Plant Cortex

Your manuals, finally useful under pressure.

An AI-powered operations platform for manufacturing plants — it answers questions straight from your own equipment manuals and data, every answer cited to the exact source, and it says so when it doesn't know instead of guessing. It also tracks the floor's daily paperwork: permits, near-misses, inventory, downtime, and shift handover, all in one place.

The problem on the floor

What it does

01

Grounded, cited answers

Every response points to the exact manual page it came from. If the manual doesn't cover it, it says so instead of inventing a plausible-sounding step.

02

Safety paperwork, drafted

Work permits and JSAs generated from the real, current procedure — a starting draft for your team to review and sign off, not an automatic approval.

03

Flowcharts on demand

Turn a written procedure into a visual step-by-step flow for training or a quick refresher on the floor.

04

Works in your team's language

Multilingual by default — a translated, cited answer beats a rushed on-the-spot translation of an English manual.

Beyond Q&A: real tracked registers

The floor doesn't just need answers — it needs a record. These used to live in spreadsheets, paper logs, or nobody's memory. Now they're tracked, with a real lifecycle and an audit trail.

05

Work permits, with a lifecycle

Issue → active → closed, with a logged shift handover and role tracking. Nothing auto-closes — an unclosed permit past validity shows up as overdue instead of quietly disappearing.

06

Near-miss & safety reporting

A real structured report, routed to the right department, with photo evidence and an admin acknowledgement step so reports can't just vanish unread.

07

Spare-parts inventory

On-hand quantity and reorder points per part, with every adjustment logged as a movement — never a silent overwrite.

08

Downtime & reliability KPIs

Every stoppage logged becomes real MTBF/MTTR/availability numbers per equipment, plus a trend and a top-offender chart — not just a list of incidents.

09

Shift handover log

A running narrative for the whole shift, not just one permit — and the person writing the handover can't be the one who acknowledges it.

10

BOM & purchase requests

A tracked request from draft through received, with line items resolved back to a real source in your manuals — not a generated list you have to double-check.

On trust

This isn't a general chatbot with your PDF attached. It only ever answers from documents you provide, runs on infrastructure you control (yours or ours, your call), and every gap it can't answer gets logged for review instead of filled in with a guess. The same discipline applies to every AI-assisted view above: incident data is analyzed to spot patterns, never used to train or fine-tune the model, and every cited pattern is resolved back to a real record in your data before it's shown — never a paraphrase you have to take on faith.

How a first look works

Design-partner pilot

We're taking on a small number of plants for a discounted pilot: one manual, one unit, 4–6 weeks, success criteria agreed before starting. No long-term commitment to see if it's useful for your team.

Where this is headed

The core system and the registers above are live today. These are what we're building next, as we bring on early plants to shape them.

Next

Two-way sync with your ERP

Today's purchase requests are tracked end to end but stand alone. Next: syncing that lifecycle with your existing ERP or procurement system, both directions.

Next

Root-cause intelligence from your own history

Feed in your plant's past root-cause analyses, and the system surfaces probable causes for a new issue based on your own incident history — visible to your whole team, not locked in one person's head.

Next

Permits in your plant's own format

Safety permits generated in the exact layout your plant already uses and your team already trusts, not a generic template.

Next

Live equipment data

We've proven the engineering against a public test data source. Next is connecting it safely to a real plant's own historian — not live on any customer's equipment yet.

Take a look

A 15-minute call, or a 90-second video first if that's easier.

Founder
Gaurav
Email
gaurav.plantcortex@gmail.com