Analysis

February 28, 2024

AI is revolutionising the biggest industry you’ve never heard of

"It's the world's largest cottage industry. 95% of the factories in this industry have fewer than five employees"


Tim Smith

6 min read

When you sit down at your desk and open your shiny laptop, you might not consider that such a beacon of modern innovation began its life in a family-run business with five employees that still runs its operations on a whiteboard.

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An idea of the complicated, manually controlled software that CloudNC is automating
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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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