Kilsar
Kilsar, a Virginia Beach company, builds Orion, AI that captures the knowledge of experienced maintenance technicians through interviews and turns it into a troubleshooting assistant.
It raised a 3.7 million US dollar seed round in July 2025, led by Lightbank and Cotulla Capital, alongside a partnership with the Aviation Institute of Maintenance to modernise training. Orion uses knowledge graphs and retrieval-augmented generation, and its other customers are US Air Force and defence research awards. No commercial airline customer is recorded.
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Products & Solutions
1 productOrion
AI-powered maintenance knowledge platform that captures expert technician knowledge through NLP and AI-assisted interviews, transforms maintenance procedures into interactive step-by-step digital workflows, and delivers real-time contextual guidance, predictive analytics, and searchable enriched content to frontline maintenance workers in aviation and aerospace.
Aviation and aerospace maintenance organizations lose critical operational knowledge as veteran technicians retire. New and junior technicians waste up to 70 percent of maintenance time searching for information, leading to unplanned downtime, longer diagnosis cycles, and workforce readiness gaps. Orion digitizes and scales tribal knowledge to bridge this gap.
- AI assistant with Natural Language Processing (NLP) for searching maintenance manuals, work logs, and operational data
- Knowledge library for secure storage of operational and maintenance data, media assets, and documentation
- Custom workflow modules for building and modifying maintenance procedures and step-by-step guides
- Time tracking and historical-data-based task duration estimation
6 more features
- Work-log tracking across systems, components, users, and teams
- Context-aware guided troubleshooting with predictive analytics
- Retrieval-augmented generation for surfacing relevant documents, diagrams, and past solutions
- ATAK compatibility for federal government and defense use cases
- Hands-free augmented reality (AR) support for real-time data access
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and military-grade encryption (CMMC 2, SOC 2, IL-4, FedRAMP Low)
Technical specifications (9)
- Cloud-based SaaS deployment
- NLP and predictive analytics engine
- Knowledge graph and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architecture
- FedRAMP Low, NIST, and ITAR compliance
- CMMC 2 and SOC 2 certified security posture
- IL-4 data handling capability
- ATAK platform integration
- Augmented reality (AR) and extended reality (XR) support
- Multimedia content support (video, annotated diagrams, pro-tips)
- CMMC 2
- SOC 2
- FedRAMP Low
- ITAR compliant
- NIST compliant
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