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Small manufacturing workshop

Map the work, assign responsibilities and assess where digital support could help. Adapt this starting structure to your team.

A typical Small manufacturing workshop with 8 people covers 12 functions.

Up to 9 functions are eligible for Digital Employee support, under a personโ€™s supervision.

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dedicated
3

Functions someone does full time.

hats
6

Functions carried by someone who already carries others.

uncovered
2

Functions nobody does today.

Outsourced
1

Functions entrusted to an external specialist.

How does it look at your place?

Set your team size and say who covers each function today. The four numbers update as you go. Nothing leaves this page until you sign up.

8 people
3
dedicated
6
hats
2
uncovered
1
Outsourced

Who does it at your place?

  1. Owner and plant lead
    Typical: Usually someone full time
  2. Machinists: lathes, mills, press and deburring
    Typical: Usually someone full time
  3. Office: orders, production sheet, delivery notes and certificates
    Typical: Usually someone full time DE
  4. Quote requests, quote packs from material prices and follow-up
    Typical: Usually the owner, after hours DE
  5. Material and tools reorders and supplier follow-up
    Typical: Usually the owner, after hours DE
  6. Delivery notes to invoices and collections
    Typical: Usually the owner, after hours DE
  7. Supplier invoices, bank matching and payment packs
    Typical: Usually the owner, after hours DE
  8. Machine maintenance, safety, waste registers and training
    Typical: Usually the owner, after hours DE
  9. People administration, contracts and payroll handoff
    Typical: Usually the owner, after hours DE
  10. Hiring of machinists and apprentices and candidate screening
    Typical: Usually nobody DE
  11. Website, capabilities sheet and customer updates
    Typical: Usually nobody DE
  12. External accountant and payroll consultant
    Typical: Usually outsourced

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What a typical Small manufacturing workshop has to cover

Function by function: how it is usually covered, what hurts, and where a Digital Employee can take the hat under the supervision of whoever wears it today.

Owner

(1)

Owner and plant lead

Usually someone full time

This one is done by a person.

Production

(1)

Machinists: lathes, mills, press and deburring

Usually someone full time

This one is done by a person.

Office and administration

(10)

Office: orders, production sheet, delivery notes and certificates

Usually someone full time

The production sheet is rebuilt every morning around the urgent batch, delivery notes are handwritten and the certificate is written when the customer asks.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Quote requests, quote packs from material prices and follow-up

Usually the owner, after hours

Quotes are written at night from the material prices of last month, and the ones that get no answer are the parts a competitor made.

Digital Employee ยท Sales Core band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ490 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Material and tools reorders and supplier follow-up

Usually the owner, after hours

Material and tools are bought when the shelf is empty, and the late bar stock is the late batch.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Core band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ490 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Delivery notes to invoices and collections

Usually the owner, after hours

Handwritten delivery notes are typed into the invoice a week later, the customer pays at ninety days and disputes the extra.

Digital Employee ยท Finance Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Supplier invoices, bank matching and payment packs

Usually the owner, after hours

Supplier invoices for material, tools and the machines arrive on three channels and are paid when the reminder comes.

Digital Employee ยท Finance Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Machine maintenance, safety, waste registers and training

Usually the owner, after hours

Machine maintenance, the safety checks, the waste registers and the training have dates in a drawer, and the inspector reads them first.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Core band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ490 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

People administration, contracts and payroll handoff

Usually the owner, after hours

Eight contracts, the safety training certificates and the hours for the payroll consultant are the owner's Sunday.

Digital Employee ยท HR Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Hiring of machinists and apprentices and candidate screening

Usually nobody

Finding a machinist is a search through the wholesaler and the schools, and the applications get no answer.

Digital Employee ยท HR Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Website, capabilities sheet and customer updates

Usually nobody

The website shows the machines of ten years ago and the customers learn of the new capacity when the owner visits.

Digital Employee ยท Marketing Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

External accountant and payroll consultant

Usually outsourced

The books and the payroll are outsourced and fed in monthly batches, and the corrections come back at the quarter.

This one is done by a person.

The first week

What starts after the brief is complete, with every condition kept visible.

  1. A task from the role brief

    Once the brief is complete and the Digital Employee is active, Scovai creates a first task from the role definition. An incomplete brief never produces invented work.

  2. A useful daily summary

    At 07:30 local time, supervisors and the workspace owner receive yesterday's work, open approvals, incidents, silence and spend. Empty days send no email, except for the quiet Monday check-in.

  3. Phone updates by choice

    The push invitation appears only after the first approval request. If you do not enable it, the operational picture remains available in the email summary.

From a reference model to your structure

1

Start from the model

Sign up on the free AGENTIC plan with this blueprint preloaded. You confirm the profile and the functions; nothing is written until you apply.

Found your company
2

Assign the hats

Say who does what today. The mirror shows the load per person and the functions still uncovered, and marks where a Digital Employee is honestly proposable.

See how Digital Employees work
3

Hire from the marketplace

Explore Digital Employees by role and competence. Assign one only after choosing a seat, a clear brief and a human supervisor.

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Straight answers

Who supervises the digital employees?

Each digital employee sits in a seat under a named person in the company, usually the owner. It covers an administrative or support function under that person's supervision, reports what it did, and stops whenever the supervisor says so. No digital employee sits in the professional core seat.

What does a digital employee never decide?

Anything the owner decides: a quote and its price, a delivery date promised, a material or a tool bought, a part accepted or rejected, a safety measure, a hire, an answer to a complaint, and whatever its brief marks as reserved: payments, anything sent to an authority or a customer about money. On those it prepares the work and asks before acting; the first message to any outside recipient is always a draft.

Where does it take its data from?

From the order book, the production sheet, the quoting software, the supplier portals, the bank, the mailbox and the folders you connect to its seat, and from what the owner and the machinists tell it. It reads nothing you have not connected, contacts nobody you have not listed and handles personal data only within the systems you already use.

What does it cost?

Each digital employee is billed monthly by price band, shown in your currency on the marketplace before you claim a seat. You claim one seat at a time and can release it; there is no bundle price.