Finance executive turned AI builder.

Carnell Sanders spent more than two decades as a finance leader inside manufacturing, supply chain, and pharmaceutical companies — the kind of operations where margins are won on the plant floor and lost in the spreadsheets nobody has time to fix. As a Director of Finance and Operations Controller across multi-site industrial, food, chemical, and pharma businesses, he led FP&A, rebuilt standard costing systems, and delivered more than $6M in documented cost savings. He has owned the forecast, sat in the budget reviews, and watched talented teams burn 70% of their week on manual work a machine should be doing.

That firsthand view is why he founded AUTOMATECH Innovations.

After years of translating shop-floor reality into board-ready insight, Carnell saw the same pattern everywhere: companies knew they needed AI but had no practical way to deploy it, govern it, or prove it paid off. So he built the firm he wished he'd had as an operator — one that doesn't sell hype or hand over twelve disconnected tools, but installs working automation, measures the result, and reports it in the language leadership actually trusts: time recovered and dollars returned.

Today, AUTOMATECH Innovations delivers Claude Cowork implementations and AI sales acceleration for B2B teams in manufacturing, logistics, and finance — audits, builds, and ongoing retainers that recover 8–15 hours per week per person and give operators a number their CFO will stand behind. Carnell leads the firm with the same approach that defined his finance career: rigor in what gets measured, empathy in how change is delivered, and a relentless bias for action.