Verification-first deployment of AI agents: every action stress-tested in a world model before it touches real infrastructure.
Built for the systems that cannot afford an experiment: mobile networks and semiconductor fabs.
How It Works
Crucible builds a calibrated world model of your system, a radio cluster or a whole fab: an AI-native simulation faithful enough to stand in for reality.
Optimization agents are trained and proven against the model, never by experimenting on live infrastructure.
Actions release only after verification against your guardrails, and roll back automatically if reality deviates from prediction.
The same engine in both industries
| Telecom network | Semiconductor fab | |
|---|---|---|
| The world model | a radio cluster: traffic, power, interference and quality of service, calibrated on your performance counters | a full fab: lots, tools, batches, setups, time limits between steps and tool downs, calibrated on your MES history |
| What the agent decides | which carriers sleep and when, which slice gets capacity, which rApp wins a conflict, which offer a subscriber receives | which lot, which tool, which chamber, now or wait; batch composition, start time and setup sequence |
| The guardrails | availability, latency and coverage: the quality-of-service envelope you define | tool qualification, holds, time limits and carrier state: the fab's hard constraints, validated by the MES on every instruction |
| Proof before production | recommendation mode on selected sites, then closed loop | a policy proven optimal on the certified lot-flow core, full-fab simulation, then shadow mode on one area, then the dispatch seat |
| If reality deviates | automatic rollback to the previous configuration | kill switch back to the fab's native rules |
Telecom Networks
E-RAN applies Crucible to radio access networks, which consume most of a telecom operator's energy budget. It orchestrates the energy-saving features already in your vendors' equipment, with zero hardware changes while safeguarding quality of service.
Nokia · Ericsson · Huawei · Open RAN
In operation
one simulated day on a 21-cell cluster in the Crucible world model; cluster power draw, hourly means
| 00:30 | carrier sleep engaged, first of the night (cell at 2% load) | verified: within QoS guardrails | released |
| 05:15 | carriers woken ahead of the morning ramp | demand forecast rising | released |
| — | deeper sleep policy, 31% saving | latency 7 to 22 ms in the world model | rejected, never deployed |
logged from the same simulated day; seed 42, 40 Mbps/cell demand
Beyond energy, on the same world model
Semiconductor Fabs
Fab Dispatch applies Crucible to the decision layer of a wafer fab. It is the real-time dispatcher: for every tool event it answers what next, where next and when, as concrete instructions (lot to tool to chamber to load port, batch composition, start time, and deliberate, bounded waits). Its dispatch policy is proven optimal on a certified model of the fab's lot flow: it attains the machine-checked pace floor exactly, and a certified switching envelope benches any policy that leaves it. Each instruction goes to your MES, which validates it against the fab's hard constraints and executes it. The MES stays the system of record; on the toolsets Crucible runs, the native rules step back to a kill switch.
orders of magnitude for a 100,000-wafer-per-month fab at $10,000 per wafer
Siemens Opcenter · Critical Manufacturing · Applied SmartFactory · in-house MES
In operation
ticks to complete all 84 lots on the certified Mini-Fab lot-flow core (carved clock, 1 tick = 1 minute); the darker segment is each rule's regret beyond the certified floor 255N + 375; the rogue policy never runs, the envelope benches it
| tick 1 | first lots admitted to diffusion back-to-back on one furnace; the second furnace held 369 ticks for the re-entrant pass with a qualified lot waiting | verified: inside the certified envelope | released |
| tick 21,406 | furnace held 133 ticks with one lot waiting: the deliberate idle that keeps the last handover seamless | verified: bounded wait, buys the final 80 ticks | released |
| tick 21,795 | last lot arrives at lithography: exactly the certified floor 255N + 375 | theorem: no policy arrives earlier | certified |
| — | work-alternating rogue policy, +85% cycle time in the world model (40,406 vs 21,795 ticks) | benched by the certified switching envelope after 8 named refusals | rejected, plant untouched |
logged from the certified lot-flow core, 84 lots; the floor is machine-checked in Lean and the envelope certificates re-check from bytes. On the full fab (batching, setups, seeded failures, outside the certificate) the same engine re-plans daily and runs 12% shorter cycle time than FIFO over a simulated week.
See the dispatch world model run → · See the fab energy demo →
Not a scheduler on top of your rule engine
publishes a list into the fab's rule engine every few minutes. The engine takes the first scheduled lot that happens to be at the tool and falls back to its own rules otherwise. Every layer between the list and the tool dilutes the result, which is why a scheduler on top cannot promise its own performance.
answers each tool event in well under a second from the current plan and re-plans the toolset every few minutes. Every wait is deliberate, bounded and explained on the operator screen: "batch forming, 2 of 3", "hot lot arriving in 3 min". The measure is execution conformance: the share of tool starts that were Crucible's instruction, as issued.
Where it sits
The MES holds no sequencing logic and Crucible holds no recipes. If Crucible stops, the fab keeps dispatching on its native rules.
Where a pilot starts
| Control scope | one area; the data scope is the whole fab: work in progress, tool states and time-limit clocks fab-wide |
| First area | the wet-clean and diffusion pair: batch fill, furnace start timing and Q-time gating are the most valuable and the most local decisions |
| Then | implant, where setup sequencing is the lever; lithography once the world model has earned the fab's trust, because that is where the fab-level money is |
| Proof | a full-fab world model calibrated on your history, then shadow mode: instructions computed, not executed, and compared with what the fab actually did |
| Do no harm | line yield, rework and scrap are watched as safety KPIs; recipes and process settings are never touched |
From First Look to Full Scale
Security and Compliance
Crucible deploys as containers in your private cloud, connected or air-gapped. In a network it reads equipment-level performance and energy counters and never subscriber data. In a fab it reads lot, tool and route events from the MES: process times and constraints, never the recipe programs themselves. Humanis AI Ltd operates an ISMS built to ISO 27001, and a data processing agreement is available for every engagement.
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