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~30% MoreProduction Daily

Elite Kitchens

At a glance

The wins for Elite Kitchens

~30%
Less production if removed
10+ years
On Empower
New Plymouth
Taranaki, New Zealand

New Plymouth kitchen builders Elite Kitchens estimate they'd lose ~30% of their daily production if Empower ever came off the floor — a decade of live time data is that load-bearing.

A load-bearing part of the workshop

The management team at Elite Kitchens estimate that if Empower were removed from the floor, daily production would drop by around 30% almost immediately. That's how deeply the data-driven workflow has become part of how they work.

A decade of live time data

Elite Kitchens have run Empower on the floor for over ten years. Every job, every stage, every minute captured — accumulated into a picture of exactly what the workshop can do on a good day and where the bottlenecks are on a bad one.

Kitchens the Taranaki way

From their New Plymouth workshop, Elite designs and builds custom kitchens for homes across the Taranaki region — with the operational rhythm to hit install dates and the margin discipline to keep the business healthy.

Zero Risk Software

Our Productivity Guarantee

You see gains like Elite Kitchens's in your first year — or we provide unlimited support, free of charge, until you do.

20–40%
Productivity increase

Faster jobs, greater workshop output — with the same overheads.

$5–$15k
Saved per month

Stop losing money to manual tracking and hidden inefficiencies.

7 days
To go live

Get Empower working on your floor in under a week.

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