For Founders, CEOs & Managing Directors

What does operational AI actually cost, and when does it pay back?

OpsGrid reduces operational decision latency from 2–3 days to 1–2 hours — deployed in 2 weeks, measurable ROI in 30 days or 50% back. No seat fees. No subscriptions. Engineered for mid-market manufacturers and distributors running Dynamics 365 Business Central.

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The business case

Four numbers that define the OpsGrid return.

Modelled on live Business Central deployments in manufacturing and distribution. These are outcomes from real operational environments, not analyst projections.

Decision infrastructure in production

Mid-market manufacturer, Dynamics 365 Business Central, 2-week deployment.

60×
Faster decisions
2.3 days → 1.2 hours
85%
Fewer stockout incidents
20/month → 3/month
80%
Expedite cost reduction
within 90 days
$0
BC writes without
human sign-off

Time to value

Live in 2 weeks. ROI measurable in 30 days.

OpsGrid is designed to close fast. There is no long integration project, no data migration, and no platform switch. It connects to what you already have.

Week 1–2

Deploy and connect

BC connection established, decision types configured, permission scope agreed. Teams webhook live. Your environment, your credentials, nothing moved.

Week 3–4

Team using it in Teams

First decisions surfaced. Approval routing live. Your ops team is acting on BC data from a Teams card — no ERP navigation, no email chains, no ops call required.

Day 30

ROI measurable

The metric we agreed at kickoff is tracked and reported. Decision latency down, stockout frequency down, expedite spend down. Or 50% of implementation refunded.

30-day ROI guarantee: measurable improvement on the agreed metric within 30 days of go-live or we refund 50% of the implementation cost. The metric is agreed before deployment begins.

What you're replacing

Not the ERP. The process around it.

OpsGrid doesn't replace Business Central. It replaces the inefficient processes your team uses to extract value from it — the email chains, the ops calls, the spreadsheet decisions.

Before OpsGrid
With OpsGrid
Weekly ops call to surface what BC already knows
Ranked decisions in Teams, daily — before the situation becomes a crisis
Email chain to find an answer that's in BC
One question in Teams, live BC data, answer in seconds
6-click navigation in BC to check a PO or stock level
Natural language query — "What POs are overdue?" — answered instantly
Spreadsheet decisions with no cost weighting or audit trail
Cost-weighted recommendations, human approval, full audit trail in BC

Cost model

One implementation fee. One monthly access fee. Nothing else.

What you pay

  • Implementation fee — covers BC integration, Teams setup, 2-week deployment
  • Monthly access — includes monitoring, support, and decision model updates
  • No charges until you're live and using it

30-day ROI guarantee: measurable results within 30 days of go-live, on the metric we agree at kickoff, or we refund 50% of the implementation cost.

What you don't pay

  • Per-seat fees — OpsGrid doesn't charge by user
  • Data migration costs — nothing moves out of BC
  • Retraining budget — your team reads a Teams card
  • New platform licences — runs on BC and Teams you already have
  • Separate BI dashboards — decisions come to your team, not the other way round

Common questions

What founders and MDs ask us first.

How much does OpsGrid cost?
OpsGrid is priced as an implementation fee plus monthly access. There are no per-seat fees, no migration costs, and no retraining overhead. We share indicative pricing on the first discovery call once we understand the scope of your BC environment and the decision types you want to automate.
How long until we see ROI?
Measurable ROI within 30 days of go-live, or we refund 50% of the implementation cost. We agree the metric at the start — typically decision latency reduction, stockout frequency, or expedite cost — so there is no ambiguity about whether the guarantee applies.
What happens if it doesn't work?
If measurable ROI is not achieved within 30 days of go-live, we refund 50% of the implementation cost. The metric is agreed before deployment begins. We do not ask you to take the risk alone.
Do we need to replace any existing systems?
No. OpsGrid sits on top of Business Central and delivers into Microsoft Teams. It does not replace BC, replace your ERP, or require a new platform. You keep everything you have. OpsGrid adds a decision intelligence layer on top of it.
What does implementation involve?
Two weeks. Week one: BC connection, decision type configuration, permission scoping. Week two: Teams integration, approval routing, team walkthrough. By day 14 your team is using it. By day 30, ROI is measurable.

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