“I'm a mechanical engineer. What can intouch do for me?”
One question, asked of a stock install. Nothing here is staged copy — this is the answer the assistant gave, played back.
Here's what InTouch typically does for mechanical engineers — built from the tools/connectors already available:
A drawing, mesh, or result file lands in a watched folder (from CAD, CAE, or a test rig export) → it gets renamed to your naming convention, filed by project/revision, logged, and the team gets a message. A settle delay makes sure it fires after the copy finishes, not mid-transfer.
If you've already got an analysis script (Python, MATLAB, whatever), InTouch runs it — on a schedule, over SSH on the box with the license and cores, or triggered the moment new input geometry shows up. Results land in a table or file automatically.
Sensor CSVs off the bench get picked up, parsed, appended to a running dataset, and summarized. A monitor watches for a measurement going out of tolerance and messages someone immediately — not whoever reads the report next week.
A vendor sends a new price or lead-time file → it gets normalized, diffed against the last version, changes over X% get flagged, the master table updates, and the buyer gets told what moved.
Results table → chart/table → PDF or Excel → emailed to the project distribution list on the day it's due, automatically.
The plumbing underneath all of this: files/folders, FTP/SFTP, SSH, HTTP/REST, SQL, Excel, PDF, S3, and shell commands — if it exports or has a command line, it's automatable.
Want me to build one of these for real? Tell me the specific chore — e.g. "watch this folder for new .step files and rename/file them" or "run my solver script nightly and email me the results" — and I'll set it up now.
It answered like this because it knew who was asking.
The same assistant answers a shop owner about supplier price files and a sysadmin about cron sprawl. Same engine, same tools, same audit trail — sharpened to the person asking.
The same assistant, asked by someone else.
Every one of these is a stock install answering a different person’s first question. Nothing was staged and nothing was edited.