ce-net / foreman

AI agents that run your factory's machines, projects and mail.

Foreman is a team of AI agents that works inside your company. It joins your computers, printers and robots, follows each project in a room your people can see, sorts the mail that belongs to it, and writes a short note every day on what it did and what waits for a decision.

Talk to usSee what it runs

Where it stands: Foreman runs our own workshop in Shenzhen every day, and our first factory client is being set up now. We set up every client ourselves, one at a time, so we take a few at once.

The real robot arm on the left and its twin on the right, in the same pick of a screwdriver
Our robot arm and its twin: the twin rehearses every move before the arm makes it.

Your project, its group chat and what the agents are doing, in one room

Every project gets a room. Your engineers, your partners and Foreman talk in one group chat, drop drawings and photos in it, and see which agent is working on what right now. Tell it what you want in a sentence or a voice note; it comes back with the work.

Machines

Each computer, printer or robot joins with one command. Foreman sees what is online, sends it work, checks the result, and waits for a person before anything moves hardware.

Projects

Each project has goals in your words. Foreman works them until they are true and shows the evidence: the file, the photo, the print, the sent mail.

Mail and files

We connect the inboxes and folders you choose, and nothing else. What comes in is sorted into the right project, with replies drafted for your people to send.

A daily note

Once a day: what got done, what stopped, and the one or two things only your people can decide.

New work starts as a proposal. Your team asks for a new project in its project room; Foreman writes it up as a proposal with scope, access, goals, permissions and priority, and your owner approves it before any agent starts.

What it runs today

Our own work, shown as it is. No client names or logos: we do not publish who we work with.

A small robot line. Three engineers and Foreman build the Microduck walking robot together: 22 parts rebuilt in CAD from photos, printed on our farm, inspected and assembled, with the group chat, the parts register and the build steps in one shared project.
A frame from a 3D printer's own camera during a print on our farm
A print farm it watches. Every plate is sliced in Bambu Studio, checked against the live printer before it is sent, read back until the printer says it is running, and watched through the printer's camera. People load filament and clear plates.
A two-storey clinic built up in the browser from its IFC model, five disciplines in one twin
A building as a live twin. A real two-storey clinic from its buildingSMART IFC files, five disciplines in one model, with the clashes found and the ductwork cut into factory modules (prefab). Open the twin.
A factory floor rebuilt as a twin from one walkthrough video
A factory floor from one video. A production floor rebuilt as a twin from a walkthrough video; every machine carries the frame it was seen in. Open the factory twin.

How we start with a client

  1. A callYou tell us which line, cell or site hurts most. We say honestly whether Foreman helps there.
  2. Setup dayWe join the machines, open your project rooms and connect the mail and folders you pick.
  3. First three goalsWritten with your people in their words, each with how we know it is done.
  4. Daily noteFrom the next morning, a short note on what Foreman did and what waits for you.
  5. PartnersYour suppliers and customers join the project rooms they belong in, and see only those.
  6. Four weeks, then a decisionA written before and after. Then keep it running or stop.

Price

Per site, quoted after the call. Most clients start with a four-week pilot on one cell for EUR 4,900 (a line, a robot cell, a print farm or a site, up to ten machines), half on signing and half on the written before and after. After that, Foreman runs the cell for EUR 990 a month on a 12-month term, with the pilot fee credited in full against the first year. Prices exclude VAT.

Talk to us

Tell us about the site and the one thing nobody has time to watch. Leif, who founded CE, answers himself within one working day.

Or email [email protected]. What you type is only used to reply. See privacy.

Try one job first

Not ready for a site? Each of these is Foreman doing one kind of work, and each is a good first job.

  • CE Design: small CAD jobs at a fixed price, from EUR 25.
  • CE Print: parts printed by shops in the network, near you.
  • RHEO: spare-part and secondhand stock listed from photos.
  • Engineering: one product engineered, printed and fitted in two weeks, EUR 6,900.
  • Console: every machine, person and agent of a site on one screen.

What is built and what is not

Built and working

  • Join a machine with one command: 42 s measured on a fresh Linux machine
  • Project rooms with group chat, files, voice notes and what the agents are doing
  • Separate accounts per client: one client never sees another's machines or people
  • A print farm, CAD with drawings, and a robot arm run by Foreman in our workshop

Not yet

  • Self-serve sign-up for Foreman: we set up every client ourselves
  • Card payments: you get an invoice
  • Windows machines: Linux and macOS join today, Windows is not tested yet