The Founder

Built fromthe work.

Virtus Nemeton was founded by Jack Tebay, whose background spans maintenance engineering, asphalt plants, manufacturing, operations and site supervision.

Background

Operations engineer with field experience.

Before founding Virtus Nemeton, Jack spent three years as an operations engineer at a manufacturing software company, managing SAP integrations, CMMS deployments, and site implementation teams. He watched maintenance teams struggle to keep knowledge alive across shift changes, retirements, and contractor handovers.

Jack has worked in maintenance operations, asphalt production, plant engineering, and site supervision. He has seen what works on site, what breaks, and why organisations lose knowledge when people leave.

The Moment

When AI could read field evidence.

When large language models became capable of reading field evidence, the moment became clear: AI can capture that knowledge, but only if humans stay in control of what enters the permanent record.

The opportunity wasn't technology-first. It was problem-first. Jack recognised that maintenance teams had a real problem — knowledge disappearing — and that AI could finally solve it without replacing human judgment.

The Principle

Sites do not only lose time when machines fail.

They lose knowledge when work is not captured, reviewed and remembered.

This observation drives Virtus Nemeton. Jack is building software that captures what happens in the field, gives teams a way to review and approve it, and creates institutional memory instead of letting it walk out the door with retiring engineers or get lost in email threads.

The Vision

Maintenance and operations run on evidence.

Jack is building a platform where:

• •Field teams capture what actually happened — not what they think happened or what someone remembered.
• •Contractors and clients agree the record from evidence, not from arguments.
• •Operations leaders make decisions based on permanent memory, not on who was standing next to them.
• •New staff understand the asset and its history in days, not through years of apprenticeship.
• •Industrial AI works on governed records, not on scattered guesses.
• •Institutions improve because they remember what they learned.

Why Jack?

He writes industrial software.

Jack isn't building Virtus Nemeton as a technology exercise. He's building it for operations teams, contractors and maintenance managers because he has lived their problem. He knows what software looks like when people actually have to use it in the field on a phone with one hand while holding a clipboard and a torch.

He understands maintenance as a business problem, not as an afterthought. He knows what evidence matters, how it gets used, and why it disappears. He builds software that people want to use because it makes their work easier, not because compliance requires it.