* CEO & Co-founder: George Munguia, Guillermo Sequeira and Vikranth Kanumuru
* Company: Harmony
* Website: tryharmony.ai
* Year Founded: 2025
* Key Focus: AI automation for manufacturing
What is Harmony’s function?
Most factories run on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, spreadsheets, paper, manuals and institutional knowledge that rarely integrate with each other in a streamlined way. Though we’re not an ERP, we unify and connect all your factory data from machines, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), software, and digitized paperwork and manuals. We then layer artificial intelligence (AI) and automations on top of everything. Our engineers work in person, on-site, to remove repetitive work so teams can focus on throughput, quality and margin.
How did you get the idea for the company?
We got the idea by walking factory floors in Chattanooga and watching how plants actually run. More often than not, the operations we’d see were based on pen and paper processes, loads of Excel spreadsheets and disconnected systems, which means most people were stuck doing busywork instead of work that moved the businesses forward. We saw a chance to fix that with AI, working in person to understand a business’s needs, and building solutions that actually automate work. Harmony exists to help reindustrialize the United States and protect the legacy of family-owned plants, as well as large enterprises.
What’s driving your focus on AI for manufacturing?
AI is finally practical for messy factory workflows and data at the exact moment manufacturers are facing labor shortages, reshoring and razor-thin margins. Plants are drowning in manual work and disconnected ERPs, spreadsheets and mountains of paper, while most “automation” to date has been too technical or too slow. If we do not build this layer of technology for factories now, someone else will, and we want to make sure the United States is at the forefront of these efforts.
Tell us about how your team of co-founders came together.
I was previously the co-founder of a staffing agency and saw firsthand how broken most operations and systems are with repetitive work. My co-founder, Guillermo Sequeira, co-founded Beek.io, which was acquired by Audible (Amazon), and my other co-founder, Vikranth Kanumuru, built AI at billion-dollar companies and holds dual graduate degrees from Cornell. We met through On Deck and found out quickly that our worldviews aligned on automation and reindustrializing the real economy, so we were then able to start building quickly. Everything lined up perfectly.
What’s the next big step for Harmony?
We are turning our early work with manufacturers in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama into a repeatable factory operating system. Our goal is to help reindustrialize America and prepare manufacturing plants to operate with maximum efficiency for the next 50 years. We’ve built a proven software platform that we tailor for each client during implementation. We work the same factory shifts with operators, and partner with the C-suite to make sure it actually delivers value.
— answered by George Munguia