Dedendum AI
Product

Built for the plant floor, not the desk.

Plant floor workers aren't behind desks. They're in PPE, hands dirty, on 12-hour shifts, next to loud machinery. Dedendum is built for them, not retrofitted from an office tool.

Every tool built for office workers collapses in that environment. SharePoint, Confluence, Guru, Copilot, all of them assume screen time, keyboard access, and navigation patience. None of those exist on a plant floor.

Dedendum is three connected tools, one shared knowledge base. Each tool is built for the person who uses it:

Expert Studio

Where the knowledge gets captured.

Your senior expert talks. Dedendum structures. No writing required, ever.

How a session works

  • 20-minute conversations during normal work hours
  • Voice captured and transcribed (OpenAI Whisper)
  • Structured knowledge items extracted from the conversation, the trigger situation, the standard procedure, what the expert actually does, where they deviate, and the reasoning behind the deviation
  • Expert reviews each item on a tablet or phone. One tap to approve.
  • In Phase 1, sessions are guided by a Dedendum operator. The expert never has to open the app alone or navigate an interface.

What gets captured

Every knowledge item contains: the situation trigger, what the written SOP says to do, what the expert actually does, where they deviate from the SOP, and why. The deviation reasoning is the most valuable field. It's the judgment the manual doesn't hold.

Expert Studio · session complete

Done. Terry reviewed and approved 4 items from today's session. His judgment is on record.

Session 2026-04-18 Items: 4 Duration: 22 min

Floor Assistant

Where the knowledge reaches the worker.

Your frontline worker asks a question. The expert's reviewed judgment answers. In under 30 seconds.

What the worker sees on every answer

  • A single plain-language answer
  • The name of the expert whose judgment is behind it
  • The validation date, when the expert last reviewed it
  • A confidence tier (High, Medium, or Review)
  • The source the answer traces back to
  • A "this didn't help" flag that escalates to the real expert

Product standards, non-negotiable

  • Answer retrieved in under 30 seconds end-to-end
  • Operable with one hand on a phone
  • Works in a browser, no app install required for pilot
  • One tap to log in after initial setup
  • Tested in plant-floor conditions, not on a demo laptop
Floor Assistant · answer

Here's what Terry would do. Check the bearing temp at the inboard housing first, if it's climbing and the vibration sensor is quiet, the issue is lubrication, not alignment. Back off the load to 60% and call the shift lead.

High confidence Expert: Terry M. Reviewed: 2026-04-18 Source: Sess-0031

Admin Dashboard

Where the ops director sees the system working.

Three read-only views for plant managers, ops directors, and GM/COO.

  1. Query log, timestamp, question, expert attributed, confidence, flag status
  2. Knowledge base, every validated item, expert name, validation date
  3. Flag queue, "this didn't help" items with context, ready for expert review

Everything is read-only. The dashboard reports the system. It doesn't let an ops director edit the expert's judgment.

Admin Dashboard · pilot progress

12 of Terry's knowledge items are live. Your team asked Floor Assistant 34 questions this week that used to go to Terry.

Week 6 of 12 Coverage: 73% Flags: 2

Trust architecture

Why this isn't just another AI chatbot.

Every Dedendum answer carries four things generic AI does not:

No output reaches the floor unverified by design.

What it's built on

The stack, named and specific.

  • OpenAI Whisper, voice transcription
  • OpenAI GPT-4o, structured extraction from expert conversations
  • OpenAI GPT-4o-mini, grounded answer synthesis for Floor Assistant
  • PostgreSQL + pgvector, knowledge store and semantic retrieval
  • React + Node.js, browser-based, no app install required
  • Data residency: Canada, PIPEDA-compliant from day one
  • SOC 2, certification path begins H2 2026

Next step

Start with the audit, not the contract.

The first conversation is always the Knowledge Risk Audit. No slides. No pitch until you ask for one. Your named experts, your incident history, your numbers.