Agent Zed
Ask Zed anything about your plant.
Or hand it the work.
Agent Zed knows every reading, log, and document your plant has produced, ready to answer, analyze, or report, on demand or on schedule.
Ask Zed
Your AI process engineer is ready for any question
Ask Zed in any language, and get deeply reasoned answers grounded in your plant's own data, with its confidence score, and reasoning. Zed can analyze, apply models, chart data, and can even configure your Pani platform features.
Diagnose from a photo
Send a photo of a gauge, an alarm screen, or a chart. Zed reads it and tells you what's wrong, not just what it sees.
Chart it on the spot
Ask for a trend, a comparison, or a correlation, and Zed builds the chart right there in the conversation.
Drop in a CSV
Give Zed a spreadsheet of readings and it writes the data straight into your plant record, no import screen required.
Set up the platform for you
Ask Zed to configure a dashboard, an alert, or a report, and it can make the change directly, not just tell you how.
Zed Jobs
If it's not hands on, it's a job for Zed
Zed takes on any recurring monitoring, analysis, or reporting your team does by hand. Write the job in plain language, or have Ask Zed draft it for you, then set the cadence and who receives it. It joins your plant's standing jobs and runs on schedule.
Job name
Prompt for Zed
How often
Days
Who gets the results
- Anomaly CheckWeekly · Mon, Wed, Fri · 9:00 AMActive
- Morning Briefing — DigesterDaily · 9:00 AMActive
- Digester Chemistry AnalysisWeekly · Wed, Fri · 9:00 AMActive
- Blower SEC DriftWeekly · Mon · 9:00 AMActive
- UV Disinfection MarginDaily · 6:00 AMActive
- Biosolids Capacity PlanningWeekly · Wed · 8:00 AMPaused
Zed performs fresh analysis each time
On schedule, Zed performs its work and delivers a complete brief, findings, reasoning and next steps, if any. So Zed may read all-clear one week, or surface a critical anomaly the next.
Anomaly Check · Aug 5, 9:01 AM
Data anomaly report — last 7 days
| Metric | Issue | Value | Target | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centrate TSS | Above critical threshold | 172 mg/L | < 150 mg/L | Critical |
| Cake % TS | Below target | 17.8% | > 18% | Warning |
| Effluent TSS | Unusually low average | 2.1 mg/L | Normal 5.4 mg/L | Info |
Key insights
- 1.Centrate TSS spike (172 mg/L): recycles excess solids back to headworks and cuts treatment efficiency. Exceeds the 150 mg/L limit — needs immediate attention.
- 2.Centrifuge cake performance: 17.8% is just below the 18% target but above the 14% critical line. Check polymer dosing or feed characteristics.
- 3.Effluent TSS: unusually good at 2.1 mg/L against 5.4 historical. Low variability points to excellent clarifier operation — no action needed.
- 4.Manual data quality: all 6 cake-moisture grab samples were in range. No data-entry errors detected.
Action items
Address the centrate TSS spike (centrifuge operation, polymer dosing, feed rate). All manual entries appear accurate.
Complete history of job performance
- Aug 5Critical
Centrate TSS above the 150 limit — needs attention. Manual entries all clean.
- Aug 3Clear
No anomalies. Effluent TSS 35% below average; flows 8% lower (typical summer).
- Jul 31Info
Effluent TSS improved 48%. Missing influent BOD for the week — verify sampling.
- Jul 29Critical
Centrate TSS critically high at 172 mg/L — check centrifuge and polymer dosing.
- Jul 27Clear
Effluent TSS excellent (56% below baseline). Manual gaps in rainfall and pH. No data errors.
The kind of jobs Zed can do
The same shape of job runs at a wastewater plant, a desal train and a bottling line. Only the specifics change.
Process advisors
What to do next. Which basin mode to run tonight, when to bring a well back on, whether to move the coagulant dose before the storm arrives.
Optimizers
The cheaper way to hit the same number. Which well, which blower, which train is costing more than it should, and what it would take to fix.
Forecasts and early warnings
Before it lands, with a date where there is one. Nitrification in January. Scaling in July. The cleaning that's twelve days out.
Analyzers
Why it happened. Zed takes the performance drop apart and names the cause, instead of confirming the symptom you already saw.
Anomaly detectors
What you didn't think to watch. Monitors check what you asked for. Detectors find the rest.
Monitors and watchdogs
Continuous watch on the thing that matters, and it tells you the moment it moves. Turbidity margin, membrane integrity, a pH that shouldn't be drifting.
Margin trackers
How much room is left before you're out. Tracked between lab samples, not after them.
Reporters
The daily production summary, the monthly operating report, the shift handoff. Written before you get in.
Apply Zed's skills to any plant or process
Zed jobs in action
The Zed shift handover
It runs before the shift arrives
The handover job fires on the schedule you set, ahead of the incoming crew.
It reads the last 24 hours
Zed pulls every system and checks it against your permit limits and your targets.
It writes the handover
What moved, what didn't, what's trending toward a problem, and what the incoming operator should look at first.
It only knows your plant. That's the point.
Four things go into every answer:
Your plant's data.
Every sensor, every rounds, log sheet or data form entry, every lab result you've collected. Zed cleans up the data, and can flag obviously miskeyed values for correction.
Your documents.
SOPs, O&M and OEM manuals, P&IDs, PFDs, design specs, commissioning reports, whatever you've uploaded.
Your plant's context.
Zed knows your permit limits, your seasonal patterns, your maintenance rules, your performance targets, and that the train you call RO-1 is the one with the older membranes. It built that picture during your audit.
Pani's water-treatment knowledge base.
Process models and domain expertise built specifically for water treatment, not scraped from the open internet.
Zed only sees data connected to your Pani account. And it's read-only: it cannot change a setpoint, acknowledge an alarm, or take any action in your control system. It tells you what it found. You decide what to do.
Every answer shows its work
Check it yourself.
Sources
Every metric and document Zed drew on, each one linking straight into Explore so you can open the chart and see the number yourself.
Steps
The path Zed took to get there, so the reasoning is visible instead of implied.
Confidence score
How sure Zed is about the answer, so you know when to take it and when to look closer.
At the end of the day, it's the operator that is accountable for the control of the plant. So it's important you know the basis of any analysis or recommendation by Zed. That's why Zed shows its work.
Each source names the metric Zed used and links straight into Explore, so you can open the chart and see the number yourself. If Zed cites a pressure drop, you're two clicks from the trend that shows it. The steps show how Zed got from that data to that conclusion, including any math it calculated.
"Isn't this just ChatGPT?"
Zed is specialized
A general LLM only knows what you provided in its current chat. Since it's not grounded in your entire plant's assets, history and process, it doesn't know what it doesn't know.
Zed has the entire picture.
It starts from your plant
Your data, your documents, your permit limits and your seasonal patterns. Not the open internet.
It shows its work
Every answer comes back with the sources it used and a confidence score, so you can check it rather than trust it.
It says when it can't
When Zed doesn't have what it needs, it tells you, and names the document that would close the gap.
Pani Core
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Agent Zed is included in Pani Core. It's the reason Core exists. Ask Zed and Zed Jobs both, on every plant, from day one.
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