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Coming soon · pilot Q3 2026

Your back-of-house,
on the platform.

Bantō is the personal AI assistant for practitioners on Lean Competence. It reads your incoming briefs, pulls from the curated lean library, drafts your work in your voice, and remembers what worked at the last client.

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FROM CHF 179 / mo · INCLUDES INBOX, CRM, LIBRARY, DRAFTING, ANY CHANNEL
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Bantō

22 engagements · 4 sectors · library v2
Active
New brief, pre-read for you
Claims office, mid-size Swiss insurer, Zurich. They want daily-management rolled out in three months. Sector match: 92%. Draft intro ready, two questions flagged.
Tighten paragraph 3, and pull the field note about week-3 stalls.
Tightened. Citing FN-09, "Why most daily-management rollouts stall in week three." Attach as a follow-up resource?
Send Add field note
The combination

The platform brings the work. Bantō makes it scale.

WHAT LEAN COMPETENCE DOES

Curated matches to qualified briefs

Contracts, NDAs, insurance handled

Invoicing and billing run by us

Payouts every two weeks

Access to the curated lean library

WHAT BANTŌ ADDS
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Reads every incoming brief and drafts your reply

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Cites the network library when you need a reference

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Drafts LinkedIn, proposals, follow-ups in your voice

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Remembers what worked at the last client

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Available on Telegram and WhatsApp

What Bantō does

Seven things
so you stay on the gemba.

Everything Bantō does, a senior practitioner could do themselves, given six more hours in the day. The point is that nobody has six more hours.

01

Briefs land pre-read

Every Lean Competence brief arrives with a Bantō summary: the constraint, the sector match, the questions you would have asked, and a draft of your reply ready to edit.

02

A curated lean library, on tap

Bantō has read every playbook, case writeup, A3, SMED template and field note in the Lean Competence library. Ask a question, get an answer with the source. Contribute back, and the network gets sharper.

03

Lightweight CRM

Briefs, clients, engagement timeline, follow-up reminders. Visible only to you, never shared with the network. Replaces the spreadsheet most solo practitioners are running today.

04

Memory across engagements

Your wins, your sectors, your voice. Bantō recalls what worked at the last client and surfaces it at the next one. Stays with you, yours when you leave.

05

Drafting on tap

LinkedIn posts, proposals, follow-ups, post-engagement playbooks. Drafted in your voice, ready in seconds, always your edit before it goes out.

06

Branded inbox and storage

A professional email on your own name plus a private drive. Client comms and engagement files in one place, automatically tagged to engagements.

07

Anywhere you work

Telegram and WhatsApp bridge. "Bantō, draft a follow-up to the Solothurn medtech client", done before your taxi leaves.

A day on the network

From the train,
to the gemba,
to the post.

07:30
LOCATION

Train, Zurich to Solothurn

Bantō surfaces overnight: a new brief from a Bern hospital, draft reply waiting. You approve, send. Three follow-ups queued for the morning.

09:30
LOCATION

Plant floor, medtech

You walk the gemba. Voice notes to Bantō on WhatsApp, three observations from the changeover line, transcribed and tagged to the engagement automatically.

13:00
LOCATION

Lunch

Ask: "Pull the SMED template for sterile lines." Bantō cites PB-04, formats it for the client, and adds today's gemba notes to your brief stack.

14:30
LOCATION

Wrap-up workshop

Closing session with the team. Bantō listens, structures the conclusions into a one-page summary as the meeting ends. You edit, the client signs.

16:30
LOCATION

Train back

"Build me the slide deck from today." Bantō pulls the gemba notes, the summary, the field-note citations. First draft ready in fifteen minutes, your edit before sending.

18:45
LOCATION

Cafe near the station

Time logged for the day, automatically tagged to the engagement. Invoices queued for the week-end review. LinkedIn draft about the changeover redesign ready to post.

20:00
LOCATION

Home

Bantō prepares the morning brief for tomorrow. You close the laptop.

Trust

Your data,
your terms.

Practitioners with regulated clients told us trust was the first thing to get right. So we did.

Your memory is yours

Engagement notes, drafts and Bantō memory belong to you. Take them with you if you leave the network.

Never shared

Your CRM, client comms and Bantō memory are visible only to you. Not to other practitioners, not to Lean Competence staff, not to clients.

Swiss-hosted

Data sits on Swiss infrastructure. Encrypted at rest, encrypted in transit, audited annually.

Regulated-ready

For GMP, ISO 13485 and patient-data engagements, Bantō runs in a sandboxed mode with no inference outside Switzerland.

FAQ

Bantō, in detail.

No. Bantō is an opt-in add-on. The network works the same way for everyone, with or without it. Most practitioners join the platform first, try Bantō in the pilot, and decide from there.

Bantō pilot

From CHF 179
per month.

Includes branded inbox, private drive, your personal Bantō with the curated lean library, the CRM, drafting credits, and the Telegram and WhatsApp bridge. Cancel anytime.

JOIN THE PILOT WAITLIST

First cohort is 25 practitioners. Drop your email and we will reach out before public launch.

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