The knowledge in retiring experts' heads is an agent-memory problem, not a documentation problem. Capture, organize, transfer.
The research
Factories run on knowledge that was never written down, and on systems that never talked to each other. We look at standard protocols between AI and shop-floor systems, and at agents that capture expert knowledge as it happens.
What it changes in practice
The baby-boom cohorts retire through the early 2030s. Whoever has not got that knowledge out by then will not get it at all. Layer 01 starts here.