Your best expert and your best coach — in every worker’s pocket
Chirone captures expert knowledge, assesses every worker’s capability, and builds personalized daily plans that raise the whole team to top-performer level. A conversational companion on the floor, in the moment, whenever the answer matters.
The gap between your best people and everyone else is costing you
Manufacturing performance lives in people. When that knowledge walks out the door, what remains is inconsistency, guesswork, and avoidable errors.
Effective capacity lost
Plants lose between 5% and 30% of effective capacity to inconsistent work practices, slow troubleshooting, and rework — driven by the knowledge gap between top performers and everyone else.
Knowledge walks out the door
A generation of experts is retiring at a pace manufacturing has never faced. U.S. companies spent nearly $900B in 2023 replacing employees — and that doesn’t capture the knowledge lost.
Training doesn’t transfer
Ebbinghaus showed that without reinforcement, most learning from a training event is inaccessible within days. A two-day course and a sign-off is not capability development.
The complete knowledge cycle — for the first time on the shop floor
Chirone is the first platform built to run the complete SECI knowledge spiral in manufacturing. The same intellectual architecture underlying the Toyota Production System.
Create the conditions for knowledge to flow
Delivered together with hand-selected coaching partners — experienced manufacturing professionals with front-line credibility. They work alongside your training, operations, and IT teams from day one, creating structured conditions for tacit knowledge to pass between experienced and developing workers.
Make what experts know accessible
Interview agents engage subject matter experts in natural conversation, drawing out knowledge they may not articulate unprompted. In-the-moment voice memos capture tacit knowledge on the floor, when it actually surfaces. Both flow into living standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Turn knowledge into capability infrastructure
From codified expertise, Chirone generates capability assessments for every team member and builds personalized development plans. It continuously scans the operational pulse — shift notes, deviations, performance data — keeping learning focused on what's actually trending.
Build lasting capability through daily practice
Workers engage daily through spaced retrieval and progressive challenge — the mechanisms cognitive science has established actually build lasting capability. Chirone prompts thinking rather than bypassing it. AI that builds capability, not dependency.
Everything you need in a single system
Most organizations manage knowledge capture, training, and operations support through separate tools. Chirone unifies them — reducing complexity and closing the loop.
Expert Knowledge Capture
Structured interview agents and in-the-moment voice memos. Capture tacit knowledge where it actually surfaces — on the floor, not in a conference room.
Living Standard Operating Procedures
Not static documents in binders. Codified procedures that represent the current best understanding of how work should be done, continuously updated as the organization learns.
Capability Assessment
Automatically establishes where every team member sits on the knowledge spectrum relative to the top-performer standard. A precise map of operational risk and opportunity.
Personalized Development
Every worker builds toward the same standard, but from exactly where they are today. Spaced retrieval, progressive challenge, daily engagement — not periodic events.
Real-Time Companion
Available before a critical step, during an unexpected event, whenever the answer matters right now. On any device, at the machine, on the floor.
Operationally Aware
Scans shift notes, deviation reports, performance data (OEE), corrective and preventive action plans (CAPAs), and changeover records. Learning stays focused on what's actually happening — not a generic curriculum.
The window is open
A generation of experts is retiring at a pace manufacturing has never faced. AI adoption is creating pressure to prove human value alongside technology investment. The technology to run the complete knowledge spiral has only recently matured.
Toyota’s 2025 O-Beya deployment confirms the direction: even the world’s most sophisticated knowledge-based manufacturing system has concluded that AI is now necessary to sustain what culture and coaching alone cannot.
If that conclusion is right for Toyota, it is right for everyone.
The only platform running the complete knowledge spiral
Every competing solution addresses one or two stages. None addresses all four. Chirone does — and it’s the only one designed around the cognitive science of how people actually build lasting capability.
Complete SECI cycle — not fragments
Tulip, Dozuki, and Poka each solve a piece. No existing solution runs the complete knowledge spiral from tacit capture through to daily capability-building.
Built on learning science, not just data
Most AI tools are built around workflow or data. Chirone is built around how people learn — spaced retrieval, progressive challenge, situated learning. Architectural, not incidental.
AI that builds capability, not dependency
Research shows negative correlation between AI tool usage and critical thinking when AI bypasses thinking. Chirone is explicitly designed on the other side — prompting thinking, scaffolding support that decreases as capability grows.
Builds client capability, not consulting dependency
Hand-selected coaching professionals work alongside your team from day one — and work themselves out of a job by design. By year-end, your team sustains and extends Chirone independently.
Dual knowledge capture
Structured interview agents for deep knowledge extraction, plus in-the-moment voice memos captured on the floor when unexpected situations arise. Tacit knowledge captured where it exists.
Grounded in decades of cognitive science
Chirone’s learning model is not a marketing claim. It is an architectural decision built on established research across knowledge creation, learning, and behaviour design.
Nonaka & Takeuchi
SECI Knowledge Spiral
Hitotsubashi University — The Knowledge-Creating Company (1995)
The foundational framework for organizational knowledge creation, developed from studying Toyota.
Robert Bjork
Spaced Retrieval
Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA — Bjork Learning & Forgetting Lab
Lasting capability is built by distributing practice across time with progressively increasing challenge.
Lave & Wenger
Situated Learning
UC Berkeley — Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (1991)
Learning situated in the actual context of work produces far superior retention than abstract instruction.
BJ Fogg
Habit Formation
Founder, Stanford Behavior Design Lab — Tiny Habits (2019)
Sustainable behaviour requires motivation, ability, and a prompt at the right moment to converge.
Ready to close the knowledge gap?
We’re working with design partners in Q2 2026. If your organization faces the knowledge challenge, we’d like to hear from you.
info@chirone.aiBuilt by people who know manufacturing
A founding team where every core member has performed their role previously in successful companies and startups, backed by advisors with deep connections across global manufacturing.
Noel Peberdy
CEO
Founded, acquired, and sold companies with buyers including Thoma Bravo / QAD and Ernst & Young. Deep experience in manufacturing and supply chain transformation.
Andy Durrant
Head of Commercial
Leads Chirone's commercial strategy and partner relationships. Long career delivering manufacturing transformation and operational excellence with global coaching teams.
Alan Peberdy
President
Brings executive leadership and strategic vision to Chirone's operations and market growth strategy.
Mariano Chicatun
Head of Development
Applied AI leader combining deep expertise in machine learning with industrial systems integration, MLOps, and multi-agent architectures.
Ed Harrison
Head of Product
12+ years on the manufacturing shop floor before moving into product. That direct operational experience is the bridge between Chirone's design and the realities of plant work.
Kyle Layton
Head of Customer Support
Drives Customer Support and Implementation with a people-first approach. Ensures every user — regardless of experience — can confidently navigate and benefit from Chirone's platform.