SidekickThe AI agent that manages frontline operations over text.

Workers text a problem, Sidekick handles it, and every fix is remembered. Shops complete over 15% more jobs, and the knowledge that usually walks out with your best people stays. No app, no login, any phone.

Backed byY Combinator
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How the agent runs

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Runs entirely over text

Workers text Sidekick in iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, KakaoTalk — whatever they already use. Any phone, any language, nothing to install.

Runs the floor

It flags drifting equipment, answers from your own docs, opens and routes work orders, and escalates to the right manager the moment it should.

Records tribal knowledge

It records the know-how in your veterans' heads and keeps every fix, so nothing retires when they do.

What the agent builds as it works

Sidekick builds the company brain.

Most shops run on tribal knowledge that isn’t written down anywhere. Sidekick saves it as a byproduct of the work — every alert, answer, and fix lands in a searchable history your company owns. When a veteran retires, their know-how stays.

Search everything your floor has learned…
Conveyor 3 bearing failure
Replace 6205-2RS · resolved by Mike T.
Today
CNC-3 coolant PSI drop
Check pump seal · cited SOP-CNC-07 p3
Apr 14
Forklift battery rotation
Bank A → C every Tues · per Mike
Apr 11
Allen-Bradley fault E-04
Reset sequence + photo · per Devin
Apr 06
Hydraulic press oil change
ISO 46 · every 500 hrs · Cage D
Apr 02
+12 entries captured this week. Nothing walks out the door

A searchable plant history. Ask what worked last time and get the exact fix, who did it, and when — citing the document, page, and revision, or the supervisor who confirmed it. Nothing it tells the floor is untraceable.

AI-GENERATED REPORTS
Safety Procedures
Protocols, compliance, and emergency steps
Generate
Compiles from your captured answers and SOPs. Every claim cites its source.
Employee Handbook
Policies, procedures, and expectations
Generate
FAQ: Top Worker Questions
The questions your floor actually asks
Generate
Documents written from your own knowledge base, not the internet.

Documents it writes for you. It drafts the handbook, the safety procedure, and the FAQ out of the work it just did, and translates them for the crews that need them.

Text Sidekick:photos, videos, voice memos in any language

Not a chatbot or a dashboard. Sidekick is a member of the team.

Every GM spends the day walking the floor and talking to people over text — not inside software. Sidekick works the same way, which is why it’s the rare tool a floor actually uses every day.

Predictive maintenance
Catches drift before it becomes downtime.
TRAINING RECORD
PRIYA S. · NEW HIRE
RoleCNC operator · station 4
StartedMonday · second shift
Forklift basics✓ certified
Lockout/tagout✓ certified
Chemical handlingMISSING
Training modules
Generates modules from your own procedures, assigns them, and verifies every step.
INVENTORY RECORD
TOOL CRIB B
ItemCNMG 432 inserts
SupplierMSC Industrial · net-30
Reorder point12 on hand
On hand16stocked
Purchase orders
Restocks before the shelf runs empty.
Every text,remembered.
Compounding

Every shop you run makes the next one smarter.

Inside your company, knowledge compounds across sites. What Sidekick learns fixing a fault in Ohio fills the gap in Texas the first time someone hits it there. Run one shop and it sharpens every shift. Run five and each inherits what the others already solved.

Shop 1 · Ohio
Learns

Allen-Bradley E-04 reset sequence, captured from Devin on nights.

Fills the gap

Answers on day one at the other two.

Shop 2 · Texas
Learns

Heat-stress protocol above 88°F, refined over two summers.

Fills the gap

Applied the first hot week in Ohio.

Shop 3 · Ontario
Learns

The net-30 ordering path that stopped a three-week stall.

Fills the gap

Standard practice across all three.

FAQ

Common questions.

No. Sidekick works over plain SMS. Workers text a number the same way they'd text a coworker. There's no app to download, no account to create, and no password to forget. Managers use a web dashboard.
Get in touch

Every hero needs a Sidekick.

Tell us what you run — lines, shifts, headcount — and we’ll set up a short call to show you what Sidekick would do on your floor from day one.

PHONE+1 (408) 828-5979
OFFICESanta Clara, CA
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