1 · Employers name the demand
10–20 Macomb-area employers, in one occupation family, state the roles they need filled: the skills, the credentials they trust, and the dates the openings land.
Axiovex Arcturus · its first cohort, the pilot · Macomb County, Michigan
Real openings → training that matches them.
The Axiovex pilot is the first cohort of Axiovex Arcturus, the workforce and capability planning program we are building for employers, universities, and the programs that place people into work — a program organizations participate in, not software anyone buys or licenses. The pilot is Arcturus’s method run on a first real cohort, so it can be proven before the program grows. The pilot connects employers, education, and people in one plan. Employers name the roles they actually need to fill. Training is matched to those roles — the skills, the courses, the credentials, and the timing — and a small first cohort trains against that plan, so the outcomes can be proven before anything scales.
Why this exists
Training usually starts from a catalog. This starts from a job.
Most training is planned from whatever courses already exist, and people come out the other side hoping the skills line up with a real opening. Employers feel the other half of the same problem: openings they cannot fill, in roles they can describe exactly.
The pilot turns that around. It begins with verified demand — the roles Macomb employers need filled, and when they need them filled — and builds the shortest honest bridge between that demand and the people who could do the work: the skills to add, the courses and credentials that teach them, and a schedule that fits real lives.
That planning is data-first and constraint-based: seats, schedules, budgets, and prerequisites are treated as hard limits, not fine print. The planning is AI-accelerated, with the aim of finishing in time to matter — including before a layoff lands, not after it; whether it is faster than the committee process it replaces, on the same inputs, is one of the things the first cohort is designed to test. The program’s foresight work uses a proposed planning horizon of 6 to 36 months ahead of displacement, with the indicators shown, not hidden; how much predictive lead time that horizon actually delivers is still to be validated.
The shape of the pilot
Small on purpose. Measured on purpose.
2 · The plan is built from the demand
One education institution and Axiovex match that demand to skills, courses, credentials, and cohort timing — a plan that respects the real constraints on every side: class seats, work schedules, prerequisites, and budgets.
3 · One cohort trains against the plan
Twenty to thirty participants take the bridge that was built for them — students, graduates, and working people moving into the roles the employers named.
4 · Outcomes are measured and reported
Starts, completions, hires, and whether people stay in the roles — counted, and reported plainly to everyone at the table. Nothing scales until the first cohort's results say it should.
One institution10–20 Macomb-area employers20–30 participantsOne occupation family
The program behind the pilot
One program. Every real limit in the plan.
The pilot is Arcturus run on one real cohort, first and small. The program behind it does the same planning at larger scale, with an optimization solver — the program’s engine — doing the planning, and an independent check on what it produces. Three kinds of planning share one shape: real demand, real limits, and a plan that has to respect all of them at once.
How Arcturus works as a program: Arcturus is a workforce program, managed and operated by Axiovex Systems. Employers, universities, operators, and partners participate; nobody buys, licenses, or subscribes to it. It works on the resources organizations already have — the people, programs, equipment, and budgets in place today. Arcturus is not a job board, and it does not work with individual job seekers. Individual services — advising, training delivery, and placement — are provided by the participating organizations under their own authority, not by Arcturus. Where organizations are introduced, the introduction is made only with both organizations’ consent and ends at the exchange of contact information; Arcturus is not a broker, and Axiovex is never compensated per referral, placement, or outcome. The pilot is how the first cohort is proven.
In preparation: the first cohort is forming Workforce planning
Plan at the level of roles and cohorts: which roles the cohort is being prepared for, what skills or credentials are missing, what closes the gap, and by when — with seats, schedules, budgets, and prerequisites treated as hard limits. When no plan fits, Arcturus says which limits bind and what change would unblock it. The pilot on this page is this planning, run first on one small cohort as a pre-production pilot.
In development — designed, not yet offered Equipment & capability planning
The same planning, applied to machines, test capacity, and engineering hours. A participating company states the work it has to get done and the capacity it can bring to it, and the plan levels that work against real deadlines.
Arcturus is also being designed to notice fit across companies — a shop overloaded on CNC work against a participating company whose CNC machines sit open. What a match can lead to is an introduction, and only an introduction — and the matching itself is a designed capability still in development: it is not a live offer, and no matching is happening today. In the design, neither company is named to the other while a fit is checked. Each company is then asked, separately, about that one match: agree, and only your contact information goes to the other company; decline, and the other company is not told you were asked — and declining costs you nothing. Arcturus can introduce companies that consent to be introduced. After the introduction, companies work together directly, in their own systems. Arcturus is not a broker and takes no part in any arrangement between companies — and no compensation under the program is ever calculated per referral, per placement, or per retained outcome. Anything the companies later do together — quotes, purchase orders, payment, the work itself — is theirs alone, in their own systems: Axiovex charges nothing for an introduction, Arcturus processes no payments, and Arcturus tracks nothing past the introduction itself. For manufacturing, capability data is designed to move on the Catena-X dataspace standard, not a proprietary one (the standard’s US hub is at AIAG in Southfield). That is a direction for the exchange layer, not a membership: Axiovex is not a Catena-X member today.
In development — a named capability of the program Transferable-skills mapping
Skills travel further than job titles suggest. Arcturus maps the skills a person or crew already has against the skills a different role requires, and prices the gap: which skills are missing, what training closes them, how long it takes, and what it costs. An aviation mechanic’s skills sit close to ride-system maintenance; a defense simulation technician’s sit close to show-control systems. Every recommendation names the gap and the path that closes it — and a transfer is never recommended across a required credential unless the credential path is priced in.
Use Arcturus the way you already work. Arcturus is being built to be driven from your own AI assistant, from this website, or a mix of both — one program, reached the way that suits you. That holds for everyone who takes part: participants, educators, operators, and Axiovex’s own staff. This is how the program is being built to be used; it is not open access today, and the waitlist below remains the way in.
The boundary is Axiovex’s job. Arcturus is being built so the boundary does not depend on anyone’s AI tool behaving well: participating organizations are isolated from each other on our side, on the server, by design; an AI assistant is given only the least data its task needs; every agent works under its own organization’s agent policy, and an agent’s attestation is enforced only where it is cryptographically bound, at the lowest scopes an attestation is the agent’s own assertion, and it is treated that way; and every agent access is written to a disclosure log the organization can read. Your data stays yours: under this design, organizations are isolated from each other on our side, no matter what AI tools another organization uses. The custody design goes further — and it is a design goal, not a live feature today: Arcturus is being designed so no single party, Axiovex included, can read another organization’s records alone, with each record’s keys held under the organization’s own control.
Where this goes
Michigan first. The map is drawn to travel.
Arcturus starts in Michigan — the pilot, the data, and the first proof are here. The program is not tied to one industry or one state: a new region is a configuration of the same solver and the same program, not a new program. A second home is being studied on paper: Central Florida, where resorts and entertainment engineering run on transferable skills at scale — mechanics moving to ride systems, simulation technicians to show control — and where vendor capacity and equipment sharing decide whether tight refurbishment windows are met. That is a direction, recorded as a concept. It is not an announcement: Axiovex has no Florida operation and no Florida participants today. The program is built for state-led workforce pilot programs. A federal pilot program written around this model — the Workforce Foresight and Planning Pilot Act — exists today as a proposed concept: it has not been introduced in Congress, and it has no bill number and no sponsor.
Who participates
Built for everyone at the table.
Arcturus is a program, so the right word is participate. These are the organizations and people the program is built for. Being named here means the program is designed with them in mind — never that any of them has signed on.
For employers
A hiring pipeline that starts with your openings.
Tell us the roles you genuinely need to fill — the skills, the count, the timing — and the training plan is built from that demand, not from a course catalog.
Meet participants who trained against your requirements: the skills bridge is aimed at your openings from day one.
Prove it small first. The first cohort is deliberately small, with outcomes measured and reported plainly — so you see evidence before anyone asks you to commit to more.
Shape what comes next: employers in the first cohort help decide whether the model earns a second, larger round.
For universities and educators
Curriculum aimed at demand you can verify.
Plan courses and cohorts against named employer demand — which skills, in what order, ready by when — instead of forecasting alone.
Fill seats with participants whose goal is a specific, real opening at the end of the bridge.
Time the cohort to the employers’ hiring calendar, so completion and openings land together.
See the results in the open: starts, completions, and hires are measured and reported, the same numbers the employers see.
The program is also being built to support program review — demand, seats, costs, and graduate outcomes side by side, so decisions to grow, update, combine, or retire a program start from evidence. Arcturus opens the review; the institution decides.
For operators and workforce agencies
A cohort plan run against real openings.
For Job Corps-style operators, workforce boards, and agencies: plan a cohort against named employer demand — which roles the cohort is being prepared for, who is ready, and which training is still missing — before the cohort starts, not after it ends.
Outcomes are counted the way your programs are already graded: credentials earned, placements made by the serving organizations, and whether people are still working quarters later.
Status, plainly: the operator view is designed now, and it is built when the first operator participation begins.
For participants
A bridge to a real job, built before you need it.
Train for openings that actually exist. The plan starts from employers’ real demand, so the skills you build point at named roles — not at a job board’s worth of maybes.
Know the whole route up front: the skills to add, the courses and credentials that teach them, and the timing — laid out before you start, not discovered as you go.
If your plant or employer has changes coming, this is the version of retraining that can start before a layoff, while there is still time to plan.
Twenty to thirty seats keeps the first cohort small enough that every participant is a person in the plan, not a row in a spreadsheet.
For ecosystem partners
The organizations that convene the region.
Arcturus is also built for the ecosystem around the work — accelerators and venture groups, organizations like Velocity, NewLab, and OU Inc, that bring employers and founders into the same room. When partner views arrive, a partner sees the regional picture in aggregate: where demand is growing, how cohorts are moving, and where capability sits idle — never a company’s or a person’s identifiable information. Aggregate views use only information participants provide to the program, and only in totals no single company or person can be picked out of.
The honest status today: Axiovex is seeking its first ecosystem partners, and none are signed. Naming the kind of organization the program is built for is not a claim that any of them is involved.
If convening is your work, the waitlist below has an Ecosystem partner option under “I am joining as.”
The waitlist
Join the pilot waitlist.
The first cohort is small, and its seats, employer places, and the institution's planning all start with the people on this list. Joining takes a minute — and the form below is the whole of it. Arcturus accounts belong to organizations; individual participants hold no accounts and take part through the organization that serves them.
Contacted when the cohort opens
When the cohort opens, we contact the people on this list — employers and the institution included.
A briefing before anything launches
As the pilot takes shape — the occupation family, the timeline, what participation involves — we send the list a briefing in plain language before anything launches.
A first conversation that starts from your needs
That is why the form asks what you are hoping to gain: so the first conversation starts from what you actually need, not from our pitch.
No obligation
Joining the waitlist is an expression of interest in participating in the program — it is not enrolling, and it commits you to nothing. You can leave the list at any time, and saying no later costs you nothing.
Pilot waitlist form
A minute of form, one confirmation email, and you are on the list. Tell us what you are hoping to gain — so the first conversation starts from what you actually need.
Check your inbox.
We sent a confirmation email to the address you gave us. Click the link in it — good for 48 hours — and your place on the waitlist (and any other list you checked) is confirmed. No click, no place held: that is the deal, and it keeps the list honest.
Said plainly
What the waitlist is — and is not.
The first cohort is small, and it is in Macomb County
One institution, 10–20 employers, 20–30 participants, one occupation family. If you are outside that shape, the waitlist still matters — later cohorts are planned from the demand this one records — but the first seats follow the first cohort's shape.
A place on the waitlist is not a guarantee of a seat
Seats are allocated against the occupation family and the employers' named demand when the cohort opens. If the match is not there, we will tell you plainly, and your place rolls to the next cohort's list.
Training aimed at a real opening is not a promise of a job
Employers make their own hiring decisions. What the pilot guarantees is the attempt, done properly: real demand, a real bridge, and honest reporting of what happened.
The pilot launches when its pieces are confirmed
The institution, the employers, and the cohort. If it does not come together, the waitlist hears that first, from us, directly.
Arcturus is a program, not a product for sale
Nobody buys, licenses, or subscribes to Arcturus. It is a workforce program managed by Axiovex Systems, and organizations take part under participation agreements.
Corrections and updates
No corrections or updates recorded since publication.
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