Inverse Methods

The yield is
already there.

Operators work from experience and lab assays that arrive hours or days later. We tell them what's happening in their process right now — and what to do about it.

Proof of concept · Top-5 miner

Additional recovery +0.4 pts 97.1% to 97.5%
Inference speed < 1s vs. 1–2 days on a simulator
Expected improvement ceiling +2 pts with full process integration

Continuously learns

You recover more metal with each shift because each new data point sharpens the model's next recommendation.

Built for when things change.

Our models learn why things happen — not just what happened. When conditions shift, the physics holds.

No hardware or CapEx spend

Approval routes through your operating budget, not a capital committee. Nothing is installed on the plant floor.


How it works

Numerical simulators take 1–2 days. Lab assays take hours. The process doesn't wait.

Our models learn the governing chemistry and physics from your process data — and tell you what's happening now, not what was happening yesterday.

Process Data Sensors · Lab assays · Observations
Inverse Methods Recommends optimal changes
Operator Approves · Acts · Retains control

Key processes

Copper smelting

Matte grade is sampled at each tap and takes hours to analyse. We predict it continuously and recommend the setpoints to maximise copper recovery before the next sample arrives.

Flotation

Reagent dosing is adjusted reactively — based on assays that are hours old by the time they arrive. We predict recovery and grade continuously and recommend dosing adjustments in time to act.

Heap leaching

What's happening inside a heap pad can't be measured directly. Solution takes days — not hours — to travel from the irrigation surface to the collection point. We model the internal state in real time and recommend irrigation changes before efficiency is lost.

Zinc electrowinning

Laboratory results lag one to four hours behind actual conditions. By the time a problem is detected, hours of off-spec cathode may already be plated. We track electrolyte state continuously and recommend adjustments before losses compound.


Start with a diagnostic.

We scope a proof of concept around the specific problems in your process and your available data. Results in months, not years.

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