on problem solving, or an internal capability handover.
The Zero Audit
₹3,00,000
3 days, fully credited
The entry engagement. Credited in full against a programme if you proceed within 90 days.
Build programme
₹30,00,000
typical, phased
A full multi-phase programme for a business of this size. Scoped from the audit and billed per phase against delivery.
Cloud and licence costs are billed to you directly by Microsoft or your provider, at their price. We do not mark them up, and we will tell you when you are paying for licences you are not using. A managed support retainer is quoted separately at the end of a programme.
§ 06 Standing
The Zero Manual is the consulting practice of Noki Technologies, an instrumentation company building radiation detection and medical device systems in India and Australia. Every service on this page runs inside our own business before it is offered to yours.
Our own operations run on a single internal platform covering finance, sales, tendering, manufacturing, inventory and service. The first meeting is a demonstration of a live system, not a capability deck.
We design instruments to IEC and ISO standards and supply into AERB-regulated environments. The discipline that requires is the same discipline we bring to your systems: measure it, document it, make it repeatable.
Everything is built inside infrastructure you own and control. AI runs on your own cloud deployment, not a public chatbot. If you end the relationship, the systems keep working and the data stays yours.
§ 07 Start
The first conversation is thirty minutes and costs nothing. Come with the process that wastes the most time, and we will tell you plainly whether it is worth automating and roughly what it would take.
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The Zero Manual · A practice of Noki Technologies Pvt Ltd · India & Australia