Manual.to is an official partner of Hackers & Ravers in Ghent on May 30, alongside Google, Anthropic and Soda

Every serious conversation about AI agents eventually hits the same wall.

The model is fine. The reasoning is fine. The blocker is data access. Agents are stuck behind PDFs, screenshots, undocumented processes and tribal knowledge nobody ever wrote down.

On a factory floor, this is even sharper. The most valuable manufacturing knowledge does not live in a database. It lives in the heads of the operators who have been doing the job for fifteen years, in the corrections a supervisor makes on the line, in the workaround nobody bothered to document.

That is exactly the problem Manual.to was built to solve. We turn a short video of a real task into a structured, step-by-step visual manual in about 60 seconds. The output is not only a document for a human. It is a clean, structured layer of execution knowledge that other systems, including AI agents, can read.

That is why we are partnering on Hackers & Ravers on May 30 in Ghent.

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What it is

A 12-hour AI hackathon hosted inside the iconic Wintercircus dome, followed by a rave on the same floor. The event is co-organised by Soda and Wintercircus Gent, supported by Google, Anthropic, Cursor and Lovable, with Manual.to among the partners alongside Aikido, Loop, Tinrate, Scaleup Flanders, Syndicate One, North Star and others.

Teams connect their company data to Soda Straw before the event and use Claude Code, Cursor or any tool they prefer to build AI agents on top of real operational data. The best mixed teams, developers paired with business people, demo to a live jury at 20:00. The dance floor opens at 22:00.

Why this matters for manufacturing teams

Most AI pilots in manufacturing stall at the same point. The connectivity exists. The agent layer exists. The structured knowledge to ground the agent does not. Building work instructions by hand for every variant, every shift, every line, does not scale. Manual.to is the upstream layer that makes the rest of the AI stack actually useful on the shop floor.

We will be on site to share what we have learned working with teams at Barilla, CEVA Logistics, Lonza, Aperam, Procter & Gamble, ABB, DuPont, G4S, Cytiva, Puratos and Bekaert Deslee. If you are exploring how to make agents work on real factory operations, find us at the Wintercircus.

Practical

Applications and details on the event page.