Squint Industrial AI Platform

Squint, Inc. is an industrial AI company based in San Francisco, led by founder and CEO Devin Bhushan. It helps manufacturers and field operators capture tribal knowledge from experienced staff and turn it into procedures that frontline workers can follow, with the aim of lowering downtime and improving quality.

The platform digitizes procedures as video manuals, generates and optimizes work instructions, and offers an assistant for instant troubleshooting at the asset. Industrial agents analyze floor video, for example a lean manufacturing agent that runs time and motion studies and builds Yamazumi charts. Audit trails, certification programs and usage analytics support compliance, and SealCheck scores existing documents in PDF, DOCX or XLSX. It connects to ERP, MES and CMMS systems through an API.

• Knowledge capture: records expert know-how as video manuals and asset records.
• Work instructions: generates and optimizes procedures for frontline tasks.
• Troubleshooting assistant: gives workers instant answers at the machine.
• Lean manufacturing agent: analyzes floor video for time and motion studies and Yamazumi charts.
• Compliance tools: automatic audit trails, certification programs and content analytics.
• SealCheck and integrations: scores existing documents and connects to ERP, MES and CMMS via API.

An FDI electronics plant in Vietnam could record changeover steps by foreign engineers and give local technicians video guidance. A beverage bottler could standardize maintenance procedures across shifts. A power or utility operator could give field crews an assistant for troubleshooting equipment.

Customer results on the site include 10 times faster digitization of procedures at a Fortune Global 50 food and beverage company, a 61% cut in maintenance backlog for a field services firm, 20 million dollars saved at one automotive facility by standardizing changeovers and 76% fewer expert escalations at an energy operator. Video-based guidance shortens onboarding for new staff.

Industrial companies are losing experienced technicians to retirement while hiring less experienced workers. AI that turns video and documents into usable procedures is attracting large funding rounds. Fast-growing manufacturing bases such as Vietnam need ways to transfer know-how from foreign experts to local teams quickly.

Squint is headquartered at 101 2nd Street, San Francisco. It raised a 40 million dollar Series B in August 2025, which press reports valued at 265 million dollars, after earlier rounds backed by Sequoia Capital and Menlo Ventures in 2023. Fast Company named it a Best Workplace for Innovators in 2026.