Price your first autonomous processes

Your autonomous plant is already in your data.

We rebuild your value stream from the records you already keep, price every loss at rates Finance signs, and sort each one: engineer with AI, avoid, or leave alone.

See what your processes really costHow does it work?

Free. Read-only. One week.

ProdAxon on a tablet: a plant's value stream rebuilt from its records, the value each step adds, the losses priced below each step, and the improvement cases they become
Your value stream, rebuilt from your records: every loss priced and sorted. Product screenshot, example plant.
01 Why nothing is changing today

Every continuous improvement meeting is only as good as the data behind its financial decisions.

The ideas are in the room. What is missing is a number Finance trusts, so business cases get built by hand, weeks later, on assumed rates. We pioneered mathematically proven methods to hand manual work over to AI, with every saving signed off by Finance. So every AI move is a business case, not a gamble.

Todayideas from CI meetingsWith ProdAxonprocesses from your records13 FTE PER CASE2 FTE PER CASE6 FTE0 FTE · AUTOMATEDTHE CHOICELoudest voice winsFound in the data2 FTE1 FTE · FINANCE SIGNSTHE CASERates nobody signsPriced, Finance signs3 FTE0 FTE · AUTOMATEDTHE DATA51% on data prepData contract ready2 FTE1 FTE · PLATFORM TEAMTHE SCALEBeside the platformOn your platformDERAILEDDERAILEDDERAILEDDERAILEDPILOTIN PRODUCTIONAVOIDLEAVE ALONEone AI idea from a meetingone priced process from your records
Todayideas from CI meetings13 FTE PER CASEWith ProdAxonprocesses from your records2 FTE PER CASETHE CHOICELoudest voice wins6 FTE · DERAILEDTHE CHOICEFound in the data0 FTE · AUTOMATEDTHE CASERates nobody signs2 FTE · DERAILEDTHE CASEPriced, Finance signs1 FTE · FINANCE SIGNSTHE DATA51% on data prep3 FTE · DERAILEDTHE DATAData contract ready0 FTE · AUTOMATEDTHE SCALEBeside the platform2 FTE · DERAILEDTHE SCALEOn your platform1 FTE · PLATFORM TEAMAVOIDLEAVE ALONEPILOTIN PRODUCTION
one AI idea from a meeting
one priced process

Illustrative: FTEs per use case. 51% of data science time goes on preparing data: Anaconda, State of Data Science 2022, 3,493 respondents.

02 How it works

ProdAxon prices the processes that live between your systems, and tells you which to engineer with AI.

ERP, MES, quality and maintenance all report green. None shows what the line as a whole costs.

What waiting costsPer caseThe manual check from step 3, €140K a year, until the case is approved. Example plant.
AI-ready · case approved · week 6AI-ready · still without ProdAxon · week 6
€16,154cost while undecided
€53,846savings by ProdAxonwasted by delays
Week 0Week 26
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Pioneered by ProdAxon

AI-ready means proven profit.

A process moves to autonomy only once its gain is certified on your own history. We published the foundation at NeurIPS 2026, one of the world’s leading AI conferences. What runs in ProdAxon today is years beyond it.

Read the NeurIPS paper →
03 Your platform

We help you profit from your AI platform.
We do not replace it.

Not yet another platform to migrate to. We read your systems where they are.

ProdAxon · case ready
Unplanned stops, mill spindleAdd predictive maintenance
Business case
€240K a year · signed by Finance
Data contract
Spindle current, vibration, work orders · 3 years · refreshed daily
Success measure
Unplanned stops a month, against last year
Deploy to your platform →

1 ProdAxon finds the process, prices it and prepares the case.

Your AI platform · whichever you chose
Predictive maintenance, mill spindleRunning in production
  1. Case and data received
  2. Model built by your team or partner
  3. Running on your platform
  4. Data and model stay here

2 Your platform builds and runs it. The data and the model stay yours.

ProdAxon never runs models, resells build work, trains on your data or syncs your plant to another vendor.

Plugs in through open standardsSQL databasesCSV and ExcelMQTTApache Iceberg and ParquetOpenLineageREST API, described in OpenAPI
04 Your data

Your data, your models and your cost knowledge stay yours

Most vendors ask for trust. Three commitments we make to every customer.

Your data serves only you

We use a customer’s data only to serve that customer. We never train, test or improve our own product on it.

The models belong to you

Every model trained on your data is your property, runs on your platform and goes with you to the next plant.

Your cost knowledge stays in-house

The cost structure of each plant stays with you and your platform, not in a consultant’s spreadsheet.

05 Proven on the shopfloor

State-of-the-art research. Proven on the shopfloor.

Peer-reviewed methods from Cambridge and TU Darmstadt, and a cost model back-tested across a full production year of plant records.

Electronics · GermanyNearly €1Ma year in savings identified at a single site, from twelve months of its own records
Automotive · Brazil€300Ka year per factory, estimated: technicians get the likely fix for an unexplained machine error in seconds, instead of searching manuals while the line waits
Industrial components · UK2×productivity potential identified by matching work to each person’s strengths: on the line’s own tracking data, half the workers were waiting at any moment
Furniture · EUNearly 4×revenue potential identified in schedules that cut changeovers and fill the bottleneck
Electronics · Germany€495Ka year from maintenance driven by the machine’s condition, not the calendar: two thirds fewer unplanned downtime hours, back-tested on the plant’s own history
Automotive · USA€300Ka year per factory, estimated: die-casting anomalies flagged and routed the moment they appear, instead of 5 to 30 minutes of bad castings
Electronics · Germany€425Ka year identified in tester false alarms, priced as a case for retesting only the units likely to really fail
Furniture · EUOver €200Ka year in tied-up capital identified, freed by stocking only what the orders need
Electronics · GermanyOver €250Ka year from a repair strategy that beat the plant’s standard approach, validated on its own records
Automation OEM · Germany9 in 10back-tests in which our cost model beat the plant’s own standard cost rates, so every euro in a case is one Finance signs

Results identified from the plants we work with, on their own records, rounded.

Selected publications

  1. 2026
    Certified Policy Optimisation for Nested Causal Bandits via PAC-Bayes RiskT. Woydt, P.-D. ZuercherNeurIPSHow to hand processes to AI one level of autonomy at a time, and only once the handover provably increases profit on the plant’s own data.
  2. 2025
  3. 2025
    Systems with Switching Causal Relations: A Meta-Causal PerspectiveM. Willig, T. Woydt, F. P. Busch, J. Seng, D. S. Dhami, K. KerstingICLR
  4. 2025
    Multi-Objective Causal Bayesian OptimizationS. Bhatija, P.-D. Zuercher, J. Thumm, T. BohnéICML
  5. 2024
06 The challenge

Words are cheap.
We follow through.
Will you?

Free, read-only, one week, on your own records.

0migrationYour ERP, MES, quality and maintenance systems stay exactly as they are. Nothing moves to us.
0ETL to buildYour team writes no pipelines. We read the databases and exports you already have.
0forward-deployed engineersNobody camps on your site. Setup runs remotely, through read-only access your IT grants.
1week, not six monthsFrom your first extract to your list of priced processes.
Day 0

You send an extract

Whatever you already export: ERP orders, MES logs, a folder of Excel. Read-only, under NDA.

Day 1 to 5

We build your cost model

The processes between your systems rebuilt and priced. No engineers on your site.

Week 1

You get the verdicts

Your processes sorted into engineer, avoid and leave alone, each with its price and payback. Yours to keep either way.

The testSend one week of exports. Within five days you see your own units traced end to end, every step priced. If we cannot show it, you have lost nothing.
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The questions we get asked first

Do we need new sensors or systems?

No. It runs on records your plant already keeps: ERP, MES, quality, maintenance, machine data and spreadsheets.

Will this replace our AI platform or our partners?

No. We find and price the processes. The ones to engineer go to the platform you already run, and your partners build them.

We run several plants. Can we compare them?

Yes. Every process is priced the same way at every site, at rates each site’s Finance team signed, so plants can be compared side by side and what works in one can be taken to the others.

Does our data leave?

Your data serves only you, and we never train our product on it. Speak with us to learn how our zero-trust setup works in detail.

Your autonomous plant is already in your data.

Start with the processes it is made of.