Inplant Mini: a compact silver appliance photographed front and back, with two USB ports and a power button on the front and its network, display and USB ports on the rear
Inplant Mini

AI for manufacturing.

One box on a shelf, for up to twenty people. It reads the manuals and notes you already have, answers from them, and drafts the shift paperwork. Nothing on it leaves the building.

Inplant Mini $299 / month + shipping
What you get

Four things it does for you.

Mini is not a stripped-down version. It does the same four things, the same way, and shows its working the same way. The only difference is how many people are on it.

Answers

Ask it anything that is written down anywhere in your shop. It gives you the answer and shows you the page it came from, so you can check it yourself.

Engineering

Ask it how something works even when you have no document for it. It knows general engineering, and it tells you when an answer is general rather than from your files.

Documents

It writes up the end of a shift for you. You read it, change anything that is wrong, and put your name to it.

Signals

It notices when the same problem keeps coming back, and tells you about it without being asked.

See it work

Four questions, four answers.

Two of these you ask. Two happen on their own. Every answer that came out of your own documents shows you the page, so you can go and look.

Answers

It finds what is written down.

Anyone on the floor, any shift. It comes back in about a second with the answer and the page it came from.

Finds the line → shows you the page.
What's the spindle taper on the G0463?

The spindle taper is R-8, quoted directly from the manual.

From
grizzly-g0463-mill-drill.pdf
Page
12
Made up
Nothing
QUOTED FROM YOUR MANUAL · PAGE 12
Engineering

It knows the engineering.

Ask it how something works even when you have nothing written down about it. It answers, and it tells you the answer is general rather than from your files.

No document needed → and it says so.
Why would 6061 gall on a HSS cutter but not on carbide?

Aluminium is soft and adhesive, so it welds to the cutting edge wherever friction runs hot. HSS holds less of its hardness at temperature than carbide, so the edge dulls, rubs, and the built-up layer grows. Sharper rake, more coolant, and a faster surface speed all attack the same cause.

From
General engineering
Your documents
Not used here
Your equipment
Never quoted
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE · NOT FROM YOUR FILES
Documents

It writes up the shift.

At the end of a shift it drafts the handover somebody would otherwise write at six in the morning. You read it, fix anything wrong, and put your name to it.

Reads the shift → writes the draft → you sign it.
Shift handover · Tuesday, nights

Line 4 ran two hours short on a coolant fault. Pump whine on cold start noted again, still recorded as normal. Two parts quarantined pending measurement on days.

Written from
14 notes, 3 photos
You get
A PDF
Sent
Only once you sign it
A DRAFT FOR YOU TO CHECK
Signals

It tells you when something is odd.

It reads what comes in and raises the thing nobody had time to notice. You are told, rather than having to think to ask.

Spots the pattern → tells you what it saw.
Coolant fault, line 4

Third time in eleven days, all of them on nights. The previous two were cleared without a part change, and neither was written up.

Seen in
3 shift reports
First
11 days ago
Told
Maintenance
IT RAISED THIS · NOBODY ASKED IT TO
The back of Inplant Mini: a 19 volt power inlet and a 2.5 gigabit Ethernet socket, which are the only two connections it needs, alongside HDMI, DisplayPort, USB4 and USB-A
Power, and one network cable. The rest are optional.
Installing it

Power, one network cable, done.

It stands on a shelf in the closet you already have. You point it at wherever your documents already live: an SMB share, SharePoint, or a folder somebody maintains. It reads the words in scans and photographs, so paper nobody typed up becomes searchable.

Everyone uses it in a browser. There is no command line, nothing to install on anyone's machine, and nothing for your people to learn beyond typing the question. If you do not have an IT department, you do not need one for this.

Anyone can add to it on the spot: a photograph of a nameplate, a voice note, a PDF. A technician's upload waits for an admin to approve it before it can be used in an answer.

Being straight with you

What Mini is not.

It is not for a hundred people.

Twenty on one site is what it is scoped to. Past that the answers get slower for everyone, and Scale is the honest answer rather than a second Mini.

It will not guess.

When your documents do not cover something it says so and logs the question, rather than producing a confident answer nobody can check.

It is not a pilot you have to justify.

Thirty days. Run it on your own documents, and if it is not for you, send it back and we refund every penny. No restocking fee, no argument.

Pricing
$299

per month, plus shipping · month to month, no minimum term

Hardware, warranty and replacement included. Monthly releases. No per-user fees. Thirty days to send it back, refunded in full.