About Us

Origin Story

I'm a controls engineer. For 17 years, I've been programming PLCs, commissioning systems, and troubleshooting faults at industrial sites: mines, smelters, ports, water treatment plants, chemical facilities, and manufacturing lines.

I lived with two problems at the same time.

The first was mine. My engineering business had more work than people. Every project depended on me or one of a handful of engineers who understood the system. If someone left, weeks of context walked out the door with them. Clients waited. Timelines slipped. Revenue sat on the table because I couldn't clone my team.

The second belonged to the people I built systems for. The electricians and technicians who maintained the equipment every day, who knew the plant, knew the wiring, could trace every circuit, but couldn't access the diagnostic information inside the PLC because the software required specialist training that no Australian electrical apprenticeship covers. They'd call me. I'd drive two hours. The fix would take fifteen minutes. The wait had already cost them a shift.

JasperNode started as a way to solve both problems at once. An AI-native controller where the engineering knowledge lives in the system, not locked inside one person's head. Where a senior engineer's experience scales across every project. Where an electrician on site at 2am can ask the system what's wrong and get an answer in plain English.

We started by copy-pasting ChatGPT output into PLC programs and Node-RED. That was slow and painful enough to convince us to build the real thing.

The Mission

90,000 manufacturing SMEs in Australia. 92% have fewer than 20 employees. They can't hire controls engineers - there aren't enough. They can't afford system integrators at $1,200/day for every modification. And the electrical workforce that maintains their equipment was never trained to program PLCs.

Meanwhile, the system integrators serving them are stretched thin: more projects than engineers, timelines that slip because human bandwidth has a ceiling, and years of knowledge trapped in one person's head that vanishes when they move on.

JasperNode exists because the tools haven't kept up with either problem. We're building the controller that lets engineers scale their expertise, electricians access the systems they maintain, and manufacturers stop waiting for someone who isn't available.

If you work in automation, electrical services, or manufacturing and this resonates.
We'd welcome a conversation.