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Application Engineering Intelligence

The knowledge of an applications engineer, built in.

AEI is Kabaido's working model of the UK industrial supply chain: a two-level categorisation with deep attribute, designation and unit knowledge, applied per request. It is why every module reads your industry correctly.

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Structured requestIntent: Quote
Email · Dave HutchinsRFQ - tooling for new aerospace job

Can you quote the following please, needed by 26th June: 10 off 10mm 4FL carbide endmill AlTiN coated, LOC 30 min

RFQ-2026-aero.pdf
  • L110×10 mm 4 flute carbide endmill, AlTiN, LOC 30 mm min
  • L25×6 mm 2 flute ball nose endmill, uncoated
  • L320×6.35 mm (1/4 in) 3 flute square endmill, TiAlN

Every value cited. Missing details become questions, never guesses.

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Envelope first

Structured first, whatever arrives

Whatever form the request takes, it becomes one structured envelope before anything else happens. Envelope first and always.

Pasted text
An email body or a handful of lines pasted straight in. The structured envelope comes first, whatever the formatting.
PDF
An RFQ or purchase order arriving as a document is read into the same envelope, page by page.
Spreadsheet
A line list arriving as a spreadsheet becomes typed request lines with normalised units.
Image page via vision
A photographed or scanned page is read by vision. Every extracted value still carries its source span.

Email needs no paste at all. Connect Gmail or Microsoft 365 and the email agent reads new mail as it arrives, so a detected enquiry becomes this same envelope on its own.

How the email agent works

Application context matters

A match is not a keyword hit. Kabaido reads the application context and turns it into a fit rating you can audit field by field, so a recommendation can be checked rather than trusted.

Workpiece material
Read here as 316 stainless. A coating or substrate suited to stainless scores differently from one ground for aluminium.
Operation
Slotting, profiling or finishing changes which geometry fits. When the request does not state the operation, the field stays open and is asked, not assumed.
Machine
Read here as BT40 VMC. Taper and spindle bound the holder and the shank that can run on it.
Tolerance
A stated tolerance narrows the candidates that can hold it. Left unstated, it becomes a clarification rather than a silent default.

The same fields carry through to matching, costing and the quote on the Sales Engineer.

Cite or abstain

Every value points back to the text that produced it

Every extracted attribute carries a source span, so a quoted value can be checked against the customer's own words. When the request does not state a value, the envelope carries a clarification instead of a guess.

Cite or abstain

Email · Precision ComponentsRFQ - tooling for new aerospace job

10 off 10mm 4FL carbide endmill AlTiN coated, LOC 30 min

Resolved line, fully specified10x 10 mm 4 flute carbide endmill, AlTiN, LOC 30 mm min

Every value points back to the customer’s own words. Open a chip to read the slice it came from.

Graded confidence

Graded, not bluffed

An applications engineer says how sure they are. AEI does the same: every line lands in a band that states plainly how it was resolved, and the uncertain bands hand control to you.

Matched
When a line resolves cleanly to one product it matches automatically, and the evidence for the match travels with the line.
Review
When more than one candidate could be right, the line lands in a review band with the candidates side by side. Your pick is stored on the request, so the quote reflects it.
Closest
When nothing in your catalogue fits exactly, the nearest neighbours are shown as closest and labelled as such, never dressed up as a match.
Clarification
When the request does not state a value the answer needs, the line carries a question back to the customer instead of a guess.

The read is also repeatable. Downstream of extraction the pipeline is deterministic and identical documents are served from a content-addressed cache, so the same request reads the same way twice. An answer you checked yesterday does not quietly change today.

The categorisation

Seven categories, fifteen knowledge packs

AEI is organised as a two-level categorisation of the UK industrial supply chain. Each pack carries the attribute dictionaries, designation grammars, abbreviation lexicons and unit conventions its corner of the trade leans on, selected per request.

The knowledge model

Open a category to see the packs beneath it

Seven top-level categories over fifteen knowledge packs. Each pack line is the scope it reads; the packs supply the vocabulary and your own data supplies the truth.

    • Cutting tools

      Milling, holemaking and threading tools, indexable tooling with ISO designation decode, saw blades, machine knives, gear cutting tools and broaches.

    • Abrasives and grinding

      Precision grinding wheels and superabrasives with FEPA designation decode, coated and thin abrasives, dressing, honing and lapping.

The prescan

Fifteen packs, never all at once

Breadth is only useful if it stays out of the way. Before any model runs, a prescan reads the wording of the request and selects at most three packs for the read.

The selection is deterministic and costs nothing: the same request always loads the same packs, and the vocabulary of twelve trades it does not need never dilutes the read of the one it does. A coolant enquiry is read with fluids and materials knowledge, not through a fastener lexicon.

This is also part of why requests stay cheap: knowledge is injected per request, not carried on every call.

Relevance, decided per requestIllustration

20 off 10mm 4 flute carbide end mills for 316 stainless, BT40 holders to suit

  • Cutting tools
  • Abrasives and grinding
  • Machine tools and CNC
  • Workholding and toolholding
  • Hydraulics and pneumatics
  • Power transmission
  • Welding and joining
  • Sheet metal and fabrication
  • Fasteners and fixings
  • Metrology and inspection
  • Coatings and heat treatment
  • Materials and stock
  • Plastics and composites
  • Fluids and lubricants
  • MRO and workshop

3 of 15 packs selected for this request, before any model runs

Grounded, not trained

Competence does not come from a bigger model guessing. It comes from your own catalogue, designed products and services, read through the knowledge packs.

When Kabaido recommends a part, configures a custom product or prices a service job, the answer is drawn from the products you sell, the design categories you run and the services you offer. The packs supply the vocabulary; your data supplies the truth. Nothing is invented to fill a gap.

Your data stays yours. There is no training on customer data, and our AI provider is configured for zero retention.

Engineered for cost as well as accuracy

Retrieval is database-native and AI is applied surgically.

Kabaido runs a two-model design. Reading and structuring runs on claude-haiku-4-5 by default, and the pipeline escalates to claude-sonnet-5 only when a request needs deeper reasoning.

This is why credits are priced the way they are. See pricing.

Across the platform

How the four modules use it

AEI is not a separate product. Every module reads your industry through it.

Sales Engineer

Reads RFQs and POs into typed, cited lines, then matches your catalogue, your designed products and your services in that order.

Design Engineer

Interprets a written enquiry and sets configurator parameters like a design engineer, showing the result in live 3D with its price.

Commerce

Your managed store and trade portal run on the same platform, so the enquiries and orders they produce are read with the same knowledge.

Machinist

AI assistance at the machine, from nesting assist to parameter suggestions, draws on the same model of the work.

Where your data sits: our security postureWhy credits are priced the way they are

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