CornerBeacon is the AI-native technology partner for manufacturers and process operations nationwide. We keep the plant's essential IT foundation solid across plant and office, secure the line and the network, and — the part most IT providers can't touch — digitize the clipboards, binders, and logs that still run on paper. Remote-first, with on-site setups and plant-floor visits available nationwide. We replace the paper, not your stack.
CornerBeacon is an AI-native technology partner, remote-first and serving manufacturers nationwide, founded in Rhode Island. We keep the plant's essential IT foundation solid for the plant and the office, act as your OT security partner for compliance (CMMC, cyber-insurance), and then go further than any typical IT provider by digitizing the paper-based workflows that run an industrial business — operator logs, work orders, compliance reports, custom quoting — with AI built in. One dedicated partner for the IT foundation, security, and automation — remote-first, with on-site setups and plant-floor visits available nationwide.
Before the AI, the basics have to be solid. We keep the plant's essential IT foundation solid and lock down a network that mixes office laptops with PLCs, SCADA, and connected equipment — at a predictable flat monthly rate.
Device setup, patching, and vendor management for servers, networks, and endpoints across plant and office — remote-first, with on-site plant-floor visits available nationwide.
Secure, tested backups and a recovery plan for the systems your production depends on — so a ransomware hit or failed drive doesn't stop the line for days.
We separate operational technology from office IT so a phishing email can't reach the line, secure remote vendor access, and treat both environments as one network.
Endpoint protection, email security, MFA, and security-awareness training as part of the security baseline — problems caught before they become downtime.
Help meeting CMMC for defense and supply-chain work, plus the controls your cyber-insurance carrier now requires — mapped, documented, and audit-ready.
Remote-first and serving manufacturers nationwide. Real people who answer fast, with on-site setups and plant-floor visits available when a job needs hands on the hardware — not an anonymous ticket queue.
Big software handled accounting and maybe production scheduling. Everything else — the daily reality of running the place — still happens on paper, in spreadsheets, and in the heads of the people who've been there 20 years.
Operators write readings on paper rounds, then someone keys them into a spreadsheet days later — if at all. Trends and warning signs vanish into a binder no one reads.
Discharge reports, QA records, and audit packets get assembled by hand from paper logs the night before they're due. One transcription error is a finding.
How a system was designed, why a setpoint is what it is, what fixed that recurring fault — it's all in a senior tech's memory. When they retire, it leaves with them.
This is the layer almost no IT provider can deliver. We start by replacing the paper, because clean digital data is what makes AI useful — then we turn that data into time saved and problems caught early.
Tablet and phone forms for readings, production counts, QA checks, and shift handoffs — with photos, timestamps, and required-field validation so nothing gets skipped.
Regulatory, environmental, and QA reports generated from the logged data on a schedule — formatted, complete, and audit-ready, with the numbers traceable to the entry that produced them.
An AI assistant trained on your O&M manuals, SOPs, drawings, and past jobs that answers "how do we service this?" or "what's the spec for that model?" in seconds.
AI watches your own log and sensor trends and flags the pump, membrane, or motor drifting toward failure — so you fix it on a Tuesday instead of at 2am.
For custom and engineered-to-order work, AI drafts proposals and quotes from your spec sheets and past projects, so estimates go out in hours, not weeks.
Dispatch, mobile work orders, service histories, and customer-ready service reports for the techs who install and maintain equipment in the field.
Water/wastewater treatment, filtration, and engineered systems builders.
Metal fab, machine shops, contract manufacturing.
Food & beverage, plastics, chemical, and packaging plants.
Yes. CornerBeacon is an AI-native technology partner, and we keep the plant's essential IT foundation solid for both the plant floor and the front office at a flat monthly rate: device setup, patching, backup and disaster recovery, and vendor management. We support the office network, the people who run the lines, and the systems in between — remote-first, with on-site setups and plant-floor visits available nationwide.
Yes. Manufacturing networks mix office IT with operational technology — PLCs, SCADA, HMIs, and connected equipment that can't be patched like a laptop. We segment OT from IT so a phishing email on the office side can't reach the line, secure remote vendor access, and help you meet cyber-insurance and CMMC requirements.
Yes — this is our differentiator. We move operator rounds, production and QA logs, work orders, and maintenance checklists onto simple mobile and tablet forms, then layer AI on top: flagging out-of-range readings, drafting compliance and shift reports, answering questions from your O&M manuals and drawings, and predicting which equipment needs attention before it fails. We replace the paper, not your ERP or MES.
Yes. We help defense and supply-chain manufacturers work toward CMMC, and we map your environment to the controls cyber-insurance carriers now require — MFA, endpoint detection and response, secure backups, segmentation, and security-awareness training. Digital, timestamped records also make audits and regulatory reporting far easier than paper in a filing cabinet.
Book a free 30-minute build consult. We'll review your IT foundation and OT security, flag the compliance gaps, and show you the paper workflow worth digitizing first — even if you never hire us.
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