Built by people who have run plastics operations.

Built by people who have run plastics operations.

Thermoform.ai is not a Silicon Valley AI product that discovered manufacturing. It was built by people who have spent careers in plastics processing and training.

They know the problems from the floor up.

Thermoform.ai is not a Silicon Valley AI product that discovered manufacturing. It was built by people who have spent careers in plastics processing and training.

They know the problems from the floor up.

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Conor Carlin


Founder - Clefs Advisory / thermoform.ai

Conor Carlin brings decades of experience across the plastics industry to the commercial development of thermoform.ai. Clefs Advisory works with plastics processors and adjacent industries on strategic advisory and market development. The thermoform.ai pilot program is managed through Clefs Advisory.


Founder - ClefsAdvisory / thermoform.ai

Conor Carlin brings decades of experience across the plastics industry to the commercial development of thermoform.ai. Clefs Advisory works with plastics processors and adjacent industries on strategic advisory and market development. The thermoform.ai pilot program is managed through Clefs Advisory.

Conor Carlin founder of thermoform.ai
Derek Moeller founder of CognitionWorks

Derek Moeller


Founder - CognitionWorks

Derek Moeller founded CognitionWorks after years running a plastics processing operation. He acquired a distressed manufacturer during the Great Recession, executed a classic industry recovery and encountered firsthand the knowledge management challenges that affect every mid-market converter.

Sprocket emerged from internal experimentation with large language models to solve persistent operational headaches. It now serves manufacturers across the sector.


Founder - CognitionWorks

Derek Moeller founded CognitionWorks after years running a plastics processing operation. He acquired a distressed manufacturer during the Great Recession, executed a classic industry recovery and encountered firsthand the knowledge management challenges that affect every mid-market converter.

Sprocket emerged from internal experimentation with large language models to solve persistent operational headaches. It now serves manufacturers across the sector.

Founder - CognitionWorks

Derek Moeller founded CognitionWorks after years running a plastics processing operation. He acquired a distressed manufacturer during the Great Recession, executed a classic industry recovery and encountered firsthand the knowledge management challenges that affect every mid-market converter.

Sprocket emerged from internal experimentation with large language models to solve persistent operational headaches. It now serves manufacturers across the sector.

Mark Strachan

Founder - GTTI

Mark Strachan built the Global Thermoform Training Institute over 25 years. His library of training materials — thousands of documents, troubleshooting guides, process tools, and resin and tooling guidance — forms the content backbone of thermoform.ai.

It is the most comprehensive thermoforming-specific knowledge base assembled in a single platform. No general-purpose AI model comes close to its depth on forming-specific process questions.

Mark Strachan Founder of Global Thermoform Training Inc

Capture tribal knowledge - before it walks out the door.

Capture tribal knowledge -
before it walks out the door.

Capture tribal knowledge - before it walks out the door.