April Tech was founded by a materials science engineer and a software engineer who spent years staring at the same spreadsheet-and-paper monitoring systems we're now replacing. Built in California. Built for the floor.
Industrial AI has been a Fortune 500 story for fifteen years. The companies who could spend $200,000 on a process analytics suite got smarter. Everyone else got told to wait for prices to come down.
April was built to end that asymmetry. Software-only, PLC-direct, accessible to the 50,000+ small and mid-size US plants who still run on Excel — and architected to scale up with them as they grow.
A founding team with deep industrial experience and the technical chops to build the underlying platform from scratch.
After spending years in the manufacturing domain, I watched factories lose hundreds of thousands of dollars to problems that were already visible in their process data but were never surfaced in time. I founded April so that manufacturers still relying on spreadsheets and paper logs could access the same early-warning capabilities that Fortune 500 companies have had for the past twenty years.
I have spent over seven years building applications for industrial environments, with a strong focus on using AI to solve real-world operational problems. During this time, I saw how often industrial software fails the people it is meant to support — tools that take months to deploy, dashboards that operators ignore, and alerts that become noise within days. April was founded from the belief that AI can make industrial software more practical, proactive, and impactful — helping manufacturers identify issues early and take action before small problems turn into expensive failures.
Every email gets a response from one of us within one business day. No SDR funnel, no calendar gauntlet. Just a real conversation.
