For industrial operations

When Terry retires, what happens at 3 a.m.?

Dedendum captures the judgment that lives in hands and ears — before your senior expert walks out the door. Voice-first sessions. Named, validated knowledge. Grounded answers on the floor in under 30 seconds.

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Canada Central · PIPEDA-aligned2 LOIs with industrial operators$75K non-dilutive · Futurpreneur

Try Floor Assistant — live

demo tenant · terry, millwright

voice: desktop chrome

Speak or type a plant-floor question. Dedendum retrieves the matching validated item from Terry (our pilot-tenant millwright) and returns a grounded answer in under 30 seconds.

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Mining & metals
Discrete manufacturing
Energy & grid

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The gap no manual fills

Manuals capture procedure. SOPs capture compliance.

Neither captures the judgment that makes your senior expert irreplaceable. That's the gap — and the day they retire, it disappears.

1,000+

skilled workers retire every day in Canada

StatsCan, 2025

$180K

average replacement cost per senior expert

SHRM benchmarks, 2024

80%

of what makes senior experts irreplaceable is unwritten

MIT Sloan industrial ops review, 2023

Let the line warm forty minutes. Resetting cold is how bearings seize.

Terry — millwright · 28 years on the floor · April 2026

Two products, one preserved mind

Expert talks. Dedendum structures.

One tool for the expert to speak. One tool for the floor to ask. Connected by a validated knowledge base with a name on every answer.

Expert Studio

For the named expert

The expert talks. Twenty minutes. No typing.

Our ops operator guides the session. The expert explains how they think — in their own words, at their own pace. Dedendum structures each judgment into a validated knowledge item. Nothing leaves the session until the expert approves it.

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situationBearing temperature alarm on the #3 blower trips below −10 °C.
practiceLet the line warm for 40 minutes. Check cold-start grease before any reset.
whyA cold-weather alarm is usually a thickened-grease signal, not a real fault. Resetting cold is how bearings seize.

How a session works

Floor Assistant

For the person on shift

Ask in plain language. Get the expert's answer.

One input. One answer. Attributed to the expert who validated it — with the date they approved it. Works on a phone, one-handed, with gloves. Under 30 seconds, end-to-end.

ask"bearing temp alarm wont clear at -14 degrees" — typed or spoken, any casing, any typos.

retrieveDedendum finds the matching validated item from the named expert's knowledge.

answerReturns in Relief register: "Here's what Terry would do. [Answer.] Terry reviewed this — April 2026."

flagWasn't quite right? One tap flags it for the expert's next session. No punishment. No retraining loop.

See a real query

The orchestra underneath

Six agents, one validated answer.

Every Floor Assistant reply is the output of a pipeline. Each step is metered, every call attributed, every cost visible in the admin panel. No black boxes, no vendor opacity.

Live pipeline

Six agents. One validated answer.

Every Floor Assistant reply flows through this pipeline. Each station is metered and attributed — no black boxes, no vendor opacity.

online

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Transcribe
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Extract
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Validate
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Embed
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Retrieve
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Answer
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We lost three senior experts last quarter. This is the first tool I've seen that even tries to capture what they actually knew — not what they wrote down.

Discovery interview · March 2026VP Operations · BC metals processor · 480-seat plant

Grounded, not imagined

Built in Vancouver. Grounded in operations.

We spent fifteen discovery interviews listening before we wrote a line of code. Our pilot tenant runs on real seeded knowledge from a senior millwright. Every claim below is verifiable.

discovery: 15 interviews
commercial: 2 signed LOIs
technical: MVP · TRL 6
funding: $75K non-dilutive

Straight answers

Common questions, on the record.

No hedging, no buzzwords. If it isn't shipped, we'll say so.

No. Dedendum keeps their judgment in the building after they retire. Replacement is not the goal — continuity is. Every answer Floor Assistant returns is attributed to the expert who validated it, by name.

Twenty minutes. No typing, no documents, no training. Our ops operator runs the session; the expert just talks. In Phase 1, experts do not self-serve — we keep the friction off them.

Every item requires the expert's approval before it's live. They can edit, re-record, or discard any draft. Nothing reaches the floor until the expert signs off — with a name and a date.

All tenant data lives in Canada Central. We align to PIPEDA on day one. SOC 2 certification path begins H2 2026; we'll update this page when it completes. Data retention defaults: audio 730 days, transcripts 730 days, queries 365 days — configurable per tenant.

Manual. Our ops operator flags any item that conflicts with an existing validated item so the expert can reconcile. Automated contradiction detection is on our roadmap; it is not shipped. We will not claim otherwise.

$6,500 for a 90-day Discovery Pilot: one expert, up to 25 seats, 2,500 queries, 10 capture hours. No monthly subscription commitment. If it works, we talk annual. If it doesn't, you owe nothing further.

It returns: "Nothing validated matches this. Ask your supervisor, or flag it below so the team can capture this from the expert next session." No hallucinations, ever. Unknown is an honest answer.

Two engineers with backgrounds in industrial ops and ML infrastructure. Built in Vancouver. Hands-on with operators on BC floors since January.

The one call

One conversation. Your numbers. No slides until you ask.

We'll sit with your operations lead for thirty minutes. We'll show what's at risk in your building — with names, with numbers. If we're the right fit, we say so. If we're not, we'll tell you who is.

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