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Knowledge AI
Retrieve. Verify. Transfer.
Find the right information in your procedures, manuals and records. Verify each answer against its source.
APPLIED AI / MARITIME & INDUSTRY
Intelligence,
where operations
happen.
Applied AI for Maritime & Industrial Operations
Find information in your manuals, review a tender or prepare a technical report. We build AI tools around your documents, with results your team can verify.
Discuss your projectPrivate. Local. Operational.
Interactive demonstrationSimulation · fictional documents
Do we have enough information to decide whether to bid?
3 fictional documents
One question. Verifiable sources.
Run the scenario, then open the references.
Source excerpt / AO-01Rev. 01 · § 2
Fictional specification
« The intervention is required to start within four weeks of the order. The response must include a mobilisation schedule. »
For the team to verify before use.
Fictional examples with scripted answers. No AI model or server call. Offline mode is simulated in the onboard example; it does not disconnect your device.
YOUR DOCUMENTS. YOUR ENVIRONMENT. YOUR CONTROL.Explore the applications
01 / Applications
Less searching. Better-prepared decisions.
Tender reviews, technical documents and maintenance: needs shared across industry. Maritime and offshore expertise brings a focus on onboard constraints and installation studies.
In practice
What decision do you need to prepare?
Examples of useful outputs, with the scope to define together.
Is this tender worth committing our team to?Tender review & project preparation
- What you get
- A requirements table linked to the original documents, gaps and clarification points, followed by a draft technical response and programme of work for review.
- Technical scope and review
- The enquiry package is assessed against your decision criteria. Estimates and schedules also require your costs, resource availability and execution assumptions; commitments remain subject to your team’s approval.
What should we check before preparing this intervention?Maintenance & operational learning
- What you get
- A maintenance history summary, recurring events to investigate and a preparation pack linked to the applicable manuals and procedures.
- Technical scope and review
- Changes to the maintenance plan are proposed for technical review. Predictive capabilities are assessed separately against data quality, available measurements and observed events.
Which constraints should we check before planning installation?Route engineering & installation
- What you get
- A constraints register linked to survey reports and specifications, a missing-data list and a review pack comparing route alternatives.
- Technical scope and review
- For subsea cables, burial assessment and plough layback can be scoped as a dedicated module using your validated calculation methods. Route and installation decisions remain subject to engineering review.
For your technical teamData, access and offline operation
02
Operational AI
From information to action.
Extract, prepare and review documents. Automate a defined workflow, with human approval.
03
Private & Local AI
Choose where AI runs.
Deploy in your private infrastructure or on site. Define access and data flows before choosing the model.
04
Offline / Onboard AI
Keep working beyond the network.
Make knowledge available onboard or at a remote site. Plan for offline operation and document updates.
ONBOARD PRIVATE AI
On a vessel or at a remote site: procedures, manuals and maintenance history in a private assistant with inspectable sources. Hardware, access and updates are scoped around your constraints.
02 / Engagements
A specific problem. A useful first system.
Scope, deliverables and acceptance criteria defined before work starts.
01AI Opportunity Workshop
Discovery, use-case mapping, prioritisation and a 90-day roadmap.
- Structured interviews with operational and technical stakeholders
- Use-case inventory scored on value, feasibility and data sensitivity
- Prioritised 90-day roadmap with delivery options
02Private AI / Knowledge Sprint
Build an assistant that finds answers in your documents and shows its sources.
- Ingestion of a defined document corpus
- Retrieval assistant with citations, evaluated on real questions
- Documented prototype and deployment recommendations; production integration scoped separately
03Workflow & Agent Sprint
Automate a defined task, such as preparing a report, with review before approval.
- One end-to-end operational workflow, scoped and instrumented
- Explicit review and approval steps kept with the human operator
- Handover documentation and comparison with the original workflow
04Fractional AI Lead
Recurring advisory, roadmap, governance, prototyping and adoption support.
- Regular technical support for your leadership team within an agreed time allocation
- Architecture, vendor and build-vs-buy decisions
- Governance, internal enablement and adoption follow-through
FROM UNDERSTANDING TO HANDOVER
- 01 / UNDERSTAND
Understand
Understand the operation, the documents, the constraints and the people. Identify the few use cases worth building.
- 02 / PROTOTYPE
Prototype
Build a prototype using an authorised document corpus and a defined use case. Evaluate it on representative questions or tasks.
- 03 / DEPLOY
Deploy
Move to the target environment: cloud, private infrastructure, on-premise or onboard, with access control and operating procedures.
- 04 / TRANSFER
Transfer
Document, train and hand over. Your teams should be able to run and extend the system without us.
Security note
Local and private AI deployments improve data control, but security is never a property of the model alone. Actual security depends on the full architecture: access controls, identity management, network design, storage, encryption, backups, physical security, monitoring and day-to-day operations. We do not make absolute claims. Any deployment is assessed and documented against your own security and regulatory requirements.
03 / Your point of contact
Thomas Piacentini
Marseille, France
Understand the operation. Build with purpose.
The practice is led by Thomas Piacentini, an experienced operational, contract and project professional with a career spent inside complex technical environments — where procedures, documentation, technical constraints and commercial exposure meet.
A direct point of contact, from scoping to handover. Operational decisions stay with qualified teams; AI retrieves, prepares and proposes.
04 / Let’s talk operations
What problem
is worth
solving?
Describe the operation, the documents involved and the constraints. If it is not a fit, we will say so.
contact@fieldandbearing.comTo get started
A few lines are enough.
- 01
The context
Your operation, the team involved and the problem to solve.
- 02
The information
The types of documents or data available.
- 03
The constraints
Confidentiality, connectivity, environment and timing.
contact@fieldandbearing.com
An initial email exchange, directly with Thomas. Please do not attach confidential documents. Privacy