SOUND FAMILIAR?
Shipments going out late and you don't know why until it's too late
Scrap that keeps coming back no matter how many times you fix it
Good people walking out the door faster than you can train new ones
No idea which jobs are actually making money until the month closes
Supervisors firefighting all day instead of managing to a plan
A nagging feeling that something is wrong but no way to pinpoint it
These are not bad luck. They are symptoms of specific gaps in your operating system. Every one of them is fixable with the right sequence of actions. Sharpen tells you exactly what that sequence is.
HOW IT WORKS
01
Not a survey. A conversation with an advisor that has seen every plant problem at least a hundred times. Ten minutes.
02
Prioritized actions tied to your actual situation. Sequenced so the first 30 days build the foundation for everything after.
03
70 implementation guides and 68 ready-to-use templates built specifically for small and mid-size manufacturers. Start Monday.
THE FRAMEWORK
Built from 20 years of hands-on manufacturing leadership across plants from 10 people to 2,000. Every item is field-tested. Nothing is theoretical.
Ceiling pillars cap your overall maturity stage. Weakness in any one of them holds the entire operation back.
WHAT PLANTS FIND
83%
of plants have at least one ceiling pillar at Stage 1
$500K+
median EBITDA opportunity identified in the first diagnostic
30 days
to see measurable improvement when the roadmap is followed
Based on assessments conducted across manufacturing plants from 2015 to present.
ABOUT SHARPEN
Sharpen was built by manufacturing operations leaders with 20 years of hands-on experience running plants from 10-person job shops to $500M OEMs.
We have led turnarounds, built operating systems from scratch, and delivered hundreds of millions in EBITDA improvement across dozens of manufacturing businesses.
What we kept seeing was the same pattern: small and mid-size plants struggling with problems that have known solutions -- but no practical way to access them. Sharpen is how we fix that.
20+ years manufacturing operations leadership
Experience at plants from 10 to 2,000 employees
Background at Fortune 500 and PE-backed mid-market companies
Delivered $100M+ in documented EBITDA improvement
Used by PE firms for portfolio operations
OUR MISSION
The tools that Fortune 500 manufacturers use to run world-class operations have never been accessible to the small and mid-size plant that needs them most. Sharpen changes that.
OUR VISION
250,000 manufacturing plants in the United States. Most of them leaving significant profit on the floor every single day. Sharpen intends to solve it at scale.
PRICING
DIAGNOSTIC
Free
No signup required
10-minute AI conversation
10-pillar maturity scorecard
Personalized improvement roadmap
Top gap analysis
Financial opportunity estimate
PLATFORM
$299
per month
Everything in Diagnostic
70 implementation guides
68 ready-to-use templates
Task board and progress tracking
Full guide and template library
Unlimited roadmap rebuilds
ON-SITE DIAGNOSTIC
$5K-$15K
one time
Everything in Platform
Certified practitioner site visit
Verified stage rating and badge
90-day task plan pre-loaded
Executive readout and report