2-SMTSubject Matter Technicians

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Chip factories
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2-SMT teaches students, tradespeople and technicians aged 18+ the hands-on skills that install and keep semiconductor tools running.

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// YOUR NEXT STEP

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// WHO WE ARE

The Ecosystem

Two brands. One mission: bridge the gap between the digital twin and the fab floor.

Corporate Training

2-SMT

Subject Matter Technicians. The "Physics Engine for AI": field training, the 5W's framework, and real diagnostic habits, from coarse adjustments to fine X, Y, Z robot teaching.

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Code & Coil

Stay tuned for books and community updates for students, tradespeople and technicians aged 18+. Hands-on learning from the floor, in plain words.

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// THE EXPERT'S EDGE

Our Team of Experts Has Decades on the Fab Floor

"Talk all you want about algorithms — if your model doesn't intuitively grasp what a slight pressure drop in a pneumatic line does to a robot's grip, you're building on sand."

Your broken parts teach AI repair. Domain expertise grounds models in operational reality — preventing physically nonsensical outputs or costly real-world mistakes. Real-world resilience in unpredictable environments? That's the unsung hero for mass-market humanoids.

  • PMP Certified — Project Management Professional
  • U.S. Marine Veteran — Operational leadership under pressure
  • Mechatronics & Pneumatics — Industrial automation at scale
  • Semiconductor Manufacturing — Sub-micron precision systems, decades of experience
  • AI / ML Training — Domain data for industrial models
  • Multi-Agent AI Workflows — Builder and reviewer agents in VS Code, human approval
  • n8n Workflows — Workflow automation
  • AI-Assisted Coding — VS Code, frontier and open-source models
  • ERP & MES Systems — Manufacturing execution and ERP integration
  • AR / VR Concepts — HoloLens & spatial computing
⚠ Field Reality

The Floor Reality Protocol
vs. The P6 Lie

P6 shows a perfect schedule: Design → Buy → Install → Qual. Clean lines. Seamless. Wrong. Physical constraints cause delays and failure every time. The Floor Reality Protocol maps the real sequence — what actually happens when a crate hits the dock.

// PHASE 1

Design & LLM

Order Long Lead Materials before a wrench touches the floor. Ship coordination starts at design — not install.

// PHASE 2

Laydown & Datums

Establish pedestals, base frames, and architectural datums in the fab/sub-fab. Workspace must be ready before tools arrive.

// PHASE 3

Sub-Components

Route and stage critical support hardware: pumps, CRYO units, abatement systems, RF generators. Sequence before install.

// PHASE 4

Facilities & Tool Points of Contact

The Facilities point of contact and the Tool point of contact are established ONLY after the sequence is validated. Acceptable and accurate — not assumed.

Avoid "Reactionary" Installs: If you haven't sequenced materials before the crate appears, your install is a reaction to chaos — not a professional execution. Basebuild/Install Teams versus Operations friction is where QA/QC fails.

// PRODUCTS & TRAINING

Start Free. Go Deeper When You Are Ready.

Three ways to learn field logic from our team: a free PDF, a framework, and a live session. Paid items use secure checkout via Stripe.

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FREE

The 2-SMT Field Manual

Your first briefing. The tool move-in sequence, the words you will hear on the floor, and the 5W's for troubleshooting. No sign-up. Click and the PDF opens.

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Framework

The Semiconductor 5W's + 5 Senses Framework

Who, What, When, Where, Why, plus How. The diagnostic habit that turns "it's broken" into a clear pass-down, with a worked night-shift example.

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Masterclass

Field Logic 90-Min Masterclass

A live 90-minute session with our team. Walk the Midnight Rocker Valve scenario from the first alarm to the root cause. Onboarding guide and tool install map included.

$445 / live session
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// FREE QUIZZES

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// CASE STUDIES & FIELD SKETCHES

Real Scenarios.
Real Stakes.

Hand-sketched on graph paper at midnight. These aren't textbook problems — they're field-reality diagnostics born from actual equipment failures.

The Midnight Rocker Valve Riddle — hand-drawn diagnostic sketch on graph paper
// CASE-001 · The Midnight Rocker Valve Riddle · Original Field Sketch
Semicon Training 5Ws Framework — hand-drawn training sketch on graph paper
// CASE-002 · Semicon Training · 5W's Field Sketch

// CASE-001

The Midnight Rocker Valve Riddle

12:45 AM. Shift 7. One technician stands before a critical machine — its robot arm motionless inside the MainFrame octagon behind the Factory Interface. A system failure has struck. Is it a failed airline in the pneumatic rocker valve, a glitch in the position sensor, a frozen UI, or a comms issue? The critical UI switch is on the right. The problematic rocker valve is on the left. One tech. One chance. This is precisely the real-world scenario our story-based, choice-branch training prepares teams to conquer.

// CASE-002

Advanced Semiconductor Robot Mastery — FOUP & Wafer Handling

Training technicians from foundational Coarse adjustments to precise Fine X,Y,Z teaching for perfect wafer and robot end-effector handoffs. 5 up/down wafer precision touches, FOUP & Robot Arm Sequence Training, Loadport transfers, Aligner/OCR positioning, side buffer stations, real-time feedback and automated QA pipelines. Empower your team to command these critical machines — transforming downtime into peak performance.

// CASE-003

QR-Tagged SOP Capture (Concept)

Concept in development: QR tags on equipment linked to an n8n automation and QA pipeline, so a procedure can be captured, checked and replayed for training. The goal is a feedback loop that cuts rework and records training results at the tool.

// FROM THE FLOOR · COMING SOON

What builders say

This space is for real words from real people who used 2-SMT training on the job. We only share what someone has agreed in writing to let us share.

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Masterclass graduates

What changed on their next shift after the Field Logic Masterclass.

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Field Manual readers

How students, tradespeople and techs aged 18+ used the free Field Manual to get started.

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Crew leads and hiring managers

What they see when their people use the 5W's on the floor.

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// AI-NATIVE · HOW WE BUILD

Multi-Agent Workflow.
A Person Approves.

2-SMT is AI-native, born into an exciting and fast-changing semiconductor landscape. We build with VS Code, frontier models, open-source models, n8n and Blender, with humans in the loop who build and manage our systems. One agent builds, another checks, and nothing leaves the building without a human yes.

Illustration of a 2-SMT working session. The agent output shown is representative, not a screen capture.

// 01 · THE BRIEF

One Written Objective

The founder writes the outcome, the limits and what must not be touched. Agents work from that page, not from memory.

// 02 · BUILDER AGENT

A Frontier Model in VS Code

Drafts the lesson, the page or the automation, and records every file it changes in a shared ledger.

// 03 · REVIEWER AGENT

A Second Model Checks It

Checks the builder's work independently, from the files themselves, and posts what it finds where both agents can read it.

// 04 · GATES AND A HUMAN YES

Tests, Then Approval

Automated checks run first. Then a person reads it. No send, no publish and no deploy happens without that approval.

The toolbox: VS Code, frontier and open-source models, n8n for workflow automation and Blender for 3D, with a person approving every release. We are AI-native. Concept work, not yet in production: QR-tagged procedures and 3D training visualisation.

// ILLUSTRATION · DRAWN MAP, REAL NOTE COUNTS

300 notes, filed where an agent can find them

Sources 108Process 79Insight 93Frameworks 9Agent skills 7Agent activity 4

Illustration of our knowledge vault. Cluster sizes are the real note counts on 1 October 2026; the layout is drawn.

// CONTACT

Let's Build Together

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Founder: Allyn Martinez

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