We’re building GoSmarter an AI-powered optimisation tool designed to help manufacturers optimise production, reduce waste and lower carbon emissions. Nightingale HQ was founded by Steph Locke, AI specialist, and Ruth Kearney, innovation expert and the business has grown a solid consultancy supporting manufacturers to digitalise and become more sustainable.

It’s through this work that they understood the painpoints that manufacturers face around production planning and scheduling. It’s an area that is full of variability, risk and high costs. The process itself is often manual, resource intensive and time consuming.

They also understood that optimising production is a strategic imperative for all manufacturers to remain competitive. It leads to substantial cost savings, higher efficiency, improved product quality, and greater flexibility, all of which contribute to a stronger bottom line and better customer satisfaction.

This was the start of GoSmarter - helping manufacturers optimise production so that they can reduce waste and carbon emissions.

Our Story

Founded in late 2018, we have build a solid consultancy business helping manufacturers to digitalise. Since then we have grown customer base in Ireland and the UK. Our approach blends expertise in data science, technology, and manufacturing with a strong customer focus to accelerate digitalisation. As proud Microsoft partners, members of The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) in Manufacturing and Made Smarter in the UK, we are committed to driving digitalisation across manufacturing.

We are currently developing GoSmarter Minimum Viable Product (MVP) with our first usecase in steel manufacturing launching in June 2024.

The Founders

Steph Locke is a Microsoft Most Valued Professional in both Data Platforms and Artificial Intelligence, a combination awarded by Microsoft to only two other people in the world. She regularly presents and keynotes globally on the topics of AI, Data Science, and the integration of these capabilities into business.

Ruth Kearney has been implementing innovation and digital programmes with industry for the past 15 years, more recently with Trinity College Dublin and Talent Garden. She helped with the first Irish run of fast.ai originally developed by the University of San Francisco, supported the first AI Edge Accelerator sponsored by Intel and launched a range of Data and AI training programmes for the corporate market.

Find out more about the team on our dedicated Team page.

Who was Florence Nightingale?

Almost everyone has heard of the Lady with the Lamp. Nightingale worked as a nurse during the Crimea War and her local intervention made a difference in thousands of lives. But did you know she was one of the world’s first and most successful data scientists?

Florence performed comprehensive studies into sanitation and medical care that revolutionised the way patients were cared for. Instead of publishing in a journal for medical practitioners or statisticians to read, she made her work consumable by government and military people who could use it immediately.

Turning complex, messy, real-world experience into actionable, simple insight made a huge impact and it’s this process we’re seeking to achieve too. Thus we put our aspiration first and foremost in our name as a constant reminder.