Scope an automation opportunity
Describe a process challenge and receive pathway guidance, scoping questions, and structured project documents before supplier conversations.
Start with the intakeAutomation Project Studio
Know what to automate before you talk to suppliers.
Describe a process challenge, bottleneck, quality issue, material movement problem, or physical AI opportunity. Innovation Peer helps classify the project, ask the right scoping questions, and build the internal documents needed before supplier conversations.
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Example process challenges
Describe a process problem, bottleneck, quality issue, material movement challenge, safety concern, labor constraint, or physical AI opportunity.
- Private by default
- No supplier contact without approval
- Preliminary planning, not final engineering
Free to start. No supplier contact without your approval.
Workflow
How Innovation Peer works
From process challenge to reviewed Automation Project.
- Step 1
Describe the process
Tell us the bottleneck, quality issue, movement problem, labor constraint, or physical AI opportunity.
- Step 2
Classify the Technology Pathway
Innovation Peer routes the challenge toward CNC tending, welding, vision, material movement, packaging, or another pathway.
- Step 3
Build the project documents
The workspace builds readiness, economics, delivery-team, risk, and scope documents from structured answers.
- Step 4
Request review when ready
Innovation Peer can review the project before anything is shared with suppliers.
How teams use Innovation Peer
Whether you are scoping a new opportunity, comparing solution types, or verifying a supplier listing, start with the path that matches your role.
Explore automation technologies
Review solution types, typical technology stacks, and validation requirements before committing to a direction.
Browse technologiesVerify supplier listings
Check whether an automation provider appears in the public lookup layer. This is not a ranking, recommendation, or quote request.
Lookup SuppliersProcess Starting Points
Common automation starting points
Pick a process shape or start with the intake above if you are not sure yet.
Project documents
What gets built from your answers
Project Assessment
Readiness, risks, Technology Pathway fit, and missing information before capital decisions.
Business Case / Capex Justification
Preliminary economics, labor assumptions, and scenario ranges for internal review.
Required Delivery Team
Integrator, vision, controls, safety, and specialty roles needed for the project.
Supplier-Ready URS / Scope
Boundary-defined scope and requirements before supplier conversations.
Missing Information & Assumptions
Explicit gaps, assumptions, and evidence still needed before the project is decision-grade.
Validation and Site Readiness Checklists
Site layout, utilities, safety, and validation data to confirm before quoting or deployment.
Fit evaluation
How Innovation Peer evaluates fit
Six dimensions guide scoping, document quality, and review readiness.
- Process clarity
- Is the manual or semi-automated process specific enough to scope on the floor?
- Operational pain
- Is there a real labour, quality, safety, or throughput reason to act now?
- Readiness
- Does the team have baseline data, access, and internal alignment to move forward?
- Technology Pathway fit
- Which automation or physical AI pathway best matches the task and constraints?
- Risk
- What could block adoption — layout, integration, workforce, safety, or capital timing?
- Required delivery team
- Which integrator, controls, vision, and specialty roles are needed to deliver?
Why before suppliers
Suppliers respond better when the project is clear. Innovation Peer helps define the process, economics, risks, missing information, and required delivery roles before you enter a supplier sales cycle.
No supplier contact happens unless you approve it.
Lookup Suppliers
Need to check if a provider is listed?
Supplier Lookup shows basic public company information only. It is not a ranking, recommendation, or quote request.
- Free to start. No supplier contact without your approval.
- Project data is private by default.
- No supplier rankings.
- No pay-to-rank recommendations.