Founder
Joshua D. Larkin
Cement-industry professional and AI product builder focused on practical decision-support systems for heavy industry.
Founder profile →About CementOps AI LLC
Built from plant experience. Designed for governed scale.
CementOps AI LLC is a founder-led industrial technology company building practical decision-support tools around the realities of cement operations.
Mission
Make hard-earned operating knowledge easier to apply, review, and transfer.
Cement operations depend on judgment developed over years: recognizing process behavior, understanding equipment constraints, evaluating evidence, and knowing when escalation is required.
CementOps organizes AI interaction around those workflows. The current platform provides advisory support without plant-system integration or autonomous action.
Customer-specific configuration, sensitive data, custom development, and integration are separate pathways requiring written scope and approval.
Operating principles
Advisory before autonomy
Qualified customer personnel retain operational, safety, regulatory, engineering, environmental, legal, and financial authority.
Evidence before expansion
A measured pilot should establish workflow value and control performance before broader rollout.
Customer-directed data use
Plant-specific information is not assumed. Its use requires explicit authorization and appropriate safeguards.
Global architecture, local governance
The platform can support producers across regions, while each use remains bounded by local law, language, policy, and professional review.
Commercial independence
CementOps is designed to serve multiple producers without giving one customer access to another customer’s information or control of the platform.
Claims must be supportable
Product, security, outcome, and market statements are reviewed against evidence and qualified when uncertainty remains.