Software-first industrial optimization
KPT mathematically models the variables, constraints, and decision logic that shape your operational performance — then improves them continuously through AI and software-first execution. Real results from production lines, mining operations, and logistics networks.
Same challenge, new approach
Cognitive limits slow continuous improvement. CAPEX friction delays change. KPT addresses both through software-first execution designed for fast, measurable results.
Most industrial processes were designed to perform well under the conditions, data, and assumptions of their time. Once implemented, they rarely get re-engineered at the same level of depth. The variables, rules, workflows, and KPIs become "the way we work," and performance becomes a self-fulfilling ceiling.
No human team can continuously analyze high-frequency operational data to detect subtle correlations, hidden constraints, and micro-patterns that unlock measurable gains. Meanwhile, many improvements look like they require major CAPEX or disruptive change — so they get postponed, deprioritized, or reduced to small incremental tweaks.
We use AI and mathematical optimization to continuously challenge the original assumptions behind core processes — uncovering new actionable variables, translating them into practical decisions, and prioritizing quick wins that ship before any heavy investment is required.
Simply put: traditional processes tend to stay frozen, cognitive limits slow continuous improvement, and CAPEX friction delays change. KPT addresses this through mathematical optimization, AI and software-first execution designed for fast, measurable results with a fast-ROI approach.
Most industrial-AI vendors sell you a black box, a dashboard, or a slide deck. KPT sells you a working platform with three concrete layers — each engineered, each measurable, each part of the same codebase that runs live in production today.
Software
5 Solutions, live + roadmap
Math
Multivariate optimization engine
Components
7 modules around one engine
Four named products — Atlas, Lens, Stream, and Compass — each bounded to a specific operational surface, plus KPT Advisory for everything upstream of the math. Atlas and Advisory are available today; Lens, Stream, and Compass ship across the next 24 months.
Core-Process Optimization and Intelligent Production Control
Hold the operation steady.
Quality Control and Predictive Maintenance Management
See defects before they ship.
Optimized Inventory & Logistics Management
Keep inventory and freight moving.
Intelligent Demand and Input Planning
Know what is coming next.
Decide what to optimize next, and execute it.
KPT's engine works by solving a real multivariate optimization problem over your operational variables. It finds either the maximum point of a productivity function or the minimum point of a cost function — over the joint surface defined by your SKU mix, line capacity, changeover settings, energy windows, and dozens more variables.
↓ Minimization examples: operating cost per ton, kWh per unit, broke at grade transitions, unplanned downtime hours.
↑ Maximization examples: production efficiency, on-time delivery, OEE, throughput per shift.
↔ Mixed objectives are supported — e.g. maximize OEE subject to changeover loss < X and energy cost < Y.
Every recommendation comes with the explanation of which variables drove it. Glass-box AI by design — no "trust us" Fuzzy rules.
KPT isn't a single tool — it's a software stack purpose-built for industrial optimization. The center is the multivariable optimization engine. The six surrounding components make the engine usable, integrable, and trustworthy in a real plant.
Multivariable Optimization with AI
The mathematical core. CP-SAT + custom branch-and-bound + ML pattern discovery + Claude-driven variable suggestion.
Data Ingestion
Validation, normalization, tenant isolation.
Connectors & APIs
SAP, MES, WMS, TMS, OPC-UA, MQTT.
Automation & RPA
Routine actions auto-execute under explicit policy.
Alarms & Reports
Anomaly alarms, scheduled reports.
Business Dashboard
Operator + planner review, approval, audit.
Impact Tracking
KPI attribution + 30-day shadow-run trust gate.
Integrations
KPT reads from and writes to your existing ERP, MES, WMS, and TMS. No customization required. No system-of-record migration.
Connectors for OPC-UA, MQTT, and custom industrial protocols available on request. New integrations typically take 2–3 weeks from spec to PoC.
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Selected use cases
Numbers drawn from KPT's general benchmarks. Every percentage is validated against your data during a 30-day shadow-run PoC before any commitment to scale.
Complex production environments with recurring bottlenecks, variable interactions, and margin pressure.
Real-time identification of process bottlenecks, parameter deviations, and optimization opportunities across the production line.
Confectionery case →
Flow, prioritization, and inventory accuracy directly affect service and cost.
Smarter visibility, alerts, and decision support for stock positioning, material flow, and operational prioritization.
Beverage case →
Asset-intensive environments where continuity, maintenance timing, and operational reliability matter.
Early anomaly detection, predictive alerts, and smarter maintenance decision support for critical operational assets.
Mining case →
Variation, defects, and waste create measurable performance loss.
Earlier detection of process anomalies, smarter root-cause analysis, and improved control over critical production variables.
Solution 2 details →
Speed, prioritization, and exception handling affect flow efficiency.
Better prioritization, exception alerts, and software-driven optimization for warehouse and distribution operations.
Solution 3 details →
Variable-heavy operating environments where fast response and anomaly detection improve results.
Automated detection of performance anomalies and real-time alerts for quicker, more effective operational decisions.
Pulp & Paper case →Industrial imagery via Unsplash — licensed for commercial use, no attribution required.
How KPT is different
KPT is a specialized optimization venture. We mathematically model the variables that shape your performance and improve them continuously — measurably — through software. The contrast with how the rest of the industrial-AI market is positioned is intentional.
Every variable KPT promotes comes with a human-readable explanation: which features drove the lift, what the counterfactual says, what the next experiment would test. Most competitors ship Fuzzy-logic rule engines that operators have to take on faith. KPT does not.
Every variable KPT activates has been A/B-tested against your real data for 30 days minimum, with statistical significance before promotion. Industrial AI buyers fear "what if it makes things worse?" — we built the answer into the product.
KPT runs as a multi-tenant SaaS at lighthouse.kpt.tech AND as an on-prem container in your datacenter — same optimization engine, same UX, same release cadence. Cross-deployment learning happens via federated patterns, never raw data.
What that means in specifics
Focuses on core operations
Production lines, mining equipment, logistics networks. Not back-office or generic enterprise.
Improves process logic
Variables, constraints, decision rules. Re-engineers the equation, not just the dashboard.
Continuous optimization
Models keep learning. New variables get proposed, shadow-validated, and promoted weekly.
Glass-box AI
Every recommendation comes with a human-readable explanation. No black-box rule engines.
Planner-in-the-loop writes
Recommendations flow through a review UI before anything writes back to SAP / MES.
Cloud + On-Prem
Same codebase deploys as multi-tenant SaaS or as a containerized agent in your datacenter.
Not a generic AI consultancy
Most "AI consultancies" sell hours, not measurable optimization. KPT sells outcomes.
Not just a data integrator
Connecting systems is necessary but not sufficient. KPT optimizes what flows through them.
Not just a dashboard company
Dashboards make data visible. KPT makes data actionable through optimization decisions.
Not a black-box rule engine
No "trust us" Fuzzy logic. Every variable comes with a measurable lift estimate.
Not direct writes to your SAP
No automated overrides of your system of record. Humans approve every operational change.
Not lock-you-into-our-cloud
On-prem deployment is a real product, not an afterthought. Tenant-controlled KMS keys.
Start with one process
A KPT engagement starts with a 2-week assessment + a single Optimization PoC. We size the opportunity, model the variables, run a shadow validation, and report measured impact in dollars. No platform sale, no consulting marathon — just one process, measurably better.
Three words, in this exact order, describing exactly what we do — and the philosophy that keeps us doing it.
The philosophy
Japanese for continuous improvement. The idea that small, measurable, sustained refinements compound into outcomes that big-bang transformations rarely match. It's not a sprint; it's a method.
We don't promise to flip your operation overnight. We promise to make it visibly better every week — and to prove it with numbers.
The subject
The variables, constraints, and decision rules that govern how industrial work actually gets done. Production lines, mining equipment, logistics networks — wherever margin is shaped, a process is shaping it.
We don't optimize organizations. We optimize the operating mechanics underneath them — the math, the decisions, the flows.
The instrument
Software that observes, models, and refines those processes — continuously, measurably, at industrial scale. AI as an instrument, not an oracle. Mathematics as the contract between us and the work.
We're not a consultancy that sells hours. We're an engineering venture that ships products you can run.
Continuous improvement of industrial processes — through software.
Three words. In that order. Every day.
