An AI engineering studio

Precision for the work that matters. Funded by the waste we eliminate.

Zyno Engineering operates as an external technical strike team, designing and hosting custom automation tools that eliminate manual bottlenecks within your daily operations. We absorb 100% of the upfront development risk, meaning clients pay absolutely nothing for the software build or deployment. Instead, our ongoing partnership is funded entirely by your success; we simply bill a 50% split of the cost of the guaranteed labor hours liberated by our solutions.

01 — Work

Thirteen tools and platforms, shipped, in use, evolving.

Platform / Decision Support

PRISM

A unified decision surface for the Space Force's science and technology enterprise.

PRISM consolidates a fragmented S&T ecosystem into a single secure knowledge graph and surfaces it through role-tailored dashboards and LLM-powered analysis.

Built for USSF Task Force Futures, the platform preserves institutional memory across personnel rotations — the kind of continuity that's typically lost every PCS cycle.

Key capabilities
  • Unified knowledge graph across S&T data sources
  • Role-tailored dashboards for leaders and analysts
  • LLM-powered analysis and natural-language query
  • Secure, modular architecture
  • Institutional memory preservation
Built for

USSF Task Force Futures

Platform / Proposal Intelligence

SCOPE

End-to-end proposal intelligence for government contracting.

SCOPE compresses the federal proposal lifecycle — from raw opportunity discovery to a finished, exportable package — into a single coherent workflow.

Live SAM.gov data feeds AI-driven company matching, strategic ideation, and automated drafting through five sequential modules that mirror the contracting lifecycle.

Key capabilities
  • Live opportunity feed from SAM.gov
  • AI-powered company & capability matching
  • Strategic idea generation
  • Automated proposal drafting
  • Built-in evaluation and red-team review
Built for

Government contractors & primes

Platform / Reinforcement Learning

EYE

A reinforcement-learning environment for military logistics.

The Enhanced Yield Environment is a Gymnasium-compatible RL simulator for airlift operations, supply chain management, and adversarial-threat modeling in realistic geospatial scenarios.

EYE supports MaskablePPO action filtering, integrates with Stable Baselines3, and ships with a Streamlit interface for scenario editing, training, and analysis — plus heuristic baselines, multi-agent support, and full audit logging.

Key capabilities
  • Gymnasium-compatible environment
  • MaskablePPO action filtering & SB3 integration
  • Database-backed scenario editor
  • Multi-agent reinforcement learning
  • Haversine geography, fuel, runway damage, threat zones
  • Decision analytics & audit logging
Built for

Logistics planners & RL researchers

Tool / Healthcare Intelligence

LUMEN

A privacy-first healthcare claim assistant and coverage advisor — zero backend, zero cloud.

LUMEN is a fully local RAG pipeline that parses insurance policy PDFs, indexes them into an on-device vector store, and answers natural-language coverage questions with exact policy citations — no network calls required.

Built with @xenova/transformers (MiniLM ONNX embeddings), hnswlib-node (local vector index), and a rule-based cost engine, LUMEN demonstrates that healthcare AI can be both genuinely useful and rigorously private.

Key capabilities
  • Natural-language policy Q&A against local PDF documents
  • Scenario cost calculator with copay, deductible & coinsurance math
  • Insurance jargon translator with inline tooltips
  • Smart document classifier (EOB, Medical Bill, Policy Summary)
  • Zero network calls — all processing runs on-device
Built for

Patients & healthcare consumers

Tool / Wargame Simulator

PARALLAX

Modular hex-based wargame simulator for modeling units, logistics, and operational environments.

PARALLAX is a browser-native hex wargame engine with flat-top axial coordinates, A* pathfinding, supply network simulation, and Fog of War. Model Blue and Red force compositions, unit propulsion types, and terrain cost functions — then play turns in real time.

Built with pure Canvas 2D, no dependencies. Unit templates, combat resolution, and logistics phases run entirely in the browser. Export custom unit specs as JSON for external use.

Key capabilities
  • 30×20 hex map with 6 terrain types and elevation
  • A* pathfinding with terrain-aware movement costs
  • Fog of War with per-faction visibility tracking
  • Supply network simulation with carrier distribution
  • Custom unit builder with JSON export
Built for

Defense analysts & wargame designers

Launch Simulator →
Tool / Accounts Payable

REFLECT

Three-way AP reconciliation that flags every discrepancy before you authorize payment.

REFLECT is an AI-powered accounts payable reconciliation engine. Upload a Supplier Invoice, Purchase Order, and Warehouse Receiving Ticket — Gemini 2.5 Flash cross-references all three and flags every pricing and quantity discrepancy before payment is authorized.

Semantic matching handles naming convention differences across documents — "Widget-A" still reconciles against "W-A Blue" — and the output is a structured discrepancy report ready to copy into any AP workflow. No data is stored after analysis.

Key capabilities
  • Three-way Invoice × PO × Receiving Ticket match
  • Semantic item matching across naming conventions
  • Price mismatch and quantity mismatch detection
  • Missing and unverifiable line-item flagging
  • Exportable discrepancy report
Built for

Accounts payable teams & procurement managers

Open REFLECT →
Tool / Construction Operations

ETCH

Voice-to-structured daily site log, delivered to your client's inbox in under two minutes.

ETCH is a mobile-first construction log automator. Speak your daily site notes into a 60-second recording and Gemini 2.5 Flash structures them into a formal log — work accomplished, subcontractors and labor, delays, safety issues — with automatically fetched weather conditions baked in.

Designed for the field, not the office. The log is reviewed, edited if needed, and dispatched via your email client in three taps. Drafts persist across sessions so nothing is lost if a call interrupts mid-entry.

Key capabilities
  • Browser-native speech-to-text transcription
  • AI structuring into formal log sections
  • Auto-fetched weather from GPS coordinates
  • Editable review phase before dispatch
  • Draft persistence across sessions
Built for

General contractors & site supervisors

Open ETCH →
Tool / Construction Intelligence

ILLUMINATE

Extract scope, insurance minimums, material specs, and deadlines from any bid package.

ILLUMINATE is an RFP and bid package analyzer for construction contractors. Upload a PDF bid package — even 200+ pages — and Gemini 2.5 Flash extracts the scope of work, insurance and bond requirements, material specifications, and every critical deadline in seconds.

Conflicting clauses are surfaced automatically for review before bid submission. The full analysis is copyable in a single click, structured to drop directly into an estimating workflow.

Key capabilities
  • Scope-of-work extraction from complex bid packages
  • Insurance minimums and bond type identification
  • Material brand, grade, and ASTM spec extraction
  • Critical deadline detection (bid, prequalification, completion)
  • Conflicting clause flagging for legal review
Built for

General contractors & estimators

Open ILLUMINATE →
Tool / Manufacturing

SHINE

Instant material cost estimates from engineering drawings, without the spreadsheet.

SHINE is an AI-powered quoting engine for machine shops, fabricators, and engineers. Upload a part drawing — PDF or image — and Gemini 2.5 Flash extracts the part name, material specification, and dimensions, then calculates a live material cost estimate with scrap allowance and overhead.

Pricing is pulled from a live material database covering carbon steels, stainless, aluminum, titanium, plastics, and composites. Every extracted field is editable before the quote is copied — the AI does the reading, but you retain control of the numbers.

Key capabilities
  • Dimension and material spec extraction from drawings
  • Live pricing across metals, plastics, and composites
  • Scrap allowance and overhead calculation
  • Editable fields before quote output
  • Supports PDF, JPG, PNG, and WebP
Built for

Machine shops, fabricators & engineers

Open SHINE →
Tool / Freight Operations

REFRACT

Calculate detention pay and generate a professional billing email in minutes.

REFRACT is a detention billing tool for truck drivers and owner-operators. Log arrival and departure times, optionally photograph the dock receipt for AI verification, and REFRACT calculates your billable detention hours against a configurable free-time window and hourly rate.

The output is a professional detention invoice email — load number, carrier details, timing breakdown, and calculated amount preloaded — ready to send directly to your broker.

Key capabilities
  • Arrival and departure time logging
  • Automatic free-time window calculation
  • Dock receipt photo verification via AI
  • Configurable hourly rate and free-time threshold
  • Professional invoice email generation
Built for

Truck drivers & owner-operators

Open REFRACT →
Tool / Freight Operations

LIGHTSPEED

Parse rate confirmations from any broker PDF and push structured load data to your TMS in one click.

LIGHTSPEED is an AI-powered rate confirmation parser for freight carriers and owner-operators. Drop a broker PDF and Gemini 2.5 Flash extracts all key load data — broker, load number, rate, weight, pickup, delivery, and critical dates — instantly, regardless of the broker's format.

Each extracted field is editable before submission. A configurable TMS endpoint receives the structured payload in one click, eliminating the copy-paste errors and manual entry that cost carriers time on every load.

Key capabilities
  • Works with any broker PDF rate confirmation format
  • Extracts broker, load #, rate, weight, pickup & delivery
  • Editable field review before submission
  • One-click TMS push via configurable endpoint
  • Ephemeral processing — no stored data
Built for

Freight carriers & owner-operators

Open LIGHTSPEED →
Platform / Simulation

OBSERVER

A real-time world simulator driven by configurable ecology, season cycles, and LLM-generated events.

OBSERVER is a live world simulator that models population dynamics, ecological systems, and seasonal cycles across a persistent, evolving world state. Every tick advances food availability, population growth, and resource balance — then surfaces the state as live dashboard metrics streamed over Socket.io.

The LLM phase introduces unpredictable narrative events — famine, plague, drought, gold rush, civil unrest — generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash based on the current world conditions. The result is an environment that responds coherently to its own history rather than random rolls.

Key capabilities
  • Real-time world state streaming via Socket.io
  • Population, ecology, and resource dynamics engine
  • Four-season cycle with per-season modifiers
  • LLM-driven narrative events tied to world state
  • Configurable simulation parameters and speed
  • Live charts and historical metrics dashboard
Built for

Simulation researchers & game designers

Open OBSERVER →
Tool / Construction

GLOW

Upload a job site photo and a sentence — get a full cross-vendor materials estimate and bid document in minutes.

GLOW is an automated multi-vendor job pricing engine for contractors. Upload a photo of the work area and a plain-text description — Gemini 2.5 Flash identifies every required material, prices each item live across Home Depot, Lowe's, and Menards, estimates labor hours, and returns two deliverables: a comparison CSV and a presentation-ready bid document.

Every pricing lookup uses Gemini grounded retrieval against live retailer pages — no API keys, no brittle scrapers. The contractor selects which vendors to compare per job, reviews the output, and owns the final quote.

Key capabilities
  • Photo + description → complete structured materials list
  • Live cross-vendor pricing across multiple retailers
  • Best-price recommendation per line item
  • Labor hours and task breakdown
  • Downloadable comparison CSV and bid document
  • Fully stateless — no data stored after response
Built for

General contractors & specialty trades

Open GLOW →
02 — Capabilities

Where we work beyond the products above.

→ 001

AI Systems Engineering

Designing and shipping production AI systems for high-stakes environments — from architecture and model selection through deployment and ongoing operation.

→ 002

Decision-Support Platforms

Custom knowledge-graph and dashboard work that turns fragmented organizational data into something a leader can actually use to make a call.

→ 003

Simulation & Reinforcement Learning

RL environments, training infrastructure, and analytical tooling for operations that can't be tested in the real world without unacceptable cost.

→ 004

Secure Deployment & MLOps

Building and operating AI systems in environments with serious security, compliance, and reliability requirements — government and otherwise.

03 — About

A small team, long engagements, shipped systems.

Mission

Zyno Engineering is a small team of engineers and researchers building AI systems for defense, government, and commercial operations. We work on problems where being approximately right isn't good enough — where the cost of a bad decision is paid in money, time, or lives.

We prefer shipped systems over slide decks. Our work is structured around durable, usable platforms rather than one-off deliverables, and we measure ourselves by whether the people who use what we build keep using it.