Straight answers,including theunflattering ones.
Everything fabricators ask us, answered without hedging — including where the company is genuinely early and what we cannot yet prove.
How it works
The questions a welding or process engineer asks in the first ten minutes.
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No. Weldeon takes the passes that are repeatable, hazardous and rate-constrained, and gives your welders and fitters the harder, higher-value work: procedure development, fit-up judgement, repair welding and supervision of more cells per person. Shops adopt Weldeon because they cannot hire enough welders, not because they want fewer.
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Enough repeat volume on one cell or line to show ROI; existing robotic welding or cutting equipment with controller access; some inspection capability — X-ray, ultrasonic or vision; and an MES or weld-data system with an API. An executive mandate to raise yield or cut rework matters as much as the equipment.
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Weldeon operates inside your qualified WPS envelope, not around it. Parameters are bounded by the qualified range, every deviation is logged, and the platform produces the weld genealogy record your quality engineer needs for AWS D1.1, ASME BPVC, ISO 3834 or EN 1090 review.
Authority and safety
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Within a qualified WPS envelope: travel speed, wire feed, current and voltage, weave, pass placement and count, robot approach and motion, and weld sequence. Outside that envelope: nothing, ever.
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Your quality system remains your quality system. Weldeon is an instrument inside it, and the genealogy record is designed to make responsibility clear rather than blurred: every parameter, deviation, indication and acceptance is attributable to a person, a policy or a model version.
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The platform recognises the joint is novel, drops to advisory, and requests a supervised run. New geometry is added to the twin before it is welded autonomously.
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You can stop it, revert a cell to your prior control method, or restrict its authority at any time. What you cannot do is push a parameter outside a qualified range — that is a procedure decision, made in the procedure system.
Getting it running
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About two weeks for a single-cell pilot: one week physical and network, one week envelopes, roles and baseline. The usual cause of overrun is controller access approvals, which is why we start those before kick-off.
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Often one or two. Most cells need a seam tracker or a camera added; NDT and power-source data usually already exist. The integration checklist tells you exactly what is missing before you commit.
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Yes. Shadow mode runs read-only alongside current operation for as long as you want, logging the decisions it would have made so the comparison is yours to judge.
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If a controller cannot expose a safe write path, Weldeon runs in advisory and inspection modes on that cell — still valuable, and honest about the limit.
Pricing and contracts
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A typical pilot runs eight to twelve weeks: two weeks of integration and baselining, six to ten weeks of supervised autonomy on one cell or line, then a scorecard review against pre-agreed first-pass-yield, rework and defect-escape targets.
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The Cell plan is $15,000 per welding or cutting cell or line per month. Factory is $95,000 per month for the whole shop. Enterprise is custom, typically landing between $700k and $9M ACV across multiple sites.
Data and access
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Not unless you enable it. The control loop is local and works air-gapped. Cloud sync is opt-in per site and per data class.
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Not yet, and we will not imply otherwise. Both are on the roadmap; today we share our architecture note, control descriptions and questionnaire responses under NDA.
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For your sites, yes — that is how the platform improves for you. For other customers, not without a written agreement. Fleet learning is a separate, opt-in decision.
Where Weldeon actually is
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Customer and revenue status is not public. We are recruiting three to five design partners for paid pilots now, and we disclose partner status under NDA rather than implying logos we have not earned.
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Application status is [ASPIRATIONAL]. Weldeon fits the profile — an independent, pre-IPO startup building original AI-native technology — but we do not claim membership we have not completed.
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Founder and team detail is shared directly in conversation and in diligence materials while the company is early.
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Funding status is not published. Investors can request the data room directly.
The questions that need a conversation
Some questions genuinely cannot be answered on a web page: whether your specific joints are in distribution for our models, whether your controller exposes a safe write path, and whether the station you have in mind is the right wedge.
Those take a shop tour and an hour with your welding and quality engineers. We will tell you plainly if the answer is no — an unsuitable pilot costs us more than it costs you.
If you are evaluating several vendors, the resources page has the questions we think you should ask all of us, including the ones that are inconvenient for Weldeon.
Where else to look
Most detailed questions have a page.
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Platform and architecture
How perception, reasoning and control fit together, and where each runs. See /platform.
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The eight agents
What each agent controls and the number it is measured on. See /ai-agents.
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Security posture
Air-gapped operation, bounded authority, roles and data handling. See /security.
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Pricing and packaging
Cell, Factory and Enterprise, and how expansion is priced. See /pricing.
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Pilot methodology
How a pilot is scoped, baselined and reviewed. See /case-studies.
Our disclosure rules
Plain
no certification or customer claim before it is true
Labelled
[ASPIRATIONAL] and [UNKNOWN] marked where status is not settled
Defined
every metric claim accompanied by its measurement definition
Open
misses reported alongside hits in every pilot review
“An unsuitable pilot costs us more than it costs you. We will say so.”
Bring autonomy to thearc, the fit-up andthe inspection bay.
Book a pilot on one cell or line. We agree the scorecard before we start — first-pass yield, rework hours, defect escapes, takt — and we report against it in the open.