Precision for the work that matters. Funded by the waste we eliminate.

Zyno Engineering operates as an external technical strike team, designing and hosting custom automation tools that eliminate manual bottlenecks within your daily operations. We absorb 100% of the upfront development risk, meaning clients pay absolutely nothing for the software build or deployment. Instead, our ongoing partnership is funded entirely by your success; we simply bill a 50% split of the cost of the guaranteed labor hours liberated by our solutions.

Thirteen tools and platforms, shipped, in use, evolving.

PRISM

A unified decision surface for the Space Force's science and technology enterprise.

PRISM consolidates a fragmented S&T ecosystem into a single secure knowledge graph and surfaces it through role-tailored dashboards and LLM-powered analysis.

Built for USSF Task Force Futures, the platform preserves institutional memory across personnel rotations — the kind of continuity that's typically lost every PCS cycle.

Key capabilities

  • Unified knowledge graph across S&T data sources
  • Role-tailored dashboards for leaders and analysts
  • LLM-powered analysis and natural-language query
  • Secure, modular architecture
  • Institutional memory preservation

SCOPE

End-to-end proposal intelligence for government contracting.

SCOPE compresses the federal proposal lifecycle — from raw opportunity discovery to a finished, exportable package — into a single coherent workflow.

Live SAM.gov data feeds AI-driven company matching, strategic ideation, and automated drafting through five sequential modules that mirror the contracting lifecycle.

Key capabilities

  • Live opportunity feed from SAM.gov
  • AI-powered company & capability matching
  • Strategic idea generation
  • Automated proposal drafting
  • Built-in evaluation and red-team review

EYE

A reinforcement-learning environment for military logistics.

The Enhanced Yield Environment is a Gymnasium-compatible RL simulator for airlift operations, supply chain management, and adversarial-threat modeling in realistic geospatial scenarios.

EYE supports MaskablePPO action filtering, integrates with Stable Baselines3, and ships with a Streamlit interface for scenario editing, training, and analysis — plus heuristic baselines, multi-agent support, and full audit logging.

Key capabilities

  • Gymnasium-compatible environment
  • MaskablePPO action filtering & SB3 integration
  • Database-backed scenario editor
  • Multi-agent reinforcement learning
  • Haversine geography, fuel, runway damage, threat zones
  • Decision analytics & audit logging

LUMEN

A privacy-first healthcare claim assistant and coverage advisor — zero backend, zero cloud.

LUMEN is a fully local RAG pipeline that parses insurance policy PDFs, indexes them into an on-device vector store, and answers natural-language coverage questions with exact policy citations — no network calls required.

Key capabilities

  • Natural-language policy Q&A against local PDF documents
  • Scenario cost calculator with copay, deductible & coinsurance math
  • Insurance jargon translator with inline tooltips
  • Smart document classifier (EOB, Medical Bill, Policy Summary)
  • Zero network calls — all processing runs on-device

PARALLAX

Modular hex-based wargame simulator for modeling units, logistics, and operational environments.

PARALLAX is a browser-native hex wargame engine with flat-top axial coordinates, A* pathfinding, supply network simulation, and Fog of War. Model Blue and Red force compositions, unit propulsion types, and terrain cost functions — then play turns in real time.

Key capabilities

  • 30×20 hex map with 6 terrain types and elevation
  • A* pathfinding with terrain-aware movement costs
  • Fog of War with per-faction visibility tracking
  • Supply network simulation with carrier distribution
  • Custom unit builder with JSON export

REFLECT

Three-way AP reconciliation that flags every discrepancy before you authorize payment.

REFLECT is an AI-powered accounts payable reconciliation engine. Upload a Supplier Invoice, Purchase Order, and Warehouse Receiving Ticket — Gemini 2.5 Flash cross-references all three and flags every pricing and quantity discrepancy before payment is authorized.

Key capabilities

  • Three-way Invoice × PO × Receiving Ticket match
  • Semantic item matching across naming conventions
  • Price mismatch and quantity mismatch detection
  • Missing and unverifiable line-item flagging
  • Exportable discrepancy report

ETCH

Voice-to-structured daily site log, delivered to your client's inbox in under two minutes.

ETCH is a mobile-first construction log automator. Speak your daily site notes into a 60-second recording and Gemini 2.5 Flash structures them into a formal log — work accomplished, subcontractors and labor, delays, safety issues — with automatically fetched weather conditions baked in.

Key capabilities

  • Browser-native speech-to-text transcription
  • AI structuring into formal log sections
  • Auto-fetched weather from GPS coordinates
  • Editable review phase before dispatch
  • Draft persistence across sessions

ILLUMINATE

Extract scope, insurance minimums, material specs, and deadlines from any bid package.

ILLUMINATE is an RFP and bid package analyzer for construction contractors. Upload a PDF bid package — even 200+ pages — and Gemini 2.5 Flash extracts the scope of work, insurance and bond requirements, material specifications, and every critical deadline in seconds.

Key capabilities

  • Scope-of-work extraction from complex bid packages
  • Insurance minimums and bond type identification
  • Material brand, grade, and ASTM spec extraction
  • Critical deadline detection (bid, prequalification, completion)
  • Conflicting clause flagging for legal review

SHINE

Instant material cost estimates from engineering drawings, without the spreadsheet.

SHINE is an AI-powered quoting engine for machine shops, fabricators, and engineers. Upload a part drawing — PDF or image — and Gemini 2.5 Flash extracts the part name, material specification, and dimensions, then calculates a live material cost estimate with scrap allowance and overhead.

Key capabilities

  • Dimension and material spec extraction from drawings
  • Live pricing across metals, plastics, and composites
  • Scrap allowance and overhead calculation
  • Editable fields before quote output
  • Supports PDF, JPG, PNG, and WebP

REFRACT

Calculate detention pay and generate a professional billing email in minutes.

REFRACT is a detention billing tool for truck drivers and owner-operators. Log arrival and departure times, optionally photograph the dock receipt for AI verification, and REFRACT calculates your billable detention hours against a configurable free-time window and hourly rate.

Key capabilities

  • Arrival and departure time logging
  • Automatic free-time window calculation
  • Dock receipt photo verification via AI
  • Configurable hourly rate and free-time threshold
  • Professional invoice email generation

LIGHTSPEED

Parse rate confirmations from any broker PDF and push structured load data to your TMS in one click.

LIGHTSPEED is an AI-powered rate confirmation parser for freight carriers and owner-operators. Drop a broker PDF and Gemini 2.5 Flash extracts all key load data — broker, load number, rate, weight, pickup, delivery, and critical dates — instantly, regardless of the broker's format.

Key capabilities

  • Works with any broker PDF rate confirmation format
  • Extracts broker, load #, rate, weight, pickup & delivery
  • Editable field review before submission
  • One-click TMS push via configurable endpoint
  • Ephemeral processing — no stored data

OBSERVER

A real-time world simulator driven by configurable ecology, season cycles, and LLM-generated events.

OBSERVER is a live world simulator that models population dynamics, ecological systems, and seasonal cycles across a persistent, evolving world state. Every tick advances food availability, population growth, and resource balance — then surfaces the state as live dashboard metrics streamed over Socket.io.

Key capabilities

  • Real-time world state streaming via Socket.io
  • Population, ecology, and resource dynamics engine
  • Four-season cycle with per-season modifiers
  • LLM-driven narrative events tied to world state
  • Configurable simulation parameters and speed
  • Live charts and historical metrics dashboard

GLOW

Upload a job site photo and a sentence — get a full cross-vendor materials estimate and bid document in minutes.

GLOW is an automated multi-vendor job pricing engine for contractors. Upload a photo of the work area and a plain-text description — Gemini 2.5 Flash identifies every required material, prices each item live across Home Depot, Lowe's, and Menards, estimates labor hours, and returns two deliverables: a comparison CSV and a presentation-ready bid document.

Key capabilities

  • Photo + description → complete structured materials list
  • Live cross-vendor pricing across multiple retailers
  • Best-price recommendation per line item
  • Labor hours and task breakdown
  • Downloadable comparison CSV and bid document

Where we work beyond the products above.

AI Systems Engineering

Designing and shipping production AI systems for high-stakes environments — from architecture and model selection through deployment and ongoing operation.

Decision-Support Platforms

Custom knowledge-graph and dashboard work that turns fragmented organizational data into something a leader can actually use to make a call.

Simulation & Reinforcement Learning

RL environments, training infrastructure, and analytical tooling for operations that can't be tested in the real world without unacceptable cost.

Secure Deployment & MLOps

Building and operating AI systems in environments with serious security, compliance, and reliability requirements — government and otherwise.

A small team, long engagements, shipped systems.

Mission

Zyno Engineering is a small team of engineers and researchers building AI systems for defense, government, and commercial operations. We work on problems where being approximately right isn't good enough — where the cost of a bad decision is paid in money, time, or lives.

We prefer shipped systems over slide decks. Our work is structured around durable, usable platforms rather than one-off deliverables, and we measure ourselves by whether the people who use what we build keep using it.