We didn't know manufacturing. So we moved in.
Alex spent twenty years at Microsoft and came to this a software guy. Ken Frenkel opened his shop in Kent, Washington and let him spend time on the floor learning what people actually worry about. What he found was controllable chaos — material that doesn't land, outside processing that comes back late, a person out sick — and a job that consists of managing from there.
That's why Skody computes a baseline instead of issuing orders. The planner knows things the system doesn't, and the fastest way to get a scheduling tool thrown out of a shop is to tell an experienced person they're wrong.
We build with shops, not for them — and we let the shop decide what to do with the computed route.
Founders
Skody AI was founded by Alex Klimov (CEO) and Alex Lebedev (Head of Product), combining deep systems engineering with hands-on experience building products for real manufacturing environments. Ken Frenkel is CEO of Three Sigma Manufacturing and a Skody customer — one of the shop-floor voices we build around.
"The fastest way to get a scheduling tool thrown out of a shop is to tell an experienced person they're wrong."
— Core belief that drives everything we build
Built by Engineers Who Ship
Much of the Skody AI team comes from Microsoft and other large-scale software organizations, bringing a culture of reliability, clarity, and production-grade engineering.
Deterministic Systems
Over black boxes
Clear Decisions
Not just dashboards
Production-Grade
Software factories can trust under pressure
What Skody AI Does
Skody AI doesn't replace planning. It computes a baseline the shop can use — recomputing on demand, on ERP event, or continuously where wired.
