Application Engineering Intelligence
Understand the knowledge model behind every request: seven categories, fifteen packs, selected per request.
Application Engineering Intelligence, AEI, is Kabaido's working model of the UK industrial supply chain: the knowledge of an applications engineer, built in. It is what lets a request be read in your industry's own terms, with designations decoded, abbreviations expanded and units normalised.
Seven categories, fifteen packs
The knowledge is organised on two levels: seven top-level categories over fifteen knowledge packs. Each pack carries the vocabulary, designation grammars and extraction conventions of one supply area.
| Category | Knowledge packs |
|---|---|
| Cutting Tools & Abrasives | Cutting tools, Abrasives and grinding |
| Machines, Workholding & Automation | Machine tools and CNC, Workholding and toolholding, Hydraulics and pneumatics, Power transmission |
| Fabrication & Joining | Welding and joining, Sheet metal and fabrication, Fasteners and fixings |
| Measurement & Quality | Metrology and inspection |
| Surface Engineering & Heat Treatment | Coatings and heat treatment |
| Materials & Stock | Materials and stock, Plastics and composites |
| Fluids, Consumables & Workshop | Fluids and lubricants, MRO and workshop |
Selected per request
Every organisation gets the whole categorisation; there is nothing to switch on or configure. When a request arrives, a prescan of its content selects the relevant packs for that request, so a bearing enquiry is read with power transmission knowledge and a regrind list with cutting tool knowledge. The packs supply the vocabulary; your catalogue supplies the truth.
What AEI does with a request
- Reads the text, tables and scanned pages you sent into one document.
- Extracts typed line items with normalised units and a citation behind every value.
- Matches each line deterministically against your catalogue, your saved designed products and your services.
- Assembles the response: matches, clarifications, prices from your own definitions and the action cards.
Cite or abstain
AEI never invents a specification, tolerance, price or part number. Every extracted attribute carries a source span, and a value the request does not state stays empty and raises a clarification. Fit scores, match bands and prices are deterministic calculation, not model output; see Working with matches.
AEI powers all four modules. The same knowledge reads an enquiry in Sales mode, drives the Design Engineer in Design mode and sits behind the email agent.