HonestAI by GrayCyan

GrayCyan is an applied AI firm that builds human-in-the-loop systems for manufacturers, distributors and engineering companies, with a focus on regulated sectors. Founder and CEO Nishkam Batta also edits the HonestAI magazine. The firm lists offices in Wilmington, Delaware, Hartford, Connecticut, and Mississauga, Ontario.

Its services cover AI strategy and readiness assessments, custom AI assistants, workflow and agentic AI systems, predictive monitoring models, RAG for manufacturing knowledge, and data connections between ERP, MES and other plant systems. It also offers custom ERP development and a compliance product, RegOps AI Control, for audit automation and traceability. Target markets include aerospace, food and meat processing, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, cannabis, oil and gas, and automotive, where standards such as AS9100, HACCP, 21 CFR Part 11 and IATF 16949 apply.

Published case studies include middleware for Bottoms Up Beer that automates SKU and bill of materials creation in Fishbowl, and an engineering calculation and proposal report generator for Access Industrial, a fibreglass structures maker. For the foreclosure law site LivingLies, it rebuilt the website and added an AI chatbot trained on the firm's blog archive.