Si is our name for the model we build for each company, and the software around it.
It starts from an open-weight model (NVIDIA Nemotron today), which we plan to train for the work of companies that build and move things, then fine-tune for your company alone, on your records and on what your people teach. It runs on hardware you buy direct and keep, or in a private cloud, and is used for no other company.
It reads, checks and drafts the legwork at every desk, from the first lead to the final invoice and from the back office to the shop floor, names who taught every answer, and leaves anything public, financial or legal, and anything that moves a machine, to a named person.
Si is short for superintelligence, the word we use for the kind of models and tools people have called AI. It isn't smarter than your people.
Where that stands: we're in development, with no customers yet. Our training for the work of building and moving things is planned. We've fine-tuned one model once, in August 2026, from an industrial manufacturer's own records, used with permission, and it runs on our rack (what we measured). No cloud deployment has been set up yet. Pilots are planned from spring 2027.
Our mission
Transforming small and mid-sized companies for the superintelligence era.
Why now
The know-how is retiring. Of the up to 3.8 million US manufacturing jobs to fill by 2033, 2.8 million are openings left by people retiring (Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute, 2024).
Know-how is going into personal accounts. 51% of generative AI users at the manufacturers Netskope monitors were still on personal accounts in September 2025 (Netskope, 2025).
Open models now run on one small server. On our rack, a 120-billion-parameter open model answers on one NVIDIA GB10 machine (what we measured, Sep 2026), so each company can have a model of its own, there or in a private cloud, used for no one else. They're still well behind the best rented models, so Si drafts the legwork and a person decides.
Inside your Si
Your systems at the bottom. A named person at the top.
August 2026: NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B open model, fine-tuned on worked examples built from an industrial manufacturer's own sales and order records, used with permission. Nobody's teaching was in it yet. In our own side-by-side check, not a blind test, it answered in that company's working format: the next step, who does it, which system.
We start from an open-weight NVIDIA Nemotron model, plan to train it for the work of building and moving things, then fine-tune it on your records and what your people choose to teach. The fine-tune is a small file on top of the open model, kept apart for you and never merged with anyone's. It runs on your hardware or in a private cloud (where it runs).
02 · The memory
Your records, and what your people choose to teach.
Past jobs, orders, travelers and setup sheets, work instructions, service logs, shipping records and quality records, from customers whose terms allow it. Every rule your people teach is credited to them by name. Answers cite the record they used, so the name comes from your records, not from the model's memory.
03 · The agents
Software built to eliminate manual paperwork, one desk at a time.
It reads, checks, finds and drafts. In lead gen and sales: the reply to a new inquiry, a quote packet, a follow-up. In operations: a schedule, a reorder. In HR and finance: a first-week plan, an invoice match. On the floor and at the dock: the job packet, with the drawing at the right revision; a first-article form set up for the inspector to fill in; a service sheet; a shift handover; the shipping paperwork. Each draft lists the rules it used and who taught them, and stops where a named person decides. It never starts, stops or moves a machine.
04 · The control pane
Every desk's drafts, and every decision waiting on a named person, on one screen.
What each desk's agent is working on, on an office computer, your phone or the shop-floor screen. Today it runs in our Brazos Precision simulation, with made-up names (watch it draft).
No rip and replace: it sits between your existing systems and your people. It starts from the exports your ERP, scheduling or dispatch system already makes (CSV or Excel). Read-only connectors to the systems you run are planned, and none is built yet: the list, and where each stands.
RFQ prep packet · RFQ 27-0193
Example, made-up data
Asks for
250 × 17-4 PH manifold block, H1150, ±0.0004 in. bores, first-article report (AS9102), material cert to AMS 5643.
Similar jobs
23-0418, same part family, 2025: quoted 31 min a part, actually took 38.
22-1107: failed first article on bore finish; passed on the Okuma.
Rules that apply
“Re-check bore size after the H1150 heat-treat run; 17-4 shrinks, and some lots shrink more.”
Taught by · Ray M. · Senior estimator · Example
“Bores tighter than ±0.0005 in. go on the Okuma, not the Haas.”
Your hardware or a private cloud. Used for no other company.
The same fine-tune and the same rules either way. The Audit helps you choose, and checks what your customers' terms allow.
Your hardware
Where
A small server on your network, in your building: an NVIDIA GB10 machine. Two to four for a larger site.
How you pay
It's in your monthly price. We own it, insure it and look after it, and it becomes yours after month 36.
Who can use it
Your company only.
Who can see it
Your people. We run it; remote access is outbound-only and logged, and your IT provider can watch every session.
Today
How our own rack in Austin runs. Customer installs planned from spring 2027.
Private cloud
Where
In your own cloud account if you have one, or a deployment we set up and run for your company.
How you pay
Hosting is quoted in the Audit.
Who can use it
Your company only.
Today
Planned. The first one will be set up with a pilot.
Some customers' terms rule out the cloud. The Audit checks yours.
Training a fine-tune takes more than one server: our first took two (how it went). Where yours is trained is settled in the Audit, before any of your data moves, and it is never used for any other company.
Either way, a named person decides anything public, financial or legal, and anything that moves a machine.
What Si reads · Planned
No rip and replace. We run your stack headless.
Headless means Si works behind the software you already run, with no new screens for your people: your systems stay the source of truth, and Si brings its drafts to one approval screen. You keep the systems you run. No connector is built yet. Each is planned read-only: the vendor's own read-only permissions where they exist; where they don't, a read-only login we set up with you; and where a system can't limit access, our own software that only reads. It never changes the records in your systems, and they stay the source of truth.
Until a connector is built, Si starts from the exports your systems already make (CSV or Excel). We plan to build connectors as pilots need them, from spring 2027.
On your hardware, Si is planned to read systems that live only on your network, such as QuickBooks Desktop, Sage 100, an on-site ERP database or your file shares, through read-only logins. Remote access stays outbound-only and logged. In a private cloud, how it reaches them is settled in the Audit.
Planned
The vendor publishes the read access we plan to build to.
Planned, access to confirm
Reading it needs the vendor's approval, a certain plan or your own install. We confirm it with you in the Audit, before any work starts.
Every desk Email, files, sheets, chat
10 systems
Microsoft 365,Email, planned
Google Workspace,Email, planned
SharePoint and OneDrive,Files, planned
Google Drive,Files, planned
Dropbox,Files, planned
Network file shares,Files, planned
Microsoft Excel,Sheets, planned
Google Sheets,Sheets, planned
Microsoft Teams,Chat, planned, access to confirm
Slack,Chat, planned
From chat, only the channels you name, never private or direct messages; meeting transcripts only where the people in the meeting agreed.
Lead gen and sales Leads, sales, RFQs, orders
8 systems
HubSpot,CRM, planned
Salesforce,CRM, planned, access to confirm
Pipedrive,CRM, planned
Zoho CRM,CRM, planned
Mailchimp,Marketing, planned
Paperless Parts,Quoting, planned
Shopify,Shop, planned
SPS Commerce,EDI, planned, access to confirm
Operations · Making it Jobs, drawings, quality, maintenance, machine status
21 systems
Epicor Kinetic,ERP, planned
Global Shop Solutions,ERP, planned, access to confirm
JobBOSS²,ERP, planned, access to confirm
E2 Shop System,ERP, planned, access to confirm
ProShop,ERP, planned
Plex,ERP, planned, access to confirm
Infor CloudSuite Industrial,ERP, planned, access to confirm
Katana,ERP, planned, access to confirm
MRPeasy,ERP, planned, access to confirm
SOLIDWORKS PDM,Drawings, planned
Autodesk Vault,Drawings, planned
Autodesk Fusion,Drawings, planned
MaintainX,Maintenance, planned, access to confirm
UpKeep,Maintenance, planned
Limble CMMS,Maintenance, planned
Fiix,Maintenance, planned
Quality logs (sheets and files),Quality, planned
ETQ Reliance,Quality, planned, access to confirm
Qualio,Quality, planned
MTConnect,Machines, planned
OPC UA,Machines, planned
From machines, through MTConnect or OPC UA, Si is planned to read status only: running, idle or alarm, the program running, alarm codes and cycle times. It never sends a command or changes a setting, never starts, stops or moves a machine, and never overrides a machine's safety check.
Operations · Moving it Shipping, tracking, trucks, freight, stock
9 systems
ShipStation,Shipping, planned
UPS,Tracking, planned
FedEx,Tracking, planned
Samsara,Fleet, planned
Motive,Fleet, planned
McLeod,Freight, planned, access to confirm
DAT,Freight, planned, access to confirm
Epicor Prophet 21,ERP, planned, access to confirm
Fishbowl,Inventory, planned
Driver and vehicle data is read for the paperwork, never to score anyone.
HR and finance Accounting, payments, payroll, people
18 systems
QuickBooks Online,Accounting, planned
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise,Accounting, planned
Xero,Accounting, planned
Sage 100,Accounting, planned
Sage Intacct,Accounting, planned
Oracle NetSuite,ERP, planned
Dynamics 365 Business Central,ERP, planned
SAP Business One,ERP, planned
Acumatica,ERP, planned
Odoo,ERP, planned
BILL,Payments, planned
Ramp,Payments, planned
ADP,Payroll, planned, access to confirm
Paychex Flex,Payroll, planned, access to confirm
Gusto,Payroll, planned, access to confirm
Paylocity,Payroll, planned, access to confirm
BambooHR,HR, planned
Rippling,HR, planned, access to confirm
Pay and money records get the tightest limits. Si is planned to read only what a desk needs, such as who works where, time off and pay periods, never bank account or tax ID numbers. Only the people you name see what it reads. It stays in your company's own Si, used for no other company. Si never runs payroll, changes pay, or approves, pays or moves money. Nothing it reads about people is used to screen, rank or score anyone.
Names are trademarks of their owners; no partnership or endorsement implied.
How each one would be read, and what we confirm in your Audit
Every desk
System
What it would read
Planned route
Status
Microsoft 365
RFQs and POs that arrive by email, with their PDF and drawing attachments; customer and supplier threads; delivery promises; who is in or out.
The vendor's read-only permissions. Mail and calendar read permissions, fenced to the mailboxes you name.
Planned
Google Workspace
RFQs and POs that arrive by email, customer and supplier threads, and calendars.
The vendor's read-only permissions. Installed privately for your company.
Planned
SharePoint and OneDrive
Drawings, SOPs, work instructions, quality forms, certs, price lists, and the Excel files the business runs on.
The vendor's read-only permissions. Read permission on the sites you name only.
Planned
Google Drive
Shared folders of drawings, quotes, SOPs, Docs and Sheets.
The vendor's read-only permissions. Installed privately for your company.
Access through the vendor, your plan or your install, confirmed in the Audit. An API-only Salesforce user with read-only permission sets. Some Salesforce plans need Salesforce's API add-on.
Planned, access to confirm
Pipedrive
Deals, people, organizations, activities, notes, products on deals.
The vendor's read-only permissions. Read-only store permissions, installed privately for your store.
Planned
SPS Commerce
POs and PO changes from retailers and customers, and copies of the ship notices, invoices and inventory advice you send.
Access through the vendor, your plan or your install, confirmed in the Audit. Documents pulled from your SPS account, with nothing sent back; access confirmed with SPS.
Planned, access to confirm
Operations · Making it
System
What it would read
Planned route
Status
Epicor Kinetic
Jobs, quotes, sales orders, POs, parts and BOMs, inventory, labor, shipments, saved reports.
The vendor's read-only permissions. An API key limited to read-only services and reports.
Planned
Global Shop Solutions
Quotes, work orders, routings, inventory, purchasing, shipping, quality, AR and AP.
Access through the vendor, your plan or your install, confirmed in the Audit. No public API: a read-only database login on your network.
Planned, access to confirm
JobBOSS²
Quotes, jobs and routers, work centers, materials, POs, shipping, time tickets, invoices.
Access through the vendor, your plan or your install, confirmed in the Audit. Cloud: ECI turns the API on. On site: a read-only database login.
Access through the vendor, your plan or your install, confirmed in the Audit. On site: a read-only database login. ECI's API documents are for customers only.
Planned, access to confirm
ProShop
Work orders, parts and revisions, quotes, POs, NCRs and CARs, inspection and training records, documents.
A read-only login we set up with you. A token for a ProShop user whose rights you set; our software only sends queries.
Planned
Plex
Parts, BOMs, work orders, production, inventory, sales and purchase orders, shipments, quality, equipment.
Access through the vendor, your plan or your install, confirmed in the Audit. Service accounts set up for each customer.
The vendor's read-only permissions. Never used to score a driver.
Planned
McLeod
Orders, loads and movements, stops, carriers, rates, billing.
Access through the vendor, your plan or your install, confirmed in the Audit. Licensed for each customer through McLeod.
Planned, access to confirm
DAT
Posted loads and trucks, spot and contract lane rates for freight quotes.
Access through the vendor, your plan or your install, confirmed in the Audit. Needs your DAT subscription and a service account.
Planned, access to confirm
Epicor Prophet 21
Customers, items, pricing, quotes, orders, POs, inventory, picks and shipments.
Access through the vendor, your plan or your install, confirmed in the Audit. The read-only data service on your own P21 middleware.
Planned, access to confirm
Fishbowl
Inventory by location, parts and BOMs, manufacture orders, POs, sales orders, pick, pack and ship.
A read-only login on your network, from your hardware. A Fishbowl user with read-only rights, on your own Fishbowl server.
Planned
HR and finance
System
What it would read
Planned route
Status
QuickBooks Online
Customers, vendors, items, invoices, bills, payments, estimates, POs, AR and AP aging, P&L.
Its access can't be limited to reading, so our own software only reads. You can disconnect it at any time.
Planned
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise
The same ledger, plus inventory, assemblies, sales orders and POs.
A read-only login on your network, from your hardware. Logs in as a QuickBooks user with view-only rights; our software sends query requests only, through QuickBooks Web Connector.
Planned
Xero
Invoices, bills, quotes, POs, contacts, payments, bank transactions, reports.
The vendor's read-only permissions.
Planned
Sage 100
General ledger, AR and AP, sales orders, POs, inventory, customers, vendors, BOMs.
A read-only login on your network, from your hardware. Sage 100's own read-only database driver.
Planned
Sage Intacct
General ledger with dimensions, AP and AR, vendors, customers, purchasing, cash.
A read-only login we set up with you. A web services user with a read-only role.
The vendor's read-only permissions. It never approves, pays or moves money.
Planned
ADP
Employee roster, job titles, departments, hire dates, time off, pay periods.
Access through the vendor, your plan or your install, confirmed in the Audit. Through ADP's marketplace or your own ADP API subscription. It never changes pay.
Planned, access to confirm
Paychex Flex
Workers, departments, pay periods.
Access through the vendor, your plan or your install, confirmed in the Audit. Paychex approves the app first. It never changes pay.
Planned, access to confirm
Gusto
Employees, departments, time off, pay periods.
Access through the vendor, your plan or your install, confirmed in the Audit. Gusto approves the app and its read-only permissions. It never changes pay.
Planned, access to confirm
Paylocity
Positions, departments, cost centers, time off.
Access through the vendor, your plan or your install, confirmed in the Audit. Paylocity approves the app first. It never changes pay.
Planned, access to confirm
BambooHR
Employee directory, job info, time off, training fields, onboarding.
A read-only login we set up with you. A key from a user with read-only access.
Planned
Rippling
Employees, departments, time and attendance.
Access through the vendor, your plan or your install, confirmed in the Audit. Rippling approves the app first, with read-only permissions.
Every department has paperwork done by hand, and a person who decides.
Lead gen and sales, operations, HR and finance: in the office, on the floor and at the dock, one desk at a time, on the same model. Your Audit picks where to start.
Lead gen and sales
Lead gen and marketing
Example · Made-up names
Si reads
A web inquiry: a food-equipment builder asks about 304 stainless valve bodies, about 600 a year.
Si checks
Your machines and materials, the past jobs closest to it, and your do-not-contact list.
Si drafts
A reply asking what you’d need to quote it, and a note on the fit. No price, no lead time.
Waiting on Wes H. · Sales manager
Industries
Manufacturing.
At shift change, the outgoing lead gets a drafted handover from the job status in your ERP export: what ran, what's late, what's waiting on inspection. The lead adds what the records don't show, and signs it.
Machine shops and fabrication.
The day an RFQ arrives, the estimator gets a prep packet: similar past jobs, what they really took, and the house rules. The estimator prices.
Logistics and distribution.
When a truck runs late, the dispatcher gets a re-planned day and a drafted message to each customer it affects. The dispatcher approves.
Warehousing.
Before the shift, the lead gets a pick plan built around who's out and which dock is backed up. The lead signs it off.
Construction and field service.
For tomorrow's calls, the service manager gets crews, parts and what fixed that unit last time. The manager assigns the work.
Food processing.
When a line drifts, the quality lead gets the lot record and what the senior operator did last time. The quality lead decides whether the lot ships.
Planned · not built yet
The phone. An agent that answers “where’s my order” calls from the same records the order desk uses, logs every call and hands anything else to a person. Email replies come first.
Where we're starting
Manufacturers and distributors across the US, with three desks that are easy to measure: documents in, the order desk and quote prep. The method is the same at every desk above.
A useful answer in days. A first desk in about three months.
That is our target. The one date we put money on is the Audit's day 10.
Target week12345678910111213141516→AuditSet-upTeachingFine-tune and testShadowSign-offRunYou decide
01 · Before week 1
AI Readiness Check
30 minutes · free
Which jobs only one person can do, where work waits on them, and what your customers' terms allow. A straight answer on whether the Audit is worth it.
02 · Weeks 1 to 3, target
Audit
Month 1 of your plan · money back by day 10
One day on site, three expert interviews, one teaching session, and 20 recent real cases from the desk we pick together. The person who does that work grades them blind. A working answer from your own records, naming its source, by day 10, or your money back. The Audit's answer comes from your records on our models; your own fine-tuned model comes in the Build.
03 · Weeks 4 to 15, target
Build
Set-up, teaching, fine-tune, shadow, sign-off
Your model is set up on your hardware or in your private cloud, with a read-only feed from your system's standard export. Your senior people teach it. We fine-tune your model on your records and what they teach, and test it against your own test set. It runs beside your real work, and nothing changes until you say so.
04 · Every month after
Run
Included in your monthly price
One teaching session a month, monitoring, model updates only after they pass your own test set, and a quarterly review against your baseline.
Prices
One monthly price. Nothing upfront.
One monthly line covers it all: the Audit, the build, a server we own and look after, support and every update. 36 months at a fixed price. Then the price drops, and the server is yours.
Prices, by company size
Plan
What you get
Price
AI Readiness Check30 minutes
Which jobs only one person can cover, where work waits on them, what your customers' terms allow, and whether Si is worth it for you.
Free
Shop30 to 99 people · one site · most companies
Month 1, the Audit: one day on site, three expert interviews, one teaching session, and one desk tested on 20 recent real cases from your own records, graded blind by the person who does that work today. For a quote desk, that's 20 recent RFQs from customers whose terms allow it, graded by your estimator. You get a baseline, a map of which know-how sits with one person, and a check of your top customers' AI terms.
Months 2 to 4, the build: four teaching sessions, your company's own fine-tune, shadow and sign-off, for the first desk the Audit picks.
From go-live: everyone in the building included, a monthly teaching session, monitoring, tested model updates, a quarterly review against your baseline, and up to two on-site visits a year.
The server: one, with backup power. We own it, insure it and look after it, in your building or as a dedicated server in our Austin rack.
$3,990a month · about $192 a working day
Starter20 to 29 people · one site
The same, with two teaching sessions and one on-site visit a year. It pays back only if about six or more people each spend 10 hours a week on paperwork; the Audit tells you.
$2,990a month · about $144 a working day
Plant100 to 250 people · one site
Everything in Shop, plus a second desk (such as maintenance, quality or dispatch), eight teaching sessions, up to three servers or a private cloud, and the AI-terms check.
$7,990a month · about $384 a working day
Shop on 24 monthsfor anyone wary of 36
The same as Shop, paid off faster. It costs $6,000 more over three years than the 36-month plan.
$4,990a month
Add-onsany plan, monthly
Another desk, +$990 a month. Another expert's teaching, +$290 a month. The AI-terms check (which rented AI tools your people use, and what your customers' terms allow), +$99 a month. Each runs 36 months from when you add it. A private cloud in your own account takes $250 a month off; you pay the cloud bill direct.
Monthlynothing billed as a lump sum
The terms, in plain words
Month 1
Your money back if we can't show you a working answer from your own records, naming its source, by day 10.
Three ways out
Before it's firm: (1) day 10, your money back; (2) at the Audit readout, stop and owe nothing more; (3) if the first desk doesn't beat its Audit baseline by the measure we set in writing there, we keep working up to four more weeks at our cost, and if it still doesn't, you can leave owing nothing more. For a quote desk, the measure is median RFQ-to-approved-quote time at least 30% shorter over 20 or more RFQs.
The term
36 months at a fixed price, billed monthly. After that it's month to month at the lower price (Shop $2,490, Starter $1,990, Plant $4,990), the server is yours, and you can stop any month in writing. It never renews at a higher price.
Leaving early
After the first desk passes, leaving early means paying off the rest of the set-up share for the months left ($1,500 a month on Shop, $1,000 on Starter, $3,000 on Plant), not the full price.
If you stop
You keep your data and a full export of everything it keeps. The software can switch to a read-only license at $750 a month, or it stops after 90 days. What happens to your fine-tune is still being settled.
Not included
Sales tax where it applies; your people's time for teaching and grading (about 60 hours over months 1 to 4); the server's power (about $10 to $15 a month); more than one site (quoted in month 1).
What it pays back, in our example
A 60-person shop where 12 people each spend 10 hours a week on paperwork, and Si drafts 30% of it (a guess): about 141 hours a month back, worth about $6,345 at $45 an hour with overheads, against $3,990. It covers its monthly price from month 11, and the whole 36-month price by month 27. At 45% it's about $9,500 a month back. At 15% it doesn't pay back, and the Audit tells you which side you're on in month 1. Example · an estimate, not a promise
What you've paidTime back
Si against one full-time hire, a month
Operations manager$14,994
Cost estimator$9,425
Executive assistant$8,471
Office clerk$4,704
Si Shop, every desk$3,990
All 36 months of Si Shop ($143,640) cost less than one operations manager for one year ($179,928). One hire covers one desk; Si drafts for every desk, and it replaces no one. Hires: Texas average wages, BLS, May 2025, plus 35% for taxes and benefits (sources below).
Over 250 people, or more than one site? Month 1 ends with a fixed monthly quote for your size. Want to pay a year ahead? 5% off. Want to buy it outright instead? Ask on the call.
Founding customers: from spring 2027, the first three companies get $435 off a month for their first 12 months (Shop: $3,555 a month), for a named case study, two reference calls a quarter and one before-and-after number, published whatever it shows. Then the normal monthly price. (terms)
A rented AI subscription costs far less, about $21 per person per month for Microsoft 365 Copilot Business. It's fine for general writing. It doesn't keep what your people know, and some customers' terms restrict putting their drawings or data into any AI.
Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, Texas annual mean wages: office clerks, general $41,810; executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants $75,300; cost estimators $83,780; general and operations managers $133,280 (data.bls.gov). Monthly cost = wage × 1.35 ÷ 12; in private industry wages are about 70% of an employer's cost for a worker (BLS, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, bls.gov).
The rules every Si model will run under
Red means a person decides.
01Nothing goes to a customer, prospect, supplier or employee until a named person approves it: no message, quote, price or date. Si never sends anything itself: a person sends what they approve.
02It never sets a price, an hour or a date on its own. The person who owns that call does.
03It never spends or moves money, changes anyone's bank details, signs anything or posts anything publicly.
04It never starts, stops or moves a machine, and never overrides a machine's safety check.
05Consent comes before teaching. Nobody teaches it without signing first. Customer-restricted files stay out unless you and your customer agree in writing.
06What your people teach goes into your records, with their name on it, and shapes your company's own model, never a shared one: your formats, terms and next steps. Every rule an answer uses is cited from your records, so the credit comes from your records, never from the model's memory. An answer that cites no taught rule says so.
07Your company's data, and the fine-tune built from it, are never used for any other company, including any company we buy later. Fine-tunes are never merged or pooled.
08It never screens, ranks or scores a job applicant or an employee, never reads a job application, and never drafts a decision on hiring, pay or discipline.
Where a rule can be enforced in software (nothing sent, paid, signed or moved without a person; read-only access), it is plain code the model can't reinterpret. The rest will be written into your contract. We show you the rule file before sign-off.
For the people who know
Nobody teaches it without saying yes. The credit is theirs.
Si takes the repeat questions, with the teacher's name on every answer, so the hard ones still go to the person who knows. The person who taught it gets the credit. The person who decides answers for it.
Everyone in a teaching session signs first, can stop at any time, can review what they said, and can take back what their signed terms allow. A trained model can't forget one person's part on request; it comes out only when the model is retrained without it. We credit by login, never by voiceprint. It never scores anyone's performance, and the credit list is never used for discipline. We never ask for anyone's age or retirement date.
Owners can choose to pay a know-how bonus from the credit list. Before our first install, our template will be reviewed by employment counsel. For hourly staff, a bonus like this usually has to count toward overtime pay. Our reading; confirm with your counsel.
Your customers' terms come first
What your people teach is used for your company alone.
01Your customers' terms come first.
For example, Lockheed Martin's 2026 supplier terms bar Lockheed-furnished information from any AI unless the contract requires it, including an AI in your own building. So in the Audit we check your major customers' terms, keep restricted customers out by default, and tell you what share of your work can use your model, and whether any of it may go to a cloud deployment.
Your data, and the fine-tune built from it, never train anyone else's model, and are never used for any other company, including any company we buy later. During the Audit, before your model is set up, recordings and notes are kept on an encrypted drive used only for you, which we hand to you at the readout.
03The bill and the model don't change on you.
One monthly price per site, with no per-seat meter. The model version is pinned and only changes after it passes your own test set.
Built for companies with know-how worth keeping.
A good fit
A company that builds or moves things
About 20 to 500 people, where some of the work waits on one or two experienced people
Anywhere in the lower 48 states; we start with machine shops and fabricators
An owner who wants a person on every decision
Probably not a fit, yet
Fewer than 20 people
Most of your work comes from customers whose terms bar AI
ITAR, export-licensed or CUI work. That's coming, and we'll say here when it's ready.
You want software that decides without a person. We don't build that.
Straight answers.
We're not a machine shop. Is this for us?
If you build or move things and some of your work waits on one or two experienced people, probably yes. We're starting with machine shops because a quote desk is easy to measure. The AI Readiness Check will give you a straight answer.
Is it only for the shop floor?
No. It's built for every desk, from the first lead to the final invoice: lead gen and sales, operations on the floor and at the dock, HR and finance. One model, an agent for each desk, and a named person decides at each. In HR it never screens, ranks or scores anyone, and never reads a job application. In finance it never pays, posts an entry or sends an invoice, and it flags any request it sees to change a supplier's bank details as unverified, for a person to confirm by calling a number already on file. In a smaller company one person often covers several desks; Si drafts for the work, not the job title. The Audit picks where to start.
Does it make decisions for us?
No. It reads, checks, finds and drafts. A named person decides anything public, financial or legal, and anything that moves a machine. On a quote desk, your estimator still sets every hour and every price.
Does it run our machines?
No. It does the paperwork around them: the job packet at the right revision, the first-article form set up for your inspector, the shift handover, the shipping paperwork. It drafts from the records you already keep, and a person checks each one. It never starts, stops or moves a machine, never overrides a safety check, and never fills in a measurement or passes a part. Your people make and move the things.
What does it connect to?
Today, nothing directly: it starts from the exports your systems already make (CSV or Excel). Read-only connectors are planned for the systems you already run, such as email and files, your ERP, accounting, CRM, shipping and payroll (the list). None is built yet. It never changes your records.
Do we need our own hardware?
No. A server is in your monthly price: we own it, insure it and look after it in your building, and it's yours after month 36. Or your model can run in a private cloud in your own account, for $250 a month less. Some customers' terms rule out the cloud; month 1 checks yours.
Which base models?
Open-weight NVIDIA Nemotron models today. Every model that writes answers on our rack is an NVIDIA Nemotron: Super 120B, Lightning 30B, Nano 4B and Nano 12B VL. The Audit picks the base for your workflow, and the version is pinned until a new one passes your own test set. The open models that fit on one server trail the best rented models (where rented superintelligence is better).
What does a fine-tune change?
It makes your model answer the way your company works: your formats, your terms, your next steps. It doesn't make it smarter than your people, and it isn't how names get on answers; your records do that. In our one fine-tune so far, our own side-by-side check found it answered in that company's working format. It has no test score yet. Our first blind test, on the quote desk, comes next; it tests the quote desk, not this fine-tune (what we measured).
Is our data used to train anyone else's model?
No. Your data, and the fine-tune built from it, are never used for any other company, including any company we buy later. Fine-tunes are never merged or pooled.
What if someone takes back what they taught?
They can stop at any time and review what they said. What each person can take back, and what your company keeps, is set in the consent terms they sign, which employment counsel is reviewing. One limit is already clear: a trained model can't forget one person's part on request; it comes out only when the model is retrained without it, and answers already given aren't recalled. We'll publish the exact rule here before our first Build.
Can we take our model with us?
That's being settled in our terms now. You keep your data and a full export of everything your Si keeps. Your fine-tune is a small file that only runs on top of the open model it was trained on, which stays under NVIDIA's open model license. We'll say here exactly what happens to your fine-tune before our first Build is signed.
Is it an expense or a capital cost?
There's nothing to buy: the server stays ours until month 36, inside your monthly price. A monthly service fee is usually treated as an operating expense. Ask your CPA.
Do we need IT staff?
No. We run it. Remote access is outbound-only and logged, and your IT provider can watch every session.
What if we stop?
Before your first desk beats its baseline, you can stop and owe nothing more. After that, leaving early means paying off the rest of the set-up share, not the full price. Either way you keep your data and a full export, and the software can go read-only at $750 a month.
Will it cost anyone their job?
It isn't built to cut jobs, and we never sell it that way. It's built to take the paperwork around the work off people's plates: the retyping, the forms, the handover notes. It never scores anyone. Your people spend more of the day on the work only they can do.
What if it goes down?
Its monitors check that it's actually answering, not just switched on. On your hardware, we can power-cycle it remotely, and your plan includes up to two on-site visits a year, anywhere in the lower 48 states. We'll publish uptime once we've measured it.
What about defense work and CMMC?
Not yet. We don't take controlled (CUI) or ITAR work until our defense package is ready. For context, CMMC Phase II was suspended on 13 July 2026, while self-assessments and NIST SP 800-171 still apply (Holland & Knight). Our reading; confirm with your counsel.
Who pays for Thinking Humans?
The founder for now, and customers once we have them. No outside investors. Customers pay one monthly price, in advance, from month 1.
Is this legal advice?
No. We flag AI clauses in your customers' terms for your counsel and tell you how we read them.