ralph is an AI Inventory Agent for manufacturers. It plugs into your inventory, sales and invoicing systems, watches real orders draw materials down, and the moment stock crosses a safe level it reorders and pays the supplier itself — keeping the line running, on your own hardware, and without ever being able to misuse the company card.
Ralph in ~2½ minutes — what it does, the stack it runs on (Nemotron 120B · Hermes harness · NemoClaw · Stripe), and the broker wall, narrated over a real autonomous run, paced for camera. The Stripe charges and broker refusals are genuine test-mode — never a live card, by design.
Inventory and purchasing is reactive, manual, and easy to get wrong — one missed reorder means a stopped line and a late shipment. ralph owns that loop end-to-end.
Reads your inventory system, sales/orders database and invoicing. It knows what you have on hand, what's selling, and exactly what raw material each sale consumes.
Every order that ships draws raw materials down. ralph tracks live stock against each material's safe level — across every SKU, continuously, so nothing slips through.
The moment a material crosses its reorder point, ralph flags it on its own — no one has to notice first. (And it's learning to see it coming before it does.)
It places the purchase order, and the broker pays the supplier via Stripe. Restocked before you ran out — without anyone lifting a finger. The agent can ask; only the broker can pay.
Oversized or off-policy spends escalate to a human to approve first, and every move is written to a tamper-evident audit trail you can verify. You stay the owner; ralph does the legwork.
Most "agents that spend money" are demos with no real reason to exist. ralph does one concrete, expensive job — keeping a factory in materials — without the risks that stop companies from letting an agent touch money.
ralph reorders at safe levels from real demand, so production never halts for a missing part — fewer panic rush-orders, less cash frozen in dead stock.
It really places orders and pays suppliers — but a separate broker is the only thing that can move money, and it refuses anything off-policy. The agent holds no card. Safety by architecture.
Your inventory, suppliers, orders and margins never leave the building. ralph reasons on a local model and only switches to the cloud when you choose.
Built first for regulated contract manufacturers — ITAR/CMMC shops whose inventory, suppliers and margins legally can't go to the cloud. A stopped line runs into the thousands per hour; ralph reorders before stock runs out. Licensed per plant, on hardware you already own.
It can only request a sale or a purchase. It isn't the key-holder and has no payment code path — it cannot charge a card.
A separate process — the only holder of the Stripe key — checks SKU, price, quantity and budget before any dollar moves.
Every request crosses a locked-down container with no internet and no interpreters — the agent is never the key-holder and has no payment code path to Stripe.
It turns each run's mistakes into applied policy — after a shortage it raises that material's reorder point so it can't recur, and queues the next fixes to wire in.
Reasons on NVIDIA Nemotron 120B locally by default; flip one toggle to send a hard call to NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra in the cloud, then back. Privacy or horsepower, per decision.
Refuses to start on a live key. It runs strictly in Stripe test mode — real PaymentIntents, never a real card.
The broker can pay for services too — in the demo, ralph's logistics SaaS, per-shipment freight labels, and the cloud compute it uses all run through the same wall, via Stripe.
An oversized spend is blocked, not silently paid. On top of that, the dashboard adds a human Approve/Deny endpoint — the control surface for releasing the ones a person decides to.
Every dollar and decision is appended to a SHA-256 hash chain — an independently verifiable record where any edit breaks the chain (given a trusted head hash).
The same agent + broker + wall runs many plants as one automated company — a single operator watches the whole fleet.
This is what lets a manufacturer actually deploy it: even a confused or jailbroken agent holds no key and has no payment code path — only the broker, behind its rulebook, can move money.
The Hermes agent reads orders and inventory and decides what to reorder — reasoning locally, or on Nemotron 3 Ultra when you choose. It holds no key.
Every request passes through a locked-down container — no internet, no interpreters — to reach the broker.
The only process with the Stripe key checks the rulebook and pays — or refuses. No rule passes, no money moves.
What runs today is the foundation. Here's what ralph grows into — labeled honestly, because we only put our name on what's real.
Forecast demand from order history and supplier lead times, so ralph reorders ahead of the curve — not just when stock crosses a line.
Watch news and the company inbox for supplier delays, price spikes and shortages — and adjust the plan before they ever reach your floor.
Send the inventory owner and the CEO a plain-language report on a schedule: what it bought, what it prevented, and what to watch next.
One closed loop across the whole foundation: ralph is a Hermes agent that reasons on NVIDIA Nemotron locally and switches to NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra for hard calls, runs it safely inside NemoClaw, and uses Stripe Skills to pay for the very cloud compute it uses. The sponsors aren't bolted on — they power each other.
An AI inventory manager a real manufacturer could run today — on its own hardware, reordering and paying for materials, with a wall it can't get past.