Layer Nine

Finland · Switzerland · Japan — For manufacturing operations

Your partner layer
for safe, frontier AI
on the factory floor.

Layer Nine designs AI systems that run the work between your ERP, planning, and shop floor. We combine agents with direct integration into your existing workflows, built around how your team operates. Less manual work, more focus on growth.

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01 — The problem

AI has real potential for manufacturing. The hard part is making it actually work.

Layer Nine helps you find the right opportunities, build the tools, and bring your team up to speed.

A layer that integrates with your ERP and planning tools, and adds intelligence where it matters.

02 — What Layer Nine does

The end-to-end build, in five moves.

  • 01

    We find where AI fits.

    Team interviews. Workflow mapping. Tasks the agent owns completely. Decisions your team makes faster with the agent doing the groundwork.

  • 02

    We build the system.

    One supplier handling the whole build, end to end. Discovery, design, integration, hand-off.

  • 03

    We connect your tools.

    We connect your existing tools. The agent reads from your systems directly. Your stack stays exactly as it is.

  • 04

    We keep it secure.

    Clear policies, scoped permissions, and human approval where the stakes are real.

  • 05

    We train your team.

    So the system runs without us in the room. Documentation, runbooks, and live workshops.

03 — Example use case

Production Planning Proposal Engine.

Phase 1

A daily reevaluation that surfaces what to produce, in what quantity, and what the downstream needs will be — sourced entirely from your existing ERP, read-only.

  1. 01

    Inputs

    • 01.1 Data retrieval from your ERP
  2. 02

    Processing

    • 02.1 Agent processing
    • 02.2 Forecasting
    • 02.3 Plan generation
  3. 03

    Output

    • 03.1 Refreshed daily
Step · 01 Read-only

Inputs

Sales orders, manufacturing orders, and stock levels, pulled directly from your ERP. Nothing is written back.

Step · 02 Daily

Processing

The agent processes the day's data, forecasts demand, and generates a production plan that balances stock, capacity, and downstream needs.

Step · 03 Human in the loop

Output

A production planning proposal delivered to your reviewer, refreshed daily. Accept, edit, or override. Layer Nine never writes back.

04 — Integration process

Light-touch involvement. We handle the build.

01 · Design

  1. Workflow discovery workshop with the client (1–1.5h)

    Client involvement

  2. Layer Nine drafts the workflow architecture

  3. Validation session with the client (30–60 min)

    Client involvement
02 · Implementation

  1. Client grants ERP access (30 min)

    Client involvement

  2. Layer Nine builds and deploys the Production Planning Agent

  3. Check-ins (~1 hour total)

    Client involvement
03 · Deployment & Feedback

  1. Client reviews daily suggestions and shares feedback

    Client involvement

  2. Layer Nine tunes the system based on that feedback

05 — Security & control

Built so the agents can't break things.

Layer Nine runs in your environment, on your keys, with the smallest permission scope each agent needs. High-impact actions wait for a human. Every step is logged.

01

Dedicated environment

Your data, your tenant, your keys. Nothing leaves.

02

Scoped permissions

Least-privilege per tool and per action.

03

Approval gates

High-impact actions wait for a person, not a timer.

04

Action logs

Every step recorded, every action queryable.

05

Human review

Reviewers configured per workflow, per role.

The agents move fast where the work is repetitive. They stop where judgement is required. That line is drawn by your team, not by agent.

Ownership

You own everything from day one.

Agents Configs Workflows Prompts

06 — Where this goes next

More directions worth a conversation.

  • L·01

    Internal Knowledge Q&A Agent

    An LLM-based chat agent that answers production workers' questions, reducing interruptions to office staff.

  • L·02

    Distributor Sales Data Collection

    Automated email sequencing to collect sales data from distributors and monitor performance.

  • L·03

    Distributor Validation & Qualification

    Automating the qualification of new distributors — cross-matching credentials, channels, and reputation.

  • L·04

    Purchase Order Automation

    Extending production planning to auto-generate purchase orders for raw materials, factoring in supplier price signals.

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Built around the work, not around the tools.

Tell us about a workflow that's costing your team hours. We'll come back with a hypothesis and a scope you can poke holes in.

One partner Frontier-aware Yours from day one