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90% of Warehouses Are Flying Blind. Here's What That Actually Costs.

March 31, 2026 • Blythe (Brumleve) Milligan

0:00 | 24:42

Most warehouse operators have no idea what's actually happening on their floor right now. Not a rough estimate. No idea. The WMS says one thing. Ground truth is something else entirely. And the workers running the operation walk 12 to 15 miles a day on concrete trying to close that gap.

In this episode, Blythe talks with Sankalp Arora, CEO and Co-Founder of Gather AI, live at Manifest 2026. Gather AI uses drones and cameras on forklifts to give warehouse operators real-time inventory visibility with no power drops, no new infrastructure, and a facility map completed in one to two weeks. Average customer payback: 4.5 months.

In this episode:

How drones and forklift cameras work together to turn a warehouse into real-time inventory intelligence -- no power drops ($15,000 each to install), no Wi-Fi constraints
Why half of every warehouse's total cost is people and equipment traveling, and what that means for where automation investment actually pays off
The "Amazon Go store" analogy: what a fully instrumented warehouse looks like in practice
Why the average warehouse worker walks 12 to 15 miles a day on concrete -- and why fixing that is as much a retention play as a productivity one
What the software stack looks like on a day-to-day basis and why workers end up living in Gather AI's dashboard instead of the legacy WMS
The 3-step buying framework for operators who've been burned by big capex automation projects before
What Gather AI's $40M Series B is funding and what end-to-end warehouse orchestration looks like in practice

Watch this episode on YouTube

Links and resources:
• Gather AI website: gather.ai
• Email Sankalp directly: sankalp@gather.ai
• Gather AI on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/gather-space-ai
• Everything is Logistics: everythingislogistics.com
• Freight tech vendor research: cargorex.io

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