Proof · Case study

Four weeks to production, in aerospace & defense.

One of the world's leading aerospace & defense companies took Mantrix from ERP access to a production decision workflow in four weeks — through their security review, with approval gates and a full audit trail. This is how.

Environment

Project-driven A&D enterprise. Compliance-heavy: FAR, DFARS, DCAA set the rules. Client identity anonymized under agreement.

Before

A recurring, expensive decision made manually from stale extracts — days of analyst work per cycle, answers arriving after the moment to act.

After

A production decision workflow on live ERP data: continuous recommendations with evidence attached, approved by named owners, written back with a full audit trail.

Published with client approval. Identity anonymized; all visuals use synthetic data; quantitative results are shared only in direct conversations, with permission.

The four weeks

Week by week.

Week 1
Ground truth

Embedded on site. One expensive decision chosen with the executive owner. System access established, extraction semantics mapped with the client’s functional owners — which tables, which views, what the data actually means.

Week 2
Working workflow

First decision workflow running against real data. The client’s specialists challenge every output; derivation logic and edge cases corrected daily. Evaluation dataset drafted with the people who own the numbers.

Week 3
Controls

Approval gates wired to named approvers. Audit trail end to end. Evaluation suite passing against customer-approved test cases. Security review completed with the client’s team.

Week 4
Production

Live in production with real users. Human-approved write-back operating. Monitoring, kill switch, and rollback in place. Results measured with the client, on their numbers.

Production controls

What made it deployable.

Evaluation before production

The workflow shipped only after passing an evaluation suite built from customer-approved test cases.

Human approval gates

Every action requires a named approver. Segregation of duties preserved throughout.

Full audit trail

Signal → recommendation → evidence → approver → action → result, logged end to end.

Customer security review

Completed the client’s security review required for production deployment in their environment.

The pod

Who was in the room.

  • Industry & Systems Expert — A&D project accounting, FAR/DFARS/DCAA fluency
  • Lead Forward-Deployed Engineer — models, pipelines, write-back, reliability
  • ERP & Integration Engineer — extraction semantics, side-by-side integration
  • Evaluation & Reliability Engineer — test cases, monitoring, rollback

The paired-expert model, in practice: how we staff every deployment →

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