JBSJanaitis Business Systems

Articles

Straight answers about the systems you already pay for.

  1. October 10, 2026

    AI Readiness Assessment for Small Manufacturers: The 7-Question AI Test

    An AI readiness assessment for small manufacturers: 7 questions on your pipeline, revenue and margin, 15 minutes, a pencil. See how many AI could answer today.

  2. October 10, 2026

    Data Silos in a Small Manufacturer: Why Your Systems Don't Talk, and Which Gap to Close First

    What a data silo looks like in a small manufacturer, the three types, what they cost, and which gap to close first. Written by someone who sells no software.

  3. October 10, 2026

    Hiring an ERP Consultant After Go-Live: Independent, Vendor Partner, or a Systems Team

    Hiring an ERP consultant after go-live? Compare independents, vendor partners, fractional CIOs and a systems team on who pays them, where they stop, and cost.

  4. October 10, 2026

    From PPC Pitbulls to Janaitis Business Systems

    Andy Janaitis ran PPC Pitbulls, a Google and Meta ads agency. Here's why he now connects the systems small manufacturers already own, and what he won't do.

  5. October 10, 2026

    Single Source of Truth for a Small Manufacturer: Capture, Connect, Decide, in That Order

    A single source of truth for a small manufacturer starts where the record is born. The order to build one in, and why buying a platform first backfires.

  6. September 28, 2026

    Nine things break, and they break in order

    Nine ways the information in a business breaks, in three tiers, in a fixed order. The ones you can name sit at the top. The ones causing them sit underneath.

  7. September 28, 2026

    We won't put AI on a business that can't feed it

    We don't build AI pilots to say you've run one, and we don't do a la carte. A skill with nothing feeding it won't give reliable results. What we build instead.

  8. September 28, 2026

    We bought the ERP. The spreadsheets never left.

    A shadow spreadsheet is the cheapest answer to a question your system can't answer yet. What it tells you, and a ten-minute check for counting yours.

  9. September 28, 2026

    We pay for AI and nobody uses it

    AI underperforms in most mid-market businesses for one reason, and it isn't the model. Nothing connects it to the systems that hold your business.