Toni Kuusi

THE PERSON BEHIND THE PROJECTSToni Kuusi

First machines.
Then code.
Always curiosity.

I am Toni, a mechanical engineer from Tammela, Finland. I have designed machines, managed international equipment deliveries and developed my own inventions into products.

Today I combine that experience with AI. I am especially interested in what it can achieve in real work: on site, at the engineering desk and in new experiments.

Explore my experience

2008→

Mechanical design
and project management

4

One European patent
and three utility models

2017

Kuusi Design Oy
founded

Background and technical expertise

2025 —

AI as a practical tool

Documentation assistants, multilingual project management and contract analysis. Application development, testing and production monitoring.

TEKOÄLY

2017 —

Kuusi Design Oy

I founded a part-time business to commercialise my inventions, including the SmartLift and SmartFlip kitchen mechanisms.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

2008 —

Mechanical design & project management

Custom personnel lifts for the pulp and paper industry and remotely operated window-cleaning machines for cruise ships. Responsibility from design to customer commissioning.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Industrial experience

Mechanical designer and project manager in industrial equipment manufacturing since 2008.
Design and management of a ten-unit delivery of unique machines for major cruise ships.
International supply chains, customer negotiations, crew training, commissioning and troubleshooting.

Inventions

SmartLift-keittiömekanismi — European patent.
SmartFlip-keittiömekanismi — utility model.
Two utility-model inventions for the pulp industry.

IP images

Patent and utility-model drawings from my inventions.

SmartLift-keittiömekanismin patenttikuva — SmartLift · European patent

SmartFlip-keittiömekanismin utility modelkuva — SmartFlip · utility model

Selluteollisuuden ensimmäisen utility modeln kuva — Pulp industry · utility model 1

Selluteollisuuden toisen utility modeln kuva — Pulp industry · utility model 2

Education

2013: YAMK
Technology competence management
2007: Bachelor of Engineering
Mechanical and automation engineering
Tampere University of Applied Sciences

AI expertise

Source-grounded assistants, citations and multilingual use.
Action-taking assistants with user confirmation.
Voice and image input within workflows.
Automated testing of answer quality.
Multi-agent AI collaboration through shared documentation.

Tools I build with

CodexClaudeGoogle AI StudioGeminiCloud RunFirebaseFirestoreReactTypeScriptPlaywrightGitHub Actions

Mechanical design×AI applications×Project management×Inventions

WHY THIS WEBSITE?

From technology
to practical value.

AI is advancing quickly. In my experience, companies want to use it, but adopting new ways of working and the lack of concrete examples slow implementation.

I combine industrial and mechanical-engineering knowledge with AI expertise. This site presents applications and experiments I have built as practical examples of AI at work.

WHAT I BUILD

AI for
real work.

I build applications for industry and expert work, connecting AI with existing knowledge, workflows and everyday work.

Put technical knowledge to work

Operating, maintenance and diagnostics manuals can become searchable knowledge, finding the right answer without browsing stacks of documents.

View the documentation assistant

Support everyday project work

Equipment-specific notes, photos, instructions and multilingual communication can be brought together for site teams and project management.

View project management

A working, monitored solution

An AI application creates value only if it still works tomorrow. Its operation can be tested automatically and exceptions handled quickly.

View application monitoring

FREQUENTLY ASKED

Questions about AI applications.

Can AI answer from a company’s own instructions?

Yes. Operating, maintenance and diagnostics material can be prepared for AI so the assistant answers from the correct source.

Does the documentation need to be prepared first?

Yes. The documentation should be sound to begin with. I normally refine the material with the customer into a clear, AI-readable format, while identifying conflicts and gaps before deployment.

Can the solution work in several languages?

Yes. Multilingual support can be built into the workflow so users ask and receive guidance in their own language.

How is application reliability ensured?

Automated checks can regularly test the critical user journey and answer quality.

BUILT THROUGH PRACTICE

Selected projects.

Practical AI at work. Here are a few examples.

All projects 9

Opening screen of the Sturmi learning game: drive a tank through the history of World War II

Educational gamePublished · 2026

Sturmi — World War II learning game

A browser game for the Finnish eighth-grade history curriculum takes the player through nine checkpoints from Poland to Berlin. Briefings, concepts, missions, newspapers and questions form one learning path.

Technical supportIn production

Technical documentation assistant

Turn operating, maintenance and electrical documentation into searchable knowledge in the user’s own language.

Project managementIn production

Multilingual project management

A platform developed for my own project-management work brings installation-team notes, photos, instructions and status together by equipment, including multilingual sites.

Quality assuranceIn production

AI application monitoring

Automated monitoring tests deployed AI applications through the same path as a real user and alerts immediately when something no longer works as expected.

ContractStorm workflow from contract upload to clear risk findings

Document analysisIn production

ContractStorm Intelligence

AI-assisted contract risk analysis from the buyer’s or supplier’s perspective, developed into a commercial production application with Diamond Consulting.

TRY IT YOURSELF

Try a real
AI assistant.

Open the public Harvia AI Assistant, ask the manual and verify the answer from the original source.

PUBLIC HARVIA DEMO

Ask the
manual
directly.

Write your own question or use a suggested one. The assistant answers from a public Harvia operating manual.

Avaa Harvia AI Assistant

6 questions per user
The demo is limited to six questions per user to prevent misuse.

A Kuusi Design demo, not an official Harvia service. It is based on a public operating manual.

LET’S CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION

Good ideas start
with a conversation.

If one of my projects sparked an idea for collaboration,
I would be glad to hear from you.

Kuusi Design Oy
Telatie 8, 31300 Tammela
Business ID 2863591-3

toni.kuusidesign@gmail.com

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