True Story

Every machine has a record.
Every decision has a story.
Today, only one of them gets saved.

TRUE STORY is the communication layer for engineering — where the people who build the physical world talk about it, anchored to it, forever.

Every conversation anchored to its context
One format for multiple engineering use cases
One knowledge graph, from part feature to factory cell
Engineering stories are never to be forgotten

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The cost of the gap

Nobody budgets for engineering communication. Everybody pays for it.

The bill does not arrive as a line item. It is buried in payroll, rework, scrap and delay — which is exactly why this market looks empty, and exactly why it is enormous.

1 in 3 A&D engineering and manufacturing staff are 55 or older, with 1.9M US manufacturing roles projected unfilled by 2033. McKinsey · Deloitte

~20% of the workweek goes to searching for and gathering critical information; 47% of digital workers struggle to find what they need to do their job. McKinsey · Gartner

$20–40B lost every year to data-format interoperability in US discrete manufacturing — including $8.4B of engineers manually answering questions. NIST

The moment

The industry finally agrees on the prize. It is fighting over the wrong way to win it.

The world is reindustrialising, and every giant in industrial software has reached the same conclusion: in the age of AI the value is not in the tools, it is in the layer that holds meaning. So each is racing to build that layer out of its own stack, and to lock you into it.

Meanwhile the meaning they are all chasing walks out of the door every day — in retiring experts, buried email threads, screenshots, and hallway decisions no system ever sees.

(Why now)

The gap

The layer everyone wants cannot be owned by any vendor. It has to be earned from the work itself.

Ontologies built top-down describe your factory. They do not remember why it is the way it is. The richest context in engineering is not in any database — it is in the conversations: the review that caught the flaw, the fix the night-shift machinist found, the reason revision C exists at all. Nobody owns that layer today. That is the space.

Continuous Digital Thread is a fallacy.

Enterprise software over past decades has grown complex and costly by acquiring companies and integrating products. Fundamental reinvention of engineering workflows and a single source of truth remain a pipedream. Though — a single source for all sources of truth is not. That's what TRUE STORY is.

A single source for all sources of truth.

What TRUE STORY is

Not another destination. The layer underneath them all.

Every tool we get compared to is a destination — a design review tool, a work instruction tool, an MES dashboard. TRUE STORY is the everyday communication layer beneath them: where engineers already talk, now capturing the right context, and across contexts.

Communication has context, and that is where knowledge is. It is not in the files. It is in the conversations around them — the reason a tolerance was tightened, the fixture that needs a shim, the thing the person who just retired knew. Engineering knowledge lives in communication, and communication is the one layer nobody owns.

So we anchor it, inside one universal address space that runs from a CAD face to a plant bay. Context is captured as a by-product of talking, and every exchange adds to a knowledge graph that keeps growing while you work. An AI that traverses that graph brings you the right information at the moment you need it — and turns the accumulated record into insight across the whole operation.

TRUE STORY — a turbo assembly in the 3D viewer with the AI panel alongside

Ask it anything, from any page. For everyone — technicians to CTO.

Core innovations

Two things carry the whole platform. Nobody else has either.

01 — Generic framework

One document format for every engineering context

A unique data model serves as a design review, a work instruction, an inspection or a plant tour — they differ in configuration, not in code. Every captured moment in communication carries the full context, so the discussion travels with the thing being discussed.

02 — Universal 3D address space

Every feature and every space has an address

One addressing scheme resolves a CAD face, an assembly mate, a production cell or a plant bay. Anything addressable can be pointed at, captured and queried by the AI, and linked from anywhere else. An anchor makes a message precise; a data model makes it universal.

Communication

No migration. No new silo. No retraining.

TRUE STORY helps eliminate data fragmentation, operational inefficiencies and lack of knowledge discoverability. You don't need to change a thing. We just fit in. The more you use, the better it gets.

Low-friction adoption

No migration, no rip-and-replace. It sits alongside the tools you already run, and earns the next workflow on its own.

IP stays put

Conversations reference geometry in place. Nothing is exported to hold a review, so there are no screenshots or stray files to chase.

Traceable by construction

Every decision keeps its context, its author and its moment — which is what qualification and compliance ask for anyway.

Adoption is frictionless; addiction is guaranteed.

The end game

The front end for engineering today. The front end for engineering AI tomorrow.

AI cannot master engineering from unstructured files. It needs knowledge captured in context — and context is inherent in communication. Whoever owns the communication layer owns both the training data and the deployment surface for engineering agents.

TRUE STORY generates that substrate as a by-product of everyday work. The companies that own their context will own their AI — and we intend that to be you, not your fastest-moving vendor.

Stories, good and bad, have lessons.
Engineering ones have never been more telling.