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Built for the teams buildingwhat comes next.

Innovation processes demand tight coordination across R&D, engineering, regulatory, and commercial teams — and depend on the hard-won expertise of the people who know the product best. Narratize helps industry teams turn that expertise into faster cycles, stronger alignment, and market-ready product intelligence.

Purpose-Built for Innovation Teams in Advanced Manufacturing

Narratize Serves Innovation Teams in Advanced Manufacturing
Product Innovation

You build real, physical products.

Formulations, devices, machines, materials — turning technical reality into something the market will buy, with a lab, a line, and a spec behind every call.

New Product Development Innovation Process Stage-Gate

You run formal stage-gate and NPI processes.

Ideas move through stages and gates with real go/kill decisions. Narratize maps to that cadence instead of working against it.

Cross-functional coordination

You coordinate R&D, engineering, regulatory, and commercial.

Every launch depends on teams that don't naturally speak the same language. You spend your days connecting them.

Product Portfolio

You're measured on the whole portfolio.

Hit rate, time-to-market, and the share of revenue from your newest products. One launch doesn't define you — the pipeline does.

Expert tacit knowledge

Your deepest knowledge lives in your experts.

Decades of hard-won judgment sit with the people who built your products. Much of it has never been written down — and some of those experts are nearing retirement.

Fast Innovation and Validation

You move fast and validate everything.

Commercial pushes for speed. Regulators and risk demand proof. You own both ends at once.

If this is your world, Narratize was built for you.

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Intelligence for Innovation Teams in Complex, Regulated Manufacturing

Customers see faster cycles and capacity recovered.

Narratize Customer Case Study - Global Tire Manufacturer
Advanced Materials
Global Tire Manufacturer

Rapid Learning Cycles for tire design were slowed by manual documentation and research scattered across systems. Product Knowledge Hubs turned every cycle into a compounding asset — and engineers got their time back for engineering.

4.6× faster R&D learning cycles
85% fewer engineering hours per cycle
Cycle time reduced from months to days
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Narratize Customer Case Study - HVCAR
Engineered Systems
Global HVACR Manufacturer

New product introduction was slow, manual, and fragmented, and siloed knowledge made gate reviews unpredictable. Embedded in existing NPI and Agile workflows, Narratize now produces the artifacts teams used to build by hand.

Accelerated manual NPI deliverables  from months to weeks
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Narratize Customer Case Study - CPG Personal Care
Consumer Packaged Goods
Enterprise Personal Care Manufacturer

Across skin, hair, home, and hygiene lines, ideas stalled in document graveyards and prior work was hard to reuse. Product Knowledge Hubs turned R&D knowledge into a living, shared asset for global teams.

“Real-time visibility into the sufficiency and impact of our entire innovation portfolio.”
SVP of R&D for the Americas
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Narratize Customer Case Study - Fives Intralogistics
ENGINEERED SYSTEMS
Fives Intralogistics Corp.

Manual, error-prone spec comparisons in Excel slowed bids and StageGate reviews. Narratize now compares customer RFPs against trusted product data and turns product documentation into a shared source of truth for bid, engineering, and commercial teams.

"By automating customer spec comparisons against trusted product data, Narratize shortens a manual, error-prone Excel process from days to hours—cutting review time by 80% and reducing risk in our RFP process."

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Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of companies is Narratize best for?

Narratize fits advanced manufacturers with $50M to $1B in revenue (or enterprise divisions of larger companies), 20 or more people in product development or R&D, three or more concurrent development programs, and a formal stage-gate or NPI process.

Does Narratize work for CPG companies?

Yes. CPG teams (including personal care, food and beverage, household products, and pet nutrition) use Narratize to manage formulation knowledge, claims substantiation, regulatory documentation, and multi-SKU portfolio complexity. A benchmark-validated program with a global pet nutrition company measured 67% faster innovation cycles.

Does Narratize work for industrial OEMs?

Yes. Industrial equipment and automation manufacturers use Narratize to manage engineering knowledge, specification documentation, and stage-gate execution across complex mechanical, electrical, and software subsystems.

How does Narratize handle regulated industries?

Narratize supports compliance-heavy development with the Compliance Verification Agent, source-traced documentation, and audit-ready records. Medical device, aerospace, and chemicals teams use it to keep regulatory documentation complete and defensible throughout development.

What use cases does Narratize support?

Core use cases include accelerating stage-gate execution, eliminating documentation bottlenecks, preserving expert knowledge before retirements, aligning cross-functional teams, strengthening gate decisions, and giving leaders portfolio-wide visibility.

How does Narratize help with a retiring workforce?

Narratize captures expert knowledge and reasoning while experts are still on the team, structures it automatically, and keeps it working in every future program. Decades of design rationale stay in-house instead of walking out the door.

How does Narratize help manage multi-SKU portfolio complexity?

Every product or SKU family gets its own Knowledge Hub, and hubs roll up into portfolio views. Teams reuse verified knowledge across variants instead of rediscovering it, and leaders see readiness and risk across the whole portfolio.

How fast is time to value with Narratize?

Teams typically see value in the first weeks: documentation time drops immediately, and knowledge compounds from the first contribution. One proof-of-concept recovered 50 to 60 engineering hours and compressed development by about seven weeks.

Does Narratize support both incremental and breakthrough innovation?

Yes. The same knowledge foundation serves line extensions, platform derivatives, and net-new development. Incremental programs reuse verified knowledge; breakthrough programs build their knowledge base from day one.

Where can I see industry-specific detail?

Explore the industry pages for Engineered Systems, CPG, and Advanced Materials, plus sub-vertical pages like pump, compressor, and flow control. Each covers the workflows, standards, and documentation demands specific to that vertical.