Operator know-how that flows like electricity.
Capture operator expertise on a smartphone. AI turns it into multilingual, step-by-step work instructions. A QR code puts it in every operator’s hand, in their language, at the moment they need it.
Trusted by Barilla, Aperam, Lonza, P&G, ABB, CEVA
Trusted by 100,000+ people worldwide
From a 60-second phone clip to a guide on the machine, in one shift.
Capture
Film the expert.
AI generates
Multilingual, in minutes.
Distribute
Where the work happens.
Improve
Closed-loop feedback.
Your most valuable industrial asset is the one you can’t find when you need it.
Industrial operators spend roughly 30% of their working time looking for information. The cost compounds across three failure modes every plant manager recognises.
Knowledge disappears with people.
Of the European industrial workforce reaches retirement age by 2030. Each departure takes 15 to 25 years of operational expertise with it. None of it survives in a paper SOP.
Onboarding costs spiral.
New operators need months to reach productivity. Trainers get stretched. In multilingual sites, professional translation is slow, resource-intensive, and does not scale across hundreds of SOPs and dozens of plants.
Compliance is a guessing game.
ISO 9001:2026, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, IATF 16949. None of them tolerate the gap between what’s written and what’s done on the floor.
Knowledge should flow like electricity.
In every modern factory, electricity flows where it’s needed, when it’s needed, without anyone questioning it. Knowledge should work the same way. Capture it once at the source, then deliver it into the exact tools your teams already use. Manual.to plugs into your environment. It does not replace it.
The expert’s 60-second clip.
15 years of muscle memory, settings and diagnostic instinct, captured once and structured by AI.
On the machine
A QR code on the workstation opens the right step on any device, in the operator’s language.
On any phone
Mobile-first guides in 200+ languages, accessible anywhere, anytime.
Inside your MES
The instruction shows up right in Siemens Opcenter, Rockwell FactoryTalk or Aveva. We connect to your systems, we do not replace them.
In SharePoint, SAP & Teams
Embedded in the tools your teams already open every day. No new software to learn.
The numbers are not incremental. They are categorical.
Operators capable of complex tasks went from 1% to 80%.
“In the past, only 1% of workers could do complex tasks. Now 80% can.” The bottleneck of relying on a handful of specialists disappeared. The entire workforce became capable of executing procedures that previously required senior operators only.
Most digital transformations fail at the same point. We inverted the logic.
The expert films what they already do. The technology adapts to the operator, not the reverse. Three properties make the difference.
No technical skills required. If you can hold a smartphone, you can create a Manual.to guide.
Sixty seconds of video becomes a usable instruction. What used to take a documentation team three weeks now takes one shift.
Operators rate, comment, suggest and improve each other’s guides. Not pushed top-down. The platform becomes a peer-to-peer knowledge layer the floor actually wants to use.
Selected by the people who run the world’s largest shop floors.
100+ Accelerator 2026
45 startups selected from nearly 3,000 applicants across 40+ countries. Jury composed of operational leaders from six of the world’s largest consumer-goods groups. Manual.to is the only Belgian company in the cohort.
May 2026 · Top 30
Free Electrons 2026
Top 30 of the world’s largest energy-sector open innovation programme. 7 utilities serving 82M+ customers (CLP, EDP, E.ON, ESB, Hydro-Québec, Origin, PPC).
Dec 2025 · Global winner
Elia Group Open Innovation Challenge
Named global winner of the “People First” 2025 challenge, selected from 238 startups across 41 countries.
2024 · Winner
Barilla Good Food Makers
One of four global winners of Barilla’s food-tech accelerator (with Plug and Play), from ~1,000 applications across 30 countries. Won the Smart Start category.
Built for any shop floor. Used today across these.
Manual.to is industry-agnostic. The platform fits any operation where a procedure, a setting or an instinct lives in someone’s head. Here are some of the industries already on board.
Designed for the floor. Approved in the boardroom. No trade-offs.
An instruction they can follow.
In their language, at the machine, on whatever device they have.
Visibility into what’s used.
Which procedures, by whom, where, and what’s actually working.
Audit trails by default.
Centralised version control, time-stamped logs, role-based access.
Enterprise-grade SaaS.
SSO via Okta, Azure AD or any SAML/OIDC provider. GDPR-ready. Integrations with SharePoint, SAP, MES (Siemens, Rockwell, Aveva) and MS Teams.
From the people running the floor.
In the past, only 1% of workers could do complex tasks. Now 80% can.
People don’t read. They watch. Manual.to speaks every language our workforce needs, without saying a word.
When 50% of our workforce switched to French, we translated over 100 work instructions in days. 300 employees stayed safe and productive without a beat.
Their ability to make training more accessible and effective aligns perfectly with our vision of innovation that places people at the heart of everything we do.
Try Manual.to in your context.
Generate your first manual from a 60-second phone clip. No credit card, no sales call. Or book a 20-minute live walkthrough on a use case that matches your shop floor.
