AI Inside the Platform
Not a Feature.
How It Is Built and Run.
AI is not bolted onto the DDM platform. It is how the data gets integrated, how the software gets written and maintained, how the research gets done, and how the plant gets modeled.
01 · Nexus
AI Does the Integration

In practice today: automated data profiling, AI-generated pipelines, self-healing integration — with human review on every change.

01
Characterize

AI profiles every source — schemas, semantics, data quality, lineage — before a single pipeline is written.

02
Engineer

AI generates the ETL itself: mappings, transforms, validation rules — reviewed and approved by people.

03
Sustain

AI watches the pipelines in production — schema drift, breakages, new fields — and proposes the repair.

Where this goes — specialist integration agents
Historian / PLC agent

Knows every tag, scale and PLC quirk — watches calibration and sensor drift.

ERP & HR agent

Keeps rosters, cost centers and org changes mapped to operations.

Forms & documents agent

Maintains OCR, form versions and the capture-to-warehouse path.

Public-data agent

Tracks regulator dataset refreshes and upstream schema changes.

Agents work like specialist employees: scoped responsibility, deep domain context, human sign-off on change — integration maintained as a practice, not a project.

02 · The Platforms
Built With AI.
Maintained and Documented by AI.

Conventional vendor software

Code accreted over decades of patches — no one person understands all of it
Documentation written after the fact, forever lagging what the software does
Maintenance is scarce, expensive, and locked to the vendor's roadmap

The DDM platform — AI-native

Developed with AI from the first line — consistent, regenerable patterns throughout
Documentation generated with every change: a build artifact, not an afterthought
The same AI that wrote the platform maintains it — change is fast, cheap, and testable

Better documented, better maintained, and easier to evolve than the code it replaces.

Open pit mine aerial view
From research to practice

Built on a career spent on both sides of the gap: as a professor, watching strong research stop at publication — as an entrepreneur, building the deployment path it never had.

03 · Praxis
From Published Research
to Deployed Practice

Much of the published safety literature was built on public regulator data. Praxis makes that literature an operating asset instead of a library.

01
Survey

AI reads the published safety literature — much of it built on public MSHA datasets.

02
Trace

Identifies the exact datasets and methods behind each study.

03
Reproduce

Re-runs the analysis on current data — does the finding still hold?

04
Localize

Applies the validated method to your operation's own data.

05
Deploy

Findings become procedures, forms and field checks via Forma and Performa.

Field outcomes pose the next research question — replication at industrial scale. Explore Praxis →

04 · TSAI
Hyper-Focused Models
From Fused Signals

Analog

Continuous process signals — tonnage, density, amps, levels, pressures.

Boolean

Discrete states — run / stop, open / closed, interlocks, alarms.

Relational

Operating context from Nexus — crews, products, delays, maintenance, quality.

Hyper-focused context windows

An agent assembles just the tags, history and operating context one problem needs — a context library per circuit, not one giant model. Relational × time-series, joined.

Blend analysis — what actually fed the plant, and what it did to performance
Density control — tighter heavy-media control for improved coal processing
Signal detection — anomalies and events annotated and pushed to Performa

Small, purpose-built models per control problem — assembled, grounded and maintained by agentic AI, not hand-built one at a time. Explore TSAI →

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