AI Field
Intelligence Stack
Detect faults with AI, verify field installations with patented hardware, and upskill the team behind the tools, all under SkillsBase.
Trusted by teams building critical infrastructure
The field-inspection stack, end to end
AI that sees, hardware that measures, and training that proves competence. Each strong alone, unstoppable together.
Build your own inspection AI. No code.
Forge turns your best inspectors' judgement into a computer-vision model. Label a handful of examples, train in the browser, and put it on any phone in the field. No data scientists required.
- Label your own faults: pass, fail and everything between
- Train custom models in minutes, right in the browser
- Deploy to any smartphone camera on site
- Every check logged and audit-ready
Find fibre splice faults in real time.
Kanoptic's patented Splice Fault Detector reads splice quality on live fibre in seconds, on site. Catch a bad splice before it becomes a truck roll, backed by app and cloud analytics.
- Real-time readings on live fibre
- Patented infrared detection technology
- App-connected with cloud analytics
- Red Dot Award-winning design
Skill the workforce behind the tools.
The SkillsBase app keeps field engineers current with interactive training, on-the-job practical assessments and instant feedback that proves competence. Used by teams at Openreach and beyond.
- App-based training that adapts to the role
- Practical assessments graded on site
- Real-time feedback and completion tracking
One AI field intelligence stack, from first day to final sign-off
Skill your people, catch faults where they happen, and prove every job: a single loop that keeps quality high and truck rolls low.
Skill
Engineers train and prove competence before they ever touch the network.
Detect
In the field, patented hardware catches fibre faults the moment they happen.
Prove
AI vision verifies and logs every job, so quality is auditable end to end.
Recognised where the work is real
Red Dot AwardWinner for the Splice Fault Detector design
ISO 27001:2022Certified information security
Patented technologyKanoptic's infrared splice detection
Connected Britain2025 Industrial Innovation finalistSee how Openreach, BT and PQMS work with SkillsBase. Read the customer stories.
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