Built here, for the people who keep industry running.
We've been working in Middle Tennessee since 2006 — first as Articulate Web Services, building and keeping the systems that small businesses here run on, and now as Articulate Works, carrying that work onto the shop floor. Our founder, Todd Burgett, spent his career inside the machines in this region's stamping, fabrication, and machining shops — fixing them, setting them up, and watching what the best hands knew walk out the door one retirement at a time. We built this platform to keep that knowledge on the floor, credit the people who carry it, and prove the safety around it without pointing a camera at anyone.
Our commitment to the shops around us
Safety, verified — not assumed. A lockout is proven by who was there, with what lock, authorized by a named supervisor, in a record that can't be quietly edited. Refusals are recorded as firmly as approvals. The system never controls or stops a machine; your controls and your guarding stay yours.
Privacy by architecture, not policy. No camera is used to identify anyone. No image is captured, stored, or transmitted. Identity is the associate's badge and their own engraved lock, sent as text. Drivers aren't watched. Operators aren't scored. There is nothing visual to subpoena because nothing visual exists.
Knowledge stays where it was earned. Every person on the floor can record what they learned on a machine. A supervisor verifies it; the contributor is credited on a ledger that can't be gamed; the next person sees it first. The OEM manual remains the authority — field notes sit beside it, never over it.
Your data is yours. Records belong to the shop that made them. We don't sell them, mine them, or share them.
Why local matters to us
Middle Tennessee builds things — presses in Manchester, controls in Nashville, steel in Ashland City, stampings up and down the I-65 corridor from Portland to Murfreesboro. The people in those shops trained us. The first floors this runs on will be within an hour of Goodlettsville, with us standing there, because that's how a safety tool should be proven: on real iron, by the people who'll use it, before it's offered to anyone else.
If you run a shop in this region and you've lost know-how to a retirement, or you'd like your lockout record to survive a hard look, call us. We'll show you on one of your machines, with nothing to install and nothing owed. If it isn't useful, you'll know in ten minutes and so will we.
And to the world
The principles don't change at the county line. Lockout is lockout in any language; a retiring technician's knowledge is worth the same in Querétaro or Taichung as in Gallatin; and a worker's face doesn't need to be on a server for his work to be verified. What is proven here is offered anywhere, under the same rules: no camera, no invented numbers, nothing promised that isn't built.
What's running today: the handheld capture, supervisor verification with the Q-Token™ ledger, remote lockout verification without a camera, the tamper-evident record, measured downtime, and the manager dashboard. Four U.S. provisional patent applications are on file. No pilot site is signed yet. The first shop in gets the platform at the beginning — and us on its floor.
Talk to us.
todd@articulateworks.com · Goodlettsville, Tennessee · Ira answers the phone and Todd answers the questions. Ask her for a human and she rings him through; otherwise she takes the message and he calls you back himself.