Heavy Equipment
Dealer networks, equipment hierarchies, parts aging, warranty programs, territory management. Built for CAT-class operators and adjacent industries.
Products · The catalog
Three products, one thesis. A shipping extension for D365 that we built for all of our customers. A methodology that reduces implementation time and effort by 30–40%. And Helios, the AI operating system Ludia runs on, now available to the world. Microsoft underneath, agentic operating system on top.
1 FarShip
A Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain extension built for all of our customers to enable their shipping requirements.

Ludia's shipping extension for Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain. We built it for all of our customers, so their shipping requirements are handled inside the same platform that runs the rest of their business.
Every Ludia customer that ships, in every industry we serve.
Configured, not customized. Built natively on Dynamics 365, with no parallel stack and no shadow data.
2 AI Implementation Methodology
The operationalized form of the velocity-compression argument. Every workstream of a Microsoft Dynamics 365 engagement, re-engineered with AI as the lever. A measurable 30–40% reduction in time and effort.

The longest line on any ERP Gantt is “discovery.” Six months of senior business leaders explaining how their business runs to a delivery team that's never operated it. AI compresses this asymmetry. We arrive at the first workshop already knowing how the work flows, and we spend the meeting on the decisions instead of the explanation.
The methodology is the default scaffold for every new Ludia engagement. AI-assisted discovery on intake. AI handles the first-draft configuration, generates the test coverage, and narrates the training materials. Human senior architects own the decisions; the AI removes the tax of getting to them.
The economics. An engagement that costs 30–40% less in time and effort prices differently than the old version. The senior team stays embedded the whole way. The customer ships faster, with less burden on their team to support the project.
3 Helios
Ludia's own AI operating system, now available to the world. The way we run Ludia, productized for the way you run your business.
Applied inside Ludia
Most consulting firms run on whiteboards, spreadsheets, and tribal knowledge. The senior architects know how things work; the system doesn't. When a firm like that grows, the system breaks before the people do. We weren't willing to let that happen at Ludia.
A full model of how Ludia operates: every workstream of every engagement type, every methodology decision, every customer pattern, every delivery move that's worked or hasn't. We have mapped the entire business and built it ready for agility. The system knows what our senior architects know. New people get senior context on day one.
Decisions that used to take a meeting now take a Teams message. The methodology isn't a document anymore. It's a working system that produces work. The AI Implementation Methodology runs on Helios. So does every active engagement. So does the firm's pipeline, capacity planning, and quality discipline.
Available to the world
Customers don't want another copilot bolted on. They want their business to operate the way a senior team operates: fast, instrumented, agile, with the AI doing the unglamorous coordination work. Helios gives them the operating layer we use ourselves.
The same architecture and AI core, configured for your industry, your data, your operating patterns. Helios maps your workstreams the same way Ludia's are mapped, and every row carries the KPI it moves, its build and run cost on Microsoft, and the person who owns it.
It starts with a map of one business line; the build delivers the running platform. Helios ships with the AI Implementation Methodology. Post go-live, your senior team operates Helios the way Ludia's senior team does. Same model, different business shape.
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Why most AI is hard to put to work, how Listen, Strategize and Execute fix it, and what you leave with. Captions are on, so it plays with the sound off.
How Helios starts with you
Helios never starts from scratch. Ludia arrives with your industry's map pre-filled, and your people correct a draft instead of starting one.
We arrive with your industry's map pre-filled, then listen: your people tell us how the work really runs, and Ludia's proprietary agents draft the map.
Your experts and our solution architects decide what each piece of work becomes, which KPI it answers to, and in what order it happens.
Every investment is tied to a number before it's funded, and measured after it's built.
A clear direction for AI, and the proof it's working.
Helios is Ludia's proprietary method, built on Microsoft's Success by Design and business process libraries and on hundreds of years of Ludia know-how.
4 Industry accelerators
Each accelerator is a configured D365 base for a specific industry: data model, workflows, reports, role-based dashboards. Bought, not built. Snaps under Helios.
Dealer networks, equipment hierarchies, parts aging, warranty programs, territory management. Built for CAT-class operators and adjacent industries.
Project codes, labor categorization, change order discipline, subcontractor management. Built for EPCs, infra-build, and construction-trades operators.
Asset lifecycle, regulatory recordkeeping, field service routing, JV accounting patterns. Built for upstream / midstream operators and energy services firms.
Project-based revenue, billable utilization, multi-skill resourcing, complex billing schedules. Built for industrial professional-services firms.
Procurement, grant accounting, regulatory workflows, citizen-facing service. Coming with input from existing public-sector engagements.
Demand planning, multi-channel order management, lot & expiry, retail-execution discipline. Coming as the consumer-goods adjacency matures.
Every Labs product is built natively on the D365 platform: Dataverse, Power Platform, Microsoft Foundry, FastTrack-aligned. Ludia is a Microsoft Solutions Partner for AI Business Solutions and a Microsoft FastTrack Portfolio Partner. No parallel stack, no shadow data. We don't replace Microsoft; we extend it.
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