Line assessment
A manufacturing engineer who has run assessments on production lines, not a qualification call with an SDR. Typical first response within one business day.
Start with one station
A line assessment takes three weeks, costs nothing, and produces a signed baseline plus a modelled return for a single station on your line. No production disruption and no obligation.
- Week 1 — instrument one station, observe the current process
- Week 2 — quantify rework, shim, escape and takt reality
- Week 3 — modelled ROI, deployment plan and a written baseline
Book a line assessment
Who you actually reach
Sales & commercials
Factory and enterprise rollouts, outcome-based terms, multi-site standardisation and procurement paperwork.
Security & compliance
SOC 2 report, penetration test summary, ITAR architecture, sub-processor list — all under NDA.
Support
24/7 for Factory and Enterprise customers. Severity 1 response inside 15 minutes, with a named engineer per site.
Partners
Machine builders, metrology vendors and integrators looking to integrate or become certified for delivery.
Careers & press
Open roles, speculative applications, and media enquiries about aerospace assembly autonomy.
Where we are, and why
| Everett, WA | Headquarters, robotics, perception | 31 | Under 20 minutes |
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| Charleston, SC | Field deployment, commercial programs | 9 | On site |
| Wichita, KS | Metrology engineering, business jet programs | 7 | Under 30 minutes |
| Fort Worth, TX | Defense programs, cleared support | 5 | On site |
| Remote (US) | Platform, research, product | 16 | Quarterly visits |
| Total | 68 |
What happens after you send this
| Enquiry type | Business days to first response |
|---|---|
| Line assessment enquiry | 0.80 days |
| Sales enquiry | 1.20 days |
| Security pack request | 1.60 days |
| Partner enquiry | 2.40 days |
| Support, severity 1 | 0.01 days |
| Support, severity 3 | 0.50 days |
Median first response
1.1 days
Assessments run to date
23
▲ +44% increase
Assessments → deployment
35%
We would rather tell you the assessment shows a weak return than sell you a deployment that will not pay back. That is why the conversion figure is 35% and not higher.
Three things worth knowing
- STEP 01
Bring one station, not the whole plant
The conversation is far more productive if you have a specific station in mind — the one that keeps appearing in rework meetings.
Assessment scope1 station
- STEP 02
Bring your current numbers
Rework hours, shim hours, escape counts, takt adherence. Even rough figures let us tell you within one call whether this is worth pursuing.
What we need4 metrics
- STEP 03
Bring the sceptic
Invite the mechanic or quality engineer who thinks this will not work. Their objections are the most useful part of the meeting.
Recommended attendees3–5
Shadow first. Autonomy is earned, not switched on.
Every agent starts by watching. It is promoted only when its measured accuracy clears the mechanic-plus-metrology baseline and the twin agrees.
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Weeks 1–4
Shadow
Agent observes the station, predicts every outcome, actuates nothing. Accuracy measured against what the mechanics actually do.
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Weeks 4–10
Advisory
Agent recommends feed, shim geometry and sequence. A human accepts or rejects; every rejection becomes training data.
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Weeks 10–20
Supervised
Agent actuates with a human in the loop and a live fail-safe stop. Airworthiness-critical dispositions still require sign-off.
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Week 20+
Closed loop
Agent runs the step. Humans handle exceptions and the twin gates any change to the control policy.
| Week | Agent accuracy | Mechanic + metrology baseline |
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| Wk 2 | 88.2% | 94.1% |
| Wk 4 | 91.4% | 94.0% |
| Wk 6 | 93.6% | 94.2% |
| Wk 8 | 95.2% | 94.1% |
| Wk 10 | 96.4% | 94.3% |
| Wk 12 | 97.1% | 94.2% |
| Wk 16 | 97.8% | 94.1% |
| Wk 20 | 98.3% | 94.2% |
| Wk 24 | 98.6% | 94.3% |
Where the money actually comes back
Rivetira is priced on the metric it moves. This is the value stack from a representative 14-station wing-box deployment.
| Value source | Annualised value (USD) |
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| Shim labour removed | $4.9M |
| Rework hours avoided | $3.6M |
| Rate capacity unlocked | $3.1M |
| Scrap & escapes avoided | $2.2M |
| Overtime reduction | $1.4M |
| Inspection labour | $0.9M |
Annualised value
$16.1M
Platform cost
$2.7M
Payback period
2.4 mo
Net revenue retention
136%
▲ +36% increase
Built for programs that cannot leak and cannot fail
Airframe geometry is among the most protected IP in manufacturing, and much of it is export-controlled. Rivetira is architected for that reality from the edge up.
Certified
SOC 2 Type II
Annual audit covering security, availability and confidentiality of the control plane.
Supported
ITAR / EAR aware
US-person access controls, on-prem and air-gapped deployment for controlled programs.
Mapped
AS9100 alignment
Quality records, NCR flow and traceability mapped to aerospace quality requirements.
In progress
ISO 27001
Information security management system certification underway. [PLACEHOLDER: target date]
Data stays where the airframe is
- Factory edge runtime holds all program geometry, imagery and metrology locally
- Air-gapped mode: model updates arrive by signed media, telemetry never leaves
- Per-tenant isolation and per-program cryptographic separation
- Encryption in transit and at rest; customer-managed keys available
Assurance-grade by default
- Immutable audit trail for every agent action, sensor reading and human override
- SSO/SAML, SCIM provisioning and role-based access down to station level
- Fail-safe stop for drills, fasteners, crawlers and cranes at < 40 ms
- Human-in-the-loop mandatory for airworthiness-critical dispositions
What changes on the floor
Plant directors, liaison engineers and airworthiness leads on what autonomy did to their numbers.
“We stopped arguing about whether the gap was 0.4 or 0.6 millimetres. The twin predicted it, the shim came off the machine right, and the join closed in one pass.”
−64% shim hours per join
“The rate ramp was going to cost us four more positions. Instead the line rebalanced itself every shift and we found the capacity inside the stations we already had.”
+38% delivered rate
“Every hole is now inspected, not one in four. My airworthiness record writes itself, and I can hand an auditor a complete trace in ninety seconds.”
100% inspection coverage
Airframes assembled on Rivetira across commercial, defense, business-jet, eVTOL and space-structure programs: 8 factories, 70 assembly stations.
Meridian Aerostructures
Calder Aviation Group
Northvane Defense
Solstice Jets
Helion Air Mobility
Orbital Frame Systems
Assembly autonomy, measured on the line
Every figure below is produced by the same telemetry the agents act on — station cycle, hole quality, gap field, fastener state and conformance. Pilot and design-partner aggregate, trailing 12 months.
Holes drilled under agent control
41.6M
▲ +32% increase
Right-first-time, structural joins
97.9%
▲ +9.1% increase
Shim hours removed per join
68%
▼ -68% decrease
Assembly-line uptime
99.94%
▲ +0.3% increase
Aggregate across design-partner lines. Baselines are the same stations before Rivetira, measured over an equivalent period.
Questions engineers actually ask
Anything else goes to the people who build it. Ask an assembly engineer or read the full FAQ.
Yes. It costs us three weeks of a manufacturing engineer’s time and we do it because it is the only honest way to know whether a deployment will pay back. About two thirds of assessments do not convert, and we say so in the report.
No. Assessment instrumentation is passive — cameras and metrology observation only. Nothing is written to a machine and no process changes are made during the assessment window.
Contact us without any program details and we will arrange a secure channel and, if needed, cleared personnel before any technical discussion. Do not put controlled information in the form above.
Fastest to date is four months from assessment to first closed-loop station. Median is around seven. Air-gapped defense deployments run longer because accreditation, not software, is the long pole.
Every fastener, flawless fit
A line assessment maps one station, quantifies the rework, shim and rate opportunity, and returns a modelled ROI in three weeks. No production disruption.