The apprentice that learns your shop floor.
It works beside every operator, every shift, then asks one question the moment the floor diverges from the docs. Answered in ten seconds. Approved by an engineer.
WI-4471
Op 30 · Finish turn, 4140 steel
Divergence
Live run
0.015
IPR run against a 0.012 spec, and the part passed.
One question, ten seconds
Your best operators are retiring.
None of what makes them good is written down. It's in how they set up a job, and when they override the number on the page.
- 25%
- of the manufacturing workforce is over 55
- 6 mo
- to bring a new operator up to speed
- $47M
- lost a year at a large firm to knowledge that never got shared
We don't document your operators. We apprentice to every one of them.
It learns from your whole floor, earns trust by being useful, then captures the judgment that would otherwise leave.
Serves the floor
Answers spec questions, pulls drawings and past orders, and surfaces how the job ran last time, at every station, on every shift.
Earns the question
Being useful buys the right to ask, the moment a deviation, a scrap, a silent recovery or a timing anomaly happens. Otherwise it stays quiet.
Captures the judgment
The operator answers in ten seconds by voice. The answer becomes a proposed change, never an automatic one, and an engineer approves it.
The AI proposes. An engineer decides. Nothing else reaches the floor.
- Notified in real time. The responsible engineer is pinged the moment an insight is captured, while it still matters.
- Approves every change. No WI edit ships without approval. The operator's answer is a proposal, never automatic.
- Engineers only query layer. Engineers get read access to captured judgment and timing detail the floor can't pull. The operator experience is never punitive.
Approval inbox
2 pending
Audit the instructions you already have, and evidence every change.
OperBot reads across your existing set and flags what's inconsistent, ambiguous, out of date, or drifting from how the floor actually runs. Everything it touches stays isolated per shop, encrypted, and logged as audit evidence.
Reads every instruction
Scans the whole set for contradictions, gaps, and stale revisions. No manual line by line review.
Flags and proposes
Surfaces each issue with a suggested fix. It never rewrites on its own.
Engineer approves
Every fix clears the same human gate: trusted, attributable, logged.
Per shop isolation
Each shop gets its own tenant. Nothing crosses between shops, and records can't change outside the gate.
Encrypted and sovereign
Encrypted in transit and at rest, US data residency, authorized access only. Architected for ITAR and EAR data.
Compliance by construction
The approval trail is the audit evidence your quality system needs. Aligns to AS9100, NIST 800-171, and FDA Part 11.
Configurable to any standard
Enforce and evidence whatever standard your customer or regulator requires. Your regime, not a fixed one.
Everyone documents. No one apprentices.
| Capability | General capture & workflow tools | MES & PLM copilots | Consultants and audits | OperBot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Learns every operator, every shift | Manual project | Stateless Q&A | A single brief | Continuous |
| Captures judgment before it retires | No | No | Stale after engagement | Persistent |
| Operator facing on the floor | No | Top down | No | Yes |
| System of record for every WI edit | No | Read only | No | Yes |
| Audit evidence as a byproduct | No | No | Stale after engagement | Yes |
From apprentice to the training data for automation.
Today
Faster every shift
OperBot makes every operator faster, on every shift, and begins capturing judgment.
Next
Multimodal capture
Capture goes visual. Smart glasses record the hands, not just the words.
Later
Fuel for automation
Captured judgment plus video becomes training data for robots. OperBot is the layer that documents human expertise on the path to automating it.
Interested?
We're building OperBot with real operators and real shops. If any of this is relevant to you, reach out.