The AI That Captures 20 Years of Factory Know-How in Minutes
Seven multinational manufacturers are already using TEMS.AI to convert retiring workers' expertise into multilingual interactive guides their teams can access instantly.
Factories Are Losing Their Knowledge Base
Across the global manufacturing sector, a quiet crisis is unfolding. Expertise developed over decades is disappearing as senior workers retire and turnover accelerates. New hires enter plants filled with complex machines and intricate workflows, yet cannot always find the information needed to perform with confidence. Documentation often sits buried in binders or scattered digital folders. Much of what matters lives in the heads of operators who learned through years of hands-on experience.
The scale of the issue is reflected in industry research, which highlights high turnover, long search times for information, and measurable waste caused by human error. These trends affect output, consistency, and morale. They also point to a deeper truth. Modern factories still rely on knowledge transfer methods built for a different era.
Alexandra Podsekina saw this throughout her twenty-year career inside large manufacturing networks. She began in linguistics and teaching, driven by an interest in how people learn and how confidence is built. When she moved into supply chain and production leadership roles, including oversight of more than two hundred factories, she noticed something that was not always visible on paper. Workers struggled quietly, especially those entering from different backgrounds and languages. Processes were documented unevenly, and guidance varied from shift to shift.
She also saw how learning itself was evolving. Her daughter absorbed math concepts through video-based explanations rather than written problem-solving. It made Alexandra realize that factories were training people with tools misaligned to how the new workforce processes information.
This combination of observation and experience set the foundation for TEMS.AI.
AI Captures Human Expertise Before It Disappears
Alexandra partnered with CTO Igor Podsekin, an AI and computer vision specialist, to build a platform that captures real industrial processes and converts them into structured multilingual workflows. The system learns from what experts do in real environments and transforms those recordings into clear step-by-step guidance.
This approach matches how people acquire skills today. Video captures nuance that written instructions miss. Workflows can be standardized and translated instantly. Operators no longer need to search for scattered documents or rely on busy colleagues for missing details. Guidance appears at the moment it is required, which reduces downtime and improves consistency across teams and sites.
The platform is designed to address the core bottlenecks that manufacturers face. Expertise loss as older workers retire. Inaccessible information that slows execution. Waste increases when guidance is unclear. These issues show up in operational metrics, but they originate in the same place. Knowledge is fragile when it depends on memory.
TEMS.AI is gaining traction with seven paying customers in four countries. The company is only ten months old yet has already achieved ISO 27001 certification and received its first external investment. The demand reflects a shift in how industrial operations view learning and performance.
A New Era of Confident Workers and Smarter Manufacturing
Alexandra believes the next phase of manufacturing will be defined by how effectively companies retain and share human expertise. Automation continues to advance, yet factories still rely on people to interpret context, diagnose issues, and make real-time decisions. When workers can access proven workflows on demand, they gain clarity and confidence, and operations become more resilient.
TEMS.AI is expanding through new customer relationships and technology partnerships and has opened its pre-seed round to accelerate product development. The broader goal is for every worker to perform with the confidence of the best operator. Every factory should be able to preserve what it learns, and every team should have access to guidance that reflects how people learn in the modern world.
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