Design partner program is open
Hootleash

Industries · Manufacturing & supply chain

Autonomous shop floors, supplier agents, and quality bots - all on a leash.

From robotic process orchestration on the line to AI-driven supplier scoring across continents, Hootleash is being designed to give operations leaders the boundary, the dollarized risk model, and the kill-switch for every autonomous step.

Where we're focused

Autonomous workflows we want to govern first in manufacturing & supply chain.

The first release of Hootleash is being engineered around a deliberately narrow set of high-risk autonomous workflows - chosen with our design partners.

Autonomous MES & OT

Constrain AI-driven setpoints, recipe changes, and PLC writes with default-deny zones and dollarized rework consequence.

Supplier orchestration

Govern autonomous PO routing, contract triggers, and counterparty scoring against your sanctions, ESG, and financial-health policies.

Inventory & replenishment

Throttle and reroute autonomous replenishment agents when forecast confidence drops below threshold.

Edge AI on the line

Govern vision QA and predictive-maintenance agents at the edge with low-latency, hardware-isolated enforcement nodes.

Safety-critical bypass prevention

Hard-coded boundaries no LLM-authored recipe change can override. Audit-grade reversal evidence.

Maintenance agents

Approve, reroute, or block autonomous work-order generation by criticality, location, and labor-cost envelope.

Regulations & frameworks

Built against the standards your auditors live in.

IEC 62443

Industrial cybersecurity

Designed against zones, conduits, and SR profiles.

ISA/IEC 62264

Enterprise-control integration

L0–L4 inventory and policy inheritance.

NIST AI RMF

Manufacturing profile

Drift, safety, and reliability metrics, continuously.

EU AI Act

High-risk industrial AI

Annex III obligations cross-walked to your QMS.

ISO 9001 / IATF 16949

Quality management

Closed-loop quality evidence with autonomous corrective actions.

CTPAT / AEO

Supply-chain security

Continuous evidence templates for trusted-trader programs.

Design partner program

Want to shape how Hootleash works in manufacturing & supply chain?

We're working with a small cohort of design partners through 2026 - risk, security, and AI leaders willing to trade input for influence over the first release. If that's you, get in touch.

  • Co-design hardware-isolated kill paths for safety-critical workflows
  • Working drafts of evidence templates for IEC 62443 and ISO 9001
  • Input on the v1 OT enforcement protocol
  • Early access to the edge runtime when it ships

Ready when you are

Put your manufacturing & supply chain autonomous workflows on a leash, before everyone else does.

We're building Hootleash in private design partnership with a small number of regulated enterprises. If you run autonomous AI in production, get in touch.

Pre-launch · design partner program open · early access 2026