Production strategy with AI
Where a plant loses time and attention. Which decisions repeat every day. What a system can take — and what it must not, because a mistake is expensive. The outcome is a plan, not a pile of toys.
Rinat Sultanov
AI Transformation Architect
for manufacturing companies
I build an AI loop for sales, data and management inside a working food plant — and carry what works into other manufacturers. Growth without a matching rise in headcount.
Today I am Director of Development at Kazan Delicacies.
- Agent-led salesfirst-touch loop without manual work
- Data & management1C, analytics, the day's picture
- Productionvideo monitoring, accounting, automation
- VisibilitySEO + AI search, a site machines can read
I do not sell subscriptions or prompt courses. I build a working loop: people, data, agents and the company’s real processes.
I test it on a live production floor — then bring it to the client.
01 / work
What I do
Analytics with AI
The data already lives in the ERP, spreadsheets and people’s heads. I connect it so a director sees the day, instead of waiting for a month-end report.
Faster sales with agents
An agent does the first mile: finds companies, gathers facts, writes the first email, prepares a brief. A manager steps in when the talk and the trust are human.
SEO + AIO / GEO
A site should rank in Google — and still make sense to ChatGPT, Claude and other AI systems. That is one architecture now, not two separate worlds.
02 / method
Not from a tool. From how the company is built.
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What cannot break
Halal integrity, retailer rules, client safety. Constraints first — then automation.
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How the process works today
Automating chaos costs more than leaving it. Describe it, then speed it up.
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Connect the data
Machines and accounting often already emit numbers — nobody plugged them in.
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Agents get reversible work
An email can be stopped. A shipment and a certificate cannot. Draw the line first.
Each step pays for itself. Stopping halfway is still useful work — not a half-finished monument.
03 / in practice
What is already running where I lead development
A site people and AI can find
Classic SEO plus a layer machines can read: a clean catalog, consistent pages, no contradictions. The job is simple — show up in search and in ChatGPT answers.
Sales without manual first-touch
An agent finds and qualifies companies; a manager enters the conversation with context ready. People keep the part only people do well. Case with numbers →
The plant in view
Shifts and bottlenecks show up in data, not only in reports. Video, accounting and the next layer of shop-floor automation share one logic.
04 / about
Twenty years in commerce.
Now — development through AI.
The value is not “another IT person” or “another meat person”. It is both in one head: I know why you cannot mix raw materials on a line — and why an agent without send limits kills a mail domain in a week.
I am Director of Development at Kazan Delicacies, a halal meat plant in Kazan. The company grew from 58.6 million RUB in 2023 to 869 million RUB in 2025. That growth is not “an AI result”. It is a live, complex business where you can test what works outside a slide deck.
I build the plant’s digital layer myself: agent sales, data from 1C, video monitoring, SEO and AI-search visibility. So I know not only what a vendor promises, but what they left out of the quote.
- 2001First business: building websites, alongside university
- 2001–06Astrakhan State Technical University — Applied Informatics in Services, PR major. Informatics Analyst
- 2006–18Meat industry: turnkey retail, distribution to 1,000+ accounts, commercial leadership at a plant, federal retail chains
- 2018–22Co-founder of a cleaning-service company: Astrakhan, Krasnodar, Dubai
- 2020–22Master’s degree. Management. Enterprise management — Estonian Entrepreneurship University. MBA
- 2022 →Kazan Delicacies, Director of Development: ×14.8 revenue in two years, 64 SKUs
- 2023–26The plant’s digital layer: agent sales, 1C, video monitoring, an AI layer, SEO + GEO
05 / perspective
AI in manufacturing does not start with a chatbot
It starts with the architecture of the enterprise. First — what must not be broken. Then — how the process actually works. Then — data and its connectivity. Only after that come agents, and at the very end, physical automation.
Most implementations run this backwards: they buy a tool and look for somewhere to put it. That is how you get scattered pilots instead of a changed company. My work is to reverse that order: from the structure of the business to the technology, not from the technology to the business.
06 / formats
Three ways to start
Diagnosis
For a leader who sees AI changing the industry and does not want to buy another tool blind.
In 2–3 weeks I map processes, data, tools already bought, and vendor proposals.
You leave with a map of opportunities and a sequence.
90-day pilot
One process you can measure: sales, analytics, inbound, the website, shop-floor control.
We freeze the baseline first. In 90 days the change shows in numbers, not slides.
A working loop and clear economics.
Change architecture
When you need a new operating model, not one isolated case.
I sit on the owner’s side: sequence, success criteria, oversight of internal and external teams. I do not replace integrators — I keep them building the system the business needs, not the largest quote for themselves.
No more than 2–3 companies at once.
07 / who I work with
Who I work with
Mid-size and large manufacturers and FMCG companies — sales, data, management and export inside them.
Usually hundreds of millions to a few billion RUB in revenue: already too complex to run “on people”, still entrepreneurial enough for the owner to change how the company is built.
- growth keeps demanding more people;
- data exists, decisions are still made by feel;
- AI was tried — the result was a pile of disconnected tools;
- automation or a new market is next.
Who I am not for
- Anyone who wants to “implement a neural net” because the strategy deck says so.
- Anyone waiting for a presentation instead of a working loop.
- Anyone who will not change processes and only wants to buy a tool.
- Usually not micro-business: my format needs existing processes, data and a team that can be rebuilt.
If you recognise your company in the first list — write. If the second one is closer, we probably should not start yet.
08 / technical transparency
How machines see this site
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09 / external proof