Establishing voice link
An industrial voice agent for mining. Your crew speaks; work orders, hazards and shift handovers land in the system before they have walked to the next section.
Works through hearing protection, in 95 dB, with gloves on, and underground with no signal.
“Pump two B is leaking oil at the gland, section fourteen.”
“Work order, pump 2B, oil leak at gland, section 14. Confirm?”
The gap
A mine generates enormous amounts of information at the face and captures almost none of it. Not because people are unwilling, but because every interface ever offered to them was built for a quiet room.
01
90 to 100+ dB is routine. Ordinary recognition collapses long before that.
02
Gloves, hearing protection, respirators, sometimes a visor. Typing is not available.
03
Underground there is usually no connectivity at all, for most of a shift.
04
One shift may run Fanakalo, isiZulu, Sesotho, Afrikaans and English, with asset codes on top.
A hazard seen at 09:40, written on paper, typed up at 15:10 by someone who was not there.
The system of record, today
What it captures
Version one does three jobs and refuses everything else. Each produces a typed record, not a paragraph of transcription, because a structured work order is worth something and a wall of text is not.
“Cura, there's loose ground on the hanging wall at fourteen level, I've barred it down.”
Straight into the safety register, timestamped to the moment it was seen rather than the moment someone found time to write it up.
Hazard · Section 14
“Cura, pump two B is leaking oil at the gland, section fourteen.”
Resolved against your own asset register rather than stored as free text, so it lands as a real work order on a real asset with a real history.
Work order · WO 4419
“Cura, handover for night shift, section fourteen. Conveyor three is still down, waiting on a belt...”
Several sentences, one confirmation, one structured handover. Roughly twenty minutes of paperwork, done while walking out.
Handover · Day to night
The interaction
This is the whole product. Every extra second here is a second multiplied by every capture, every crew, every shift, which is why the target is four and not forty.
Artisan
“Cura, pump two B is leaking oil at the gland, section fourteen.”
Cura
“Work order, pump 2B, oil leak at gland, section 14. Confirm?”
Artisan
“Confirm.”
Cura
“Logged. WO four four one nine.”
A button on the headset that works through a glove. No wake word, so the microphone is never open in the background.
The fields it extracted, six words or fewer, with anything it was unsure of flagged rather than hidden.
Confirm, or say it again. Nothing is ever written without a person confirming it first.
Into your system of record with speaker, time and exact words attached. Underground it queues and syncs on surfacing.
Safety
The most important thing Cura does is refuse. An agent that sounds confident about isolation, lock-out or a gas reading and is wrong once has no business underground.
Operator
“Cura, is it safe to isolate the conveyor?”
Cura
“Not mine to answer.
Calling the shift supervisor.”
Refused by a gate that runs ahead of any language model, so it cannot be talked around, and escalated as a real priority notification to a named human rather than simply declined.
Always captured
“There is loose ground in fourteen.”
An observation. This is exactly what Cura is for.
Always refused
“Is the ground safe in fourteen?”
A judgement. Isolation, lock-out, permits, gas, ground conditions and medical are all on this side of the line.
Never negotiable
Over-refusing is a cost we accept.
False authority is not. A missed refusal stops a release, it does not get logged as a bug.
Hardware
The headset does that, and headsets built for this have existed for years. Our job is to certify against them, publish what we measured, and support the ones that work. We do not build hardware and we do not resell it at a markup.
Class 01
Hearing-protection earmuffs with a boom mic, for the mill, the plant and the workshop. The muff does the attenuation, the boom sits inside it.
Class 02
In-ear comms that pick up speech from inside the ear canal, for anyone in a mask or a full-face respirator where a boom mic cannot sit.
Class 03
An industrial Bluetooth headset with a noise-cancelling boom, for surface crews, workshops and supervisors moving between the office and the plant.
We publish the certified list with the measured word error rate for each headset once we have run them on a real site. Until then these are the three classes we are certifying against, not a claim about specific units.
The ecosystem
Cura Connect is one of Industrial Growth Hub's products for South African industry. Each stands on its own. Together they run the operation.
Cura Hub
Industrial CRM and maintenance management. The system of record.
Cura Connect
The voice layer. Capture at the face, hands free, offline first.
Deployment
Cura Connect writes into whatever you already run. If you have no maintenance system at all, it can be the system, and that is not a compromise.
| Mode | Where records go | Best for | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| With Cura Hub | Work orders, hazards and handovers straight into your Cura Hub account. | Operators already running Cura Hub, or taking both together. | At launch |
| On its own | Cura Connect's own record store, with shift reports, exports and a daily digest. | Operations with no maintenance system today. Contract miners, quarries, plant hire. | At launch |
| Into your existing system | Your current CMMS or ERP, through a connector. | Larger operations committed to an incumbent system. | Roadmap |
Cura Hub is Industrial Growth Hub's industrial CRM and maintenance system. Cura Connect is the voice layer on it, which is why the two together need no integration work at all. Neither requires the other.
Where we are
Cura Connect is early. Plenty of companies would put fabricated accuracy figures and invented testimonials on this page. Here is the actual position, so you can decide whether it is worth a conversation.
Built
Architecture, safety model, data schemas and the offline design are specified and reviewed. The demo on this site is real.
In build
Three intents, confirm-then-commit, the offline queue and writeback into Cura Hub. This is current work.
Next
One section at one operation, with accuracy measured on site at real noise with PPE on. We are looking for that first site now.
Later
Capture across every language a shift actually speaks. The hardest part, and the one worth doing properly rather than early.
We have no accuracy percentage to quote you, because the only number that would mean anything is one measured on your site, in your noise, with your crews and your equipment names. Any vendor quoting you a word error rate from a quiet office is quoting you a number about their office. Getting a real one takes two days on site, and that is what we would like to do first.
Questions
Next step
We bring a certified headset and a recorder to one section, capture real utterances from real crews at real noise, and measure what the accuracy actually is. You get the numbers whether or not you go further, and no one has to sign anything to start.