Trace
Drafts the cert packet from your MTRs and the job record, and flags any value that does not match. Your quality manager checks it and signs.
See TraceEvery job has a journey.
We build AI systems for manufacturers with 200 or more people. The AI drafts your quotes, cert packets, and email replies, and your people check and sign.
Built around how your company already works.
We test each system on your own past jobs before it goes live, and we train your team to run it.
Free, about 3 minutes. It estimates the hours your team spends retyping, and your report shows on screen.
AI drafts your paperwork. Your people check and sign.
We build it around how your company already works, test it on your own past jobs before it goes live, and train your team to run it.
Free, about 3 minutes. It estimates the hours your team spends retyping, and your report shows on screen.
Three paperwork jobs, before and after AI.
0hours of retyping a week in this example
Turn an RFQ into a quote2 hours, 7 a weekA draft, then you check it
Build the cert packet for a shipment1 hour, 11 a weekA draft, then you sign it
Sort the shared inbox90 min a day, 5 daysDrafts ready, you approve each
An example with round numbers, not a client result. Review still takes time, so the gain is smaller than the total. The free Hidden Hours Scan estimates yours.
Why manufacturers are looking at AI now.
Three public numbers to bring to your next budget meeting.
580,000
US manufacturing jobs open in July 2026 (preliminary). Manufacturing employment in August was about the same as a year earlier, so more of the work has to come from the people you already have.
$450,000
Median cost of an ERP project in Panorama's 2025 survey. In its 2026 survey, about 1 in 3 ran over budget, most often because the company needed more technology than it planned.
52
Notable AI model releases from the eight biggest AI labs in the 52 weeks to September 25, 2026, about one a week. Test any new one on your own past jobs before you switch.
Four systems we build. Start with one.
Pick the job that costs your team the most hours. All four systems share one job record, so the second one starts with the access and data the first one set up.
Quote
Drafts the quote from the RFQ and drawings, priced from your own cost data. Your estimator checks it and sends it.
See QuoteOperators
AI employees: AI software set up like a new hire, with its own login and inbox. Each one sorts requests, drafts replies, and reports to a named person on your team.
See OperatorsCommand
One live record per job, from quote to invoice, kept current by AI and checked by your people. We build it around the way your company already runs.
See Commandof your past jobs test each AI employee before it goes live.
Before an AI employee touches a customer, it works 50 of your own past cases with known answers and has to clear a bar you wrote down first. The free handbook shows how, step by step.
From a pilot: one AI employee tracks each order, mill to dispatch.
In a pilot with a U.S. building-products manufacturer, one AI employee tracks each order from the mill certificates through receiving, production, the yard, and dispatch. When something needs a decision, such as a changed delivery date, it calls in the right person.
Illustrative log, not a real order. Client details withheld.
Mill cert received and matched to the PO
Job released, schedule updated
Customer changed the delivery dateWaiting for the dispatcher to approve
Reorder quote drafted for the estimator
New to AI? Start with our free articles.
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Questions we hear
What does Movement Global do?
Movement Global builds AI systems for manufacturers. The AI does the first pass on the paperwork that slows you down, and your people check and sign. We build it around how your company already works, test it on your own past jobs before it goes live, and train your team to run it. Trace drafts cert packets, Quote drafts quotes, Operators sort the shared inbox and draft replies, and Command keeps one live record of every job. All four share one job record.
What is an AI employee?
An AI employee is AI software set up like a new hire: its own login, access to specific systems, one defined job, and a named person who reviews its work. It is usually right and sometimes confidently wrong, so a person checks its drafts before anything leaves the building. The free AI Employee Handbook explains it from the ground up.
Who is Movement Global for?
Movement Global is for manufacturers and industrial companies with 200 or more people, and for groups running several plants. It fits companies where estimators, quality managers, and coordinators spend hours retyping RFQs, building cert packets, and sorting shared inboxes.
How do AI and people split the work in a Movement Global system?
AI does the first pass: it reads documents, drafts quotes, cert packets, and replies, and flags what does not match. People check the draft against the source, decide, and sign. Nothing that commits the company goes out without a person's approval.
How do I get started with Movement Global?
Three free options. The Hidden Hours Scan takes about 3 minutes and shows your estimated hours and a first system on screen. The Free First Pass lets you send one real job and get the AI draft back within 48 hours, reviewed by a person on our team. The AI Employee Handbook walks your leadership team through the whole method.
See where your team's hours go.
Start the Hidden Hours Scan
Free, about 3 minutes. It estimates the hours your team spends retyping, and your report shows on screen.