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Sidekick: frontline answers, by text.

Sidekick is the texting assistant for your frontline. Workers ask it anything — shift times, SOPs, safety steps, HR — and get instant answers from your own documents. Every conversation makes Sidekick smarter, turning the knowledge in your head and your binders into a living knowledge base your business actually owns.

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Trusted in manufacturing and industrial floors across North America
Halverson Mfg
Ironwood Steel
Westfield Foods
Cascade Plastics
Monarch Pallet
Riverton Tool
How it works

Set up once. Your whole team has an expert in their pocket.

STEP 01

Upload your docs

SOPs, safety manuals, training decks, onboarding packets — PDF, Word, or a shared drive. Sidekick reads and organizes them.

STEP 02

Assign a number

Your team gets one phone number. Workers save it as "Sidekick" in their contacts. No app, no login, no IT tickets.

STEP 03

Text it like a coworker

Ask about procedures, log incidents, check certifications. Sidekick answers in seconds and escalates when it should.

What it's good for

Built for the moments where a 40-page PDF isn't the answer.

SOP LOOKUP

Answers from your own docs, not the internet.

Workers text questions. Sidekick pulls from the exact SOP, part manual, or safety sheet — and cites the source. Every answer is traceable.

what PSI do I set the CNC coolant at?
85 PSI for the Haas VF-2 (SOP-CNC-07, p3). Check sight-glass daily.
SAFETY & INCIDENTS

A calm, always-on first responder.

In an incident, Sidekick walks workers through the right steps, pages supervisors, and starts the OSHA-compliant paperwork before the worker puts their phone down.

small chemical spill at station 4
Stop work, clear the area. Don't rinse. I've paged Jenna + EHS. Spill kit is in cabinet 4B. What's the substance?
TRAINING & CERTS

Onboarding from 4 weeks to 9 days.

New hires text Sidekick instead of interrupting a line lead. Certifications auto-renew on time. You get a dashboard showing who knows what.

how do I lock out the conveyor on line B?
6 steps — I'll send them one at a time. Reply DONE after each so I can verify. Ready?
The knowledge layer

The knowledge in your head is the business. Sidekick writes it down.

Most operators are the single point of failure for their own company. The torque settings, the supplier quirks, the safety workarounds, the way you actually do payroll — it lives in one or two people's memory. When they take a vacation, the floor stalls. When they retire, the business is harder to sell.

Sidekick captures every answer it gives, every SOP it cites, every workaround a supervisor texts back. The result is a centralized, searchable knowledge base that compounds with every shift — owned by your company, not your founder.

Succession-ready
Sell, retire, or step back without the operation seizing up.
Audit-ready
Every answer cites the source SOP, page, and revision.
Vacation-proof
Your floor keeps running when you take a real week off.
Onboarding-ready
New managers inherit a documented business, not tribal knowledge.
Knowledge base · Halverson Mfg
Auto-captured
CNC-3 coolant PSI
85 PSI · cited SOP-CNC-07 p3
Apr 14
Forklift battery rotation
Bank A → C every Tues · per Mike
Apr 11
Spanish onboarding flow
Auto-translated from Onboarding-EN
Apr 09
Allen-Bradley fault E-04
Reset sequence + photo · per Devin
Apr 06
Vendor: Granger order code
Use account #41-9087 for net-30
Apr 02
Heat-stress protocol > 88°F
Mandatory water break q.45min
Mar 28
+12 entries captured this week

Try Sidekick on your floor.

Set up in under 5 minutes. Upload your documents, get a phone number, and your workers can start texting questions right away. Free trial — no credit card needed.

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Get in touch

Talk to a real human about your floor.

Tell us a little about your operation and we'll set up a short call — no pitch deck, just a conversation about whether Sidekick makes sense for you.

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Phone
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