Mahesh Sirvi

Founder of Factory Investigator and Ivris Tech, where he builds and audits manufacturer websites and runs their SEO, RFQ, and analytics work. Started in sales and B2B demand generation — ABM, lead scoring, BANT, pipeline operations — then moved into technical SEO, AI workflows, and n8n automation. At Factory Investigator he leads the website-and-growth coverage, the buyer guides, and the original investigations, and is actively researching and learning manufacturing operations and technology — ERP, MES, automation, and the systems manufacturers run on — to deepen the publication's technical reporting. MBA in Business Analytics. Still learning, still building.

Manufacturing Website Design: 25 Features That Win RFQs

Published June 21, 2026Updated August 9, 2026by Mahesh Sirvi

Manufacturer website features shown as an RFQ-ready industrial website planning board

Manufacturing website design is the work of getting an engineer to qualify your shop before a single email is sent. In its 2025 B2B Buyer Experience Report, published in November 2025 from nearly 4,000 buyers across North America, EMEA and Asia-Pacific, 6sense found that buyers now make first contact 61% of the way through the … Read more

What Manufacturing Software Really Costs (2026)

Published June 21, 2026Updated July 27, 2026by Mahesh Sirvi

Manufacturing software cost investigation shown as a pricing ledger and true-cost stack

Manufacturing software pricing is unusually hard to pin down: ask what a system costs and you get a straight answer only about half the time. We checked 34 products across ERP, MES, CRM, and quality management, and only 14 of them show a starting price on their own website without a sales call. The rest … Read more

SEO for Manufacturing Companies That Wins RFQs (2026)

Published June 21, 2026Updated July 30, 2026by Mahesh Sirvi

Manufacturing SEO analysis workspace showing search signals, RFQ intent, and factory-growth research notes

Most SEO advice written for manufacturers optimizes for the wrong finish line. It chases rankings and raw traffic, then treats a busy analytics chart as the win. The number that pays your shop floor is different: a qualified request for quote from a buyer who can actually purchase what you make. That gap is why … Read more