The methodology

Built by a practitioner, not a prompt.

Unbottleneck.io isn't a general-purpose AI with a nice wrapper. It's the codified working method of Atif Perwiz, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with 20+ years of hands-on continuous-improvement practice across finance, energy, utilities, technology, manufacturing and the public sector.

Credentials

  • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
  • BEng (Hons)
  • 20+ years' practice
  • BPMN 2.0 to standard
  • Value Stream Mapping (current & future state)
  • DMAIC · Root Cause Analysis · FMEA
  • Business & operating-model transformation
  • AI-enhanced process design

Proven at scale

A selection of results from his 20-year career. Client names are withheld, outcomes are reported at sector level.

  • £1M+ recovered from a broken IT-asset process
    Global e-commerce sector, uncovered and recovered over £1M in IT assets buried in a fragmented process, paying for the entire continuous-improvement programme many times over.
  • 70% manual effort removed
    Global energy sector, SAP workflow automation eliminated 39 redundant spreadsheets across four global offices.
  • SLA lifted from 40% to 69% in 3 months
    UK financial services, targeted root-cause analysis and process redesign delivered a step-change in service-level performance.
  • Multi-million-pound savings via value-stream mapping
    UK utilities sector, end-to-end current- and future-state mapping quantified waste and cycle-time reduction opportunities at scale.

What's baked into the app

  • A practitioner's question order

    The walkthrough follows the same sequence a senior improvement lead uses on day one of an engagement, nothing important skipped, nothing irrelevant asked.

  • The 10 Laws of diagnosis

    The stated problem is a hypothesis, not the answer. Listen before challenging. Find the waste before adding people. Never automate an unstable process. These sit under every recommendation.

  • The 8 Wastes (TIMWOODS) tagging

    Every finding is classified against Transport, Inventory, Motion, Waiting, Overproduction, Overprocessing, Defects and Skills, so recommendations are defensible, not opinions.

  • BPMN 2.0 process maps

    Current-state maps use standard notation, structured by role, with handoffs, waits and systems visible, so what you take to your team is credible.

  • The Voice of the Customer question bank

    Owner, team-member and customer perspectives are all elicited, because an internally efficient process that produces a poor customer experience is a broken process.

  • Opinionated ranking

    Every improvement worth making is scored on impact, effort, cost and severity, ranked so the top priorities come first, and turned into a sequenced plan, the way an experienced practitioner would. No 40-page deck. No hedged-everything summary.

For questions about the methodology or how Unbottleneck.io applies it to your process, email support@unbottleneck.io.