The platform

Traveler.
One record. Every department.

A drawing comes in; the part record, quote, work order, routing, and six department templates come out — on a box in your building, reviewed and signed by your people.

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3 mindrawing → work order

6departments briefed

0drawings leave the building

JOB-4471Example job · illustrative demo

Intakebracket_lh.step · 6061-T6 · qty 259:02
DFM14 faces · 4 holes · 2 undercuts flagged9:02
QuoteDrafted · 14-day lead9:03
Templates6 departments briefed9:03
ApprovedMarcus (Programming) · signed9:05

Illustrative example — fictional job and names. In Traveler, every line is a signed, searchable event in the job's record.

System map

One record. Every department reads from it.

A drawing comes in once. The part record, quote, work order, routing, and job status live in Traveler, on the box in your shop. Accounting gets what it needs pushed out — nothing is read back. Today, data moves in and out as Excel and CSV files; direct connections are added per system as shops ask for them.

Solid line: data flows in. Terracotta: file export only — nothing is written back. Dashed: file import/handoff today; machine status is planned.

Customer drawingCustomer portalsCAMMachines

TRAVELER

Part record

Quote

Work order

Routing

Job status

Dept templates

Export only

Out

Accounting · QuickBooks or what you use

Department templates

Every department, already briefed.

Six standard department templates, filled in from the drawing and CAD before a person opens them. Each lead reviews, fills in what only a person can decide, and signs. Templates shown are illustrative examples.

Estimating

WO-4471 / EST

Partbracket_lh rev C

Material6061-T6

Qty25

Cycle est11.4 min

Rough quotedrafted from features

Marginyour call

Pre-filled by the Work-Order agent · awaiting Dana

Programming

WO-4471 / PRG

Features14 faces · 4 holes

Undercuts2 flagged

Stock2.5 × 4 × 6 in

Setups2

Tolerances±.001 on Ø.250

CAM fileattach

Pre-filled by the DFM agent · awaiting Marcus

Machining

WO-4471 / MCH

RoutingOp 10 → 20 → QA

MachineVMC #3

FixtureVise, soft jaws

Tool list12 tools, 2 new

DueSep 26

Operatorassign

Pre-filled by the Router · awaiting Luis

Quality

WO-4471 / QA

PlanAS9100 · FAI

Critical dims3 marked on print

Sampling100% on Ø.250

CertsMaterial C of C

GaugesCMM + pin set

Inspectorassign

Feature list exported for the CMM · awaiting Priya

Purchasing

WO-4471 / PUR

Spec6061-T6 plate · ASTM B209

Qty + kerf27 pcs

Vendoryour usual

Lead3 days

PO draftPO-2231

Approvesign

Pre-filled from the part record · awaiting Sam

Shipping

WO-4471 / SHP

Ship-toAcme Aerospace, Dock 2

Qty25 + 0 spares

PackagingFoam-lined, 2 boxes

CarrierGround, per customer

DocsPacking list · C of C

Trackingadd at ship

Pre-filled from customer flow-downs · awaiting Jo

How it works

One loop, from quote to work order. Entirely inside your shop.

Your people and the agents work in the same job channels, on a system you own. Agents do the repetitive upfront work; your people make the decisions.

01
A submission lands
Intake agent
A customer submits a drawing and CAD on your website. An Intake agent opens a job channel and notifies your team.
02
The part gets analyzed
DFM agent
Our DFM engine reads the actual CAD model — holes, pockets, undercuts, threads — scores how hard the part is to make, and posts a rough quote.
03
A work order is drafted
Work order agent
An agent fills your standard template from the analysis, so the upfront legwork is done before a human touches it.
04
The right people get pinged
Router agent
Programming, machining, QA, and shipping each see exactly what they need, when they need it.
05
A human approves
Human
Your team reviews and approves. Every message, analysis, and approval is logged and searchable.

Agents

Five agents. Narrow jobs. Their own permissions.

Each agent runs under its own service account with limited permissions. Agents draft; only people approve and sign.

Agent	Reads	Writes	Can't do
Intake always on	Your inbox, web form, and customer-portal RFQs	Opens the job channel and starts the part record	Quote or commit to a date
DFM on every part	The CAD model and drawing	Features, warnings, a manufacturability score, and a rough price	Change the design or approve anything
Work-Order per job	The part record, the DFM result, and the standard templates	Six pre-filled department templates, marked draft	Release a work order without a person's sign-off
Router per job	The work order, department templates, and the shop calendar	The routing and the notifications to each lead	Reassign people or skip an inspection step
Connector on export	Approved invoices, POs, and job costs	Exports to your accounting software	Read accounting data back, or touch portals or CAM files

Local AI, plainly

The model is the ingredient. The workflow is the business.

Open models are now good enough to run inside a shop. Traveler packages the four pieces — model, shelf, runtime, workflow — so you get the benefit without becoming an AI shop yourself.

01swappable

Model

Open-weight language and vision models — the same families the industry publishes openly. Traveler is model-agnostic: the model is an ingredient we can swap as better ones ship.

02we curate

Shelf

We select and test the model that fits your appliance's memory and your workload, then pin that version. You never download, tune, or babysit a model.

03on the box

Runtime

The model runs on the appliance in your building, on a local runtime. No API key, no per-token bill, no request leaves the shop.

04Traveler

Workflow

This is the product: read the drawing, fill six department templates, route the job, keep the signed record. The model helps; Traveler's workflow is what your people actually use.

What this means for you: no cloud AI subscription, no drawings sent to a third-party model, and the ability to upgrade the model on your appliance without changing how your shop works.

Built for regulated work

Designed for the shops with the most to protect.

Traveler keeps the kind of records AS9100, ISO 13485, and export-control programs require you to keep. Your quality system stays yours; we make it easier to answer the auditor.

Medical and aerospace

Records an auditor can follow.

Every change is logged with who, when, the value before and after, and why. Edits never replace the original — both stay on the record.
Agents produce drafts. A named, authenticated person reviews and approves before anything becomes a controlled record.
Approvals are electronic signatures with a stated meaning, attached to the record they approve.
Export any job's complete history — drawing revision, quote, work order, routing, inspection results, certs — as PDF or CSV for your DHR, CAPA, or auditor.

ITAR and export-controlled

Your data never leaves the building.

Drawings, CAD, and quotes stay on the appliance in your shop. The model runs locally, and Traveler sends nothing back to us.
Role- and job-based access: restrict export-controlled jobs to the people you designate.
Encrypted at rest and in transit; audit logs are retained on the box and exportable.
Updates and support are customer-initiated and logged. No cloud tenant, no remote access you didn't ask for.

What the record looks like

Job history · Example job 4471 (illustrative)

Append-only · exportable

When	Who	Action	Detail
Mon 08:12	Intake · M. Reyes	Files received	STEP + PDF rev C attached; hash recorded
Mon 08:14	Traveler	Templates drafted	6 department templates pre-filled from drawing
Mon 09:40	Quality · A. Chen	Inspection plan approved	CTQ list edited: added Ø12.00 H7 to CMM
Tue 13:05	Programming · D. Okafor	Setup sheet signed	Op 20 fixture changed; reason noted
Thu 16:30	Shipping · M. Reyes	Job package exported	PDF + CSV handed off; cert of conformance attached

Every template edit, approval, and file handoff is written to the job history with the user and timestamp. The history exports with the job package for customer or auditor review.

Traveler provides records and controls to support your quality and export-control programs. Certification, validation, and registrant status remain yours.

Fits in

Works with what you already run.

Traveler becomes the record for operations — the part, the quote, the work order, the routing, the status. Your accounting software, your customer portals, and your CAM stay exactly where they are.

Keep

Your accounting software export only
Your customers' portals and PO systems import
Your CAM and your machines handoff
Your quality system and its paperwork export

Replace

The whiteboard
The quoting spreadsheet
The traveler binder
The ERP module nobody finished setting up

Data moves as Excel and CSV today, which every system you own can read. Direct connections come per system, as shops ask for them.

Next step

See Traveler running
on a box you'd own.

Traveler is now in pilot with select shops. Request a 30-minute walkthrough on one of your own drawings, or try the instant DFM check to see the report format.