Private AI Infrastructure for Manufacturing

AI That Works
On Your Terms.

Your engineers get the full power of modern AI — without your trade secrets, part numbers, or supplier data ever leaving your building. You control every word that goes in and every word that comes out.

0
Trade secrets sent
to public AI
100%
Control over
what AI sees
No
OpenAI or Azure
account needed
1
API key, held
server-side only
The Problem

Public AI Wasn't Built for Your Shop Floor.

Off-the-shelf AI tools are built for offices, not factories. They charge per seat, they store your inputs, and they know nothing about your parts, tolerances, or process. Worse — what you type in may train the next version of the model anyone can access.

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Your Inputs May Train Their Model

Type a part specification, tolerance stack, or supplier term into a public AI tool and that data may be retained and used to train future versions — versions your competitors will access. A private proxy blocks this at the network level before the request ever leaves your server.

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Generic Tools Don't Know Your Process

Public AI starts from zero every time. It doesn't know your Excel templates, your tolerance formats, your part families, or your inspection checklists. A purpose-built tool knows your data from day one and produces outputs that slot directly into your existing workflow.

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No Account, No Contract, No Exposure

Your team never creates an OpenAI account, signs a vendor agreement, or manages API credentials. Everything runs through one private server — managed by me, billed transparently based on actual usage.

You're in Charge

Complete Control Over What the AI Sees

This isn't a generic subscription you hand to your team and hope for the best. Every aspect of what reaches the AI — and what gets blocked — is configured specifically for your operation.

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You Define the Blocked-Term List

Provide a list of words, part numbers, supplier names, or any proprietary identifiers you never want leaving your network. The proxy strips them automatically from every request — no human review required.

2

You See Every Request That Goes Out

Every query is logged with a timestamp, machine ID, and token count. You can audit exactly what was sent, when, and from which workstation at any time.

3

You Control Who Has Access

Each machine or user gets a unique access key. Add or revoke access instantly — no vendor portal, no ticket system. If a workstation is decommissioned, its key is gone in seconds.

4

You Set the Rate Limits

Prevent runaway usage by capping how many requests any machine can make per hour. Spike protection is built in — no surprise overages from a runaway script or accidental loop.

5

You Choose the AI Model

GPT-4o for speed, Claude for longer reasoning, Gemini for cost-sensitive volume — or all three routed by task type. You're not locked into one provider. If a better model comes out, we switch.

🚫  Live Filtering — What the AI Actually Receives
⚠ What your engineer typed
Check the tolerance on part PN-8847-REV2 from supplier Acme Precision. The OD spec is 0.7520–0.7525" per drawing DWG-2241. Is 0.7519" in tolerance?
↓   ILAI Proxy filters automatically   ↓
✓ What the AI model actually receives
Check the tolerance on part [PART-NUMBER] from supplier [SUPPLIER]. The OD spec is [TOLERANCE] per drawing [DRAWING-REF]. Is 0.7519" in tolerance?

The AI never needs your proprietary identifiers to answer the question. It reads the context around the redacted terms and gives a correct, useful answer — while your IP stays locked inside your network.

What's Actually Possible

AI Is More Useful in Manufacturing
Than Most People Realize

Most manufacturers think of AI as a chatbot. The reality is that modern AI models can read images, interpret handwriting, understand engineering drawings, parse measurement data, and generate formatted reports — all through a private server that your team controls. Here's a sample of what's already being built.

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Handwritten Worksheet Reading

A photo or scan of a handwritten measurement sheet is sent to an AI vision model. It reads every value, matches it to the correct cell in your Excel template, and flags anything out of range — automatically.

⏱ Saves 25–40 min per sheet
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Dimensional Report Generation

Feed in raw inspection measurements and the AI formats them into a complete First Article Inspection report — headers, tables, pass/fail indicators, sign-off blocks — ready to send to a customer or auditor.

⏱ Saves 1–2 hrs per report
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Traveler Card Transcription

Shop traveler cards filled out by operators get scanned and processed. All field values are extracted and pushed into your ERP or tracking spreadsheet — no manual re-entry, no typos, no missing cells.

⏱ Eliminates manual data entry
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Tolerance Stack Analysis

Describe an assembly condition in plain English — the AI interprets the tolerance chain, checks whether the assembly will fit, and explains the result clearly. No spreadsheet formula hunting required.

⏱ Instant instead of hours
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Supplier Quality Document Review

Upload a supplier cert, material cert, or quality plan as a PDF. The AI extracts the key fields — material grade, heat number, test results — and checks them against your acceptance criteria automatically.

⏱ Saves 15–30 min per cert
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Maintenance Log Parsing

Machine maintenance logs written by technicians often contain buried failure patterns. AI can read months of logs and surface recurring issues, missed PM intervals, or parts approaching end of life.

⏱ Predictive insight from existing data
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Purchase Order & Quote Review

Compare a supplier quote against your last PO automatically. The AI flags line-item price changes, new charges, missing items, or terms that differ from the previous agreement — in seconds.

⏱ Catches errors before they ship
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Audit Checklist Assistance

During an AS9100 or ISO audit, your team can query the AI about procedure requirements, clause interpretations, or gap analysis — all through the private proxy, with your internal document terms redacted.

⏱ Reduces audit prep time
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NCR Drafting & Root Cause

Describe a non-conformance in plain language. The AI drafts a formal NCR — problem statement, disposition options, corrective action suggestions — in the format your quality system requires.

⏱ Cuts NCR cycle time in half

This list is a starting point, not a limit. If your engineers are copying numbers by hand, re-typing values from one system to another, or spending time formatting documents that follow a predictable structure — AI can take over that work. The question isn't whether AI can help. It's which process to automate first.

The Setup

Private AI Infrastructure, End to End

I build, host, and manage the entire system. Your team gets a tool that works on the first click — without touching a vendor contract, creating an AI account, or involving your IT department.

Step 1
Discovery Call
Find the highest-value manual process to automate first
Step 2
Configure the Proxy
Private server set up with your blocked-term list and access keys
Step 3
Build the Tool
Python .exe built for your exact forms, templates, and workflow
Step 4
Deploy
Double-click on any machine — no IT setup, no installation steps
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How the Proxy Protects Every Request
Your Machine
factory floor .exe
ILAI Proxy Server
auth · filter · log · rate-limit
AI Provider
OpenAI / Claude / Gemini
Every request is authenticated with a unique per-machine key, filtered through your blocked-term list, and logged with a timestamp before it exits the proxy. The AI provider only ever sees a cleaned query — your company name, part numbers, and supplier identifiers never appear. You hold visibility into every token consumed.
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Authentication

Every machine presents a unique key with each request. No key, no access — instantly revokable if a machine is retired or compromised.

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Term Filtering

Your blocked-term list runs on the server, not the client. Engineers don't have to remember what not to type — the proxy handles it silently on every request.

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Usage Logging

Every call is logged by machine, timestamp, and token count. You get transparent visibility into exactly what was used and when — down to the individual query.

Example — What's Already Built

Quality Measurement Transfer

One manufacturer was spending 30+ minutes per quality worksheet manually transcribing handwritten measurements into Excel. This tool replaced that entirely — running through the private proxy so no part data ever leaves the building.

What It Does

Reads a scanned handwritten worksheet as a PDF, matches it to the correct Excel template by part number, sends the image through the private proxy to an AI vision model, and writes every value into the exact right cell — flagging out-of-range measurements in yellow for engineer review.

Deployed as a .exe on production machines. No Python. No setup. No IT involvement. Double-click and run — results land on the desktop in under a minute.

30+
Minutes saved per sheet
7
Machines deployed
23
Part templates supported
0
Proprietary data exposed
Quality Measurement Transfer v2.1
PDF Worksheet
Part_2_Regular_Worksheet_001.pdf
Processing: Part_2_Regular... [1] Template matched → Template_2.py [2] Excel created: Part_2_Regular.xlsx [3] Filtering terms → proxy sending… Verification: 2 values re-read [4] Done — 1 out-of-range value flagged Saved to Desktop ✓  |  0 proprietary terms sent

This is one example. The same infrastructure applies to any repetitive process: inspection records, traveler cards, dimensional reports, supplier certifications, audit checklists, NCR documentation, maintenance logs. If your engineers are copying numbers by hand or formatting the same document over and over — that's exactly what this is built for.

Security & Privacy

Built to Keep Your Data Yours

Every layer of this system is designed with one principle: your proprietary information never leaves your control. Here's exactly what's in place.

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HTTPS Encryption End to End

All traffic between your machines and the proxy server travels over HTTPS with an SSL certificate. No unencrypted data leaves your workstation.

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Proprietary Terms Are Stripped Server-Side

Filtering happens on the proxy — not the client. Your engineers don't have to self-censor. The server handles it automatically on every single request.

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Per-Machine Access Keys

Every workstation uses a unique key. Revoke a machine's access in seconds. No shared credentials that, if leaked, compromise your entire operation.

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Full Usage Audit Trail

Every request logged with timestamp, machine ID, and token count. You can review the complete history of what was sent at any time — nothing is hidden.

Rate Limiting Per Workstation

Per-machine rate limits prevent runaway usage. A misconfigured script or accidental loop won't generate hundreds of requests before you notice.

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Your API Key Never Touches Client Machines

The AI provider API key lives only on the proxy server. Your engineers' machines never see it, store it, or transmit it. It cannot be extracted from a factory floor workstation.

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Proxy Port Closed to the Public Internet

The backend Flask server is never directly accessible. Only the SSL-terminating front end is public-facing. The internal proxy port is firewalled off entirely.

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No Vendor Account Required From Your Team

Your employees never create accounts with OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google. No corporate credit card on a third-party platform. No terms of service your legal team has to review.

Start the Conversation

What's Your Highest-Value Manual Process?

Tell me what's eating your engineers' time. I'll tell you whether AI can automate it, what the setup looks like, and what it would cost based on your actual usage.

Free 30-minute call. No commitment. Just an honest engineering conversation.