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ASK for Industrials

The right instruction, on the floor and in the office.

Field, shift and office teams ask once and get the current instruction, past fix or supplier term, with its source and within their own access.

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Your team asks

  • What fixed error E42 on line 3 last time?
  • Which supplier contracts end next quarter?
  • Which permit applies to work at substation 12?

Answers come from

  • SharePoint
  • ServiceNow
  • Microsoft Teams
  • SMB / CIFS network shares
  • Box
  • Outlook / Exchange
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Permission-aware by design. Every answer for industrial teams comes only from what each person may open in the source systems, checked inside every search, before anything reaches the AI.

See how

What slows industrial teams down

  • Procedures, permits and asset records live in different systems.
  • Shift teams lose time looking for work instructions and past fixes.
  • Supplier terms are split across contracts, e-mail and shared drives.
  • Experienced people retire with knowledge nobody wrote down.

How ASK helps

Past fixes, found in seconds

Ask about a fault and ASK finds the work instruction and the maintenance tickets where it was fixed before.

  • Instructions and tickets together
  • Linked to the exact step
  • In Teams on a shared tablet
Microsoft Teams

Line 3 packer shows error E42 again. What fixed it last time?

AI-generated answer, with sources

E42 was a worn sensor bracket; replacing it fixed the fault in March 1. The work instruction lists the torque and the test run 2.

  1. 1ServiceNowMaintenance ticket MT-5521
  2. 2SharePointWI-310 Packer sensors
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Supplier contracts that end next quarter

A scheduled agent lists supplier contracts ending soon and drafts the follow-up e-mails for your approval.

  • From your contract folders
  • Drafts wait for approval
  • Reminders you set
ASK workflow

Supplier renewals, Q3

  1. Contracts readProcurement/Contracts, 48 files
  2. Ending soon5 contracts before 30 Sep
  3. Follow-ups drafted5 e-mails to suppliers
  4. Reminders setAfter your approval
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Knowledge that stays

Handover notes, reports and tickets become searchable, so the next team finds what the last one learned.

  • Reports, tickets and notes
  • Who worked on it
  • Within each person's access
ASK

Pump cavitation, cooling circuit B

  • Inspection report, MaySharePoint · page 4inlet pressure below the minimum during peak load
  • Ticket MT-4410ServiceNow · closedimpeller replaced, pressure back to normal
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Across Industrials

Energy & Utilities

Field and control-room teams working from procedures, permits and asset records.

What gets in the way

  • Procedures and permits live in different systems.
  • Field teams need answers away from a desk.

With ASK

  • The current procedure with its source, on a phone in Teams.
  • Asset history from inspection reports and tickets.
  • Permit dates collected and reminded by a Buddy.
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Microsoft Teams

Which isolation steps apply to substation 12 before maintenance?

AI-generated answer, with sources

Follow the switching procedure SP-12 and confirm with the control room before opening the breaker 1. The permit must be signed on site 2.

  1. 1SharePointSwitching procedure SP-12
  2. 2ConfluencePermit to work
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Manufacturing

Shift teams, maintenance and quality working from instructions, tickets and reports.

What gets in the way

  • Shift teams lose time finding work instructions.
  • Past fixes sit in closed tickets nobody searches.

With ASK

  • Answers from work instructions, quality reports and maintenance tickets.
  • A shift handover summary from the day's tickets.
  • Ticket drafts for maintenance, created after approval.
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Shift handover, line 3

Scheduled agent

  • Packer error E42 fixed at 14:20 1
  • Quality hold on batch 2219 lifted 2
  • Open: label printer needs new ribbon 1
  1. 1ServiceNowLine 3 tickets today
  2. 2SharePointQuality log, batch 2219
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Supply Chain

Planners and buyers working from supplier terms, order history and certificates.

What gets in the way

  • Supplier terms are split across contracts, e-mail and drives.
  • Contract dates and certificates are noticed too late.

With ASK

  • Supplier terms with the clause quoted.
  • Offers compared in a table with sources; the choice stays with you.
  • Contracts ending soon, listed every month.
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Steel brackets, three offers

  • Supplier ACHF 4.10 · 3 weeksprice fixed for 12 months
  • Supplier BCHF 3.85 · 6 weeksminimum order 20,000 units
  • Supplier CCHF 4.30 · 2 weeksfree delivery, no minimum order
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Questions your team can ask

  • What fixed error E42 on line 3 last time?
  • Which supplier contracts end next quarter?
  • Which permit applies to work at substation 12?
  • Compare the three bracket offers.
  • Summarise today's tickets for the night shift.

Agents, Buddies and workflows to start with

Ready-made templates come with ASK; the examples are built in minutes with the no-code builder. Anything that changes another system asks first.

  • AgentReady-made template

    Process handbook answers

    Answers questions from the operations handbook, with sources.

  • AgentReady-made template

    Offer comparison

    Compares supplier offers you can open in a table with sources; the choice stays with you.

  • BuddyReady-made template

    Supplier contract expiry

    Each month lists supplier contracts ending in the next 120 days.

  • AgentReady-made template

    Meeting notes to tasks

    Turns meeting notes into a task list; creating the tasks asks first.

Works with the tools you use

ASK connects to 72 connector types, each with its permissions. These are the ones industrial teams use most.

  • SharePoint
  • ServiceNow
  • Microsoft Teams
  • SMB / CIFS network shares
  • Box
  • Outlook / Exchange
  • Jira
  • Snowflake

Safe for every team

  • Permission-awareEach person sees only what they may open in the source.
  • Chats stay privateNo admin and no operator browses employees' chats.
  • Approvals firstChanges in other systems wait for approval.
  • Audit logSign-ins, admin changes and agent actions, append-only.
  • Labelled as AIEvery answer says it is AI and shows its sources.
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