React-fix trap
Equipment fails without warning. Many SMEs are caught in a reactive maintenance trap, fixing things after they break. We’re building tools to spot degradation early and predict maintenance needs before they become emergencies.
Innovation Delivery
COLLATR:
Close the loop
Collatr puts machines, environment, people and processes into context. Continuously improving operational efficiency and team effectiveness.
Observe, adapt, decide, act.
Close the loop.
Actual Insights
The problems we’re solving
We know it’s a challenging time for manufacturers, which is why we’re making our beta programme available for free
Knowledge
When experienced engineers leave, their knowledge goes with them. Quality recruits are hard to find, and struggle to orient to your systems. Our aim is capture and maintain operational knowledge so it stays in the organisation.
New business
Selling outcomes can increase lifetime revenue, lock in customers, and differentiate SMEs from low-cost commodity competitors. We aim to provide the machine telemetry and the business insights needed.
The Collatr Promise
JOIN US, BUILD THE FUTURE
We’re building a next-generation data & insights service for SME manufacturers, prioritising: real-time performance analysis across machines, lines and sites; SOP curation and operational knowledge management; service triage and parts provisioning. Getting the right insight at the right time to the right person.
Right now, we’re looking for partner manufacturers to join our beta programme. Manufacturers that know they could get more from their data, people, technology and services.
- Free access to the Collatr platform
- We’ll focus on the tools you need
- Your data only goes where you want it
- Get the AI edge
Insight track
How it works
- Whole-organisation context not just machine data. Collatr integrates equipment telemetry, environmental conditions, human feedback, and business documentation into one connected picture.
- AI assistants that act, not just analyse. Triage tickets, predict maintenance needs, update documentation, optimise processes, manage parts provisioning, and answer questions in natural language.
- Offline-first edge computing. On-site data collection works with or without cloud connectivity, runs on commodity hardware, and supports standard industrial protocols (OPC-UA, MQTT, Modbus).
- Closed-loop improvement resolved problems automatically become updated SOPs, refreshed knowledge base articles, and refined process documentation. The platform gets smarter over time.
- Low-barrier adoption no proprietary hardware, no lengthy IT projects. Works with existing equipment and systems. SaaS pricing with try-before-you-buy.
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The Servitization Stall
The word “servitization” sounds like something a management consultant made up after too many coffees. The idea behind it is simple, powerful, and increasingly urgent for UK SME manufacturers.
Instead of selling a product and waving …
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Knowledge Walks Out
Here is an uncomfortable truth about UK manufacturing. The sector’s biggest vulnerability is people, or rather, the growing absence of them.
The numbers are blunt. 92% of manufacturing SMEs report skills shortages heading into 2025, according …
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Spreadsheets wont scale
Here’s a question worth sitting with. If your production manager called in sick tomorrow, how much of what they know about your factory’s performance is written down somewhere accessible?
For most UK SME manufacturers, the honest answer …
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Running to Failure
Many UK SME manufacturers know their maintenance approach falls short. They just have not had a better option that fits.
The typical picture looks something like this. A machine runs until something breaks. A maintenance engineer diagnoses the …
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Close the loop
Like every Doubly Good project, we started with discovery. A client knew they weren’t handling data effectively. What we found, was not especially unusual, but our ambitions to make it better, were.
As we dug deeper and spoke to other …
Working in public
We believe in closing the loop. For us, this means getting feedback on what we’re building. Where possible, we like to “build in public”. It means putting work-in-progress updates out there for everyone to see. Sure, we might make mistakes, but we’ll also learn something…
Building Collatr
These are updates on the Collatr build as we go. Starting with a key piece of the system - data collection. Otherwise known as Collatr Edge
Ready?
Let’s talk
No pitch decks. No pressure. Let’s have a conversation about your factory floor and see if Collatr is the right fit.