May 2025

The summer has started and people are playing it loose. Not the team at Authentise: We just got together for the quarterly All Hands (40% in person!!). It’s always a little surprise to me how much repetition of our vision and mission exists at these, but this time it’s clearer than ever: We’re a workflow software company for engineering and manufacturing that helps reduce the time it takes to turn ideas into parts and products.

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The question of whether our company name is still relevant given that mission has come up more than once. The name harks back to an era where we primarily focused on securing those designs to the machine. Our mission now is different. But if anything, the recent changes we’ve made emphasise that Authoritization and Authority still matters to us:

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1. Virtual Travelers for Service ProvidersNow you can bring your Service Providers directly into the loop. Share the same Virtual Travelers you use internally so they can log conformance reports, measurements, and other critical data straight into your part’s digital thread. No more chasing emails or rekeying PDFs. Plus, you get a chance to be crystal clear about what you expect—helping them help you make the best part possible.

2. Material Management – Fix Powder Mistakes (Fast)

Mistakes happen—now they’re easier to fix. Managers can now override or undo powder transactions if someone fat-fingers a batch entry or logs the wrong data. You can clean things up days later, or—better yet—operators can undo recent actions instantly, avoiding the need to escalate at all. More control, less mess.

3. Internationalization + Smarter Location ControlsAs more teams across regions get into Flows, we’re strengthening our Location-based access tools. Users now get full platform functionality but only see the data they’re meant to. It’s a step toward supporting more international use—and we’re already seeing some exciting applications.

While the team is busy adding additional features, I’ve been slowly putting together a team to support our next endeavor: a backend gathering engine to collect, categorize and understand implied permissions of all your data. This could be used to provide automated updated gantt charts for your projects, complete templated reports and more on a project specific basis. In the long term we’re capturing all the intent that is needed when reverse engineering parts. Read more about our Whisper plans here.

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What’s most exciting about this project is that we’re delivering it in a completely new way. We’re starting with a bunch of organizations that understand what we’re trying to do, want to be part of it and learn from other organizations grappling with AI in engineering and manufacturing they way they are. If you want to be part of that group, there are only a few weeks to sign up. Contact me now!! 

Excited about what’s to come and the amazing team I get to do it with. Thanks as always for your support.