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# Houston

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> Houston is a continuous improvement platform for manufacturing teams who are tired of running the same investigation twice. If your quality manager spends two hours a day re-typing paper forms into Excel, if your CAPA log shows hundreds of "closed" actions but defect rates haven't moved, or if Site A solved a problem in February that Site B is still investigating in October, Houston was built for you.

Who uses Houston?

Operations and Quality Managers in 50 to 500 employee SMEs who don't have a structured improvement process and can't afford a consultant. CI Directors and VP Operations in multi-site groups who need to verify that improvement programmes actually move the KPI. Houston works especially well in food, beverage, cosmetics, pharma and discrete manufacturing, where regulatory pressure (ISO 9001, FDA, GMP) turns a non-conformity into a real risk, not just paperwork.

What Houston does

Developed by STAGE 2 BV (Ghent, Belgium), Houston was built by the team behind Solvace, deployed at L'Oréal, Danone, AbbVie and 100+ manufacturing sites worldwide.

It connects four things most factories keep in separate tools or spreadsheets:
1. Problem capture: non-conformities, EHS incidents, near-misses, customer complaints, audits.
2. Root cause analysis: 5-Why, 8D, A3, fishbone, with AI-assisted similarity search on past cases.
3. Corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), linked to the KPI they should influence.
4. KPI monitoring and automatic verification of actual impact.

The result is a closed loop. Every action is tied to a metric. The system watches for recurrence and tells you when a "solved" problem comes back. Verified solutions become a reusable library, so your teams stop starting from scratch every time the same defect appears.

What makes Houston different?

Most tools stop at tracking. Houston verifies. The primary verification signal is recurrence: if the same problem doesn't return, the fix held. This is directly attributable, not confounded by raw materials, seasonality or operator changes. The secondary signal is KPI trend across clusters of closed problems, useful as long-term confirmation. Together, they give you the only honest answer to "is our CI programme actually working?"

Other unique benefits:
- No-code Object Types: adapt Houston to any workflow without IT. Operational teams own and evolve their own apps.
- Deploys in hours, not months. Runs in any web browser, including mobile.
- AI-assisted similarity search surfaces past cases and proven countermeasures while a problem is being investigated.
- Cross-site intelligence: a solution verified at one site is suggested automatically when another site faces the same pattern.
- Built by the Solvace team: 15+ years of operational improvement deployments at the world's most demanding manufacturers.

Getting started and support

Two ways in, depending on where you are:

Houston Foundations is free forever. No credit card, no time limit. Pick a single use case (NCR tracking and CAPA are the most common entry points), set it up in an afternoon, log your first incident within five minutes. Your data is yours and you grow into other use cases at your own pace.

The 90-Day Performance Sprint (5,000 to 10,000 euros plus 500 euros per month ongoing) is for teams that already know they have a real operational problem (yield loss, recurring defect, persistent scrap) and want a measurable result fast. Our team works alongside yours: we provide the structure, the system and CI methodology guidance, your team does the improvement work on the shop floor. By day 90 you have a measurable gain, a running closed-loop system, and a team trained to keep using it.

Support includes email, in-app help, an online knowledge base, and direct access to our team during Sprints. Implementation guidance and CI methodology coaching are included with every Sprint, never billed as extras.
> 
> Verdict: Rated \*\*\*\* by 0 users. Top-rated for **Overall Quality**.

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## About the vendor

- **Company**: Stage 2 Software

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: EUR 0.00
- **Pricing model**:  (Free version available) (Free Trial)
- **Target Audience**: 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Chromebook (Desktop)
- **Supported Languages**: Dutch, English, French, Spanish
- **Available Countries**: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and 16 more

## Features

- AI Copilot
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Activity Dashboard
- Alerts/Notifications
- Business Process Automation
- Customisable Dashboard
- Customizable Fields
- Dashboard
- Dashboard Creation
- Data Import/Export
- Data Management
- Data Visualization
- Forms Management
- Goal Setting/Tracking
- KPI Monitoring
- Monitoring
- No-Code
- Performance Metrics
- Profitability Analysis

## Integrations (11 total)

- Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Efficy CRM
- LISA
- Make
- Mobility Work
- Odoo
- PowerApps
- Qlik Sense
- Single Sign-On
- Tableau
- Vercel

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- Phone Support

## Category

- [Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/1738/kpi/software)

## Related Categories

- [Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/1738/kpi/software)
- [Workflow Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4272/workflow/software)

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