We locate and record data that is hard to reach or non-existent, and package it to your specs with clear provenance via a verifiable chain of data rights.
We record on production floors and at desks, wherever the process actually runs.
Sources
Trained operators wear head-mounted rigs configured for the task, working a written task list on live production equipment. The recording carries the timing, interruptions, and recovery of a real shift.
Knowledge work recorded at the desk: the screen, the inputs, and the surrounding context, while someone works a real task in the systems their firm actually uses. Same task lists, same acceptance criteria, same rights process as floor capture.
We license manufacturing and engineering records from firms in niche markets that nobody has approached for data before. Decades of design revisions, process history and failure analysis, from operations that have never been asked.
Where a site cannot be licensed, we build one. Benches, lines, and tooling are assembled to match the target environment, and operators run the process on camera with the sensors you specify.
What the archives hold
Industries we work in
Capture
Every session is a recording of a person doing the work, on a floor or at a desk. Nothing is generated or rendered.
Most labs already run synthetic pipelines and they work well. Real capture is the complement to them: it supplies the behavior a generator has no source for, like the recovery after a mistake, the improvised workaround, or the pause while someone waits on an answer.
Egocentric
Capture is head-mounted: hands enter the frame from below, the camera moves with the operator, and the viewpoint matches what an on-robot camera sees.
Contact rich
The recordings hold the friction and give of real parts, and the correction an operator makes when something does not seat.
Failure and recovery
Failed attempts can be retained where your model benefits from them, and a procedure can be recorded end to end rather than cut into clips.
Access
Two of the largest sources of industrial process data are also the two moving fastest to restrict what leaves. Cross-border transfer out of China runs through security review under PIPL and the Data Security Law, and the categories under restriction have widened steadily, alongside a technology export catalogue that is revised on its own schedule. India is moving the same direction under its DPDP regime. A corpus that was exportable when it was recorded may not be by the time it ships.
That makes export a scoping question before it is a paperwork one. Review runs per jurisdiction and per deployment, and we would rather tell you at brief stage that something cannot be delivered than find out after it is captured.
Operations
Based in America, Frontier Dynamics our SF based team travels globally to working sites across a number of global markets, from advanced manufacturing economies to the emerging ones that supply them. We can get you any data from any environment, delivered in days.
From underground mines to silicon clean rooms, we can access any of it.
Workforce
We maintain a pool of trained operators, so a crew can be briefed and on a floor quickly.
Hardware
Capture hardware is selected as best in class for the use case rather than standardized, and an in-house design team builds or modifies rigs where nothing off the shelf fits.
Sourcing
Manufacturer relationships are mostly held directly, firm by firm.
Process
Labs disagree about how data should be structured, and their requirements change as the research moves.
You send the spec. If something in the spec cannot be captured, we say so up front.
Operators, site, and equipment are assigned against the agreed brief. Consent and export review are part of every deployment.
Sessions run against the spec on a working floor, logged and checked against your acceptance criteria.
You receive the requested files with annotation, calibration, and rights documentation, all indexed to session ID.
Delivery
| Session | Date | Site | Task | Duration | Sensors | Pose | Rights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FD-04-0117 | 2026-08-11 | Site 04 / Bay 02 | Fixture change, 5-axis | 06:12:40 | 2× fisheye, IMU | Calibrated | Cleared |
| FD-04-0118 | 2026-08-11 | Site 04 / Bay 07 | Component transfer, tray to fixture | 04:48:02 | 2× fisheye, IMU | Calibrated | Cleared |
| FD-07-0044 | 2026-08-12 | Site 07 / Cell 03 | Torque sequence, rework | 05:30:15 | 2× fisheye, IMU, wrist IMU | Calibrated | Cleared |
| FD-07-0045 | 2026-08-12 | Site 07 / Line 02 | Panel assembly | 07:02:33 | 4× fixed, overhead | Calibrated | Cleared |
| FD-11-0009 | 2026-08-13 | Site 11 / Hall 04 | Stoppage and in-line repair | 03:19:58 | 2× fisheye, IMU | Calibrated | Cleared |
| FD-19-0002 | 2026-08-14 | Site 19 / Zone 06 | Equipment setup, shift start | 05:41:20 | 2× fisheye, IMU | Calibrated | Cleared |
Per-session video, timecoded, with the sensor streams alongside it, delivered in the resolution and format you specify.
Task segmentation and labels follow your taxonomy.
Consent records and chain of title come indexed to the session identifiers above.
Rights
Contact
Include the task list, hours, sensor requirements, and acceptance criteria. We come back with a plan and a schedule, and then we talk about price.