In a metal yard, mill, or warehouse, “approximate” bar counts are a recipe for financial discrepancies, supply-chain errors, and audit nightmares. Manually counting hundreds of densely-packed bars across production batches, loading bays, and stockpiles is slow, labor-intensive, and prone to miscounts that ripple downstream into invoicing disputes, inventory write-offs, and customer rejections. We developed Metal Vision AI to address this exact challenge. Our AI vision system automatically count