Operational know-how capture · AI

Capture your know-how before it walks out the door.

WeKnow turns the everyday gestures of your shop-floor teams into procedures, training material and an AI-powered knowledge base — with no extra documentation workload.

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~1 in 3industrial experts will retire by 2030
80%of critical operational knowledge is tacit, never documented
longer onboarding when expertise is left unstructured
70%of companies have no formal knowledge-retention programme
Industrial operator wearing smart glasses while working on a production line
REC · Live capture
Already deployed in demanding environments
GEF Industrie customer
Engie customer
Lefrant Rubco customer
Eurolysine in progress
The situation

Critical knowledge leaves companies every single day.

The gestures, reflexes and shortcuts that drive a plant’s performance are almost never written down. They leave with the people who hold them — and cost months to rebuild.

1/3
of expert industrial operators will have retired by 2030.
INSEE — end-of-career departures by 2030
80%
of operational know-how is tacit — never written down, never formalised.
Nonaka & Takeuchi — knowledge management literature
9months
on average to make a new operator fully autonomous on a skilled workstation.
Time-to-productivity benchmarks (Gallup)
01

Mass retirements

The generations that built the processes are leaving — usually with no organised handover.

02

Undocumented tacit knowledge

The little tricks that keep a machine running are written down nowhere.

03

Long, expensive onboarding

Months of shadowing, informal mentoring, and a huge hidden cost per workstation.

04

Obsolete or ignored SOPs

Official procedures drift away from the real gesture — nobody opens them.

05

Expertise lost on departure

When an expert leaves, the company rebuilds the equivalent — usually less well.

06

Handover is hard on the floor

No time, no format, no tool. Passing knowledge on relies on goodwill alone.

How it works

Shop-floor capture, simple and immediate.

No writing. No formatting. The operator works — WeKnow listens, watches, structures. Knowledge builds itself, right where it lives.

Step 01

The operator works wearing smart glasses

They carry out the job in real conditions — no staging, no script.

  • First-person view
  • Synchronised audio
  • No data entry
Step 02

They describe their gestures and checks naturally

As if training a colleague standing next to them. A natural tone is enough — the AI does the rest.

  • No imposed jargon
  • Continuous capture
  • Multilingual
Step 03

The AI structures everything automatically

Procedures, video tutorials, standards, know-how — formatted, indexed, ready to publish.

  • Step-by-step procedure
  • Video tutorial
  • Control points
  • Quality standards
Step 04

Teams access one unified knowledge base

An intelligent platform where everyone finds the right information, at the right moment, at the right workstation.

  • Conversational search
  • Tablet / mobile access
  • Continuous enrichment
Benefits

Concrete. Measurable. Operational.

WeKnow is judged on the KPIs that matter in production: time to autonomy, scrap rate, safety, business continuity.

Preserve critical know-how

Secure what only a handful of people know — before they leave, not after.

Reduced continuity risk

Cut training time

A new operator learns from the real gesture, not from a frozen PDF.

−45% on onboarding

Standardise best practice

The right gesture, performed the same way — on every line, at every site.

Cross-site consistency

Get teams autonomous faster

Less shadowing, less dependence on the expert — more productive time.

Productivity +

Lasting operational memory

An intangible asset that grows with every job, and never leaves the company.

Strategic asset

Capitalise with no documentation workload

No writing time. No binder to update. The documentation builds itself as people work.

0 documents to write by hand
Use cases

Wherever tacit knowledge makes the difference.

WeKnow fits every trade — anywhere the gesture, the reflex and the diagnosis matter as much as the procedure.

01
Maintenance

Industrial maintenance

Diagnostics, teardowns, rare gestures — captured on the real job.

02
Production

Machine settings

Fine parameters, curves, adjustments — machine expertise codified.

03
Training

Operator onboarding

From informal mentoring to a structured, repeatable induction path.

04
Quality

Quality control

Visual criteria, control points — aligned with the real gesture.

05
Changeover

Format changeovers

Shorter run times, safer transitions, documented SMED.

06
HSE

Workstation safety

Right reflexes, critical points, forbidden gestures — captured in context.

07
Expertise

Rare trades

One-of-a-kind expert knowledge, secured before departure — not after.

08
Methods

Continuous improvement

Living standards, updated from the floor rather than from a desk.

What sets us apart

WeKnow does not replace your experts. It passes on their intelligence.

Classic documentation · LMS · frozen SOPs

  • Written by hand, by one referentSlow
  • Content disconnected from the real gestureTheoretical
  • Rare updates, often already obsoleteFrozen
  • Low adoption — nobody opens the bindersIgnored
  • Documentation workload on the teamsHeavy

WeKnow · AI capture on the floor

  • Captured directly during the jobReal
  • Contextual content, multiple formatsAlive
  • Enriched continuously with every captured gestureEvolving
  • Conversational search, at the workstationUseful
  • Zero documentation workload — you just workLight
About · AllSensIA

A collective of AI and industrial digital-transformation experts.

AllSensIA brings together shop-floor practitioners, AI engineers, manufacturers and business leaders. We did not invent WeKnow in a lab — we built it on the floor, alongside the people doing the work, watching their trades, their gestures and their production stakes.

Already deployed in demanding environments
Sovereign hosting & GDPR compliance
Human support end to end, not just a piece of software
GEF Industriecustomer
Engiecustomer
Lefrant Rubcocustomer
Eurolysinein progress

The founding team

Stéphane Langlet

Chief Executive Officer — WeKnow & AllSensIA

25 years in industry: plant management (BP, Castrol), continuous improvement and AI transformation. He keeps WeKnow anchored in shop-floor reality.

Aline Caquineau

President — WeKnow & AllSensIA

Project management and customer relations. She leads WeKnow deployments and the support given to industrial teams.

Louis Viart

Chief Technology Officer — WeKnow & AllSensIA

Software and AI engineering, co-founder of DevByStep. He designs the capture pipeline and the automatic structuring of knowledge.

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Want to talk about your company and its challenges?

Let’s talk about your context, your lines, the departures ahead.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Everything you need to know about capturing industrial know-how with WeKnow.

What is WeKnow?
WeKnow is an AI solution that captures the know-how of industrial operators directly on the shop floor and turns it into procedures, tutorials and a knowledge base, with no documentation workload. The solution is published by AllSensIA.
How does WeKnow capture know-how with no documentation workload?
The operator works in real conditions wearing smart glasses and naturally describes what they are doing. The AI transcribes, structures and formats the content automatically. There is no writing and no manual data entry.
Are smart glasses required?
Yes: capture happens in first-person view so the real gesture is recorded exactly as performed. Compatible models and deployment options are detailed during the demo.
How is this different from an LMS or a document management system?
An LMS or a DMS stores content written after the fact, which quickly becomes obsolete. WeKnow captures the real gesture during the job and enriches the base continuously: living knowledge rather than frozen knowledge.
Does WeKnow work in several languages?
Yes, WeKnow is multilingual and already proven in international environments, including sites with multicultural teams.
Where is the data hosted?
Data is hosted on sovereign, GDPR-compliant infrastructure. It stays confidential — nothing is shared with third parties without your agreement.
In which sectors is WeKnow already deployed?
WeKnow is deployed across several sectors: industry (chemicals, cosmetics, food processing, metallurgy…), energy and services — for customers such as GEF Industrie, Engie and Lefrant Rubco.
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