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Ideas don’t improve businesses. Verified outcomes do.

ZenKaizen runs your improvement ideas through PDCA and counts one only when someone independent has checked that it worked.

Example idea · PressingCycle 1

Cut changeover on Press 4 with a quick-change die cart

Problem
47 minutes per changeover, 3 a shift
Countermeasure
Pre-staged dies, standard work, one-turn clamps
Measure
Changeover time, minutes, daily
47 → 31 min4-week average after the change, against 4 weeks before
Verified by someone other than the person who raised it.

An idea isn’t done when it’s submitted.

It’s done when someone who didn’t raise it confirms it worked. That is the difference between an improvement programme that reports activity and one that proves results.

What most improvement tools count
Ideas submitted
What ZenKaizen counts
Ideas verified within 30 days

The path every idea walks

Five stops, the same at every site. The status at each stop is the one your team sees in ZenKaizen.

  1. Anyone on site

    Someone raises an idea

    From the floor, in about a minute: what to change, the problem it fixes, and a before photo if there is one.

    Submitted
  2. Champion

    A Champion reviews it

    Scored on impact, feasibility, cost efficiency and urgency, then approved, held or turned down, with the reason written down.

    Approved
  3. Improvement team

    The team works it through PDCA

    Plan the problem and root cause, do the countermeasure with owned actions, check it with real measures, act on what was learned. The A3 fills in as they go.

    In progress
  4. Verifier, never the submitter

    An independent Verifier checks the evidence

    The evidence pack sets the readings before the change against the readings after, so the decision rests on numbers, not on how the project felt.

    Awaiting verification
  5. Your outcome dashboards

    Only then does it count

    Completed means verified. The measure that matters is the share of ideas verified within 30 days of starting work.

    Verified

See each step in the training guide

Everything the improvement team needs, nothing it doesn’t

A3 that writes itself

Problem, root cause, countermeasure, actions, measures and photos, on one printable sheet built from the cycle.

Evidence before a decision

Measures can follow your site KPIs, so the Verifier sees the baseline, the change and how often target was hit.

Daily management board

Site KPIs, today’s deviations and the morning briefing on one screen, with a full-screen view for the shop-floor TV.

Deviations to actions

Raise a deviation, give it an owner and a due date, escalate it, or turn it into an improvement idea.

Gemba and outcome dashboards

Where every idea is, by department, and how many reached a verified outcome each month.

Organised the way you are

Brands, sites and departments, with roles that keep each site’s work in its own lane.

Priced by site, not by seat.

Every plan has every feature and starts with 30 days free. Plans differ only in how many sites they cover.

PlanSitesPer yearPer site
Starter1 site$500$500
Growth5 sites$2,400$480
Scale25 sites$7,500$300