Authentise launches Whisper AI for engineering and manufacturing
Authentise, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, has announced the launch of Whisper, a new AI platform designed to capture, understand, and act on engineering intent across the entire idea-to-part lifecycle. Authentise describes Whisper as an “agentic AI backbone” intended to connect fragmented engineering knowledge and turn it into governed, real-time action inside existing enterprise systems.
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“Engineering intent is the missing layer in digital transformation,” said Andre Wegner, CEO of Authentise. “We’ve spent 14 years helping companies digitise workflows. Whisper is the next step. It doesn’t ask engineers to change how they work. It listens, understands, and acts.”
While the long-term value comes from capturing engineering intent, Authentise states that Whisper can deliver immediate gains in compliance, coordination and execution.
Rob Weighill, Group Systems Architect at Prototal Group, stated, “As part of the steering committee, we pushed hard on one thing: this had to work in the real world, not just in theory.”
“In a high-throughput environment, the challenge is keeping projects moving across teams. Seeing Whisper come together has been genuinely exciting because it doesn’t just surface insights, it takes action directly in the tools our teams already use,” Weighill continued.
Whisper captures engineering activity as it happens across tools like Slack or Teams, email, meetings, and enterprise systems. It structures that data, applies context and permissions, and acts on it directly within existing workflows. This reportedly results in earlier risk detection, real-time compliance checks, automated updates across ERP, PLM, and QMS systems, and full provenance and audit trails tied to parts and projects.
Authentise built Whisper after encountering resistance to new tools, even when they delivered value. The company reportedly found that the problem is not capability; it is inertia.
Wegner added, “Everyone already has tools. No one wants another interface.”
Whisper is not a single application but a foundation for building intelligent engineering workflows with the intention of enabling real-time compliance monitoring, project health detection, and automatic updates across enterprise systems, all driven by configurable agents operating in the background.
Example use cases include:
- Automated compliance monitoring against internal and external standards
- Live project health detection and alerts
- Real-time generation of technical documentation
- Updating task lists, PLM records, and ERP data automatically
- Detecting IP leakage or duplication through digital fingerprinting
Many of these already exist; others can be built by end-users or their partners. Authentise also states that each of these is powered by configurable “effectors” that act on insights generated by Whisper’s AI core.
Authentise states that Whisper is released as source-available and that initial access requires a low upfront commitment, with full costs incurred only once value has been proven.
