Architect by Significans Automation is a workflow Superintelligence AI platform for print and packaging operations. Using natural language prompts, it helps users create, analyze, troubleshoot, and improve workflows without requiring deep scripting knowledge, to enhance the user experience with Esko’s premier product, Automation Engine.
What is the Significans Architect?
Architect is a purpose-built platform (subscription-based, cloud software) for the print and packaging industry. Rather than relying solely on specialized workflow engineering knowledge, Architect enables users to interact with Automation Engine through language prompts, helping them create, analyze, diagnose, and improve automated workflows to be created and edited much faster and more intuitively than a human can.
The easy-to-use software lets you type a request the same way you would in common AI interfaces and Architect handles the development or ‘troubleshooting’ behind the scenes, generating immediate responses.
Architect’s chat-based interface guides workflow creation through natural-language prompts.
Why Architect Matters
- Workflow Efficiency
Accelerate workflow creation, troubleshooting, coaching and training, and optimization. - Automation Expansion
Unlock new automation opportunities across print and packaging operations. - Knowledge Retention & Continuity
Capture expertise and reduce reliance on key individuals. - Productivity & Cost Savings
Accomplish more work with fewer manual steps and less engineering effort. - User Empowerment
Give teams the tools to create, learn, and solve problems independently.
From Workflow Expertise to Workflow Intelligence
The technology encapsulates Significans Automation’s established professional services expertise with a scalable software model that ‘clones’ the Significans team’s 400+ years of combined production-floor experience, enabling users with AI-assisted opportunity to develop and diagnose with only a few clicks. Characterized as having a proven, trusted workflow specialist onsite 24/7, and built from the ground up by Significans’ elite workflow specialists, Architect is designed for forward-thinking, automation-first companies.
Rather than relying solely on workflow automation development and training projects, Significans will offer a subscription-based Agentic platform that captures institutional knowledge, which reduces repetitive engineering efforts, shortens implementation and diagnostic cycles, and creates a unique, self-directed and self-reliant opportunity for the user. Agentic refers to artificial intelligence systems that can independently plan, reason, and take multiple actions to achieve workflow goals with minimal human supervision.
Built for an On-Demand Environment
“Architect will redefine how workflow automation, especially in the print and packaging space, will be enhanced.” – Marc Raad, President – Significans Automation
“Architect is poised to create a professional services paradigm shift within our industry,” said Significans President Marc Raad.
“Like all of our solutions, Architect is 100% customer-driven. It offers a skill set and, at the same time, a breakthrough tool to guide the user with an AI model. Businesses today simply cannot afford costly bottlenecks or issues of any kind within their automation workflow setup, and in tandem, service and manufacturing businesses cannot wait to get any delayed intervention from knowledgeable experts.
This is a constant concern for many of our customers, and we were determined to do something about it – especially because we live in an on-demand, deadline-oriented era. Architect will redefine how workflow automation, especially in the print and packaging space, will be enhanced. It increases capacity, reduces operational risks and complexity, and speeds up ROI.”
How Architect works
- The technology interfaces with the common AI prompts familiar from today’s large language models (like Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) to compile and configure instructions for Automation Engine.
- It generates new workflows and analyzes, diagnoses, and helps users correct issues within Automation Engine workflows (or “tickets”).
- Users describe what they need in plain language and generate a ready-to-import ticket with only a few clicks.
- The technology asks follow-up questions as you prompt, to make sure each build is accurate and of the highest possible quality.
- In short, Architect imports an existing ticket, analyzes it, and suggests fixes.
- It’s like having a proven, trusted Significans workflow specialist available by chat, and under your complete control through a user-friendly interface.
Architect analyzes existing Automation Engine workflows and recommends improvements.
Making Automation Expertise More Accessible
Building and implementing Automation Engine workflows has traditionally required years of hands-on, specialized experience, with knowledge usually locked inside the heads of a handful of skilled workflow engineers, and typically only accessible by hiring outside expertise. Architect changes all that, as every workflow it generates is built in response to your own prompts. Users can see the logic behind each build as it happens, turning routine workflow tasks into an ongoing way to learn Automation Engine, not just outsource problems.
“The long-term goal is to become the leading AI workflow intelligence layer for print and packaging print operations, enabling customers to propel throughput, improve compliance, reduce waste, and make faster, more accurate production decisions.” – Sean Davis, VP of Technology – Significans Automation
See Significans Architect in Action
Contact Significans Automation for a demonstration of Architect at sales@significans.com.
You can also see demonstrations in person at the AI Pavilion (booth N6531) at PRINTING United Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, September 23-25, 2026. For an assessment of your workflow systems, call Significans Automation at 1-877-463-4465. You’ll be directed not to a salesperson or a third party, but to one of our regional workflow automation and integration experts with years of hands-on production-floor experience.
