Expert judgment platform

Your experts can't be everywhere.
Their judgment can.

It only knows what you have taught it. When it does not know, it asks your expert instead of guessing. Live in under 24 hours.

  1. Never guesses

    It escalates to your expert instead

  2. Your PII

    Never used to train a public LLM

  3. Under 24 hrs

    From first interview to live Protégé

  4. 34

    USPTO patent claims on file

The Problem

Senior experts retire, resign, get recruited away, get promoted, or are simply out. The knowledge they carry took decades to build. When they leave, it goes with them. Documentation doesn't capture it. Training programs take months.

When a deal stalls, a new hire gets stuck, or a client needs an answer after hours, no one's available.

This is not a content problem. It is a knowledge transfer problem.

The gap between a manual and a consultant is where organizations lose deals, slow down onboarding, and fail to scale. Apex Replicant closes that gap.

What the platform does

A Digital Protégé for every expert on your team.

Apex Replicant builds a Digital Protégé: voice AI that thinks and responds the way your SME does. Not a chatbot, not a search engine, not an AI agent. An always-on version of your expert’s judgment, trained on their knowledge base and tuned to how they actually talk and think.

Someone asks a question, uploads a document, or talks through a problem. The Protégé engages the way the expert would, asking follow-ups, pulling from the knowledge base, and giving specific, actionable answers.

When the Protégé reaches the edge of what it knows, it escalates to the human expert rather than guessing. It only knows what you have taught it. It is not a setting you configure. It is how the system is built.

Every session produces a structured summary: insights, action items, red flags, and performance notes. The expert stays in the loop. Their calendar stays clear.

"There’s never enough of me to go around, so I’ve trained some AI Protégés." Robin Walters, Co-Founder and CEO, Rogue Recruitment. Posted unprompted on LinkedIn after deploying her Protégé.

How It Works
  1. Step 1

    Extraction Interview

    A structured one-hour AI-driven interview captures your expert's reasoning, voice, and judgment, not just their documents. From this interview alone the Protégé can answer about half of what your expert would.

  2. Step 2

    Knowledge Base

    Upload existing materials: books, guides, case files, presentations, recordings. After ingesting your existing library it handles roughly three questions in four.

  3. Step 3

    Deploy

    The Protégé goes live for your team or clients. Natural voice conversations, 24/7. No prompt engineering, no special training required for users.

  4. Step 4

    Improve

    Every session builds depth. As sessions compound, it comes to handle about nine questions in ten. Summaries keep your expert informed without taking up their time.

Why We're Different

Our real competition isn't ChatGPT. It's the junior hire who finally gets up to speed and then leaves.

Category
The Gap
  • SOPs and Wikis (Confluence, SharePoint)
    Captures what, not why. Nobody reads them when they actually need help.
  • Creator Tools (Delphi, Coachvox)
    Built for personal branding. No enterprise depth.
  • Video Avatars (HeyGen, D-ID)
    Presence without knowledge. Cannot answer questions or engage in dialogue.
  • Generic LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude)
    Broad but not your expert. Will confidently fabricate answers outside its training.
  • AI Agents (Copilot, OpenClaw)
    Automates tasks. Does not capture, transfer, or scale expert judgment.

Why "just use a Custom GPT" creates enterprise risk.

  1. PII Commingling

    Shared model fine-tuning can surface one user's data in another's answers.

  2. IP Leakage

    Anything uploaded to train a shared model can strengthen a competitor's results.

  3. Reverse Engineering

    Users can probe shared models with enough prompting to reconstruct your proprietary methodology.

  4. No Accountability

    When it gives a wrong answer, there is no escalation path, no audit trail, and no human backup.

"Other AI systems are optimized to answer. Ours is optimized to understand first and answer only from a position of verified context and validated expertise."

  1. Proprietary Knowledge Extraction

    We don't scrape documents. A structured AI-driven interview pulls out the reasoning behind expert decisions, the knowledge that never gets written down. The methodology draws on 30 years of instructional design research.

  2. It only knows what you have taught it

    The Protégé answers only from the expert's validated knowledge base, asks clarifying questions before responding, and escalates to the human when it reaches its boundary. In enterprise settings, a wrong answer can be a liability. This is how we prevent that.

  3. Enterprise Data Sovereignty

    Your knowledge base is never co-mingled with other customers' data or used to train public models. It stays isolated to your organization, during the contract and after it ends.

Security and Architecture

Built for enterprise procurement from the start.

  1. Data Layer: Isolated Knowledge Bases

    Each expert's knowledge base is fully isolated. No cross-contamination between experts, clients, or organizations. Your data never touches another customer's environment.

  2. Session Layer: Isolated Client Sessions

    Each conversation is fully isolated. Session data is not used to train public models or shared outside your organization. Full transcripts and summaries are retained in your environment.

  3. AI Layer: Filtered LLM Access

    Your personal information is never used to train a public LLM. LLM access is bounded by the expert's validated knowledge base. The model cannot answer outside that domain. It escalates instead.

  4. Patent Claims: Proprietary Architecture

    34 USPTO patent claims on file across 9 core innovations including AI-guided knowledge extraction, escalation architecture, and multi-layer security.

  5. Compliance: Working Toward SOC 2 Type II

    The architecture was built with regulated industries in mind, including legal and financial services, where a wrong answer from an AI carries real liability. SOC 2 Type II readiness is in progress.

Contacts
  1. Drew Harris

    CEO and Co-Founder, CPTO

  2. Dr. Alan Kadish

    Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer

Common Procurement Questions

Answers to what your team will ask.

Does our data get used to train your AI models?
No. Knowledge bases are isolated by architecture and by contract. Your data is never used to train anything outside your own environment.
What happens when the AI doesn't know something?
It escalates to the human expert with the full conversation context attached. It does not guess, fabricate, or fill in gaps. That is the architecture.
What happens to our data if we end the contract?
Your knowledge base stays isolated to your organization. When the contract ends, we delete it on request. There is no lock-in and no negotiation required.
How quickly can we go live?
A one-hour structured interview gets your first Protégé answering about half of what your expert would, the same day. Most teams are fully live within 24 hours of that first session.
Is this suitable for regulated industries?
The architecture was designed for regulated environments including legal and financial services, where a wrong AI answer carries liability. SOC 2 Type II readiness is in progress. Reach out for specifics.

See it before you decide anything.

The live Protégé is available right now, 24/7, no scheduling required. Real questions, real answers, real escalation, and it never guesses. See exactly how it works before any conversation with us. The first step is The 30-Day Continuity Proof: $1,247, one expert hour, a measured result in 30 days, no contract. If you want to talk through fit first, start the conversation below: it reaches the founding team directly.

Hear one before you decide anything.

Reading about a Protégé tells you very little. Two minutes with one tells you everything, and the part worth testing is not whether it answers well. It is what it does when it cannot.

Talk to Ray’s Protégé

Fair warning, and it is the point: Ray is a composite senior manufacturing engineer, twenty-four years on a shop floor. If you run a services firm, a PEO book, or a family business, the shop talk will not be your world. It is an example, and we would rather tell you that up front.

What is your world is how it behaves, and that part is identical to what your own expert’s Protégé would do. Ask it the kind of thing you would normally interrupt a senior engineer to ask. You get Ray’s answer, in his words, with his name on it. When it does not know, it says so and pulls in the real person instead of guessing. That last part is built in, and there is no setting that turns it off.

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We will reply personally within one business day. No sequence, no drip, no demo request. If it is not a fit, we will say so and tell you why.