JBL Consulting

AI transformation for building materials, construction and manufacturing.

Also private education. Operator-led.

Mixer trucks beneath the loading point at a ready-mix batch plant in early light
Ready-mix · Cement · Aggregates · Construction · Manufacturing

Most industrial businesses do not have an AI problem.

They have a workflow problem: quoting, dispatching, reporting and chasing information eat the week of the people who should be running the plant and the P&L.

JBL Consulting helps building materials, construction and manufacturing companies fix that, and brings the same diagnostic to private schools, where its principal has run the numbers as a CFO. Three kinds of work, in your own words:

Cement plant with a rotary kiln line and preheater towerAdoption.

Make the tools you already pay for stick. Who uses them, on what, and which number has to move by month twelve.

Ready-mix mixer truck parked in a dispatch yardRedesign.

Change how the work gets done. Quote-to-cash, dispatch, month-end, estimating, back office. The process first, the technology second.

Aggregate quarry with a crusher, conveyors and stone stockpilesBuilding.

Ship the system when the process needs one. Integrations, agents, internal tools that run in production, not in a slide deck.

Loaded aggregate truck on a plant weighbridge beside a scale house in early lightProfitScan.

A 4-week diagnostic that puts a number on the hours and margin at stake before you commit.

Every engagement starts with two questions: where are the hours going, and who signs off on an AI use case today?

Then a 4-week diagnostic, ProfitScan, puts a number on the hours and the margin before anyone builds anything. You see the value before you commit to the work.

The objective is not fewer people. It is fewer hours of skilled time spent on work that creates no value.

JBL is run by Jordi Barguno: twelve years inside CEMEX and LafargeHolcim, where he took a digital platform for ready-mix from idea to multi-country rollout; six years advising owner-led industrial businesses; former CFO of an 11-school international group; and today a builder of working AI systems, including NoraVoz.