Materials you can trace
Knowing what a material is, where it came from and what its claims rest on.
Turning scientific results into industries that work.
Software for scientists and founders developing new production processes. Test the science, the process economics, the company plan and the plant together, before you commit the money and the years.
01 — Purpose
Most companies are lost long before they close.
They fail years earlier, at decisions made without seeing the consequences: which route to take, when to scale, what to raise money on. By the time the money runs out, the outcome was settled long ago.
Decisions tested against the evidence available at the time
Decisions made without clarity
Still operating, already doomed
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We bring clarity to those decisions while they can still change the outcome, using the evidence available at the time and showing honestly where it’s missing.
02 — How we work
Our tools don’t make the decision for you. They show you its consequences, and how much weight the evidence behind it can bear.
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The decisions stay yours
You know your science and your market. We show you the consequences of each choice; you choose.
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We show the risks
A good model is as useful for what it rules out as for what it supports.
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Rigour for everyone
Careful analysis shouldn’t belong only to teams that can afford a room full of engineers.
03 — ProForge
Start with the process.
ProForge helps you know which process is worth building, before you build it. It puts numbers on the risk in your early choices, shows you the strongest route forward, and what’s most worth finding out next.
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Compare routes side by side
From material balance to minimum selling price, for every feedstock and recovery option you’re weighing.
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See what drives the result
Find the few assumptions that decide the outcome, and the measurement that would settle them.
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Keep every number honest
We track the quality of the evidence behind every value, so you know how much weight it can bear.
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Built for the screening stage
Early estimates with ranges, not false precision. Clear about what they can and can’t support.
ProForge is where we’re starting. Over time, we’re building tools for the whole route, from the first scientific question to the plant.
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You don’t need another solver. You need to know early whether the science, the process and the plan actually fit together, before the money and the years are spent.
04 — Protocol
How we keep the numbers honest.
A model that hides its uncertainty is worse than no model at all. These are the rules everything we build follows.
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Every number keeps its origin.
We track where each value comes from and how strong its evidence is, all the way through.
4.2
What’s missing stays visible.
We show you a gap rather than fill it with something convincing. A blank is more useful than a guess dressed as a fact.
4.3
A limit is never sold as a result.
The ceiling of what’s possible is not what you’ll achieve. We keep the two apart, even when blurring them would look better.
4.4
We stand on open science, and say so.
We build on established solvers, methods and research communities, and credit them. Our work is making that knowledge usable for real decisions.
4.5
An uncomfortable answer is still an answer.
Sometimes the most valuable thing a model can tell you is not this route. Our tools are built to say it plainly.
05 — Why it matters
More good companies, reaching the world sooner.
Too many discoveries that could change how we make things stall between the lab and the market. We build tools that help the companies behind them get there faster, and more often. We’d like to see more of:
Things that return to the earth
Paints, coatings and plastics that break down instead of lingering for centuries.
Better ways of making
Cleaner chemistry, biology and recovery, at a cost that lets them win on their own merits.
We back the people building them, with clearer decisions and a faster road to market.
06 — Contact
Bring us your process.
Tell us what you’re making, what you’ve measured and what you still need to know. We’ll tell you honestly whether we can help.