# Apprentice: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apprentice/
Covers: Aug. 21, 2025 to April 15, 2026
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Apprentice: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/apprentice/, updated 2026-11-11

> Apprentice is on the AI manufacturing operations software map. We record 3 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated April 15, 2026.

"The AI-native platform for manufacturing teams. MES, LES, digital work instructions, and agentic AI, connected across your enterprise." Life sciences and process manufacturers run paperless batch execution, lab execution and guided work with Apprentice. A1 is a standalone AI agent that troubleshoots alarms, drafts documents, runs investigations and acts across MES, ERP and SCADA. Source: [apprentice.io](https://www.apprentice.io/).

## Facts

- Site: [apprentice.io](https://www.apprentice.io/)
- Founded: [2014](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-apprentice)
- Category: MES and operations management
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI manufacturing operations software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-apprentice)

"The AI-native platform for manufacturing teams. MES, LES, digital work instructions, and agentic AI, connected across your enterprise." Life sciences and process manufacturers run paperless batch execution, lab execution and guided work with Apprentice. A1 is a standalone AI agent that troubleshoots alarms, drafts documents, runs investigations and acts across MES, ERP and SCADA. Source: [apprentice.io](https://www.apprentice.io/).

- Category: MES and operations management
- Price: A1: free individual tier, team plans from $100 per month; MES and suite sales-led
- AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production execution, Work instructions and Quality event analysis
- Scale: Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed ($207 million in venture funding, stated in its April 2026 release; executes over 30 million requests a month)
- Founded: 2014

Sources: [apprentice.io](https://www.apprentice.io/), [apprentice.io](https://www.apprentice.io/product/a1-agent), [apprentice.io](https://www.apprentice.io/product/manufacturing-execution-system), [apprentice.io](https://www.apprentice.io/learn/newsroom) and [newswire.com](https://www.newswire.com/news/apprentice-io-unleashes-a1-the-first-autonomous-ai-built-exclusively-22763633).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### Apprentice launches A1, a standalone AI agent for manufacturing

Launch, April 15, 2026. A1 sits above the plant's systems of record, ingests data from ERP, MES, SCADA and historians and runs role-matched agents for troubleshooting, investigations, documentation and risk assessments. It is available now, with a free individual tier.

Source: [Vendor release](https://www.newswire.com/news/apprentice-io-unleashes-a1-the-first-autonomous-ai-built-exclusively-22763633). From [the AI manufacturing operations software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-apprentice).

### Apprentice acquires Ganymede

Acquisition, Jan. 21, 2026. Apprentice bought Ganymede to build an AI-native platform that spans R&D through commercial manufacturing.

Source: [Vendor newsroom listing](https://www.apprentice.io/learn/newsroom). From [the AI manufacturing operations software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-apprentice).

### Agentic AI added to the Apprentice pharma MES

Launch, Aug. 21, 2025. Apprentice briefed analysts on agents for authoring, quality and process in its MES. Authoring and quality agents were due in the September 2025 release, process in limited release, scheduling and continuous improvement agents by year end.

Source: [Tech-Clarity](https://tech-clarity.com/pharma-mes-agentic-ai/22655). From [the AI manufacturing operations software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-apprentice).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology