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Tools for the business case and the spec

Calculators that put a number on downtime and inspection, a glossary for the terms our engineers use, answers to the questions we hear most, and field notes written by the people who do the work.

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Tools and references

Calculators, definitions and answers

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Downtime cost calculator

Seven inputs from your line give the cost of a minute, a stop and a year of unplanned downtime, and what a 30% reduction would be worth.

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Inspection ROI calculator

Model annual savings, payback and 3-year net benefit of AI inspection, as a subscription or a capital purchase, with every assumption visible.

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Reference

Glossary

More than 50 terms from machine vision, edge AI, thermal imaging, reliability and OT security, each explained in a few plain sentences.

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Reference

Frequently asked questions

Getting started, pricing, hardware, data ownership, security, model accuracy and support, answered directly.

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Field Notes

Articles by our engineers on inspection, edge compute, maintenance, facilities, security and the economics of industrial AI.

Building a business case

Use them in this order

Price the problem. Run the downtime cost calculator for the lines or assets that stop most often, or the inspection ROI calculator for the defect that reaches customers.
Check the method. Read how each number is built, and what it deliberately leaves out, before you present it. Finance teams trust a conservative number they can follow.
Replace the assumptions. A three-week Feasibility Sprint or a six-week Proof of Value swaps modeled defaults for measurements from your own parts and machines. Both are on our pricing page.

Field notes

Four field notes to start with

If you read nothing else on this site, these four cover the economics and the most common ways projects go wrong.

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Operations · Grace Nakamura-Hill

What a minute of downtime really costs

How to build a downtime cost that a finance team will accept, one defensible input at a time.

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Computer vision · Priya Venkataraman

Why your inspection model got worse in July

How light, materials and machines drift away from a model's training data, and the monitoring that catches it early.

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Strategy · Daniel Okafor

From pilot to fleet

Why industrial AI pilots stall after a promising start, and what it takes to scale beyond the first line.

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Operations · Daniel Okafor

Microstops and the hidden factory

The short stops your OEE number hides, and why they so rarely make it into anyone's log.

Turn the estimate into a measurement

Bring your calculator results to a 45-minute discovery call. We'll tell you which numbers to trust, which to test, and how a Feasibility Sprint or Proof of Value would measure them.

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