EN · PT · ES
Get in touch
Training ends and people go back as novices. A3i sets up the process with your leaders and puts a coach beside every person.
Where the method was practised
Steel · Automotive · Industrial equipment · Healthcare
You train more people. They learn the method, go back to their area and get stuck on the first real problem, because nobody is beside them when it gets hard. One experienced coach can sit with four people at a time. A site has hundreds.
The method was never the constraint. The coaching was.
The coach asks what an experienced coach would ask, and pulls you back when you jump to the fix. Every answer lands on the page.
One playbook for every person, from general manager to supervisor. Not a chatbot that drifts with each answer.
Your own spreadsheet. Upload it and the coach draws the chart with you.
One page for the manager. The finished A3 reads in two minutes. The coach has already asked for the data and checked the cause, so the manager can review it without being an A3 expert.
[Two lines: the problem, what the team found, what changed.]
“[Short quote from the person who owned the problem.]”
[Name], [role], [Client name]
Illustrative cases. Invented companies and figures, built to show how the coach works. No client data.
Rodrigo Langone. Industrial engineer, Six Sigma Black Belt, working with A3 since 2005, in operations across 14 countries. The coach carries that experience to every problem owner at once.
Where the method came in.
Why problem solving fails in implementation. A3i is still answering it.
The A3 system Gerdau ran across 60 sites.
A Gerdau steel mill in California, with a melt shop, a rolling mill and 200 people, losing money every month. By the time Rodrigo left, it was back in profit. The first time the A3 carried a whole transformation.
Structured problem solving taken plant by plant through the group. That is where the coaching ceiling showed.
A healthcare cooperative with no Lean history. Its leaders learned A3 on their own open problems, and the first AI agents coached them through the method.
The 2008 software carried the method to 60 sites, but not the coach beside each person. The AI coach adds that part, one for every person.
A coach beside every person, from their first A3. It builds the A3 with each problem owner, draws charts from their data and hands the manager a one-page report.
Start small: one open problem.
Ask for beta accessFor the process around the tool: one standard for how problems get solved, training on your own open problems, and a review routine your leaders run. Also targets set in money, process redesign and turnarounds. Every gain is measured, signed off by your controller, and counted once.
Start small: one team, one metric.
Get in touch
Your heroes can finally take a vacation.
One session, one real problem, run through the tool. You will know whether it fits your company, and you leave with the first version of the A3 either way. If it fits, the next step is one team and one metric.
Get in touchOnline. No preparation and no slides: bring the problem as it is.