Industries
Semia is an AI employee that writes the daily production plan for meat and poultry processors. It reads orders, inventory, attendance, machine status, and shelf-life risk, then drafts tomorrow's cut and pack plan around carcass balance, catch weight, and your sanitation window. A named planner reviews and signs off before anything reaches the floor.
A customer buys boneless skinless breast, and you now own the legs, wings, and frames that came with it. Planning one cut means planning a home for every other part of the carcass, at the best margin you can find, before it defaults to grind or the freezer. Most plants run that math in a planner's head and a spreadsheet, every single day.
Live weight in never tells you exactly what comes out, because yields move with the flock, the lot, and the crew on the line. A plan built on standard yields starts drifting by mid-shift, and catch weight makes it worse: the warehouse counts cases while the order promises pounds. Too often you find out you are short when the truck is already being loaded.
Daily sanitation is a hard stop, so every run has to fit between startup and the moment the cleanup crew takes the floor. Deboning and packing are labor heavy, so a handful of no-shows on one line quietly cuts your real capacity for the day. The plan on paper assumes hours and hands the plant does not actually have.
Fresh product measures its shelf life in days, so every case you cut starts losing options immediately. Hold it fresh and you risk dumping it; freeze it early and you give up the fresh price. Someone makes that call every day, usually under time pressure and with inventory numbers that are already out of date.
Semia reads your open orders and inventory together, then drafts a cut and pack plan that covers demand while finding the best next use for the balancing cuts. Surplus is steered toward the orders, products, or freezer positions where it holds the most value, and the trade-offs are visible in the plan instead of buried in a spreadsheet.
Semia builds tomorrow's plan from the inventory and yield figures your systems already hold, not from standard assumptions. When actual cut yields land somewhere else, it re-plans the remaining runs and shows where the pounds now come from, so catch-weight gaps surface before loading, not after.
Semia reads attendance and machine status before it schedules a single run. It sequences lines so production finishes before the sanitation crew takes the floor, and when people or equipment drop out during the day, it rewrites the remaining plan around what the plant can actually process.
Semia tracks shelf-life risk and flags product that will not clear fresh in time, proposing where to redirect or freeze it. Nothing moves on that recommendation alone. A named planner reviews the plan and signs off before it reaches the floor, and every change carries its reason.
Carcass balance is the constraint that a processor sells individual cuts but produces whole animals. Demand for one cut, like boneless skinless breast, forces production of every other part of the bird or carcass. Daily production planning has to find the best use for those balancing cuts, or they end up in low-margin grind or sitting in the freezer.
Yes, when a human stays in charge. Semia is an AI employee that reads a meat plant's orders, inventory, attendance, machine status, and shelf-life risk, then drafts tomorrow's production plan. Every call in the draft shows its reasoning, and a named planner reviews and signs off before anything reaches the floor, which matters in an industry where food safety and daily sanitation are non-negotiable.
Semia plans with the numbers your systems already track, so catch-weight products are planned in both cases and pounds. When the pounds you actually cut differ from the pounds you promised, Semia flags the gap and adjusts the remaining plan, instead of leaving the reconciliation to a spreadsheet at the end of the shift.
Semia re-plans when the day changes. If morning yields come in low, a deboning crew is short, or a line goes down, it reads the updated attendance, machine status, and inventory, rewrites the rest of the plan, and shows the planner what changed and why. The named planner approves the new plan before the floor sees it.
Design partners went from about 3 hours a day of manual planning to roughly 15 minutes of review, which is 12x faster. The planner still owns the plan. Semia does the assembly work of pulling orders, inventory, yields, and attendance together and drafting the schedule, and the planner reviews and signs off.