The pilot
What a paid pilotactually looks like.
No open-ended proof of concept. A defined workflow, a defined baseline, a defined success metric and a defined date.
01Week 0
Plant assessment and baseline
We measure recovery, reject rate, die trials, scrap, butt loss and kWh per tonne on the target press, and agree the single success metric in writing.
02Week 1–4
Deploy and run in shadow
Edge runtime, sensing and connectors go in. Predictions are scored against your operators and gauges with zero write access.
03Week 5–12
Assist mode with approvals
Recommendations reach the console, engineers approve or correct, and approval rate becomes the readiness signal for write-back.
04Week 12
Audited delta
The pilot ends with a measured delta against the baseline. If the number is not there, you have lost a quarter, not a capital programme.
05After
Convert and expand
Design partners convert to paid on the proven wedge, then expand press by press and module by module on the same evidence standard.