For food & manufacturing teams

An AI coach that walks your team through every root-cause investigation — to the real system cause, not the easy blame.

Most teams were never properly taught root cause analysis. RootWise coaches each person by name, reads your evidence, and drives investigations toward a verified system cause — then locks a signed, audit-ready record.

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Line 3 capper jam — double cap

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After a capper tool changeover, Line 3 ran ~7 minutes with the cap chute guard un fitted, producing double caps on ~40 units before the checkweigher caught the defect.After a capper tool c…MANMETHODLine 3 changeover SOP lacks guard-fit sign-off before run approvalLine 3 changeover SOP lacks…MEASUREMENTDouble caps detected at checkweigher (~40 units on Line 3)Double caps detected at che…MACHINECapper chute guard not fitted after tool changeoverCapper chute guard not fitt…Cap chute alignment drift after tool change (Maintenance scope) → MaintenanceCap chute alignment drift a… →Maintena…MATERIALENVIRONMENT

● verified · assumed · ◆ root cause · → handed to another team

Maintenance
Operator error — they weren't paying attention to the cap chute.
I'm not going to accept "operator error" as a root cause. What made that mistake easy to make? Would a brand-new starter on their first shift have done the same?
Probably — the guard wasn't fitted after the changeover. The capper was running with the chute exposed.
Good — that's a system cause we can verify. What evidence would show whether the guard was missing from changeover sign-off, and what are you doing in your direct control to stop a recurrence?
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What you get

Enforced in code

A case can't close without a verified system root cause and at least one owned action — not policy, not honour system.

Tenant-isolated

Every company's investigations are walled off at the database layer. Your data never trains the model.

Signed records

Closed RCAs lock immutably with a typed sign-off — audit-ready for quality and regulatory review.

Your coach

A partner who's in this with you — not a chatbot that resets every session.

It learns your operation and your people as you go, and brings real CI expertise to every question — teaching as it coaches, driving toward a system root, and never closing a case without a verified cause and an owned fix.

  • Built for food & manufacturing

    Toyota Production System rigour and food-manufacturing failure patterns are baked into the questions it asks — the ones an experienced CI manager would ask, standing next to your team.

  • Personalised to each person

    Addresses each member by name and remembers their record — investigations led, roots found — and uses it to ask sharper questions next time, never to grade them.

  • Teaches, drives, holds to account

    Not a passive guide: it pushes past symptoms, drives toward a system root, puts a named owner on every cause, and won't let a case close without proof.

Why investigations stick

Symptoms don't close cases. It pushes to the system cause.

When someone writes “operator error,” RootWise doesn't accept it. It pushes past the easy label to the system cause — the guard that wasn't fitted, the check that wasn't in the SOP, the poka-yoke that was bypassed.

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Shared accountability

No single point of failure. Everyone owns their part.

Real failures are systemic — the cause is rarely one person, or even one department. RootWise traces each cause to whoever can fix it and hands it off as a tracked, linked investigation with its own lead. And a handoff is never an escape: the team that found it still owns a fix, so a cause routed elsewhere can't quietly disappear.

One symptom

Double caps — Line 3

The coach doesn't stop at one cause, or one person. It traces the failure across the whole business — then routes each cause to whoever can actually fix it.

Routed to 4 owners
  • ProductionOwns the fix

    Guard-fit check added to the changeover SOP

    Owned action — Sam, by Friday

  • MaintenanceTracked handoff

    Cap-chute alignment drift after tool change

    Linked sub-investigation · its own lead

  • EngineeringTracked handoff

    Checkweigher can't detect a missing guard

    Linked sub-investigation · its own lead

  • TrainingTracked handoff

    Competency sign-off for a first solo changeover

    Linked sub-investigation · its own lead

How it works

No forms. The team talks; the fishbone draws itself.

Each cause files itself under the right bone as the conversation unfolds — ending in a verified root and a signed-off record. The shift leader never hears “fishbone” or “5-Why.”

RootWise coachLive
Fishbone — building itself
Define the problemDefine the problemMANMETHODMEASUREMENTMACHINEMATERIALENVIRONMENT

Your fishbone builds itself as you talk to the coach — causes drop onto the right bone automatically.

  1. 01
    FrameSharpen the problem
  2. 02
    ContainStop it shipping
  3. 03
    InvestigateAsk why — to the system
  4. 04
    EvidenceProve it
  5. 05
    ActOwn an action
  6. 06
    CloseSign off

It interrogates, it doesn't grade

One question at a time, in plain language — each question follows from your last answer, not a fixed form.

It reads your evidence

Attach a SOP page, batch record or photo — the coach reads it, weaves it into the conversation, and uses it to confirm the real cause.

The Agency Rule

A team can't finish without at least one action in their direct control — named owner, review date, enforced in code.

Built for your IT and quality teams

Isolated, encrypted, audited — and never used to train AI.

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  • Row-Level Security on every query — enforced by Postgres.
  • TLS in transit, AES-256 at rest. Evidence via signed URLs.
  • Sign in with Microsoft or email; six roles scoped to the job.
  • Membership and role changes in a hash-chained log.

Pricing

You pay for investigations, not seats you won't use.

Each plan bundles a pool of coach-led investigations a month. Billed by invoice — no card, no self-serve checkout, no surprise overages. Start with a pilot on one line.

Pilot

Prove it on one line, fast.

$149/ mo
  • 10 investigations / mo
  • 3 seats
  • Claude Opus 4.8 coach
  • Time-boxed paid pilot
  • Full coach — no feature limits
  • Audit-ready signed closure
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Core

For a plant getting serious about RCA.

$690/ mo
  • 40 investigations / mo
  • 10 seats
  • Claude Opus 4.8 coach
  • Every department
  • Live handoffs between teams
  • CAPA tracking & insights
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Scale

Multi-line, multi-shift operations.

$2,490/ mo
  • 150 investigations / mo
  • 30 seats
  • Claude Opus 4.8 coach
  • Everything in Core
  • Cross-RCA pattern detection
  • Priority onboarding
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Enterprise

Org-wide rollout across sites.

From $7,900/ mo
  • 400 investigations / mo
  • 75 seats
  • Claude Opus 4.8 coach
  • Custom seats & volume
  • Microsoft sign-in
  • Dedicated support & DPA
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