Artica: Innovation Developer
Part-time job improving internal processes at an exhibition and event agency, mostly with AI. Includes a tool that calculates truss loads from the stand model.
Since October 2026 I work part time at Artica, an exhibition and event agency, as Innovation Developer. This is a job, not a client project: my task is to improve internal processes, mostly with AI.
The first concrete tool is about trusses. For every stand, someone has to work out how much weight each truss suspension point carries. That was done by hand in a separate spreadsheet per project, and it has to be redone with every change to the stand. It is precision work that takes a lot of the work planners’ time.
I built a tool that reads the IronCAD model of the stand, finds the suspension points and lights, and calculates the load per point. It uses the same method as the existing spreadsheet, so the numbers mean what the planners already expect. A colleague confirms the trusses, banner and rings on the plan. The tool proposes, the planner decides.
The work planners in the workshop save a lot of time with it, because the load comes from the model instead of retyped dimensions and weights. The tool runs inside Artica’s internal environment.
I also automated a few processes around permits for the same team. It is modest work, one process at a time, but it is the kind that removes a recurring chore for someone every week.