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Every factory has a Dave.

dAive keeps what he knows — manuals, SOPs, fault logs and fixes — and answers your engineers in plain language, with the page every answer came from.

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Your documents only · never the open internet

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01 — Definition

Dave/deɪv/noun, informal
  1. the senior engineer everyone calls when something's going wrong.
  2. the keeper of fixes, workarounds and shop-floor know-how no manual contains.
  3. the reason the line keeps running.

02 — Thirty years

30 years of know-how.
All in one head.

03 — Then one day

Then one day,
Dave retires.

04 — The loss

And it all walks
out the door.

05 — What if it didn't have to?

dAve

Your factory's knowledge — captured, kept, scaled.

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The origin

Dave is real.
We wanted to keep ours.

"When Dave announced he was leaving, three decades of machine knowledge were about to walk out the door."

He came back after three weeks. The scare was enough. dAive makes sure that when your best person isn't there — busy, on holiday, or retired for good — what they know doesn't go with them.

When Dave's dAive

What dAive does

Your best engineer.
On every shift.

Instant answers

Ask the way you'd ask Dave

Fault codes, SOPs, spare parts, settings. Plain language in, a precise answer out — with the source reference.


On the phone

At the machine, not the desk

Ask by the line. Report a fault straight from the answer — what's wrong, how bad, whether it's stopped — linked to the chat.

Your data only

A sealed perimeter

Every answer drawn from your approved documents. Nothing generic, nothing from the web.

ManualsSOPsFault logsService recordsFixesWiring diagrams
Your knowledge base Open internet

Every language

One knowledge base, your whole team

Ask in English, Italian, Polish or Portuguese. dAive answers in kind.

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Knowledge captured

Every fix, kept

Fixes, workarounds and lessons logged as the shift goes, and searchable the moment they land. The longer you run dAive, the more it knows.

    Predictive BETA

    Sees it coming

    Live sensor data, pattern matching, faults flagged before the alarm.

    How it works

    Three steps.
    Live in weeks.

    1

    Onboard

    Upload your knowledge

    We ingest your manuals, service records, fault logs and SOPs. Our team does the heavy lifting; you're live in weeks, not months.

    2

    Ask

    Your team asks anything

    Engineers ask in plain language, at the desk or by the machine. dAive answers from your knowledge base and shows the page it came from.

    3

    Learn

    dAive gets smarter

    Every fix, every workaround, every new insight is logged. Your knowledge base grows with your team's experience.

    The AI knowledge foundation

    Get your factory ready for the AI future.

    The next generation of AI will be remarkable — but only useful to factories that have already captured their knowledge. dAive is the foundation everything else will run on.

    01

    Create the knowledge

    Capture every fix, every workaround, every voice on the floor — as you operate. No side-project documentation drives.

    02

    Refine the experience

    Every shift and every supplier-specific trick adds to the foundation. It compounds — the longer you run, the smarter it gets.

    03

    Hand it to the next generation

    Your forty-year engineers don't get replaced — they get scaled. New starters productive in weeks, not years.

    AI doesn't replace human learning. It amplifies it.

    Why now

    The clock is ticking.
    The Daves are leaving.

    1 in 5

    UK engineers will retire by the end of 2026

    Make UK / EngineeringUK 2026
    75%

    of UK manufacturers say the skills shortage is their #1 barrier

    Make UK 2026
    3.7m

    European engineers need replacing this decade

    Cedefop skills forecast
    97%

    of manufacturers worry about brain drain from retirees

    The Manufacturing Institute
    63%

    of European SMEs can't find the skills they need

    Statista · EIT Manufacturing
    2×

    annual salary to replace one skilled engineer

    Industry workforce studies
    dAve

    Your Dave. Always on.

    Every factory's different, so pricing is tailored to your line. Tell us what you've got and we'll show you dAive on it.

    Book a demo → sales@askdaive.ai