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AI-native manufacturing intelligence, built for the kinetic age.

AI-Native Manufacturing Intelligence FOR High-variability teams

When Systems Don't Think With You

Your brain has become the integration layer.

The phone rings. A customer needs a quote—fast. You open three systems, search folders, cross-check emails, calculate from memory—and then assemble the answer in your head. The data exists—scattered across ERP, MES, CRM, spreadsheets, file servers, and inboxes.

But it doesn't connect. It all routes through you.

That's the fundamental problem underneath everything else: your systems store information, but they don't synthesize it into decisions.

 Every question becomes archaeology:
 - "What did we quote last time?" → Dig through email, files, and ERP
 - "Can we deliver by Friday?" → Check schedule, call vendors, verify capacity
 - "Why is this order late?" → Search systems, rebuild the timeline manually

The cognitive load crowds out the decision load. You spend your day assembling the picture, and lose the capacity to act on it.

AI-native manufacturing intelligence closes this gap. Systems that synthesize context, not just store data. That answer questions, not just display records. That think with you, not against you.

Not "AI for everything."
AI for fewer blind spots.

8 Operational Blind Spots

The gap between plan and reality.

Schedule Chaos

Every job is a moving target. Traditional systems assume everything goes to plan.

Material delayed. Machine down. Rush order from your biggest customer. Your plant runs on exceptions. You need intelligence that adapts in real-time, not software that only reports what broke.

Running Blind

Your ERP knows tomorrow. Machines know yesterday. Nobody knows now.

That gap is expensive. Quality issues surface late. Downtime gets discovered after it costs you hours. Supplier changes hit margin before anyone sees impact.

Knowledge Crisis

A senior machinist retires. 30 years of experience walks out the door.

Workarounds, setup tricks, and customer quirks vanish. The new operator doesn't know the right fixture. The engineer doesn't know why a part rejects at 2%. Teams start from scratch—again.

Weekend Heroics

Saturday at the plant. Again. This isn't a strategy.

Weekend heroics cover for weekday visibility failures. At $50M, it gets you through. At $500M, burnout is guaranteed—and overtime eats margins.

Nine Hats Problem

COO. CEO. Floor Manager. You're wearing nine hats.

This worked when the company was smaller. You could be everywhere. But you're not running a $10M operation anymore—you're scaling a $100M one. You can't clone yourself. You need to distribute intelligence.

Ripple Blindness

85% yield. 15 parts short. Which customers affected? Unknown.

Most systems won't tell you what breaks downstream. You don't know which orders are at risk.  You don't know who to call, or what revenue is exposed. The customer calls you first—and they're already frustrated.

Margin Erosion

Material costs spike. You find out at invoicing.

Aluminum was $2.85 when you quoted. Today it's $3.15. You don't know which jobs just lost margin. Your 28% margin becomes 18%. On a $50,000 order, that's $5,000 gone.

Hidden Costs

15 hours making fixtures. Nowhere to record it, or which jobs made money.

Your estimating system thinks setup takes three hours. Reality is 18 hours of fixture work, programming, and first article inspection buried in "miscellaneous." You're quoting blind.

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Deployed On Your Terms

Factory floor to cloud layer. Single-tenant or air-gapped. Your infrastructure, your control.

Heliqon adapts to your architecture—not the other way around.

Let’s Power Up Your Production

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