Brass & Bench · Est. 2026

We don't
write reports.
We walk floors.

Six operator-led founding partners. Two weeks onsite at your mid-market manufacturing operation. Custom AI software shipped during the engagement. A bound implementation plan handed over in person.

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The four-word brand promise

  • Operators.

  • Onsite.

  • Outcomes.

  • Owned.

The Firm

Six partners.
One firm.
Every engagement.

Most consulting firms send associates. We send the people whose names are on the door. Every time, every engagement, on your floor. That is the entire model. It is why the engagement costs what it costs. It is also why you only need one.

Meet The Founders

40+

Years building manufacturing businesses

Mike Fox

20+

Years industrial engineering

Ben Kurtz

15+

Years international + gov't contracts

Lorrie Lynn

15+

Years commercial insurance audit

Pam Kurtz

56+

Platforms shipped

Jason Santiago

∞

Plants stood up from dirt

Talon Fox

The team

On your floor. Every engagement.

The Signature Engagement

Ten working days.
Five phases.

The Two-Week Onsite engagement. $140K all-in. Travel, equipment, software builds, binder production, and thirty days of post-engagement support. Everything inside one number.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Day one onsite. Six partners walk every corner of your operation. By end of day, ownership has heard the first observations.

  2. 02

    Design

    Days two through five. Department by department. Each partner takes the area that matches their expertise.

  3. 03

    Build

    Week two. Custom software built on your data, in your environment. Deployed, documented, trained.

  4. 04

    Document

    The Binder gets drafted. Every finding categorized by criticality. Dollar math attached to every recommendation.

  5. 05

    Deploy

    Day ten. Mike returns. Ownership walks the binder section-by-section. The custom tools transfer. The work begins.

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The Binder. Bound implementation plan, hand-delivered

The deliverable

The Binder.

A bound, hand-delivered, hardcover implementation plan. Eighty to one hundred fifty pages. Everything ownership needs to defend the changes to a board, a lender, an auditor, or a buyer.

Pages
80–150
Sections
9
Format
Bound + USB
Support
30 days
Inside the binder

The custom tools

Working software.
Shipped during the engagement.

Every engagement includes custom software and AI automation built on your actual data, in your actual environment, by the partner who holds a patent-pending in multi-AI orchestration and has personally architected more than fifty-six platforms.

No other consulting firm in this market ships working software with the engagement. We do.

What we build

Last twelve months

1M+

Lines of production code, personally written by the partner who builds the tools that ship with your engagement.

Patent-pending

Multi-AI orchestration

Platforms shipped

56+ across the full stack

Verticals served

Anchored in ammunition.
Built for any regulated, exacting, mid-market manufacturer.

The arithmetic

Every engagement
returns the engagement.

Investment

$140K

All-inclusive. Two weeks.

Typical identification

$750K–$5M

In annual operational value, recovered insurance premium, and enterprise-value uplift.

Minimum threshold

10×

First-18-months ROI. We don't take engagements that can't hit this bar.

Ready

Put the team
on your floor.

The first call is a thirty-minute conversation with Mike. No deck, no pitch. Just a clear understanding of whether the engagement is the right fit for what your business is trying to do.

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