Actual.Labs

Explore our cutting-edge applications and insightful articles that showcase real-world AI implementation in manufacturing environments.

Our Applications

Production-ready AI solutions built for real manufacturing challenges

Production
6sbot

Automated 6S (5S + Safety) auditing system using computer vision and AI to ensure workplace organization and safety compliance in manufacturing environments.

Computer Vision
AI/ML
Safety Compliance
Production
Actual.Guru

Low cost brandable AI Chat Solution and Virtual AI Expert Platform that enables organizations to deploy customized AI assistants with their own branding.

AI Chat
Virtual Expert
Brandable
Production
Toledo.Directory

Comprehensive insights platform providing data and analytics across all northwest Ohio software tech companies, fostering regional tech community growth.

Tech Directory
Regional Insights
Analytics
Beta
Grantwise

AI-powered grant writing assistant that helps organizations identify funding opportunities and craft compelling grant proposals with higher success rates.

NLP
AI Writing
Grant Analytics
Beta
dscribe.art

Creative AI platform that automatically generates detailed descriptions and metadata for digital artwork and creative content.

Computer Vision
NLP
Creative AI
Beta
UtilityAI

Comprehensive AI toolkit for utility companies featuring predictive maintenance, demand forecasting, and operational optimization solutions.

Predictive Analytics
IoT
Operations AI
Beta
SquishChat

Intelligent customer service platform with advanced AI chatbots designed for manufacturing and technical support scenarios.

Conversational AI
Customer Service
Technical Support
Beta
MDK Copilot

AI-powered medical device development assistant that helps navigate regulatory compliance and accelerates product development cycles.

Regulatory AI
Medical Devices
Compliance

Published Research

Insights and expertise from our manufacturing AI specialists

Business Intelligence
10/31/2025
Beyond Visualization: Building Decision Intelligence Through Iterative Dashboard Refinement

This study presents a four-stage iterative refinement of a BI dashboard using the Global Superstore dataset, showing how feedback-driven design evolves exploratory visuals into decision-support tools; key findings include furniture margin erosion (6.94% vs 13.99% for technology), the discovery of a 20% discount threshold after which profitability declined, and $1.35 million in unrecovered shipping costs.

10 min read
Manufacturing AI
5/5/2025
Enhancing Glass Defect Detection with Diffusion Models: Addressing Imbalanced Datasets in Manufacturing Quality Control

Novel approach using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models to generate synthetic defective glass images for data augmentation, improving CNN classification accuracy from 78% to 93% for automated visual inspection in industrial glass manufacturing.

12 min read
AI Research
8/28/2025
Quantifying Label-Induced Bias in Large Language Model Self- and Cross-Evaluations

Comprehensive study examining bias in LLM evaluations by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, revealing how perceived model identity can heavily distort judgments with shifts up to 50 percentage points in preference votes.

15 min read
AI Planning
4/2/2025
Interpreting Emergent Planning in Model-Free Reinforcement Learning

First mechanistic evidence that model-free reinforcement learning agents can learn to plan, demonstrated through concept-based interpretability methodology applied to a model-free agent in Sokoban planning benchmark.

18 min read
Materials Science
10/15/2024
Manufacturing, processing, applications, and advancements of Fe-based shape memory alloys

Investigation of aluminum-silicon metal matrix composites (MMCs) reinforced with WC-based tool waste, examining the effects of intermetallic compounds and processing conditions on wear resistance for sustainable manufacturing applications.

14 min read
Additive Manufacturing
11/20/2024
Predicting actuation strain in quaternary shape memory alloy NiTiHfX using machine learning

Comprehensive modeling study of titanium alloy microstructures and mechanical properties in additive manufacturing processes, with focus on biomedical applications and optimized processing parameters.

16 min read