Expert talks. Dedendum structures.
Voice-first capture, nine structured fields, named validation, grounded retrieval. Two tools, one preserved mind.
Nine fields. One named judgment.
Every validated item Floor Assistant can answer from has this exact shape. No free text, no drift, no missing reasoning. The fifth field — the reasoning — is the irreplaceable one. Without it we have an SOP. With it we have the expert.
- situationBearing temp alarm trips on the #3 blower below −10 °C.
- standardSOP says reset the alarm, run for 10 min, escalate if recurring.
- practiceTerry lets the line warm 40 minutes. Checks cold-start grease before any reset.
- deviationDoesn't reset at all. SOP is silent on ambient temperature.
- reasoningCold-weather alarm is almost always thickened grease, not a real fault. Resetting cold is how bearings seize.
- edge casetrue — only applies below −10 °C, cold-start conditions, no previous shift wear.
- conditions#3 blower · first hour of morning shift · outdoor temp ≤ −10 °C.
- confidencehigh — 28 years, no incidents when followed.
- follow-upsCapture the exact temp threshold. Grease brand change history.
How a twenty-minute session works.
- 01Record
Our operator joins the expert — on site, on phone, on video. MediaRecorder captures short clips. No training for the expert. No keyboard.
- 02Transcribe
Whisper returns the transcript in seconds. Plant-floor slang is preserved. No over-formalization.
- 03Structure
Dedendum's extraction prompt produces the nine-field knowledge item. Draft only — nothing goes live yet.
- 04Approve
The expert reads the draft out loud if they prefer. One tap approves — attaching their name, the date, and their confidence. Only approved items reach the floor.
The answer lives in the phone, not the PDF.
Designed for a gloved hand. Thumb-reach tap targets. Voice input for when both hands are busy. Answer in under 30 seconds. Expert attribution on every reply — with the exact date they approved it.
- ✓Voice or type — Web Speech API falls back to text. Works in gloves.
- ✓Grounded only — Returns “no validated match” before inventing.
- ✓Attribution always — Terry's name + April 2026 review date on every answer.
- ✓Flag, don't fight — One tap flags a wrong answer for the expert's next session.
Floor Assistant
What do you need to know?
Here's what Terry would do
Don't reset it — the alarm's right. Let the line warm for 40 minutes, then check the cold-start grease on the #3 blower.
Ask in plain language. In thirty seconds, an attributed answer.
- 01Ask
One input. Typed or spoken. No categories, no menus, no taxonomy for the worker to learn.
- 02Retrieve
pgvector cosine similarity finds the best-matching validated item. Top-k ranked by similarity and the expert's confidence.
- 03Synthesize
A compact answer, three to five sentences, grounded strictly in the retrieved item. No invention.
- 04Attribute
Answer framed in Relief register: "Here's what [expert] would do. [Answer.] [Expert] reviewed this — [date]."
Six agents. One pipeline.
Each step is metered. Each call attributed. Each cost visible in the admin panel. No black boxes, no vendor opacity. When Anthropic has a better Haiku, we flip a flag per-tenant — no code change.
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.
- 01
Transcribe
voice → text
whisper-1
- 02
Extract
transcript → 9 fields
claude-sonnet-4-6
- 03
Validate
expert approval gate
named expert
- 04
Embed
text → vector
embedding-3-small
- 05
Retrieve
question → top-k
pgvector 0.8
- 06
Answer
grounded answer
claude-haiku-4-5
The lines we don't cross.
Plant-floor tools earn trust by what they refuse to do. Here is what Dedendum will not do — now or at scale.
- ✕No self-serve experts in Phase 1
Experts do not log into an app. Our ops operator runs each session. That's the only flow supported today.
- ✕No auto-publish
No AI-generated knowledge ever reaches the floor unreviewed. The expert approves every item, or it stays a draft.
- ✕No contradiction auto-detection
Our operator flags contradictions for the expert. The machine does not silently pick one version over another.
- ✕No invented answers
Floor Assistant returns "nothing validated matches this" before it invents. Honest unknown is the product.
- ✕No cross-tenant leakage
DB-per-tenant. Your expert's judgment never meets another company's queries. Architectural, not policy.
Thirty minutes. Your machines. Your names.
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