The company positions Work Intelligence as the fourth enterprise system of record, capturing the expertise that ERP, CRM, and PLM never could — as an aging workforce takes decades of irreplaceable knowledge with it.
IRVINE, CA. – July 9, 2026 – EON AI Ventures today introduced Work Intelligence, a new enterprise category built to close what the company calls “the trillion-dollar gap,” the widening distance between everything an industrial plant knows and the fraction of it that lives in the head of the person operating it right now.
That gap is not abstract. It is measured in lives and in dollars. Oil and gas remains among the deadliest sectors on earth — in the United States alone, a worker is killed in oil and gas extraction roughly twice a week — and worldwide, on the order of a thousand workers die every day in workplace accidents. On the financial side, the average offshore platform loses about 27 days a year to unplanned downtime, roughly $38 million per platform, with the worst performers approaching $88 million. Across the world’s largest industrial firms, unplanned downtime destroys an estimated $1.5 trillion annually — about 11% of turnover. The vision, economic analysis, and enterprise framework behind this new category are detailed in the accompanying white paper, “The Trillion-Dollar Gap.”
“The industry has spent thirty years solving this one way: hire experience,” said Dan Lejerskar, Founder and Chairman of EON AI Ventures. “There isn’t enough experience left to hire. Every retirement is an uncontrolled data deletion, and there’s no backup. You can’t recruit your way out of a shortage this size — you have to manufacture expertise. That’s what Work Intelligence does.”
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The fourth system of record
EON AI Ventures argues that the enterprise software stack has captured everything except the one asset that keeps people alive and plants running. ERP tracks what a company owns. CRM tracks who it sells to. PLM tracks what it builds. None of them ever captured what a company’s people “know”.
Work Intelligence is positioned as that fourth system of record — the system that captures, simulates, and transfers institutional expertise so that a three-week-trained new hire can perform like a five-year veteran, and so that the knowledge of a retiring 30-year expert becomes a permanent organizational asset instead of a loss.
Why physical AI, not just language models
The company’s central technical claim is that closing the gap requires more than a chatbot bolted onto a document library. “A large language model can describe a valve. It can’t run the plant,” said Lejerskar. EON fuses physical AI — a working model of the physics of real equipment — with language models, so the system understands the machine itself, not merely the manual. “Physics doesn’t hallucinate,” he added.
The Intelligence Flywheel
Work Intelligence is delivered through EON’s Intelligence Flywheel, in which each product compounds the value of the others:
- Genesis converts any standard operating procedure into a living, hands-on simulator, turning static documentation into practiced capability.
- Field IQ delivers the right procedural step into the right hands in the field through augmented reality, closing the gap at the exact moment of work.
- Assess IQ verifies competency before a worker touches live equipment, converting training from an assumption into evidence.
- Compound IQ feeds every training and field interaction back into the system, so institutional knowledge accumulates rather than dissipates.
- EON Universal converts field photographs into operable digital twins with live engineering attributes, extending the flywheel to real-world assets at scale.
The platform is orchestrated by EON Conductor, gated for trust and safety by EON Verdict, and governed by EON Switchboard, the company’s model-routing and governance layer.
Availability
Work Intelligence is available now for enterprise pilots. EON AI Ventures will take the category on the road with its Work Intelligence World Tour 2026, spanning the Gulf, India, and Asia.
Read more in the The Trillion-Dollar Gap white paper.
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About EON AI Ventures
EON AI Ventures is the company behind Work Intelligence — the captured, verified, and compounding knowledge of how expert work is actually done. Its Intelligence Flywheel platform (Genesis, Field IQ, Assess IQ) enables industrial enterprises to encode expert procedures into AI-guided simulations, deliver them to any worker on any device, and verify competency in the field. EON AI Ventures builds on a 25-year foundation of immersive learning technology deployed across more than 80 countries. For more information, visit www.eonaiventures.com