Habitech Ltd · Partnership Review · May 28, 2026

Quality is not a slide.
It's the work between us.

In November 2025 you told us something was wrong. In February you put it in writing. This is what we did with that.

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Habitech line items
audited pre-ship
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Catches
before shipping
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Formal CAPAs
both closed
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Internal NCRs
last 12 months
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Act 01

You spoke.
We listened.

From your first signal to our written commitment — 89 days of structured response.

2025-11-18
First signal

Habitech reports the SPL8 Soundbar arrived too short, with IR cutout in the wrong place and the wrong bracket. Logged as ISS issue.

2026-02-05
Formal feedback

You sent us candid, written feedback across multiple orders. We took it as a partnership conversation, not a complaint.

2026-02-19
Immediate Action Plan

Cross-functional commitment across Sales Operations, My.Sonance, Custom Services, and James Operations. Specific, dated, owned.

"It takes trust to have those conversations, and we do not take that trust lightly. This is not a short-term response designed to quiet concerns. It is a structured, cross-functional commitment to doing better."

— Habitech Immediate Action Plan, Feb 19, 2026
2026-02-20
Inspection starts

Effective immediately: 100% pre-shipment inspection of all Habitech orders by Quality Manager Gerardo Curiel + Lead QA Ana Martinez.

2026-02-23
First audit logged

PO16936 · SKU 60599 (DF-10) · Qty 3 · Audited by Gerardo Curiel · Pictures attached · No discrepancies. Three days after the commitment.

2026-05-28
You're here.

89 days. 102 audits. 5 catches. 2 CAPAs closed. This is what those numbers mean.

What we committed to — per area

Sales Operations
  • Daily 5–6 AM PST James training (Copenhagen alignment)
  • Accelerated My.Sonance feedback-to-fix loop
  • Dedicated Habitech owner in Inside Sales
  • Weekly open order summary (started March 1)
  • Multi-phase retraining for top James distributors
My.Sonance
  • Soundbar selection path: "Match to TV" vs "Order by Width"
  • Bracket logic: removed invalid combinations
  • Root cause + corrective action tracking on every change
Custom Services
  • 9 AM PST email acknowledgement SLA
  • Teams channel per active project
  • Monday 7–8 AM PST weekly review
  • JCE 2.0 intake gating — no engineering without complete intake
  • Published per-phase lead times
James Operations
  • 100% pre-ship inspection (Gerardo + Ana, from Feb 20)
  • Tracking spreadsheet, weekly review
  • Full MRP audit of open Habitech orders
  • Root cause investigation with ISS team
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Act 02

We executed.
Here's the proof.

Our commitment: 100% of Habitech orders inspected at packaging, tracked weekly, with photo evidence. The execution — 62 orders, 102 line items, 89 days. The data, not the slide.

Audits per month
Ramping coverage from launch
Product mix
Top SKUs audited

The 5 catches that didn't reach you

Discrepancies caught at the audit gate. None shipped. One escalated to formal CAPA — closed.

Traceability

Every custom line item shipped with its drawing linked to the order.

All 4 custom Habitech line items carried a drawing attached to the Monday pulse — so the operator sees exactly what to build, and what to inspect against, at the moment of audit. No guesswork at the gate.

4 of 4 custom line items · drawing linked · 100%

When something did escape — we closed it.

Habitech has 2 formal CAPAs in our system. Both closed.

The fair question

"Are things better —
or did volume just drop?"

A reasonable thing to ask. So we looked. Volume held year-over-year — the improvement isn't because we had less to do.

Orders received · monthly
Same Feb–May window, year over year
Line items received · monthly
Same window · the May '25 bulge is front-loading
Context

May 2025 shows fewer orders (19) but far more line items (240) — large, multi-line orders placed ahead of last year's price increase. Normalize for that one-time front-loading and order flow is essentially flat year-over-year. The quality gains stand on their own.

Act 03

This isn't just for you.
It's our system.

The Habitech audit lives inside a broader quality system. 2,096 internal NCRs caught before any product reaches a customer.

12 months of internal NCRs
May 2025 → May 2026 · By month
Where we catch defects
Top areas · all NCRs
Top defect types
Tracked taxonomy · 66 specific defects

When we catch it, what we do

56% rework / 42% scrap / 0.2% use-as-is. We don't ship borderline.

The defect taxonomy

6 categories. 66 specific defects. Every NCR is classified.

CAPA system — 12 months

Act 04

Where this goes next.

The audit you saw today runs on Excel + SharePoint. The system we're building takes it real-time, mobile, and connected.

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Mobile NCR capture

Operators capture defects at the line from their phone. Photo, defect type from the taxonomy, serial number scanned. No paper, no double entry.

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Customer-facing portal

You log into quality.mindenops.com/habitech and see your orders in audit live. Every photo. Every check.

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CAPA workflow

From NCR to root cause to corrective action — one system, with SLAs and ownership baked in. No more lost emails.

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MES integration

Quality gates at each production operation. Defects tagged to serial + operation + operator. Drives DMAIC at the source.

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Supplier scorecards

Glory Sky, Trifusion, Bonita — each supplier with live defect rate, 8D status, recovery time. Procurement decisions on data.

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Predictive flags

Once we have 24 months of NCR data tagged to operation, we'll know which configurations risk which defects — before they happen.

Act 05

Live.

Want to see one of your audits, end to end? Pick a line item.

Built on partnership.
Measured by trust.

We are committed to this relationship and excited about what we can accomplish together.

James Loudspeaker · Sonance · Quality System · v0.1 · May 28, 2026