Private AI
The benefits of AI, without giving away your data
Flow’s AI runs on its own optimization engine, not on ChatGPT, Claude or any other AI provider. Every recommendation is computed inside Flow, so your shop data never leaves it.
The difference
Where your information goes when you ask for an answer
Most business software that advertises AI does not have its own. It sends your data to a large AI provider such as OpenAI (ChatGPT) or Anthropic (Claude) through an API, and displays the response. The industry calls this an AI wrapper.
Many other apps
You ask a question
Which job should run next? What did this part really cost?
Your information is sent to another company
Your jobs, prices, customers and drawings are sent over the internet to OpenAI, Anthropic or a similar provider.
Their answer comes back
Generated by a general-purpose language model with no knowledge of your shop. Depending on the provider’s terms, your data may be stored or used to train future models.
Flow
You ask a question
Which job should run next? What did this part really cost?
Flow computes it in-house
Flow’s own optimization logic, built from what we have learned running machines every day. No external AI service is called.
You get the answer
Validated on real jobs in our own shop, and your data never left Flow.
Side by side
Our own intelligence, not a wrapper
| What is compared | MANY OTHER APPS | FLOW |
|---|---|---|
| Where the answer is computed | MANY OTHER APPS On the AI provider’s servers | FLOW Inside Flow, by Flow |
| Who receives your data | MANY OTHER APPS The software vendor and the AI provider | FLOW Only you and the people you give access to |
| Used to train AI models | MANY OTHER APPS Can be, depending on the provider’s terms, and those models are used by your competitors too | FLOW Never |
| What the logic is built on | MANY OTHER APPS A general-purpose language model trained on the public internet | FLOW In-house optimization logic from manufacturers who make parts every day |
| How results are validated | MANY OTHER APPS Shown as returned by the model | FLOW Tested on real jobs on our own floor |
What you get
Every insight, processed privately
The decisions Flow’s AI helps with every day, each computed by Flow from your own data.
- Queue order
- Every machine’s jobs ordered to waste the least changeover time.
- Processed by Flow
- Who sets up what
- A proven job suggested when the Programmer is busy, with the hours it saves.
- Processed by Flow
- Ship dates
- Promised dates from the real queue, updated when a job moves.
- Processed by Flow
- Material and tooling
- Bar and inserts needed weeks ahead, combined into one order.
- Processed by Flow
- Cost per part
- What a job really cost, so the next quote is right.
- Processed by Flow
Our commitment
100% control of your data, as the shop owner
The full terms are in our privacy policy.
Never sent to an outside AI provider
Not to OpenAI, Anthropic or any other AI platform, not even to produce an insight.
Never sold
Your data is not sold or shared with anyone.
Never used to train anyone’s AI
Including ours for other customers.
Stored in the United States
And yours to export at any time.
You decide who sees it
Access is set by you, person by person.