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Contextual AI Help
for IBM Maximo

A Chrome extension that delivers role-aware, cited, confidence-tiered answers — right in the browser. Just-in-time help that replaces the training binder nobody reads.

46
Coach Mode Playbooks
9
Operational Roles
2,900+
Grounded Answers
7.6 → MAS 9
Versions Supported
The Problem

Your best people shouldn’t be stuck on the help desk.

Maximo is powerful. It’s also the application every technician, planner, and supervisor quietly dreads opening. The training is forgotten by the time it’s needed, and the answer to one person’s question is the wrong answer for the next.

15+ Clicks to Close a Work Order

Maximo was built for power, not for the technician at 2 AM. Screen friction drives shortcuts, skipped fields, and the slow drift toward “garbage in, garbage out.”

$250–$600/User/Month on Training Nobody Remembers

Just-in-case training fades the moment the class ends. By the time someone actually needs to create a failure report, the binder is lost and the LMS login is forgotten.

Generic AI Gets Maximo Wrong

Ask ChatGPT about work order status flow and you’ll get an answer that’s plausible, confident, and wrong for your role, your version, and your org’s configuration.

How It Works

Install once. Ask in plain English. Work without the tab-switching.

Four steps from “I have no idea how to do this” to a role-aware, cited answer you can actually trust.

01

Install

Add the Chrome extension, sign in, pick your role. MaxGuide runs in a side panel next to Maximo — no server install, no DOM overlay.

02

Ask

Type a question or fire up Coach Mode. The extension quietly captures page context (URL, headings) so the answer matches the screen you’re on.

03

Answer

Role-weighted retrieval pulls the right chunks from 2,900+ knowledge articles. A four-tier confidence model tells you when the answer is platform truth — and when it probably isn’t.

04

Act

Every answer ships with citations. Coach Mode walks you through 46 playbooks step by step. Draft-to-Approve record creation is next on the roadmap.

maxguide-answer.json
{
  "question": "How do I close this work order?",
  "role": "technician",
  "version": "MAS 9.0.3",
  "confidence": {
    "tier": "Platform Truth",
    "scope": "Out-of-the-box Maximo behavior"
  },
  "citations": [
    { "source": "Maximo User Guide", "section": "WO Lifecycle" },
    { "source": "MAS 9 Release Notes", "section": "Status Changes" }
  ],
  "warnings": [ "Your org may have customized this workflow — verify with your admin." ]
}

Every answer carries a role, a version, a confidence tier, citations, and a warning when the answer is likely org-specific.

Why MaxGuide

Built different. On purpose.

Four things that separate MaxGuide from generic AI chat, DOM-overlay walkthroughs, and the training binder on the shelf.

Role-Aware

The Same Question Has Nine Right Answers.

Role-weighted retrieval scores knowledge chunks against the user’s actual job — Technician, Planner, Supervisor, Inventory Manager, Reliability Engineer, Admin, Scheduler. A planner’s “how do I close this?” is not a technician’s “how do I close this?”

Confidence Tiers

Four Tiers. No Guessing.

Platform Truth. Default Behavior. Commonly Customized. Organization-Specific. Every answer is tagged with how certain MaxGuide actually is — so users stop trusting answers that shouldn’t be trusted.

Coach Mode

46 Playbooks. 9 Personas.

Work order lifecycle. Failure reporting. PM review. Inventory counts. Every playbook is grounded in the curated knowledge base and tailored to the persona running it — from a first-day Technician (T1) to a Reliability Engineer (R4).

BYOK & Private

Your Key. Your Data. Your Rules.

Bring Your Own Anthropic key — AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest. Chat is stateless by design: no conversation history retained, no proprietary content stored. Your corpus is yours.

50,904
Maximo Attributes in the Knowledge Base
Plus 6,858 domain values and 126,000+ javadoc entries. Grounded in the real Maximo data dictionary — not a web-scraped approximation. Built by a Maximo practitioner with 20+ years in the seat.
SDVOSB
Service-Disabled Veteran Owned — Federal procurement eligible
Beta Access

Ready to make Maximo
less painful?

Join the paid beta. Early access to the contextual AI guidance layer built for Maximo practitioners — not general developers, not UI overlay vendors, not training companies.