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Custom-built strategies for businesses that refuse off-the-shelf answers.
We Don't Consult.
We Operate.
Manufacturing Solutions Group is a team of operators who build and run real businesses, not a consultancy that hands you a slide deck and walks away. We ship production software, run live companies, and carry the same risk we ask you to take.
Our advice is informed by what we ship, not what we research. The strategies we recommend are the ones running our own three operating businesses right now, which is why we can manufacture a solution instead of just describing one.
Leadership
Karl Gillihan
President
Founder and President of MSG. He came up as a rotating equipment specialist in the energy industry and now runs MFGBase, LocalAISource, and ServiceStorm. He builds the technology and systems behind every engagement.
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Roger Pemberton
Operations Director
Runs delivery, operations cadence, and client success across every MSG engagement.
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Partners
Tony Gunn
Partner, Founder of The Worldwide Machinist & The Machinists Club
Manufacturing advocate, global industry ambassador, keynote speaker, and host of The Machinists Club Podcast. With 25+ years across machining, consulting, technology adoption, and industrial media, Tony has worked with manufacturers in more than 50 countries.
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Marina Wyss
Partner, Founding Engineer & Chief Evangelist at LocalAISource
AI/ML educator and career coach who has helped 200+ professionals move into AI roles and built a 143K+ subscriber YouTube channel. Leads education and community for LocalAISource.
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Spencer Smith
Technical Partner
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Our Services
Companies We've Built
We don't just advise, we build. These are companies manufactured by MSG.
These aren't case studies, they're businesses MSG runs. The same team that would scope your engagement is shipping production code to those products this week. That's the proof. Hire a firm whose advice is informed by what they ship, not just what they research.
“I went from someone who had never written a line of code to someone running multiple AI-powered software products, and Karl is the reason that happened.”
Six deployed software products
Three new business entities filed
On track for a $250,000+ annual profit increase