Apprentice.io

Apprentice, at apprentice.io, is the manufacturing AI company behind the Tempo Manufacturing Cloud, an AI native platform built to run batch based manufacturing for pharmaceutical, biotech, and cell and gene therapy makers. Headquartered in Jersey City, founded in 2014 and led by co-founder and chief executive Angelo Stracquatanio, it has raised about two hundred seven million dollars through a Series C from investors including Insight Partners and ICONIQ Growth, reports growth of more than three times year over year with net customer retention above two hundred percent, and was ranked the top innovator in a recent ABI Research assessment of pharma manufacturing execution software.

Tempo unifies systems that used to live apart, combining manufacturing execution, distributed control, laboratory execution, electronic logs, and work instructions into one cloud across web, mobile, and wearable devices, so global teams and external partners share visibility from preclinical benchtop through commercial supply. Its standalone AI product, A1, ships a suite of purpose built agents, an Operator, Quality, MSAT, Supervisor, Engineering, Maintenance, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing Systems agent, that automate work operators once did by hand. A1 agents and workflows execute across the full manufacturing stack, including ERP, MES, QMS, SCADA, historians, PLCs, IoT, and flat files, connecting point to point or through middleware with webhooks, MQTT, or OPC UA. AI can author procedures from a prompt, convert a PDF into a digital record, simulate a run before it happens, guide execution in suite, and summarize each run with recommendations to improve the next.

Because Apprentice operates in the most heavily regulated industries, the platform is built around good manufacturing practice compliance, batch records, audit readiness, and human review, and A1 is engineered not to invent a new workflow every time it runs. It is delivered as a fault tolerant, geographically redundant cloud rather than with a documented on premise option, runs on its own model stack, and is not a general purpose agent builder or a browser automation tool. For a pharmaceutical or life science manufacturer that wants agents embedded directly in validated shop floor execution, Apprentice is a proven and unusually deep fit; a team outside regulated manufacturing, or one wanting a model flexible horizontal platform, will find it purpose built for the plant.