Helix Meridian is a principal-led software and data practice for manufacturers. We build the pipelines that move production data, the dashboards leadership trusts, the access control that keeps them scoped — and a small number of products that came out of that work.
The practice grew out of one engagement with a multi-plant packaging manufacturer, whose name is withheld under confidentiality agreement. It started as a single dashboard at a single plant and became a fifteen-site production data platform. Everything we sell today was built there first, under real load.
Small is the point. A single principal engineer carries an engagement end to end — scoping, building, deploying, supporting. That caps how much we can take on at once, and it removes the handoff where most of the context normally dies.
Most industrial software fails in the same place. It demos well, survives the pilot, then meets a plant that runs three shifts, calls the same machine by two names, and has a spreadsheet that is quietly the real source of truth. The software will not bend, so the plant routes around it. We build the other way round.
A first engagement is deliberately small and genuinely important — one report that has to be right, one integration that keeps breaking. It proves the working relationship before anyone commits to a platform.
We read from the ERP, MES and time systems you already run, and reconcile to the penny against reports your people already trust. Divergences get documented and raised, never quietly corrected.
Every build ships with its own monitoring, audit trail and freshness checks, plus a route for users to report a problem and see what happened to it.
No SDR layer and no discovery-call funnel. You get thirty minutes with the engineer who would do the work.
