Factory Performance
Find what’s slowing your factory down. Fix it.
Grade helps manufacturers identify the operational constraints hurting throughput, delivery, labor efficiency, and margin, then implements the changes required to remove them.
Primary offer
Factory Diagnostic
A focused engagement to answer: what is actually constraining this operation, what is it costing us, and what should we fix first?
Deliverables
- Onsite operational assessment
- Process and material-flow analysis
- Production-data review
- Bottleneck identification
- Labor and productivity analysis
- Systems and data assessment
- Quantified opportunity
- Prioritized 90-day action plan
Pricing
Starting at $12,500
After the diagnostic
The diagnostic tells you what to fix and what it’s worth. When you’re ready to fix it, Grade does the implementation:
Constraint Removal Sprint
$25k–$50k
Production System Implementation
$50k–$150k+
Digital Operations Deployment
$25k–$100k+
Built by operators, not career consultants.
Grade was founded by Matt Hroma, a mechanical engineer and technology executive whose experience includes SpaceX, Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper), Astra, and leadership roles building manufacturing systems, factories, products, and software.
- Ran launch vehicle assembly at SpaceX
- Built Astra’s first engine lines and a 100,000 sq ft rocket facility
- Authored the capital case for Amazon Leo’s $200M satellite factory and delivered it in under 18 months, scaling integration 30×
- CTO at Grounded through a 4× revenue turnaround, with work spanning mechanical engineering, automation, software, and operations
Matt Hroma · Founder · Detroit, MI
Factory Performance
Book a Factory Diagnostic Call
Tell us what’s breaking. We’ll come back with whether a diagnostic makes sense for your operation, and what we’d look at first.