About

I'm Brian Crusoe. I've spent 10+ years in food and CPG manufacturing — chicken processing lines with 170 people, powder blending operations, bakery production, meal kit assembly, candy manufacturing. I've managed shifts, led changeovers, debugged MES data at 2 AM, and driven $1.7M+ in documented savings through Six Sigma projects.

I didn't start in software. I started as a lean lead technician running candy lines at Ferrara. Worked my way through production supervision and management at Aspire Bakeries, Hearthside, HelloFresh, Real Good Foods, Glanbia, and Del Monte.

Along the way, I kept hitting the same problem: MES systems collected everything, teams exported it to Excel, supervisors built charts for the morning meeting — and then nothing changed. The data was never missing. What was missing was a structured process for turning data into action.

So I built my own tools. An OEE analytics platform. Short-stop pattern detection. SMED analysis pipelines. Production intelligence dashboards. They work — but the tools were never the point. The point was the process around them: how does a finding become a fix, who owns the fix, does it hold, and what happens when it doesn't?

That's what Crusoe Advisory does. Production intelligence that connects MES data to operational decisions — and operational decisions to the P&L.