NOW IN PRIVATE BETA
Solve Root Causes Faster — With an AI Coach That Never Sets Your Score
RCPS AI guides your team through a structured, nine-stage Root Cause Problem Solving process — from problem definition to closure — with an AI Coach that helps you think it through, and a deterministic quality score calculated the same way every time, for every project.
Built for Lean, Continuous Improvement, and Quality teams in manufacturing. No credit card, no long onboarding — just your next problem.
THE PROBLEM
Root Cause Analysis Shouldn’t Depend on Who’s in the Room
Most problem-solving still lives in scattered spreadsheets, inconsistent templates, and whoever remembers the “right” questions to ask this time.
Inconsistent quality
One team’s 8D looks nothing like another’s A3. The depth of the root-cause analysis depends on who led the session, not on a repeatable standard.
Skipped steps under pressure
When the line is down and leadership wants an answer today, containment gets confused with correction, and “5 Whys” stops after two.
Knowledge walks out the door
The best facilitators carry the method in their heads. When they’re on vacation, in another meeting, or leave the company, the standard goes with them.
Reports that don’t hold up
A root-cause report built for the leadership review often can’t survive a second question — the evidence trail was never captured in the first place.
HOW IT WORKS
Every RCPS Stage, in One Guided Workflow
Nine stages, one consistent standard. Move at your team’s own pace — nothing is timed, and you can always come back to a stage later.
- Problem Definition — Structure the problem, impact, and goal in plain language.
- Problem Breakdown — Is / Is Not scoping to narrow down where the problem actually lives.
- Immediate Actions — Document containment while root-cause work continues.
- Cause Collection — Brainstorm freely — the AI Coach helps organize causes by category, then your team votes to select the real drivers.
- Root Cause Analysis — Structured 5-Why analysis down to a validated root cause.
- Solutions — Score and rank candidate solutions by impact and effort.
- Verification — Confirm each solution actually worked, with before/after evidence.
- Sustain & Transfer — Lock the fix into your standard, and share the lesson elsewhere.
- Closure & Impact — Document the final result and business impact.
THE AI COACH
A Coach, Not a Judge
At every stage, the AI Coach reviews what your team has written and offers suggestions — sharper problem statements, causes you may have missed, a Why that needs one more layer. It never decides for you, and it never sets your quality score. The score is calculated the same deterministic way every time, from what your team actually documented — not from an AI’s opinion of it.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
Deliverables Your Team Can Actually Use
Excel export
A structured workbook covering every stage — project summary, root-cause detail, action plan, and executive summary — ready to share or file.
PDF report
A clean, print-ready report covering the same content, formatted for a leadership review or an audit trail.
A deterministic quality score
Calculated the same way every time from what’s documented at each stage — not an AI’s subjective judgment.
A private, local workspace
Multiple projects, autosave, and full stage history — see the data note below for exactly where this lives.
SEE THE PRODUCT
A Look Inside RCPS AI
The core screens inside RCPS AI — from the guided workflow through root-cause analysis and reporting.
Workspace
Project workspace and guided nine-stage workflow
AI Coach panel
Stage-specific coaching and deterministic quality feedback
Root Cause (5-Why)
Structured 5-Why root-cause analysis
Export
PDF and Excel reporting controls
PRIVATE BETA & YOUR DATA
What Private Beta Means Right Now
RCPS AI is pre-production software, currently available to invited private-beta testers via a shared access code provided by the Lean Commandos team. Today, your projects are stored locally in your own browser — there is no account system and no cloud project storage yet.
Problem content you enter is sent to our AI provider only to generate coaching suggestions for that stage; it is not used to train models beyond what the provider’s own standard API terms describe. Please review every AI suggestion before relying on it — the AI Coach offers input, not a replacement for your team’s own engineering judgment.
Avoid entering confidential, personally identifiable, or sensitive production data into any project. See our Privacy Policy for the full picture.
NOW IN PRIVATE BETA
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Lean Commandos builds practical AI-assisted tools for Lean, Continuous Improvement, and Quality teams. RCPS AI is our first product, currently in private beta. See our Lean Toolbox for free Lean methodology resources.