Cleverdist

What Cleverdist does

Cleverdist is an Industrial AI company leveraging over 10 years of industrial operations expertise. Their primary product, IO (Industrial Operator), acts as an AI-powered operational expert, continuously assessing industrial data, constraints, and available actions to help teams make faster, better decisions. IO is deployed in real industrial environments and enables organizations to improve throughput, quality, capacity, and resilience across critical operations. The company grew out of a background in industrial control systems, with founding members having spent over a decade at CERN building and operating control systems for large scientific infrastructure, bringing a rigorous engineering approach to industrial AI.

Products

• IO (Industrial Operator)An AI-powered operational expert for industrial operations that continuously assesses industrial data, constraints, and available actions to help teams make faster, better decisions. It supports both human-in-the-loop and delegated execution modes.
• IO ASSISTA version of IO where AI thinks and humans decide. It detects, correlates, and recommends, with every action human-validated. Features include natural language queries on live data, on-demand analytics & calculations, and self-learning agents. Suitable for up to 3 missions and 1 site.
• IO TRUSTA version of IO where AI acts within defined rules. It includes all features of IO ASSIST plus delegated execution with policies, configurable governance rules, and is capable of handling up to 10 missions and up to 3 sites.
• IO ORCHESTRATEAn enterprise-grade version of IO for multi-site and multi-enterprise orchestration. It includes all features of IO TRUST plus cross-site orchestration, enterprise system integration, custom SLA, and dedicated support.
• SmartNodes++A framework that brings ontology, structure, and reuse into WinCC OA engineering, making systems easier to maintain, upgrade, and faster to deliver. Used in projects with companies like Siemens ITS (Yunex Traffic) and ITER.
• SmartNodes AnywhereExtends the principles of SmartNodes++ beyond WinCC OA, modeling any SCADA system or enterprise interface and providing structured context for IO to reason about operations.

Key capabilities

• Autonomous AI for industrial operations
• Supervised or Autonomous operation modes
• On top of existing systems
• Built-in governance
• Human in the loop (AI thinks, you decide)
• Delegated Execution (AI acts within your rules)
• Explicit policies for delegation
• Full audit trails
• Flexibility to evolve at your pace
• Seamless integration across existing ecosystem (SCADA/DCS, Historians, MES, ERP, EAM/CMMS, APM, Quality/LIMS, Planning/APS, Documents, APIs)
• Onboarding tools to create context (ontology) for AI
• Natural language queries on live data (IO ASSIST)
• On-demand analytics & calculations (IO ASSIST)
• Self-learning agents (IO ASSIST)
• Configurable governance rules (IO TRUST)
• Cross-site orchestration (IO ORCHESTRATE)
• Enterprise system integration (IO ORCHESTRATE)
• Custom SLA & dedicated support (IO ORCHESTRATE)
• Industrial-grade engineering
• Vendor-agnostic

Use cases

• Improving throughput across critical operations
• Improving quality across critical operations
• Improving capacity across critical operations
• Improving resilience across critical operations
• Supporting multi-plant combined-cycle operations
• Centralized operations across combined-cycle power plants
• Maintaining critical control systems (Air Traffic Control)
• Designing next generation control systems (Air Traffic Control)
• Turnkey SCADA control center solutions for power plants
• Centralizing supervision and operation in a single center

AI approach

Cleverdist develops Industrial Operator (IO), an AI system for industrial operations. IO acts as an AI-powered operational expert, continuously assessing industrial data, constraints, and available actions to help teams make faster, better decisions. It supports both human-in-the-loop (AI thinks, human decides) and delegated execution (AI acts within human-defined rules) models. The company emphasizes its decade-plus experience in industrial control systems and its R&D culture to adapt quickly to AI advancements, focusing on reliability, traceability, and industrial fit. They model the operational landscape using an ontology to provide context for the AI.

Tech named: generative AI, ontology

Industries served

• Artificial Intelligence
• Industrial operations
• Energy
• Power Generation
• Transport
• Manufacturing
• Scientific infrastructure
• Air Traffic Control
• Fusion
• Petrochemical terminals
• Metro operations

What it says sets it apart

• Leverages 10+ years of industrial operations expertise
• Deployed in real industrial environments, not demos
• Built on 10+ years of mission-critical automation expertise
• Swiss-tech industrial-grade engineering
• Vendor-agnostic integration capabilities
• Originates from CERN's rigorous engineering culture for complexity, long lifecycles, and non-negotiable reliability
• Focus on turning hard ideas into working systems
• Structured approach to industrial control systems through SmartNodes framework
• AI became a core direction only when it was useful enough, maintaining standards for reliability, traceability, and industrial fit
• Provides both human-in-the-loop and delegated execution options with clear governance