AI Assistant

A freeze-dry assistant that actually knows freeze-drying.

Ask any question about cycles, temperatures, moisture, machines or business ops — and get grounded answers cited to the academy knowledge base.

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How it works

Simple, and built for daily use.

1

Ask in plain English

Type "my strawberries came out chewy — what temp should I be running?" and hit enter. No prompt engineering required.

2

Grounded reasoning

The assistant retrieves relevant lessons, cycle data, and calculator formulas — then answers using them, with the source pinned to the reply.

3

Take action

Follow the citation to read the full lesson, or one-click into the calculator with the assistant's numbers pre-filled.

What's inside

Every part earns its keep.

Multi-turn memory

Ask follow-ups and it remembers the machine you told it about, the product you're running, and the batch numbers you shared earlier.

Cited every answer

No made-up "as an AI language model" — every claim links back to a specific lesson, calculator or forum thread.

Cycle troubleshooting

Describe the symptom (foamy, chewy, crystallized, undried center) and it walks you through the likely cause + how to fix it next batch.

Time-saving playbooks

Ask for a "starter cycle for chicken thighs on a mid-size home freeze dryer" and get a full temperature, pressure and time recipe tuned to your machine size — no brand names required, the assistant supports every home and commercial size on the market.

Search across the KB

Even when you ask a question we haven't covered, it searches every course, every forum reply, and every calculator note in one shot.

Safe by default

Refuses to make up cycles for food it doesn't have data on. Would rather say "I don't know" than invent numbers.

Who it's for

Built for real operators.

Anyone stuck at 2am

Machine started making a weird noise mid-cycle? Ask right now — no need to wait for a Facebook group to reply.

Recipe developers

Trying a new product for the first time? Get a starter cycle grounded in the closest published lesson, then iterate.

Curious learners

Perfect way to poke at the science without reading 4 whitepapers — ask "why does secondary drying need to be so long?" and get the physics in a paragraph.

FAQs

Common questions.

Which AI model powers the assistant?

A frontier-class model (GPT / Claude / Gemini switchable) wrapped with a retrieval layer that pulls from our lessons and cycle library first, so answers are grounded in freeze-dry reality — not the general internet.

Is my data private?

Yes. Conversations aren't used to train external models. Only you (and admins for support purposes) can see your chat history.

Can it read my saved batches?

If you're signed in and grant access, yes — you can say "look at my last batch of tomatoes and tell me why the yield was low" and it'll pull the batch record.

Does it work on my phone?

Yes — the app is a Progressive Web App (a website that installs like a real mobile app when you tap "Add to Home Screen"), so it works exactly like a native chat app right beside your machine, even without opening a browser.

Related tools

Pair it with the rest of the platform.

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