What does most of the world's physical work actually consist of?
Maintaining, repairing, or operating a piece of hardware. The knowledge of how to do this is situated (depends on the condition and tools at hand), adaptive (experts adjust in real time) and tacit (experts often can't articulate it outside of the moment).
The gap between the best physical workers and the worst is years of experience, thousands of jobs, and hours of re-training.
The only way that gap has ever been closed is apprenticeship, a method that hasn't changed since the 1400s — an expert passing what they know to a novice, one at a time.
That model is breaking.
Turnover is too high, retirements are accelerating, and there aren't enough experts left to learn from.
AppliedMind exists to capture that embodied expertise and make it transferable at scale. One expert's lifetime of physical intuition, delivered to thousands of workers through any camera, in real time.
Not one to one — one to many.
Technology for the people who keep the world running.
We're a team of engineers and builders from Stanford and UC San Diego. We've shipped products at companies like Apple and Intuitive Surgical. Our entire careers have existed at the intersection of the physical and digital, building technology that must work in the real world, not just on a screen.
If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear more.
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