Keystone AI
Ask A Question. See What Needs Attention.
Keystone AI is two things. Factory Watch checks your manufacturing records on a schedule and puts the few that need attention in front of you. Ask Keystone AI answers questions about those same records and links every answer to what it read. Both are read-only, and both show their working.
One Reads Continuously. The Other Answers When You Ask.
They work on the same records and obey the same permissions. The difference is who starts the conversation.
Factory Watch
Finds The Conditions You Would Otherwise Catch Late
Twelve checks run on a schedule across commercial, planning, production, materials, quality, machines, people, despatch and the warehouse. Each produces a finding for the site, keeps the records it covers, and stays until the condition clears.
Ask Keystone AI
Answers From Your Records, With The Records Attached
Ask what is planned for next week, which purchase orders are overdue or where the staffing gaps are. Keystone AI requests the reads it is allowed, inspects what comes back and writes an answer citing the records behind it.
Ask Keystone AI
Ask Questions, And Open The Records Behind The Answer
Keystone AI retrieves manufacturing information within your permissions and links its answers to the source records.
Which purchase orders are overdue?
Four purchase lines are past the date the supplier acknowledged. Two of them are feeding released works orders that cannot start without them.
PO-4471 (EN24T bar, 12 off) was acknowledged for 6 October and has not been received. WO-2210 is released and waiting on it. PO-4488 (bronze bush, 40 off) was acknowledged for 9 October; WO-2237 needs it on 20 October, so there is still float.
The other two, PO-4455 and PO-4492, are consumables with no job waiting.
- PO-4471
- PO-4488
- PO-4455
- PO-4492
- WO-2210
- WO-2237
References are resolved from the records actually read, so an answer cannot cite something it did not look at.
What It Can Be Asked
Plain questions, not commands to memorise:
- What do we have on next week?
- Which orders are late? Show me WO-123 and explain its status.
- What materials are short? Which purchase orders are overdue?
- Where are the capacity or staffing gaps?
- What information is missing? What should I check first?
It reads open and late works orders, stock and material shortages, overdue purchase lines, quality holds, today’s bookings and the dated schedule. Capacity and staffing questions need Factory and the relevant permissions, and exclude employee records.
Who Can Use It, And What It Will Not Do
Keystone AI opens for the Senior Leadership Team and administrators. An administrator can give it to another role in Settings, and what a person can ask about never exceeds what they can already open.
Missing data is reported as missing rather than guessed at, and recommendations are for a person to weigh.
Factory Watch
See What Needs Attention Across The Factory
Factory Watch checks manufacturing records for defined operational conditions and links findings to the affected work. Teams acknowledge a finding, record what they did, and it stays until the condition clears.
Three released jobs cannot start for material
Projected stock falls below what released works orders need before their start date. One has already passed it.
- WO-2210 — start 13 Oct, passed
- WO-2237 — start 20 Oct
- WO-2241 — start 22 Oct
All three wait on EN24T bar against PO-4471, overdue since 6 October. Chasing the one purchase line clears all three.
The left column is calculated from your records before any model is called. The right is the model’s reading of it, kept separate and labelled. If the provider is unavailable the left column still stands; only the interpretation is missing.
What Is Checked
| Area | What it looks for | Package |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial | Order lines past their promised date and not yet delivered | Core |
| Planning | Released jobs with no planned dates, and jobs due to start within a week that cannot start for material | Core |
| Production | Works orders past their due date | Core |
| Materials | Stock at or below reorder level, projected shortages, and overdue purchase lines | Core |
| Despatch | Released quantity not yet despatched | Core |
| Warehouse | Counts past their due date, differences awaiting approval, stock in the wrong place or state, serials out of step, and picked goods that have not gone | Core |
| Quality | Good parts held for quality and not yet released, and open non-conformances | Factory |
| People | Planned assignments in the next seven days that clash with an absence | Factory |
| Machines | Connected machines silent for twelve hours | Connected Factory |
What The Model Does, And What It Cannot
Every condition is calculated from your records before a model is called. The model ranks, summarises and recommends; it cannot decide whether a condition exists, and it cannot invent a record reference.
No tool can alter a record, run a command, send a message or control a machine. Machine connection is read-only, and your existing permissions still apply: you see findings for the areas you can open, and can act only where you could already change something.
With a provider switched on, your question, recent messages and the results of record lookups leave the application. Those lookups return no prices, costs, margins, customer names or staff names. Settings lists exactly what is sent.
What it costs. Keystone AI access is included for the functions in your package. Usage is charged separately: agree pay-as-you-go, or connect a supported customer-owned provider, before activation. The supported connections today are Amazon Bedrock and Local Claude.
See Factory Watch Against A Factory Like Yours
In a walkthrough we run Factory Watch over data shaped like your work, and go through what it finds.