Conexus AI Catalog Substitutes Information for Grant Capital That's Now Gone

Conexus Indiana launched its AML AI Use-Case Catalog on July 14, roughly 100 AI deployments submitted by Indiana manufacturers and logistics firms, each detailing what was built, what it cost, and what it returned, filterable and anonymized. The context the announcement doesn't surface: this catalog partly substitutes for the Indiana Manufacturing Readiness Grant program, which ran through June 2025 and awarded 772 grants totaling $79.8 million before ending.

The catalog lowers the cost of learning what works, but it does not replace the roughly $20 million a year in project co-funding the grant provided, that gap is now on your balance sheet. Early submissions show demand forecasting going live in under two months at low cost, with data quality and legacy-system integration cited as the main barriers. Use the catalog to benchmark, but name your data infrastructure gaps before you commit budget, not after.