On-prem · Private AI for manufacturing

The AI operating layer for manufacturing.

A private AI layer that connects your floor, your quoting, and your back office — fine-tuned on your data and run entirely on your own infrastructure.

On-prem only
Air-gap capable
Trained on your data
ERP · MES · CRM · QMS PRIVATE MODELS YOUR DATA APPREND OPERATING LAYER RUNNING ON YOUR HARDWARE YOUR FACILITY · NOTHING LEAVES

Every department in your shop, on one operating layer.

Plus scheduling, procurement, inventory, engineering, safety. Start with one department — expand as you see fit.

Four flagship modules.
One operating layer.

// 03.1 — OPERATIONS

Logbooks, quality, and temp sheets — without the paper.

Technicians log on a tablet. Apprend flags out-of-spec readings in real time and turns shift handover into a structured record.

  • Digital logbooks with anomaly detection
  • Quality & temp sheets that auto-flag drift
  • Shift handover summarized for the next operator
  • Audit-ready exports — SOC, ISO, FDA, ITAR
Line 3 — Shift Log
14:32 EDT
TIMEREADINGSTATUSOP
14:28Furnace A — 1,842°FIn specJM
14:15Press 2 — 12.4 ksiIn specRT
14:02Coolant Loop — 89°FTrendingJM
13:48Furnace A — 1,838°FIn specJM
13:34QC Sample 47PassSH
// 03.2 — QUOTING

Quote new work in minutes — grounded in your own history.

Apprend learns from your historical quotes, BOMs, and win/loss data, then prices new RFQs against jobs you've actually built.

  • RFQ to quote in under 5 minutes
  • Confidence scoring against historical comparables
  • Margin guardrails set by leadership
  • Win/loss feedback loop on every quote
RFQ-2841 — Bracket assembly, 850 units, 6061-T6
Material$12,840
Machining (4.2 hr/unit)$18,360
Finishing$3,200
Margin (24%)$8,256
Quote$42,656
Confidence: 94% · 17 comparable jobs
// 03.3 — EXECUTIVE

An assistant that already knows how your business runs.

A private AI for your CEO and COO, trained on your operational data. Drafts updates, flags issues early, answers questions in seconds.

  • Daily briefings from real plant data
  • Memo and email drafting in your voice
  • Cross-departmental Q&A
  • Confidential by design
COOWhat's slipping this week?
Apprend ExecThree items. Press 2 logged a coolant trend you'll want to flag with maintenance. The Brindle quote is past 48 hours — Sarah is waiting on tolerances. And HR has two open reqs aging past target on the welder roles.
COODraft a note to Sarah about Brindle.
// 03.4 — BACK OFFICE

Accounting, HR, and admin — handled.

Invoice matching, AR aging, payroll prep, candidate screening, onboarding. Automated where it should be, surfaced where it matters.

  • Invoice and PO matching with audit trail
  • AR aging insights and collection drafts
  • Resume screening tuned to your shop
  • Onboarding workflows that finish
Invoices matched
847
+ 23% this week
AR over 60 days
$84.2k
– 12% MoM
Open reqs
06
2 flagged
Hours saved / wk
112
across team

Runs on your hardware. Your data never leaves.

Quoting data, BOMs, and customer pricing are sensitive by nature. Apprend runs entirely on infrastructure you already own, so that data never leaves your environment.

Your servers, your hardware

Bare metal, your VMware cluster, or a dedicated edge appliance. You own it.

Air-gap capable

For ITAR, defense, and regulated work — runs fully disconnected if required.

Models trained on your data

Fine-tuned inside your perimeter. Nothing leaves to train.

Predictable cost

One-time deployment, flat annual license. No per-seat. No per-token surprises.

Your facility · Your network
Department apps
// LIVE
Operations · Quoting · Exec · Back office
Apprend orchestration
// AGENTS
Agents · Workflows · Permissions · Audit
Models, fine-tuned on your data
// PRIVATE
Open-weight LLMs · Vision · Forecasting
Your data
// SOURCE
Logs · Quotes · BOMs · ERP · Email · MES
Your infrastructure
// METAL
Bare metal · VMware · Edge appliance

A perimeter your data never crosses.

Customer pricing, supplier terms, defense work — stays where it belongs.

× × × × QUOTES LOGS BOMS ERP YOUR DATA PUBLIC INTERNET YOUR PERIMETER
  • No data egress. Apprend calls no external APIs at runtime.
  • SSO & SCIM. Integrate with Okta, Azure AD, or your existing IdP.
  • Role-based access. Operator, supervisor, exec, auditor — all distinct.
  • Full audit trail. Every action, every prompt, every output — logged.
  • Encrypted at rest & in transit. AES-256 / TLS 1.3.
  • Compliance-ready. SOC 2, ISO 27001, ITAR, HIPAA mappings available.

Common questions, answered directly.

How much does this cost?

One-time deployment fee plus a flat annual license — no per-seat or per-token charges. Pricing scales with the number of departments and the size of your team. We share an exact number on the walkthrough call after we've seen your shop, so it reflects what you actually need.

Will my team actually use it?

This is the part most shops worry about — and the part we spend the most time on. We start with two weeks on-site to understand how people actually work. The interface is tablet-first, with large touch targets designed for use on the floor in gloves. Adoption is something we measure together with you and iterate on during the deployment.

What happens to my existing ERP / MES?

It stays. Apprend is the layer on top, not a replacement. We integrate two-way with whatever you run — SAP, Epicor, Plex, JobBOSS, custom builds. The goal is to extend your existing systems, not replace them.

Is my data safe? Could a competitor or a hacker get to it?

Apprend runs entirely inside your perimeter — bare metal, your VMware, or an air-gapped edge appliance. No data is ever sent to our servers. No external API calls at runtime. SSO, RBAC, full audit log, encryption at rest and in transit. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 mappings available. If you're an ITAR or defense shop, we run fully air-gapped.

How long until we see ROI?

The fastest paybacks tend to come from quoting (faster RFQ turnaround, more wins) and operations (cleaner audit trails, less scrap). We walk through ROI math on the walkthrough call with assumptions specific to your shop so the numbers reflect your actual baseline.

Can we start with just one department?

That's the recommended approach. Start with the department where the impact will be most visible — usually quoting or operations. We deploy that one first, work with you to evaluate the results, and you decide whether to expand from there. No long-term commitment required up front.

Who actually builds and supports this?

We're a small team based in the U.S. and Canada. Our engineers come from manufacturing-software backgrounds. Every customer has a named engineer they can call, not a ticketing system. If you book a walkthrough, you'll meet two of us — including the founder.

Start with one department.
Expand at your pace.

One department, 90 days, running on your infrastructure.