Aiara

Aiara is a US-based SaaS company serving the manufacturing industry. It provides AI-powered, IoT-free productivity and analytics tools that digitise factory operations and deliver actionable insights. Its sole named product, Athena, offers machine productivity tracking, operator performance monitoring, operational visibility and order-to-task planning in a non-invasive, process-agnostic manner. The company says the platform can be deployed in less than one hour of downtime, and reports that customers have achieved 10X return on investment.

The company is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and operates in the manufacturing, consumer-goods and industrial sectors, as well as SaaS itself. Its technical work spans artificial intelligence, IoT-free digitisation, manufacturing and productivity analytics, and SaaS platform development. Aiara describes its deployment speed as the fastest in the industry and its onboarding as frictionless, with minimal upfront cost.

Aiara's team has more than 75 years of combined experience in manufacturing and SaaS products. The company was founded by alumni of Stanford and IIT, whose backgrounds include roles at Apple and Facebook. Aiara takes a partnership-oriented approach and collaborates with industry players such as Autodesk and Plug and Play.