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.

EXAMPLES

What can
AI do?

Three examples of how AI connects with existing knowledge and workflows.

Example: operating and maintenance manuals as knowledge you can ask

Operating, maintenance and diagnostics manuals become knowledge you can ask. The right section is found without browsing a stack of documents.

View the documentation assistant

Example: project records and multilingual communication in one place

Equipment-specific records, photos, instructions and multilingual communication are kept in one place for the site team and project management.

View project management

Example: automatic monitoring of an application

An AI application is only useful if it still works tomorrow. An automatic test checks it regularly and raises an alert when something is wrong.

View application monitoring

FREQUENTLY ASKED

How do these work?

Can AI answer from a company’s own instructions?

Yes. Operating, maintenance and diagnostics manuals are converted into a format the AI can read. The assistant shows the right source and answers from it.

Does the documentation need to be prepared first?

Yes. The material should be reviewed and structured before use: this also reveals conflicts and gaps. The AI answers only as well as the material allows.

Does it work in several languages?

Yes. The language model understands and answers in many languages, so users can ask and get guidance in their own language.

How is reliability checked?

An automatic check regularly tests that the critical user journey and the answer quality work as expected. A deviation raises an alert.

BUILT THROUGH PRACTICE

My latest projects.

Practical AI at work, newest first.

All projects 17

Speech translationIn personal use · 2026

Speak to Speak

A speech translator I built for a shipyard. The phone translates a two-person conversation aloud and as text in both directions, in over 70 languages.

Inventor assembly of the can crusher: base plate, bell crank, ram plate and desk leg

AI and mechanical engineeringInventor automation · 2026

Can crusher, part 3: production model in Inventor

The can crusher in Autodesk Inventor without modelling by hand. Claude used scripts to build a 97-part assembly and 16 manufacturing drawings on Kuusi Design templates.

FreeCAD model of the can crusher: grey base plate, blue bell crank, green links and red ram plate

AI and mechanical engineeringConcept to manufacturing · 2026

Can crusher, part 2: ready for manufacturing in FreeCAD

Claude turned the concept into a FreeCAD model with Python. The result is 15 laser-cut parts as DXF files and the whole structure as a STEP model. Claude checked strength and collisions itself.

Isometric figure of a wall-mounted can crusher: desk leg, triangular bell crank, horizontal ram and a bin on the floor

AI and mechanical engineeringConcept design · 2026

Can crusher driven by a standing-desk leg

A friend needed a can crusher for his man cave, and the power source was an old standing-desk leg. I talked it through with Claude: the AI looked up the missing data, invented the mechanism, calculated the lever ratios and built an interactive figure where the forces are calculated as it moves.

Winston’s virtual company experiment: a €23 target and an AI team

AI agentsPart 1 · experiment in progress

My virtual company

I paid for one month of AI access and gave a virtual team led by Winston a €23 target. Its first commercial product, AI-arki training, is published. The experiment continues.

Side-by-side comparison of a hand-drawn shim plate sketch and the finished laser-cut part

AI and mechanical engineeringCompleted experiment · 2026

From sketch to workshop part

I sketched a shim plate on paper and emailed it to Winston, an AI agent. My virtual company returned a STEP model and a DXF cutting profile. I checked the model in Inventor, and the part was laser-cut.

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 any of this sparked a thought,
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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