WAREHOUSE INVENTORY & ASSET TRACKING / EST. VANCOUVER
Count what’s
actually there.
A small consultancy with a narrow promise: find every box, part and asset in one warehouse — and prove it with numbers. RFID identifies it. UWB locates it. Weight confirms it. Nothing scales until a measured pilot says it works.
THE EMPTY BOX — THREE BARS, ONE DOT.
EVERYTHING MISSING, ONE THING FOUND.
Observed receiving time per box, counted by hand on the floor
Receiving target with scan, weigh & measure at the door
One warehouse pilot first — never a company-wide rollout on faith
Demonstration scope to first proof, behind real obstructions
The work
CORE SERVICE — THIS IS THE OFFERDistribution warehouses lose time and money in the same three places: receiving, the bins, and packing. Each one gets a plain, physical fix — no platform pitch, no rip-and-replace.
IdentifyRFID — EVERY ITEM, TAGGED
Tags from 0.44 g to 42 g — light enough for a hose clamp, tough enough for a pallet. Tagging happens during the inventory count you already do, so the system is born accurate instead of being corrected for a year.
LocateUWB — WHERE IT ACTUALLY IS
Ultra-wideband positioning finds the tagged item in the aisle, behind obstruction, on the wrong shelf — the part a customer once had to drive in and match by hand because the wrong one shipped. The location is a dot on a screen, not a walk and a guess.
VerifyWEIGH · MEASURE · CODE
At receiving: weigh and measure every box. At packing: scan and assign a 3-letter code, so high-volume packing across multiple trucks never mixes. A mixed box’s weight either confirms the right items are inside — or it doesn’t ship.
Thirty-two bins. One misplaced part.
RUN THE SCAN — THIS IS THE WHOLE IDEA, IN TEN SECONDS
Idle. One part in this aisle is on the wrong shelf. A hand count takes ~15 minutes.
The pilot
MEASURED FIRST — ALWAYSOne warehouse. One defined scope. Acceptance KPIs agreed before anything is installed — then two months of validation against them. If the numbers don’t pass, nothing expands. That discipline is the product.
Tag the count
RFID tags go on during the scheduled inventory count. No extra shutdown, no separate tagging project.
Baseline
Readers and anchors in, receiving weigh-and-measure live, and the “before” numbers locked in writing.
Implementation
Live tracking in the aisles, scan-and-code at packing, staff working the new flow on real orders.
Validation
Receiving time, pick accuracy and search time measured against the agreed KPIs — behind real obstructions, not in a demo room.
The gate: Phase 2 — the rollout to additional warehouses across Canada — is offered only if validation passes. Hardware is compared openly at low / mid / high price points, in US dollars from live retailer listings, presented as a comparison, never dressed up as a quote.
The rollout
PHASE 2 — ACROSS CANADAOne warehouse proves it.
Then Canada follows.
Phase 2 is not a second pilot and not new technology. It is the same system that passed validation, repeated: the pilot playbook rolled out to additional warehouses across Canada, one site at a time. No site joins the rollout until the pilot’s numbers pass — and every new site is measured against the same KPIs as the first.
WHAT THIS IS NOT
- Not a big-bang, all-sites-at-once launch
- Not a different system at each warehouse
- Not started before pilot validation passes
Same system, every warehouse
The pilot’s exact setup — RFID + UWB, weigh-and-measure at receiving, scan and 3-letter code at packing — installed site after site, so staff moving between warehouses find the same flow everywhere.
Site by site, across Canada
Additional warehouses join in sequence, region by region, each tagged during its own inventory count. No network-wide disruption — one building goes live and proves itself, then the next.
One network, visible at once
Once sites are live they report into one view: stock visible across warehouses, transfers based on where an item actually is, and the same KPIs reported the same way at every site.
The measured pilot
PHASE 1 — ONE WAREHOUSE, PROVEN FIRST
- RFID + UWB tracking in one warehouse
- Weigh, measure & 3-letter code at receiving and packing
- Agreed KPIs, two months of validation
- Stands entirely on its own results
Rollout across Canada
PHASE 2 — OFFERED ONLY AFTER VALIDATION PASSES
- The proven pilot system, repeated:
- Additional warehouses across Canada, added one at a time
- Same system everywhere — RFID + UWB, weigh & measure, 3-letter code
- Each site tagged during its own inventory count, validated to the same KPIs
- Network-wide visibility — stock findable across sites, not just in one building
The mark
DRAWN FROM 2,000 YEARS OF LESSThe open square
A box with one side missing. Stock that isn’t there, space that isn’t full — pobre: having little, wasting none of it.
The dot
The UWB ping. The single missing thing, located. The only colour the mark is allowed.
The line
The scan. An aisle seen from above, a shelf edge, a horizon — the oldest mark a person can make.
“Pobre” is Spanish for poor — and minimalism, at its best, was never a style. It was poverty turned into discipline: keep only what carries weight. The mark is built from that lineage, not decorated with it.
Laozi & the Zen gardeners after him — ma, the power of empty space. The box is drawn by what’s missing from it.
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square — painting reduced to one square and nothing else. Ours is a warehouse box given the same treatment.
De Stijl & the Bauhaus — Mondrian’s grid, the Bauhaus rule that form follows function. Three bars, right angles only, one primary accent.
Agnes Martin & Donald Judd — Martin’s quiet lines become the scan line; Judd’s industrial boxes and shelves become the bins themselves.
Dieter Rams — “less, but better.” A generation that owns less and rents more (millennial) counting what a business actually has. That is the whole pitch, drawn.
How it works
THREE RULES, NO FINE PRINTMeasured, or it didn’t happen
Every claim is a number agreed in advance and checked in validation. Receiving minutes, pick accuracy, search time. No testimonials in place of data.
One site before everywhere
A pilot in a single warehouse, behind real obstructions, on real orders. Expansion is a decision the results make — not a line in a contract signed on day one.
Less, but better
Fewer systems, fewer screens, fewer things to maintain. If a piece of technology doesn’t remove a walk, a count or a phone call, it doesn’t go in.
Questions
BEFORE YOU WRITEWhat do you actually do?
Warehouse inventory and asset tracking in one warehouse at a time — RFID to identify, UWB to locate, weight to verify. No company-wide rollout on faith.
How long is the pilot?
Tagging during the inventory count you already do, about 1 week to baseline, 2 months to implement, 2 months to validate against KPIs agreed in advance.
What is the receiving target?
From an observed ~20 minutes per box by hand to 5–6 minutes with scan, weigh and measure at the door. Measured in validation, never promised in advance.
What is Phase 2?
A rollout to additional warehouses across Canada, one at a time, only after pilot validation passes. Same proven system, repeated — not a second pilot, not new technology.
Do you do AI implementation?
Yes — we also do AI implementation consulting, as a separate service. It is not part of the pilot or the Phase 2 rollout.
How much does it cost?
Hardware is compared at low / mid / high price points from live retailer listings, as a comparison, not a quote. A scoped pilot proposal includes scope, hardware comparison and acceptance KPIs.
Start with one warehouse.
Send three things: which warehouse, roughly how many SKUs, and when your next inventory count falls. That is enough for a scoped pilot proposal — scope, hardware comparison and acceptance KPIs included. Phase 2 — the rollout to additional warehouses across Canada — is only discussed after those pilot numbers come back.