The AI department for
CPG brands.

For food, beverage and consumer brands.

North Group helps consumer goods brands win with AI.

01

Strategy

Sales, inventory, and customer data usually sit across an ERP, a CRM, and the spreadsheets each department keeps. We map where that data lives and how it moves, then rank where AI pays off first.

02

Training

Finance, sales, operations, and marketing each train on the reports and files they use every day. Every role learns what AI can take off its plate, and the whole company works from one plan.

03

Transformation

We connect the ERP, the CRM, and your sales and inventory data into one centralized data layer, the company brain. Agents then run on top of it, handling routine follow-ups and flagging exceptions to a person.

04

Fractional AI department

We stay on as your AI department, planning 60 to 90 days ahead. Every month we ship the next build and extend the data layer to another department, report, or system.

Where AI pays off for consumer goods brands.

01

One data layer across ERP, CRM, and reporting.

Years of order and customer data that used to sit in separate systems feed one place instead. Reports that took one person all morning to assemble draw from it directly.

02

An executive dashboard leadership can trust.

Five departments asking for the same live view get one dashboard instead of five spreadsheets. It reads from the data layer, not from whoever happened to be in the office that morning.

03

Agents that run the routine follow-ups.

Agents that chase outstanding orders and due dates, check outgoing work against the rules you set, and flag exceptions to a person. They run in the background across departments, so your team finds out about a problem before a customer does.

Client stories.

A selection of the work we've done with consumer goods and CPG teams.

5+ hrs savedPer person, per weekFractional AI department
Consumer packaged goods (CPG)

A major North American CPG brand

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How we work.

Start with an audit

It starts with a free 30-minute call. We ask a lot of questions to understand how your team uses AI today and where it pays off. No commitment, no slides.

We learn how you work

We interview your team and map where AI actually fits, then turn scattered tools and experiments into one clear strategy.

Engineer it together

We ship real systems in weeks and train your team on them in hands-on workshops, so they get used, not shelved.

We don't disappear

We plan 60 to 90 days ahead and ship the next build every month. Your team gets sharper, the wins compound, and you own all of it.

FAQs.

Our data is spread across an ERP, spreadsheets, and a couple of reporting tools. Can you still help?

Yes, that's usually the starting point. We map how information moves through the company, department by department, then build a roadmap that starts with the highest-value fix instead of trying to clean up everything at once.

Do you handle AI governance as well as the tools?

Yes. Every engagement includes a written AI use policy, and most include an AI-in-hiring policy, both reviewed before they go to your people team. A team plan with spend managed by finance goes alongside it.

What if some of our staff have never used AI and others use it every day?

We train both. Group sessions and in-person workshops bring everyone onto one plan first, then smaller department sessions, including finance, fulfillment, and quality, work through the tasks specific to that team, whether someone's a daily user or has never opened the tool.

Do you build custom automations, or just train our team?

Both, and the training is what makes the automations stick. We ship the first automations, like an order follow-up or a report that builds itself, backtested before handover, and sequence the rest on a roadmap your leadership signs off.

Last updated September 2026.

Find out what we'd build for you.

It starts with a free audit. We'll show you where AI could drive the most value for your business.

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