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Metis

Internal-knowledge search and Q&A platform for small/mid businesses. Your team accumulates documents over years — equipment manuals, prior projects, SOPs, vendor contracts, change orders, safety procedures, codes — and Metis lets them ask questions of that accumulated documentation in plain English, with the source document quoted in every answer.

Live at https://metis-demo.base2ml.com/?view=pilotforge.

What Metis does

Ask a question. Get an answer with the source quoted.

Q: What's the start-up procedure for the chiller at Hill Crest?
A: [Source: HillCrest_O&M_Manual_2023.pdf, p.47]
   "Open shutoff valves V-1 through V-4, verify reservoir level
   60-75%, set controller to AUTO, allow 4-minute warm-up cycle
   before enabling chilled-water pump..."

Three properties:

  1. Every answer cites a verbatim quote from one of your documents. If the answer isn't in your documents, Metis says so — it doesn't make one up.
  2. Your documents stay yours. Stored in your firm's isolated AWS S3 bucket. Encrypted. The underlying AI models don't train on your data.
  3. Your team learns from itself. Estimators, PMs, field techs, ops leads all query the same accumulated knowledge — your institutional memory becomes searchable.

Who Metis fits

Companies that:

  • Have 50–2,000 employees and lots of accumulated documentation
  • Run operations-heavy work (contracting, manufacturing, services, distribution, professional services)
  • Lose meaningful time to "where's that document?" / "how did we do this last time?" / "what did we promise on the {project} job?"
  • Have field or distributed teams who need answers fast and can't always reach senior staff

Industries that fit naturally: mechanical / electrical / HVAC contracting, specialty trades, manufacturing operations, fleet maintenance, building operations, technical services, professional-services firms.

Get started

  • SMB one-pager — for prospects
  • Pilot agreement — 60–90 day free pilot; the template is provided directly when a pilot is scoped
  • End-user guide — for users once a pilot is live
  • Data sources — what we connect to (drag-drop, CSV, OAuth connectors on request, watched-folder sync script)

Why "Metis" + "AuditForge" share an engine

Metis is the original document-Q&A platform. AuditForge is a specialized application of the same underlying reasoning engine: AuditForge wraps the Q&A platform in an audit-finding generator (consolidation, adversarial verification, white-label deliverable export, chain-of-custody freeze) for audit firms. The Metis use case is simpler: search and ask questions, not produce audit findings.

Customers using Metis get the document Q&A capabilities without the audit-specific overhead. Customers using AuditForge get the full audit workflow on top of the same engine.

Pricing

  • Pilot: free for 60–90 days, validating the product on a real SMB corpus
  • Basic: $400/month — single corpus, up to 10 users
  • Standard: $800/month — single corpus, unlimited users, monthly corpus refreshes
  • Annual: $7,200/year ($600/month effective) — Standard features paid up-front

Month-to-month cancellation after pilot. No multi-year lock-in.

See the SMB one-pager for the full pricing breakdown.

Honest disclosure

  • No paying SMB customer yet. Metis has been used internally and as part of AuditForge — the SMB use case is what we're validating with the first 1–2 customers
  • No SOC 2 / pen test / E&O insurance. Substantive controls in place; auditor-signed reports are on the post-revenue roadmap
  • One-person operation today. Founder responds to engagement-level questions within business hours
  • Founded 2026, Pittsburgh PA. Bootstrap, no outside capital

If first-customer status is a disqualifier for you, the right answer is "let's revisit in 6 months." If you'd rather be early with favorable terms and direct founder attention, we should talk.

What we connect to

See data sources. Short version:

  • Drag-and-drop + CSV bulk import — available out of the box
  • Google Drive / SharePoint / OneDrive / Box / Dropbox — connectors built on request, scoped to your environment
  • CMMS systems (ServiceTitan, Maintenance Connection, eMaint, Limble, etc.) — scoped per customer
  • Watched-folder sync script — quick-start option, runs on one machine, works with any folder

Contact

chris@base2ml.com with a one-sentence description of what your team currently struggles to find. We'll book a 30-minute call.