WolfMind exists because a shop in rural Texas should have the same capabilities as a Tier 1 supplier. We build the inspection equipment, the data systems, and the records layer that make it possible, at a fraction of what they cost today.
Each one ships from a crate. Built for auditability. Cryptographic provenance, verifiable chain of custody. Together, they form a continuous record from furnace through inspection.
The digital imaging chain for radiographic inspection. Drops into an existing cabinet or pairs with one you source separately. Born digital, no film.
◊ Cabinet and X-ray source customer-supplied.
A small networked sensor node for thermocouple data. Publishes to MQTT5 over Wi-Fi. Buffers through dropouts, holds time across power events. Reliable pyrometry on a standard bus.
◊ Custom PCB pending. Thermocouples and recording software customer-supplied.
A service-oriented pyrometry DAQ. Ingest, persist, dashboard, alert, out of the box. Compliance modules attach per asset, AMS2750 first.
Verifiable records, custody, and certificates for industrial work. Hash-chained events, externally witnessed, hardware-signed by qualified personnel, scannable from a phone camera. Reference implementation of open specifications we’re authoring.
◊ Built on open specifications we’re authoring.
◊ Each product can be purchased and operated independently. Buy one, two, or all four.
“The problem is not a shortage of technology. The problem is that the industry’s delivery model, proprietary, expensive, centralized, cannot provide distributed, affordable capability at the scale the supply chain requires.”
Domestic casting and forging capacity has contracted by roughly 80% over two decades. Twelve commercial heat treaters closed in the past year alone. The standard responses, consolidation and expensive proprietary equipment, make the supply chain more efficient on paper and more fragile in practice.
The components to fix this exist. Off-the-shelf X-ray sources. Commodity sensors. Open compliance specifications. The integration work is hard but it isn’t new. It just isn’t anyone’s job.
WolfMind made it ours.
Camera, scintillator, optics, mirror, mounting, integration. The full imaging chain. Cabinet and X-ray source customer-supplied. Comparable turnkey systems run $150,000 to $300,000.
Pi 5 + IMX296 global-shutter sensor. Replaces an $800+ industrial camera and the workstation it normally needs.
16 frames averaged at 30 fps, then displayed. Film radiography exposes for minutes and develops in chemistry for ten more. Aperture exposes, develops, and displays in real time.
No film, no developer chemistry, no imaging plates to replace. The scintillator screen has no mechanical wear. The camera has no consumable parts. Per-image cost is electricity.
◊ APERTURE-IS-1 · Imaging cage bringup at the prototype vault, April 2026. The cage holds the part, the scintillator, and a 45° mirror that folds the optical path out of the X-ray cone toward the camera.
Trained in fluorescent penetrant and radiographic inspection at Centex Lab. Nineteen years building web applications, the last fourteen on distributed systems. Hands-on participation in NADCAP audits; direct working relationships with quality organizations at Honeywell, Bell, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing.
Third generation. Eighteen years running day-to-day production, customer coordination, and compliance documentation at Centex Lab. Embedded in the lab’s NDT and heat-treating workflow across two decades of NADCAP-accredited work for aerospace primes.
Ted Riley began radiographic inspection in Fort Worth in the early 1950s and practiced continuously into his late seventies. The lab he co-founded ran NDT and heat treating for the aerospace primes operating out of the corridor across four decades. Justin Baker is the third generation. Continuity of practice at this depth is a dwindling resource in the industry.
We’re selecting a small group of foundries, heat-treaters, and inspection houses to deploy early units of Aperture, Pulse, and PyroMesh on real production work. Limited cohort. Direct line to engineering. Pricing reflects partnership, not list.
Not ready? Just keep me posted →