AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS · FOR ASSET-HEAVY INDUSTRY

Industrial AI that pays
for itself in weeks.

Then keeps paying.

We start with one valuable operating problem — yield, energy, reliability, quality — agree the number it's worth, and prove the return in production. Then the next problem. Every solution adds to one connected model of your plant, so each one lands faster than the last — and your operation climbs the six levels toward running itself.

Value comes from better decisions

Every improvement in yield, cost and reliability starts with an operating decision: how hard to run, when to switch, what to fix.

Arundo brings together operational data and engineering intelligence to help your teams choose the right action as conditions change.

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  1. Cleaning

    When should we clean?

    $5–7M/yr

    fewer production losses from heat-exchanger fouling and failures.

  2. Energy

    When should we run?

    3–5%

    lower energy cost — load modulation scheduled against live prices.

  3. Maintenance

    When should we intervene?

    50%

    less over-maintenance on pumps, without trading away reliability.

Running at the leaders of asset-heavy industry

Technip Energies Worley Frontline MacGregor

The value, measured in production.

Not projected. Not piloted. Returned, in plants running today.

  1. €29M/yr

    more yield

    2–3% yield up-lift through real-time optimization of a steam cracker.

    53× five-year ROI

  2. €8M/yr

    lower COGS

    Production planning optimized across sites and energy markets.

    30× five-year ROI

  3. $9M/yr

    lower OPEX

    28% longer between pump failures.

    14× five-year ROI

  4. $20M/yr

    value added

    Up to 18% less waste between product changeovers.

    27× five-year ROI

WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY
“Arundo enables us to digitalize the USD 125 Billion ethylene market.”
Marco Van Goethem Manager Digital Solutions — Technip Energies
“We were looking for a partner with a mature analytics solution — Arundo was a perfect match. We can see tomorrow, today.”
Daniel Lundberg Director Offshore Business Line — MacGregor
“With Arundo's CarbonPath we act efficiently, stay compliant, and manage our Scope 3 emissions…”
Marius Aasen Head of Decarbonization — Frontline Management

The path to autonomy, one decision at a time.

As decision support earns trust, more of the decision loop can be handed over—from recommending actions to executing them within limits your team defines.

Arundo wrote the roadmap for that hand-over: The Six Levels of Autonomous Plant Operations (Arundo 2026) — the reference scale from the instrumented plant to the goal-directed one. Most of the industry is at Level 0–1. Foundation runs plants at Level 2 today, engineered for Level 3.

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The operator runs the plant
The system runs the plant

The operator runs the plant

  • 0 Instrumented Dashboards, alarms, fixed rules. Humans provide all situational awareness.
  • 1 Point analytics Single-purpose models on single assets. Someone still has to go and look.
  • 2 Integrated assistant One Domain, plant-wide reasoning in plain language, on demand.
  • 3 Supervised autonomy The plant monitors itself 24×7, diagnoses, and recommends. Humans approve.
  • 4 Bounded closed loop The system writes back to the control system within a defined envelope.
  • 5 Goal-directed plant You supply business objectives. The plant orchestrates itself.

The Six Levels of Autonomous Plant Operations (Arundo 2026)

FROM INSIGHTS — THE SERIES

The Road to Level 5

The scale, documented — one chapter per level, written as we build the road.

  1. Chapter 0 In progress
  2. Chapter 1 Point Analytics
  3. Chapter 2 The Integrated Plant
  4. Chapter 3 NEW Supervised Autonomy
  5. Chapter 4 In progress
  6. Chapter 5 In progress
LATEST CHAPTER — SUPERVISED AUTONOMY

One Year Closer to the Autonomous Factory

What changed in AI, what didn't, and what industrial autonomy actually requires. Three eras of AI in under a year — and why the move from Level 2 to Level 3 is operational, not technical.

ARTICLE · 14 September 2026 · Martin Lundqvist

One platform. Everything the autonomous plant needs.

Autonomy doesn't come from another dashboard. It comes from a platform where every sensor, asset, model, and document lives in one connected system that AI can reason over — and act through.

Arundo Foundation is that system, end to end:

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10
ten capabilities · one platform
01The Domain
A complete digital twin of your operation: assets, sensors, models, computes, documents, templates, relationships. One graph that knows your plant and your operations.
02Industrial timeseries datastore
Real-time sensor data at any velocity and volume, validated, aggregated, resampled.
03Pipelines
Data aligned and transformed automatically into whatever your models and agents need.
04Orchestration
Thousands of ML models and computations in parallel — fast, cost-efficient, and every result replayable.
05Document intelligence
Vector search over manuals, maintenance logs, and procedures, tied to the assets they describe.
06MCP servers
The open door: your teams use Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI client directly against live plant data.
07AI Crew
A crew of specialized AI agents, each responsible for its part of the plant's reasoning orchestrated in unison.
08Kickstarters
Tools that stand up a new domain and its first applications in days, not quarters.
09Alerting & notifications
The plant starts watching itself the moment data flows: default rules on day one, deliveries to email, Slack, and the in-app inbox.
10Registers
Work orders, lab results, voyages: record-shaped data from your systems of record, attached to assets in the Domain and computed like any signal.
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Your plant, in your AI.

The Domain live data · models · documents MCP servers per-user OAuth Claude 32 bar ChatGPT −3.2 % Any MCP client on schedule

Your engineers already have an AI client they trust. Foundation ships complete MCP servers, so the entire Domain — live data, models, documents — is available inside Claude, ChatGPT, and every other MCP-compatible client. No proprietary chatbot to adopt. No walled garden to maintain.

Every buyer is choosing between two architectures — an assistant bolted onto point tools, or a platform designed backwards from Level 5. That's the difference between buying a chatbot and owning autonomous operations.

THE RECORD, BY THE NUMBERS

A decade in asset-heavy operations leaves a paper trail.

projects delivered since 2015
100+
ROI in 12 months
>10×
operational cost reduction
5–15%
customer retention
>90%
of customers continue to invest
~85%

Built on Foundation. Proving it in production.

Energy Optimizer weekly optimisation output
LEVEL 2

Cross-market energy optimisation — chemicals, multi-site

Production scheduled against live energy prices and optimised across every plant and energy market in Europe. 3–5% energy cost savings; 5% EBITDA improvement across connected sites.

Fleet performance dashboard in Arundo Foundation: boil-off rate, reliquefaction, and fuel consumption for one vessel, each plotted against its expected value.
LEVEL 2

Vessel performance — LNG carrier fleet

Every voyage benchmarked against comparable vessels under comparable conditions, not stale sea-trial baselines: boil-off, reliquefaction and fuel performance for the whole fleet.

Flush Optimizer recommending the minimum flush volume from a viscosity blending curve
LEVEL 2

Flush optimisation — lubricants, three sites

The minimum flush each product changeover needs, solved from viscosity physics. Over 15% flush reduction, with quality maintained.

SAM — SPYRO® for Asset Management, showing live furnace production and decoke scheduling
LEVEL 2

Ethylene production optimisation — Technip Energies

SPYRO®, the simulator used by ~80% of the world's ethylene producers, running live against plant data in Foundation: yield, decoke scheduling, furnace benchmarking.

Industrial first. AI second. In that order.

We've spent a decade inside asset-heavy operations — oil & gas, chemicals, maritime, energy, utilities, manufacturing. Industrial engineers, data scientists, and software builders working on plant floors and bridge decks, not just in notebooks. That's why Foundation is built for the realities of OT data, legacy assets, and operators who need answers they can act on.

ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified · GDPR compliant · Stanford StartX · MIT STEX25 · Oslo · Stockholm · Houston

Two operators working in a process plant

Let's talk about your challenges.

A constraint you're fighting, a question about the six levels, or simply what Foundation could do for you. Thirty minutes with our team. No slides needed.