Vivid Vision
This is the Metis Automation Vivid Vision (from the book by Cameron Herald), it shows our clear vision for where the company will be by 2023
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Culture
- Great work life balance
- 4 Day Work Week
Team
- Figurehead CEO who is a thought leader in manufacturing transformation. Someone who has built a successful manufacturing business and implemented digital manufacturing.
- Sales and marketing are a young team who are constantly striving to implement new methods of SaaS sales & marketing techniques
- Software team is filled with talented web and backend developers and data scientists
- Support team based around the world on key continents – Europe, Asia & America
Location
- Remote distributed team with a few keys hubs (office or hotdesk) at manufacturing growth accelerator areas e.g. Sheffield Factory 2050, Coventry MTC, Daresbury, Germany, Poland, USA
- Global staff in strategic countries and continents to provide global 24 hr support e.g. Europe, USA, Asia
- Twice yearly meetups in resort locations for team bonding e.g. Hawaii, Mexico, Spain, Skiing
- Daily & Weekly online team standup meetings
- Great processes, metrics and tools for helping the team to connect and keep on track to smash goals
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Sales
- Closing £500k – £1M sales with OEM & Tier 1 Manufacturers
- Building relationships and adding value to CXO’s at large manufacturers
- Sales in UK, Europe, USA & Asia
- A scaleable, repeatable sales process with high conversion rates
- Running sales experiments and R&D to break into new markets and increase conversion rates
- A specialized sales team with SDRs, Account Execs and Account Managers focused on key verticals
- Customer success enables us to 5x our initial sales into key accounts by internal growth and referrals
Marketing
- We’ve become a high quality global resource of how to transform a manufacturing business through lean, digital etc…
- Team members are keynote speakers at global manufacturing transformation events
- We have an easy lead generation process that generates 100’s of MQL’s each month
- We create case studies and videos that build trust and educate customers and leads
- Online webinars that educate CXO’s about digital manufacturing and business transformation
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Innovation
- Our figurehead CEO is leading what the next breakthrough technology will be, we then develop MVP’s to test with our key customers
- The technical team spend a % of their time on future R+D projects that may result in new products
Customer Experience
- Concierge experience for large accounts
- Extensive online support & help
- 24/7 support enabled through team in different time zones. USP – Response within 2 hours day & night – to minimize downtime cost to customers.
- We’ve become a source of information & inspiration for building a better manufacturing business
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Product Development
- We’ve developed an innovative cloud hosted web app that is very easy to use for operators, editors and viewers
- Develop software quickly in an agile scrum method and release every 2 weeks
- We’re very responsive to customer feedback and implement great suggestions quickly
- We’ve developed plugins to major enterprise software applications e.g. SAP, Sage etc
- Predictive analytics is prompting our clients recommendations actions to improve their business