Most costly failures
were predictable.
Now you'll catch them first.
SpecGuard reads the RFQ before you sign it. OpsMind watches what's happening on the floor. Insight Engine remembers what hurt you last time.
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Built for regulated manufacturing. US-hosted infrastructure, per-workspace data isolation, zero-data-retention LLM calls, NDA available before any pilot. Read the security overview →
US-hosted · zero-data-retention LLM · NDA before any pilot
Three tools. One shop's brain.
Before, during, and after every job.
Drop in what you already have — RFQ PDFs, machine telemetry, shift notes, schedules, exports. Get back what's about to cost you money.
Before you quote
SpecGuard
Read the RFQ before you sign it.
- What you do
- Drop in any RFQ — drawings, spec packets, supplier requirements.
- What you see
- A specific list of findings, each cited to the source line.
- When
- Under a minute per RFQ.
While work is happening
OpsMind
See the patterns before they cost you a customer.
- What you do
- Connect a CSV drop folder (telemetry, shift notes, schedules).
- What you see
- Daily digest naming who's slipping and what's drifting.
- When
- Continuous · daily digest.
Across every job
Insight Engine
Tribal knowledge, but on the screen.
- What you do
- Nothing. It learns from the other two automatically.
- What you see
- Prior patterns surfaced inline when a similar job recurs.
- When
- When relevant.
What it looks like
One frame per module. The output, not the marketing.
Three modules, three concrete outputs. Click through to any product page for the full four-frame walkthrough of how each one works end to end.
RFQ-2026-0142 · 12 findings
30.4s · seed 0x4f2a · run #1881
- DTM
Datum reference B not defined on any drawing surface
Page 4 · Sheet 2 of 5
- TOL
Tolerance stack-up exceeds spec on bracket flange
Page 2 · ±0.05 across two dims
- FNS
Surface finish callout missing on mating face
Page 6 · figure 4
- MAT
Material grade ambiguous ("300-series stainless")
Spec p.3 · 304 vs 316?
- FLW
Supplier flow-down for AS9102 not mentioned
Cover page · clause 4.2
- REV
Revision letter on print and BOM disagree
Print: Rev C · BOM: Rev B
A findings list, every line cited.
Drop in an RFQ — drawings, spec packets, supplier requirements. Get back a deduplicated, severity-graded list with the line each finding came from.
From: digest@opsentinel.io · Friday 4:02 PM
OpsMind daily · 3 patterns this week
Customer Acme has slipped delivery on 4 of last 6 jobs (vs 1 in 6 across other customers). Avg slip 8 days.
CNC-03 has run hot on 3 of those 4 Acme jobs. Bottleneck on Acme parts specifically.
Aluminum-housing job type averaging 22% over budget across last 8 jobs. Recert + tooling-change time the biggest contributors.
Every alert links back to the underlying rows · Same data → same patterns
A daily digest, severity-graded.
Connect a CSV drop folder. Get a daily email naming who's slipping, what's drifting, and which job type keeps losing money — every alert links back to the rows.
SpecGuard · New RFQ · Acme Chem
Last 3 chemical-process flanges from Acme Chem ran 22% over budget. Material certification rework was the biggest contributor on 2 of 3. Recommended: confirm material cert source pre-quote and add 12% margin.
New findings (8)
Tolerance stack-up on flange OD
Material cert source not specified
NACE-MR0175 sour-service callout missing
Rev letter on print and BOM disagree
Prior patterns, surfaced inline.
Nothing to configure. When a similar customer or job type recurs, the relevant prior pattern shows up at the top of the analysis — context where you need it.
One operating picture
Three modules feed one continuously-improving system.
Before
SpecGuard
Reads RFQs
Across
Insight Engine
Memory layer
During
OpsMind
Watches the floor
SpecGuard finds risks before you commit to a price. Every flagged finding becomes part of the long-term memory.
OpsMind catches drifts while work is happening. Every alert becomes part of the long-term memory.
Insight Engine remembers everything they've found. When a similar job, customer, or pattern recurs, it surfaces the prior experience inline — so the lesson actually compounds.
Three modules, one continuously-improving operational picture. Buy them à la carte or as a bundle — the memory layer compounds either way.
Is Opsentinel for you?
Three questions. Honest answers.
Some shops are a strong fit; some shops should look elsewhere. We'd rather you find out in 60 seconds than after a 30-minute call.
Q1Do you review more than 5 RFQ documents per month?
If: Less than 5
Not yet a fit
Not enough volume to justify the cost. Come back when you're quoting weekly.
If: 5–50
Likely a good fit
Sweet spot for SpecGuard. Keep reading.
If: 50+
Strong fit
Meaningful estimator-hours saved every week.
Q2What kind of work do you do?
If: One product, high volume, single SKU
Not a fit
Patterns can't compound across one product line.
If: High-mix low-volume / job shop / contract machining
Strong fit
What we built this for.
If: Pure assembly or distribution
Talk to us
Edge case — depends on whether you do RFQ review at all.
Q3Do you handle ITAR, DFARS, or export-controlled work?
If: Yes
Read /security first
We built specifically for regulated networks. US-hosted, ZDR LLM, NDA + DPA before any pilot.
If: No
Standard pilot terms apply
Same security posture; no extra clauses needed.
Still not sure? Email us and we'll tell you honestly within 24 hours — including when we think a different tool would serve you better.
Built for
- Job shops and contract machine shops, 10–200 employees, $5M–$100M annual revenue
- High-mix low-volume work (1-off through mid-volume runs)
- Precision machining: CNC mills, lathes, multi-axis, EDM, grinding
- Work mix that includes regulated industries — aerospace, defense, oil-and-gas, medical, semiconductor
- Quality systems: AS9100, ISO 9001, IATF 16949, NADCAP-adjacent
- Estimating from PDF / drawing-based RFQs more than 5 times per month
Probably not for you if
- One-product OEMs running a single SKU at high volume — patterns can't compound across one product line.
- Pure broker / distribution operations without in-house manufacturing.
- Hobby shops or single-operator setups doing under 5 RFQs per month — not enough volume to justify the cost.
- Shops already on a polished MES + ERP + PLM stack with AI-driven analytics.
- Teams looking for a generic ChatGPT wrapper or a CAD plugin.
Whose day this changes
Estimators
Stop quoting jobs you'll lose money on.
Shop owners / VP ops
See the patterns you can't from inside the floor.
Quality managers
Make recurring failures impossible to ignore.
Foremen
Keep institutional knowledge in writing.
Estimate the savings
What would Opsentinel be worth to your shop?
Drag the sliders. Conservative estimate based on public manufacturing cost-of-quality benchmarks — runs in your browser, no data sent.
Across all customers and machines.
The number your estimator quotes most often.
Roughly what % of jobs ship late, including extensions you negotiated.
What % of parts come back through quality or never ship.
Estimated savings · per month
$8K
≈ $97K per year, before any productivity gains.
- Prevented rework on late jobs$4K
- Prevented scrap & quality failures$2K
- Early-warning capacity recovered$2K
Conservative estimate. Multipliers anchored to public industry benchmarks (BCG / NIST cost-of-quality / IndustryWeek surveys), with a 35% prevention rate against late + scrap costs. Real Opsentinel pilots will replace these numbers with measured savings as the data lands.
Want us to walk through your numbers?For procurement & IT
The questions that usually stall a deal.
Where is our data stored?
US-hosted Supabase Postgres + Storage. Per-workspace Row Level Security so another customer's queries can't see your rows.
How do you protect IP in the RFQs we upload?
Documents are never used for model training. LLM calls go to Anthropic Claude via OpenRouter under a zero-data-retention agreement. NDA available before a pilot.
Is the analysis the same every time we re-run a document?
Yes. Temperature-0 LLM plus deterministic post-processing. The results page ships a side-by-side diff that proves it.
Do you offer SOC2?
Not yet — targeting SOC2 Type 1 within 6 months. We share a control summary and complete security questionnaires for pilots.
Can your tool work behind our corporate firewall?
Yes. Auth and API both run through opsentinel.io, so IT only whitelists *.opsentinel.io. Built specifically for defense and aerospace networks.
What does a pilot look like?
4–6 weeks. Week 1 you upload backlog data; we baseline what Opsentinel would have caught. End: a defended ROI number from your data, not ours.
Other questions? Email us and we'll come back inside the day.
What a pilot looks like
Four to six weeks. A defended ROI number from your own data.
A pilot isn't a free trial. It's a focused engagement that ends with a specific dollar figure your team can defend internally — calibrated to your shop, not to a case study.
- 1
Week 1 — Baseline against your data.
Send a sample of past RFQs or a month of operational data. We run it through the pipeline and show you what Opsentinel would have caught: missed contradictions, customer-slip patterns, recurring failure modes. No abstractions, no marketing — your data, your findings.
- 2
Weeks 2–5 — Live calibration with your team.
30-min weekly syncs. We tune severity rules to your shop's definition of critical, surface new findings as they come in, fold your team's feedback back into the system. By week 4, the tool sounds like your shop, not like a vendor template.
- 3
Final week — Defended ROI you can take to your CFO.
Specific dollar figure from your specific RFQs and operational data. Estimator-hours saved, rework loops avoided, customer-slip patterns named with the customer. Defendable line by line — if a number is in the report, it traces to a finding in the system.
- 4
Fixed cost. No surprises.
Price and timeline agreed before any data moves. No expansion clauses, no auto-renewal, no "the engagement turned out longer than expected."
- 5
If it's not for you, you walk.
Decide at the end of the pilot whether to convert or stop. If you stop, customer data is deleted automatically within 30 days (or on request). See the security overview for the full data-handling terms.
Pricing
Simple, scalable pricing
From independent contractors to multi-site operations. Pick the coverage that fits.
Starting at $99/month
Custom pricing for teams and enterprises
Full system access on paid plans. Pricing scales with scan volume and monitored operational data.
Usage bands
Solo
For independent contractors and one-person shops. 50 SpecGuard analyses per month, single seat.
Starter
Foundational usage for a focused operational footprint.
SpecGuard Only
Unlimited pre-execution risk analysis on RFQs and travelers. 5 seats. No live monitoring.
OpsMind Only
Live operational monitoring with unlimited uploads and pattern visibility. 10 seats. No RFQ analysis.
Bundle
Full Opsentinel coverage at unlimited volume. 25 seats, multi-site, all modules.
Growth
Higher scan volume and broader operational monitoring.
Pro
High-volume, multi-team, and multi-site operational coverage.
See it on your own data.
Send a backlog of past RFQs or a month of operational data. We'll show you what Opsentinel would have caught. Honest answer in days, not quarters.