// AGENT · PRODUCTION
The Foreman. Your production knowledge, on call.
// Part of Cognitify Agents.
The Foreman answers shop-floor and engineering questions from your own technical documentation — specs, procedures, manuals, drawings, even scans. It double-checks every answer against the documents, cites its sources, and calls your designated human expert when the stakes are real. Lives where your team already writes — Microsoft Teams, Slack or any other business chat.
Early access · We onboard a few teams at a time · We reply within 1 business day.
The answer exists. It’s on page 47 of a PDF nobody has opened since 2023.
On a production floor, tribal knowledge is a single point of failure: the torque spec, the changeover procedure, the one paragraph of the quality manual that settles the dispute — locked in documents nobody opens and in heads that eventually go on vacation. So the line waits. Or worse — guesses.
The Foreman is tuned for correctness over speed: it drafts an answer, critiques its own draft against the documentation, and revises before speaking — sources attached. And for the questions where “probably” costs real money, one escalation puts the case in front of your human expert, context already gathered.
// what it does
Answers you can take to the machine.
- 01
Reads what you actually have
OCR from day one: scans, legacy PDFs, the faxed-then-scanned classics. Bulk ingestion — 50 files a batch, parsed and indexed in the background with per-file status.
- 02
Self-critique before answering
Draft → check against the documents → revise. The extra seconds buy you answers your engineers won’t have to un-teach.
- 03
Call for help
For questions where a wrong answer costs real money, it escalates to your designated expert — with the question, the context and the retrieved documents already attached.
- 04
Access-scoped answers
Access policies control which content each agent — and each role — can retrieve. The finance folder doesn’t leak into shop-floor answers.
// under the hood
Part of Cognitify Agents — one knowledge base, one transparent balance, one console. OCR-capable document pipeline (PDF, Office, scans) · Self-critique answer pipeline · Access policies per role · Hard tenant isolation · Append-only audit trail · BYOAI (Anthropic / OpenAI / Google).
// business cases
Where it earns its keep.
- 01
Manufacturing lines
- Changeovers, specs and maintenance procedures answered at the machine.
- Fewer line stops spent waiting for the one engineer who knows.
- Night shifts get the same answers as day shifts.
- 02
Quality & compliance
- Answers cite the exact procedure paragraph — audit-friendly by construction.
- A traceable record of what was asked and what was answered.
- Version discipline: answers come from the current document, not a 2019 printout.
- 03
Operator onboarding
- New hires ask the Foreman instead of interrupting the seniors.
- Ramp-up measured in weeks, not months.
- The expert’s time reserved for expert questions — the rest is self-served.
// questions
Questions, answered.
- Can it read scanned documents and drawings?
- Yes — OCR is in the ingestion pipeline from v1. Scans, legacy PDFs, photographed pages: if a human can read it, it can be indexed.
- A wrong answer on the floor costs real money. How do you prevent it?
- Three layers: it answers only from your documents, it critiques its own draft against them before sending, and when confidence isn’t there it doesn’t guess — it calls your human expert with the context attached.
- Who sees what?
- Access policies scope retrieval per agent and per role, on top of hard tenant isolation and an append-only audit trail. Confidentiality survives the AI layer.
// early access
Put your docs on shift.
The Foreman is in early access — we onboard a few teams at a time, hands-on. Tell us what your documentation looks like, and we’ll set it up together.
Got it.
We’ll be in touch shortly — early-access seats go in order of the queue.