For Asset-Intensive Operations
Astrid Partners

The margin is already there.
We help you recover it.

We work with mining operators, fleet companies, and industrial manufacturers to find and recover margin hidden inside their operations: in parts inventories, maintenance cycles, procurement patterns, and production schedules.

10×

ROI guaranteed in validated annual savings or Phase 1 is free.

Get Your Profit Leakage Map

We take on a limited number of diagnostic engagements per quarter.

18–25%

Mining & Metals

$3–8K

Fleet & Trucking

10pts

Industrial Manufacturing

How We Engage

The margin is already there. We help you recover it.

Every engagement is designed to return 10× your investment in validated annual savings or Phase 1 is free. We only take work where we can see that path.

No T&M. No open-ended scope. The output of every phase is a decision, not a door to the next engagement.

Guaranteed Return

10×

annual savings
or Phase 1 is free

The Three Phases

01

Phase 1 · ~1 Week

Profit Leakage Quantification

  • Ingest operational data into a proprietary analytical framework
  • Quantify every margin leak by category, annualized at current run-rate
  • Deliver a validated profit leakage map

02

Phase 2 · 4–6 Weeks

Root Cause, Roadmap & Business Case

  • Assign the dollar loss by root cause across every leakage category
  • Build a prioritized implementation roadmap ranked by recovery potential
  • Produce a full business case for the top opportunities: savings, payback rate, complexity

03

Phase 3 · 4–5 Months

Implementation & Execution Support

  • Implement the top two business cases by aligning process, technology, and tooling changes to drive business value.
  • Deliver measurable KPIs and a sustainable operating model

How the Guarantee Works

≥ 10× identified

Automatic proceed. Engagement continues as contracted.

3× – 10× identified

Strong ROI. Client option to proceed within 5 business days. Phase 1 fee waived.

< 3× identified

Phase 1 fee waived. Engagement closes. You owe nothing.

The Asset Profit Lifecycle

Six stages. Margin leaks at every one.

Asset-intensive operations lose margin across the entire lifecycle, from how assets are acquired to how they're maintained, supplied, and eventually replaced. We focus on the stages with the highest recoverable value relative to intervention complexity.

Acquire

Capital planning & procurement

Maintain

PM strategy & scheduling

Operate

Utilization & throughput

Supply

MRO & spare parts

Plan

S&OP & demand integration

Renew

End-of-life & replacement

What We Do

From data foundation
to operational performance.

Every engagement we run draws on the same four capability areas, applied in whatever combination the problem demands. We don't sell modules. We build the thing that improves profitability.

01

Stop fighting your own data

Unify ERP, EAM, historian, and sensor data into a single trusted platform, giving maintenance teams clean work orders, accurate BOMs, and a deduplicated material master that feeds reliable MRP runs.

02

Know which assets will fail before they do

Apply ML and sensor analytics to predict equipment failures before they happen, reducing unplanned downtime and extending asset life across rotating machinery, instrumentation, and critical infrastructure.

03

Right work, right time, automatically

Optimize PM schedules, fix task lists, automate work order generation, and embed AI copilots into every step of the maintenance planning cycle, so the right work happens at the right time.

04

Make the gains permanent

Translate technology into lasting operational change. We build the processes, KPI frameworks, and team capabilities that ensure asset intelligence becomes standard practice, not a pilot that fades.

In Practice

Global Mining Firm

MRO Tooling Optimization

16×

return on engagement cost, year one

$10M

annual savings per site

$0

capital investment required

A member of our team led a structured MRO tooling diagnostic for a global mining operator. The engagement surfaced systemic inefficiencies in parts procurement and inventory positioning that the client had absorbed as unavoidable operating cost.

The $10M in annual savings per site was recovered through analysis and repositioning of existing spend — with no capital investment required.

Bounded scope. Quantified outcome. A roadmap the operations team could execute immediately. That is the model we bring to every engagement.

Next Step

Find out where your
margin floor actually is.

A diagnostic engagement starts with a single conversation. If we can see a path to 10× return on our fee, we take the work. If we can't, we tell you.

We take on a limited number of diagnostic engagements per quarter.