RigidVault Sovereign Storage — Live & Accepting Customers

Your family’s legacy,
sovereign and safe.

RigidVault stores your photos, tapes, heirlooms, estate documents, and SOLIDWORKS engineering files on physical hardware in Michigan — not on Google’s servers. AI-curated, RAID-redundant, and yours forever. Engineering Vault from $149/mo.

Live — Accepting Clients

30 years of mechanical design.
Now your engineer
on demand.

SOLIDWORKS consulting, scan-to-drawing, FEA, CAM toolpath programming, and DFMEA — delivered as fixed-scope projects on five commercial SOLIDWORKS 2026 seats. No hourly billing. Michigan-based, remote available. Automotive, aerospace, defense, and biomedical.

In Development — Notify Me

The machine that thinks.
The platform that
remembers.

AI motion control, sovereign CNC systems, and 16-sensor telemetry for Michigan manufacturers. Your data stays sovereign. Your IP stays yours.

Founder Doctrine
“You cannot write policies fast enough to contain a technology that evolves faster than legislation. The answer is constitutional architecture — protections engineered as load-bearing walls, not paper rules.”
— Shaun Kavanagh, Founder & CEO, Kavanagh Industries

13

PRODUCT PILLARS

8

CNC MODELS

30+

YEARS ENGINEERING

5

USPTO FILINGS

140

AI MODULES

Engineering workstation
AI-augmented engineering
Sovereign infrastructure
Michigan sovereign hardware
Network infrastructure detail
Sovereign network stack
Kavanagh Industries
Clinton Township, Michigan USPTO Pending
Constitutional AI Governance  ·  April 2026

KI wrote the framework
the AI age requires.

Two proposed Constitutional Amendments and two implementing federal criminal statutes — governing every autonomous system that moves and every piece of personal data that flows. Written in Clinton Township, Michigan. Grounded in thirty years of engineering and a memory of a runaway RC car at Freedom Hill.

"You cannot write policies fast enough to contain a technology that evolves faster than legislation. The answer is constitutional architecture — protections engineered as load-bearing walls, not paper rules."

View the Full Series → RigidTrust Framework →
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Kavanagh Industries LLC
The KI Constitutional
AI Governance Series
XXVIII
Amendment XXVIII
Autonomous Systems Sovereignty
XXIX
Amendment XXIX
Personal Data Sovereignty
ASTA
Autonomous Systems Tampering Act
18 U.S.C. §§ 2801–2812
PDSA
Personal Data Sovereignty Act
18 U.S.C. §§ 2901–2920
View the Full Series →
Problems We Solve

Find your problem. We built the answer.

Every pillar in our ecosystem exists because a real problem needed solving. Click the one that sounds like yours.

RigidSense™ — The Nerves
“Your machine can’t feel.”
RigidPulse™ — The Brain
“Your controller hasn’t gotten smarter since the day you bought it.”
RigidVault™ — The Memory
“Your digital assets live on someone else’s computer.”
RigidCore™ — The Muscle
“You’re paying premium prices for the same commodity frame everyone else sells.”
RigidFlow™ — The Heart
“Good shops are starving while bad shops are busy.”
RigidReserve™ — The Bloodstream
“You’re sitting on material you forgot you own.”
RigidAero™ — The Eyes
“You can’t manufacture what you can’t measure.”
RigidUniversity™ — The Soul
“The people who know how to make things are retiring.”
RigidForge™ — The Engine
“You need an engineer to talk to your machine. Why?”
RigidTrust™ — The Guardian
“Nobody trusts the platform because no platform has earned it.”
RigidAI™ — The Intelligence
“General-purpose AI knows everything about everything and nothing about your shop.”
RigidSystems™ — The Integrator
“You bought twenty machines from five vendors and none of them talk to each other.”
RigidEngineering™ — The Consultant
“You need an engineer but you can’t hire one.”
RigidDrive Autonomous™ — The Explorer · On the Horizon
“Unmanned systems need manufacturing DNA — not just computer science.”
RigidHealth™ — The Caretaker · On the Horizon
“The machine has more health monitoring than the person running it.”
RigidGrid™ — The Optimizer · On the Horizon
“You have no idea what your shop actually costs to run.”
View all solutions with full stories →
The Vision

The Iron Man suit
for the American worker.

RigidAI is JARVIS. The worker is Tony Stark. Every pillar of the Kavanagh Industries ecosystem is a component of the suit — it doesn't replace human judgment, it gives capabilities no unassisted human could have. The machinist who wears the suit earns more, sees further, cuts faster, and never works blind again.

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The Brain

RigidPulse + RigidAI

AI motion control and predictive intelligence. Sees chatter before it happens, adjusts feeds in real time, speaks plain English.

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The Senses

RigidSense + RigidAero

16 sensor types plus drone and LiDAR scanning. The suit sees vibration, temperature, acoustics, power — everything the operator can't feel.

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The Muscle

RigidCore + RigidDrive

Patent-pending composite beam CNC machines with true BLDC servo motors. The physical power to cut anything from foam to steel.

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The Memory

RigidVault + Digital Birth Certs

Sovereign Michigan-sovereign storage. Every scan, every design, every part gets a forensic Digital Birth Certificate — legally defensible proof of origin. Engineering Vault adds sovereign SOLIDWORKS file indexing — metadata, BOM, mass properties, and 3D viewer links — from $149/mo.

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The Network

RigidFlow + RigidReserve

Zero-knowledge job matching and distributed material intelligence. The suit connects the worker to the global economy without exposing their IP.

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The Armor

RigidTrust + RigidRoyalty

Nine Bills of Rights, consent-based data, quarterly royalties. The armor protects the worker's dignity, data, and livelihood.

The Ecosystem Flywheel

More Nodes More Data Smarter AI Better Matching More Revenue More Nodes

Every RigidPulse installation generates sensor data. Data trains RigidAI. AI improves motion control and matching. Better outcomes attract more participants. The flywheel accelerates with every node added to the ecosystem.

Five-Layer Competitive Moat

01
Consent-Based AI

Only trains on opted-in data with royalties. Competitors scrape without permission.

02
Air-Gap Sovereignty

No cloud. No foreign servers. Hardware you own, in a facility you can visit.

03
15-Pillar Network

Sensors + AI + machines + marketplace + training + heritage + defense + energy + workforce. No competitor has the full stack.

04
Cultural Constitution

Nine Bills of Rights. Workers choose trust over extraction. Culture can't be cloned.

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TACOM Proximity

5 miles (8 km) from the Detroit Arsenal. Geographic advantage for defense manufacturing.

Products & Platform

Hardware, software, and services. One ecosystem.

Each product has a dedicated page with full specs, tiers, and technical details. Here's the overview.

The Muscle

RigidCore™ CNC Machines

8 models from 36" to 14 ft. Patent-pending composite beam. True BLDC servos. AI motion control from the factory.

View all models & specs →
Exclusive Motors

RigidCore™ Drive System

400W, 600W, and 750W BLDC servos. Sinusoidal FOC, absolute encoders, CAN bus. Built for RigidCore — available to the CNC community.

View motor specs →
The Brain

RigidPulse™ AI Motion Control

4 tiers from a plug-in Node for existing CNCs to a full Industrial system. Real-time chatter correction, predictive maintenance, natural language CNC.

View all tiers →
The Nerves

RigidSense™ Sensors

16 purpose-built CNC sensors plus upgrade packages. Factory-installed on RigidCore, field-installable on any machine.

View sensors & packages →
The Memory — Live & Accepting Subscribers

RigidVault™ Sovereign Storage

Your data, your hardware, your terms. Sovereign. RAID-redundant. 6 tiers from $5/mo Explorer to Sovereign. Heritage preservation built in.

View tiers & subscribe →
7 AI Curation Modules — All Live

Heritage & Storage Platform

Photos. Tapes. Documents. Objects. Art. Every format your family leaves behind — AI-curated, sovereign-vaulted, delivered on Michigan hardware. Two paths on every service.

View all 7 modules →
The Guardian

RigidTrust™ Nine Bills of Rights

Constitutional framework protecting creators, manufacturers, students, technicians, small shops, communities, heritage contributors, veterans, and constraining the AI itself.

Read the constitution →
5 Miles from the Detroit Arsenal

Defense & CMMC Readiness

CMMC 2.0 compliance path. NIST 800-171 architecture. Zero foreign cloud. NDAA FY2026 compliant. Built for TACOM.

View compliance details →
Macomb County — #1 Engineering Concentration in the US

AI Consulting for Local Manufacturers

642+ manufacturers within 15 miles. Free 30-min discovery call. Manufacturing-native AI consulting from the team that built the hardware.

Book a free call →
Clinton Township — Serving All of Macomb County

AI for Local Business

HVAC, dental, legal, contractors, auto shops and more. AI setup, web presence builds, sovereign backup, and an AI chatbot for your website. Audit starts at $299.

See all services →
The Intelligence

RigidAI™ & RigidRoyalty™

Sovereign industrial AI trained on real sensor data. 5% quarterly royalties to data contributors. Consent-based. Auditable.

Learn more →
15 Registered Pillars

View the Full Ecosystem

RigidFlow, RigidReserve, RigidAero, RigidUniversity, RigidForge, RigidSystems, RigidEngineering, and the next generation — Titan Tech Scans & Glimmer Scan Studio.

Explore all pillars →
RigidMemory™ · Heritage Preservation

Your family’s story deserves
a better archive than a Google Drive.

Photos, VHS tapes, 8mm film, slides, and estate documents — professionally digitized, AI-organized, and stored on Michigan hardware that belongs to you. Not a subscription that deletes your memories when you stop paying.

Starting at $399 · One-time digitization + permanent sovereign storage
See RigidMemory → Start with $5/mo Explorer →
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Your grandfather’s slides.
Your parents’ VHS tapes.
Forty years of family photos.

All on Michigan hardware.
All yours. Forever.
Find Your Path

Is KI right for me?

Two questions. We’ll point you to the right place.

What are you most trying to accomplish?
What matters most?
What stage is your project at?
What’s the biggest gap?
Who are you?
Your starting point
RigidVault Explorer — $5/mo
Sovereign storage on Michigan hardware. 100 GB, AI-curated, never auto-deleted.
See RigidVault →
Your starting point
RigidMemory — Heritage Preservation
Professional digitization: photos, VHS, film, documents. AI-organized, Michigan vault. From $399.
See RigidMemory →
Your starting point
Free 30-Min Discovery Call
SOLIDWORKS CAD, FEA, DFMEA — fixed-scope, no hourly billing. Book the free call.
See RigidEngineering →
Your starting point
Heritage & Industrial 3D Scanning
Professional scanning — parts become 3D models and engineering drawings. From $150.
See Scanning Services →
Your starting point
RigidPulse Node Retrofit
Retrofit your existing CNC with AI motion intelligence. No new machine required.
See RigidPulse →
Your starting point
RigidCore CNC — Pre-Order
Patent-pending composite beam frames, BLDC servos, RigidPulse AI built in. 8 models.
See RigidCore →
Your starting point
RigidUniversity — Student Track
AI-augmented vocational training, portable credentials, direct pathway into RigidFlow job matching.
See RigidUniversity →
Your starting point
Curriculum Gap Analysis — Free
Free assessment for CTE directors. We map your curriculum against the skills gap.
Book Free Assessment →
Team

Every pillar has a Kavanagh in it.

View full team page →

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Shaun Kavanagh

Founder & CEO

30 years precision engineering. First-named inventor, GM autonomous vehicle patent. KI patent pending.

Full bio & patents →

E

Emily McGillivray

COO

Operations, compliance, industrial security.

Criminology & cyber-forensics. Forensic chain of custody for RigidVault.

L

Liam Kavanagh

Dir. Technology

Hardware testing, SOLIDWORKS, scanning ops.

Founder, Titan Tech Scans™

K

Kathryn Kavanagh

Dir. Digital Art

Brand identity, design, creative direction.

Founder, Glimmer Scan Studio™

C

Connor Kavanagh

Vault Librarian

Data pipeline, asset intake, remote ops.

Remote-first

The engineer behind the platform

Shaun Kavanagh

Founder & CEO · Kavanagh Industries

Thirty years ago I was a kid from Fraser learning to read blueprints. I went on to design seats for autonomous vehicles at GM, turbine components for military and commercial jet programs, MRAP armor for soldiers who needed it, and implants that went inside human bodies. Every one of those jobs taught me the same lesson: the people who build the hardest things deserve the best tools.

Kavanagh Industries exists because the platform those builders needed did not exist. So we built it — in Michigan, on American hardware, with our family’s names on it. That’s not a brand story. That’s the whole reason.

Automotive — GM Advanced Vehicle Dev. Aerospace — GE Cincinnati Defense — MRAP Vehicles Biomedical — DePuy · Biomet Patent Pending Clinton Township, MI
Start with a free call → Full bio & patent record →
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Clinton Township, Michigan · Founder & CEO
⚡ Founding Member Access

Reserve your place
in the ecosystem.

We're accepting a limited number of founding members across every tier — shop owners, integrators, defense contractors, and heritage preservationists. Reserve now to lock founding pricing and get priority access when each product ships.

No payment required. Founding member pricing locked until launch. We'll reach out personally within 48 hours.

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AI tools for any small business.
Set up right.

HVAC. Dental. Legal. Electrical. Restaurants. Contractors. If you run a small business, you're losing hours every week to tasks AI handles in minutes — estimates, follow-up emails, meeting notes, customer questions, document drafts.

This is personal consulting by Shaun Kavanagh — the same person who built sovereign AI infrastructure for defense-adjacent manufacturing clients — applied to your workflows. Not a software subscription. Not a course. A real person who sets it up, trains your team, and makes sure it actually works.

Manufacturing AI Consulting → AI for Local Business →
AI consulting for small business — Kavanagh Industries
Step 1
AI Audit
$299 flat

2–3 hours. Written roadmap of your top AI wins delivered within 48 hours. No obligation.

Step 2
AI Setup
From $499

Full implementation. Custom GPT, automations, staff training. Audit fee credited.

Step 3 — Optional
AI Retainer
From $249/mo

Monthly check-ins, priority support, new tool rollouts handled for you. Month-to-month, cancel anytime.

🔧 HVAC 🦷 Dental ⚖️ Legal ⚡ Electrical 🔨 Contractors 🍽️ Restaurants + any small business
What Customers Say

Real people. Real sovereignty.

Finally a platform that doesn’t treat my data like a product. Michigan hardware, American law, and actually affordable — easy decision.

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Jayson S.
RigidVault Explorer · Nursing Director
✓ Verified RigidVault Customer

The discovery call turned into a scoped quote in under 30 minutes. They knew what I needed before I finished explaining it. On time, exactly right, no surprises.

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M. R.
RigidEngineering · Automotive Supplier
✓ Verified Engineering Customer

My grandfather’s slides, my parents’ VHS tapes, 40 years of family photos — all organized on hardware I can point to. This is what preservation should have always been.

D
D. K.
RigidMemory · Heritage Preservation
✓ Verified RigidMemory Customer
Contact

Let's build something.

Investor, partner, shop owner, or someone with heritage worth preserving — we'd like to hear from you.

[email protected]

Kavanagh Industries LLC — Michigan, USA
USPTO Patent Pending #63/991,057

Full Ecosystem Ownership Map 13 pillars — every page, one owner
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RigidAI

Kavanagh Industries · Always on