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Consultation & Needs Assessment. Honest answers before contracts.

Before a single tag goes on an asset, ARK runs a feasibility study. We talk to the operator, walk the floor, look at the assets, and tell you whether RFID is the right call — including the cases where it isn't.

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What's included

The thirty-minute call is the start. The week on-site is the work.

A consultation engagement runs over 2–4 weeks depending on scope. Multi-site or multi-vertical engagements scale up from here.
Phase 1

On-site walk-through. No PowerPoint.

A solutions architect spends one to three days on your floor — talking to operators, watching how assets move, and identifying the points where current tracking breaks down. Output: a written discovery doc with photos, observations, and quantified pain points.

  • 1–3 days on-site
  • Operator interviews
  • Workflow mapping
  • Pain quantification
On-site walk-through. <em>No PowerPoint.</em>
Phase 2

Read-rate testing. In your environment, not ours.

We bring readers and a sample of tag form-factors to your floor and test read rates on your actual assets, your actual interference, your actual conditions. The output is a feasibility report with quantified read-rate estimates and a go/no-go recommendation.

  • On-site read-rate testing
  • Tag form-factor evaluation
  • Interference assessment
  • Go/no-go recommendation
Read-rate testing. <em>In your environment, not ours.</em>
Phase 3

Numbers, not vibes.

We build an ROI model specific to your operation: current write-off rates, labor hours spent on inventory, audit cost, and quantified shrink. The model surfaces what RFID would save — and what it wouldn't — at multiple deployment scales.

  • Custom ROI model
  • Multi-scale deployment scenarios
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Pricing alongside savings
Numbers, not vibes.
Deliverables

What you walk away with.

Discovery report

Photos, operator quotes, pain-point quantification, and current-state workflow diagrams. Reads like an operator's-eye view of where things go wrong today.

10–20 pages · PDF + slide deck

Feasibility report

Read-rate estimates per asset class, tag form-factor recommendations, reader topology sketches, and a go/no-go with confidence intervals.

12–18 pages · technical detail

ROI model

Custom spreadsheet model with deployment scenarios, sensitivity analysis, and payback periods. Built so your finance team can stress-test the assumptions.

Excel · with documentation
Next step

What usually follows.

A consultation & needs assessment engagement typically leads into one of these — depending on the outcome and how the operator wants to scope the work.

Start with a conversation

Tell us about your floor. We'll tell you whether to spend the money.

The first thirty minutes is free. If RFID isn't the right call, we'll say so — and tell you what is.