No Facility Is Ready for Humanoids.
We Fix That Before Hardware Ships.
The Constructor Programme is Persona AI’s engagement program designed to close the lead time before hardware ships.
Working directly with your leadership and engineering teams, we build the facility-level blueprints, ROI modeling, and internal alignment your site needs. Day one of delivery is a live deployment, not a starting line.
About the Constructor Programme
The Constructor Programme is a structured, paid engagement run directly with Persona AI’s technical team. We limit enrollment to a selective group of forward-looking partners preparing to deploy hundreds or thousands of humanoid units as production scales.
Why wait for hardware when infrastructure planning takes months? Robots do not rise to the quality of their design; they fall to the systems built to support them. We work within your established operational framework to ensure your facilities are fully prepared to succeed on day one.
Infrastructure Readiness
Is your site power, network, and safety architecture ready to support autonomous agents?
Operational Fit
Which high-value, hard-to-staff tasks yield the highest immediate ROI?
Scalable Integration
How will humanoid fleets communicate directly with your existing software stack without disrupting current production?
Why Partner Early?
The Constructor Programme operates at limited capacity by design.
Rather than working through standard account channels, your team gains a dedicated technical and commercial group led by deep-tech pioneers. Early partners secure priority access to technical allocation and directly influence which operational use cases shape Persona AI’s near-term engineering roadmap.
Deliverables
Every Constructor Programme engagement delivers actionable, production-ready assets tailored to your operating standards:
Task Impact & ROI Analysis
Net KPI modeling across headcount, safety, and productivity baselines, formatted to match your organization’s financial criteria.
Facility & Site Framework
Standardized evaluations of your global footprint identifying pilot-ready sites, sites needing upgrades, and out-of-scope locations.
Infrastructure Blueprints
Custom schematics for electrical load management, charging station footprints, wireless/cellular coverage, and safety zoning that integrate cleanly into your existing facilities.
Data & Integration Roadmap
Architecture plans for telemetry and command data, mapping direct integration into your existing ERP, MES, and WMS platforms.
Tailored Operational Training
Simulated environments built around your exact tasks, ensuring software training begins long before hardware arrives.
The Readiness Gap
Across heavy industry, the primary barrier to humanoid deployment isn't the robot. It is system integration.
0% Electrical Readiness
Virtually no enterprise facilities have completed a full electrical load assessment or mapped the physical layouts required for high-capacity humanoid charging networks.
>5% Operational Protocols
Only a small fraction of organizations have documented humanoid interaction protocols or a formal Concept of Operations (ConOps) covering human-robot co-working spaces.
<10% IT & Cyber Governance
Fewer than one in ten corporate networks have cleared the data governance, edge bandwidth, and security reviews required for autonomous fleets.
Legacy Ecosystem Lag
Most legacy operational frameworks have no defined path connecting robotic agents to existing ERP, MES, and WMS platforms, leaving even the most capable robot with nowhere to receive or report work.
Accelerating Labor Depletion
The skilled trades workforce heavy industry depends on is retiring faster than it can be replaced. Infrastructure readiness ensures automation steps in seamlessly to bridge the gap.
Constructor Programme Benefits
Certainty Before Capital
Know exactly what your facilities require to run humanoids safely before committing major capital.
Board-Ready Business Cases
Access net KPI modeling built around your company’s specific financial principles and metrics, not vendor marketing.
Day-One Activation
Complete your safety, IT, and electrical frameworks months, or years, ahead of competitors.
Seamless Scalability
Launch with fully trained staff and integrated systems the moment your hardware arrives.
Roadmap Influence
Direct Persona AI’s engineering focus toward your facility’s specific task requirements.
Deliverables
Every Constructor Programme engagement delivers actionable, production-ready assets tailored to your operating standards:
Task Impact & ROI Analysis
Net KPI modeling across headcount, safety, and productivity baselines, formatted to match your organization’s financial criteria.
Facility & Site Framework
Standardized evaluations of your global footprint identifying pilot-ready sites, sites needing upgrades, and out-of-scope locations.
Infrastructure Blueprints
Custom schematics for electrical load management, charging station footprints, wireless/cellular coverage, and safety zoning that integrate cleanly into your existing facilities.
Data & Integration Roadmap
Architecture plans for telemetry and command data, mapping direct integration into your existing ERP, MES, and WMS platforms.
Tailored Operational Training
Simulated environments built around your exact tasks, ensuring software training begins long before hardware arrives.
Milestones
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Qualifying
Alignment on scope, criteria, and operational targets.
Weeks 0 to 6
Proposal
Site walk, scope confirmation, and open-item mapping.
Weeks 4 to 10
Pilot Design
Approved readiness architecture, safety concept, and integration plans.
Months 3 to 6
Validation
Task performance validated to acceptance criteria in our Houston lab.
Months 6 to 10
Deployment
Initial units deployed on-site under active production conditions.
Months 10 to 18
Scale-Up
Full business case validation and enterprise deployment execution.
Months 18 to 24
Who Qualifies
The Constructor Programme is tailored for operational leaders who meet three main criteria:
High Revenue Impact
Heavy industry, energy, logistics, or manufacturing operations where labor shortages directly restrict throughput and margin.
Targeted Task Fit
Environments with high-difficulty, hazardous, or hard-to-staff skilled trades tasks such as welding, grinding, structural assembly, or material handling.
Scale Potential
Facilities capable of supporting long-term scale targets of 100+ humanoid units operating 24/7 across the site footprint.
Bridging the Pilot Gap
Under standard industry models, 40% of heavy industry automation pilots prove technically feasible, but only 15% reach scaled production, resulting in $1.3 Trillion in trapped global economic value. The Constructor Programme model focuses on full infrastructure readiness first, enabling immediate day-one deployment.
Roughly 40% of heavy industry automation pilots are deemed technically feasible, yet only 15% of those reach scaled production. Integration complexity, infrastructure gaps, and total cost of ownership uncertainties trap an estimated $1.3 Trillion in global economic value.
The Constructor Programme helps your team overcome these bottlenecks while respecting your site safety and operational protocols:
Eliminate Idle Time
Reduce up to 25% of time lost waiting for manual inspection tasks.
Unlock Capacity Gains
Recapture 20–25% lost throughput by eliminating scheduling delays.
Target Rework at the Source
Resolve up to 50% of lost production capacity caused by bad fit-ups or substandard assembly work.
What removing the bottleneck is worth
20-30%
Of total ship production time
Time historically lost waiting on manual weld and structural inspection. Persona AI’s work with the American Bureau of Shipping on vision based inspection targets that idle time directly.
20-25%
Capacity Increase
Capacity increase is the incremental manufacturing output Persona AI models when that inspection wait time is removed from the schedule.
+50%
Labor time
In a traditional steel fabrication shop goes to correcting bad fit up or redoing substandard welds. Humanoid autonomy targets that rework, not just added hands on the floor.
Leadership
Persona AI led by experienced robotics pioneers. Our team brings decades of experience deploying autonomous systems for industrial majors, elite research institutions, and defense applications.
Start Your Readiness AssessmentNic Radford, Co-Founder & CEO
A 15-year NASA veteran, Nic served as principal investigator in the agency’s Dexterous Robotics Lab and Chief Engineer for the Valkyrie humanoid robot. He later founded and led Nauticus Robotics (formerly Houston Mechatronics) through its public listing before co-founding Persona AI. Nic holds an MSEE and a BSEE from Purdue University.
Dr. Jerry Pratt, Co-Founder & CTO
A pioneering robotics researcher, Jerry previously served as CTO at Figure AI and spent two decades leading walking algorithm research at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), work that helped define how modern bipedal robots balance and move. Jerry holds a Ph.D., Master’s, and two Bachelor’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jide Akinyode, Co-Founder & COO
A 20-year robotics veteran, Jide previously spent a decade at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and served as VP of Engineering at Nauticus Robotics, leading their 2022 IPO and $100M+ commercialization efforts. He holds an MSEE from the University of Southern California and a BSEE from the University of Cincinnati.
FAQ
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Contact Us To Learn MoreDoes the Constructor Programme include a physical robot?
Yes, depending on your selected pathway. Higher-tier engagements include dedicated on-site demonstration hardware brought directly to your facility, enabling your team to validate manipulation performance in real production conditions before fleet delivery.
Why invest in readiness before production units ship?
Hardware relies on the environment supporting it. Infrastructure, safety boundaries, and IT integrations require significant lead time. Preparing now eliminates months of post-delivery idle time and builds an executive business case aligned with your company’s investment strategy.
How many partners does Persona AI select?
We strictly limit quarterly capacity. Instead of routing your business through standard account channels, we pair your team directly with deep-tech engineers and executive leaders to give your use cases dedicated focus.
Start Your Constructor Engagement
If physical AI is part of your operational future, the strategic time to align your facilities is before hardware ships.
Contact our technical team to determine how we can partner with your organization to achieve operational success on your terms.
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