Make the tools you already pay for stick. Who uses them, on what, and which number has to move by month twelve.
JBL Consulting
AI transformation for building materials, construction and manufacturing.
Also private education. Operator-led.
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 I have run the numbers as a CFO. Three kinds of work, in your own words:
Change how the work gets done. Quote-to-cash, dispatch, month-end, estimating, back office. The process first, the technology second.
Ship the system when the process needs one. Integrations, agents, internal tools that run in production, not in a slide deck.
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 Barguñó: 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.