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London, England & Marfa, Texas
2024 / 2025 / 2026
Delivering Industrial & Environmental Intelligence at Scale
INTELLIGENT CORE defines a new class of operational intelligence platforms, where modular AI systems integrate directly into industrial workflows and scale across sectors.
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![Two people in a control room reviewing industrial system data across multiple monitors.]()
Research
Industrial systems are under growing pressure to maintain uptime, reduce environmental risk, and respond faster across fragmented operations. Our research revealed that disconnected data across SCADA, IoT, and telemetry was limiting visibility, slowing decisions, and making compliance harder to manage at scale.
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![Three field workers in safety helmets standing beside industrial equipment during an on-site discussion.]()
Insight
Across industries, operators need more than dashboards. They need one adaptive system that unifies real-time data, supports earlier decisions, and makes intelligence accessible across teams. Our insight was clear: operational intelligence must be predictive, proactive, and usable in the flow of work.
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![Industrial operator in safety gear standing above a large facility, representing field-informed system design.]()
Strategy
Intelligent Core was designed as a modular AI platform for industrial and environmental operations. It combines CORE Insight, CORE Foresight, CORE Detect, CORE Move, CORE Autonomy, and CORE Relay to unify visibility, detection, prediction, coordination, response, and conversational control in one human-centered system.
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![Field operator gesturing toward industrial infrastructure while a drone flies overhead, representing aerial intelligence and sensing.]()
Future
Intelligent Core creates a scalable foundation for industrial and environmental intelligence. By combining software, field intelligence, and aerial sensing, it helps teams oversee more complex systems, respond earlier, and adapt operations over time.
Challenge
Industrial operators face growing pressure to maintain uptime, meet environmental regulations, and prevent costly failures. Disconnected systems, from SCADA to IoT sensors, reduce visibility and slow response. The challenge was to create a modular intelligence platform which could unify industrial data, support real-time decisions, and improve operational and environmental outcomes.
Integrations
INTELLIGENT CORE combines modular AI engines into unified industrial and environmental solutions:
CORE Insight: Real-time analytics for asset health, performance, energy, and environmental monitoring.
CORE Foresight: Predictive intelligence for forecasting risks, failures, and disruption.
CORE Detect: Aerial intelligence and anomaly detection for field verification and earlier issue detection.
CORE Move: Logistics intelligence for routing, coordination, and operational execution.
CORE Autonomy: Agentic automation for tasks, mitigation, and operational optimization.
CORE Relay: Conversational control for operator commands, AI recommendations, and synchronized response.
Domain Solutions: INTELLIGENT CORE used its modular engines to create domain-specific solutions such as CORE Horizon for upstream oil and gas operations, CORE Flow for midstream operations, CORE Seismic for induced seismic risk, and CORE Dose for chemical optimization.
Development
Formist Studio co-developed INTELLIGENT CORE as a modular intelligence platform designed to scale across industrial and environmental operations:
Architect a modular system which can function as standalone tools or integrated domain solutions.
Connect SCADA, IoT, drones, and APIs into one unified operational layer.
Design an adaptive interface for control rooms, field teams, and distributed operations.
Align compliance, security, and governance with enterprise and industrial requirements.
Develop a platform identity which communicates trust, adaptability, and performance across software, field intelligence, and aerial systems.
Solution
INTELLIGENT CORE brings modular AI engines together into one operational intelligence platform for industrial and environmental systems.
A unified system connecting data, prediction, and action across industrial operations.
System Visibility
Operators monitor assets, performance, and environmental conditions through one connected interface.
Predictive Intelligence
AI helps teams identify risks earlier and respond before issues escalate.
Operational Coordination
Intelligent workflows support task routing, escalation, and faster response across distributed systems.
Conversational Control
Operators can issue commands, review recommendations, and interact with the system in natural language.
Audit & Compliance
Traceable logs and operating records strengthen compliance, accountability, and stakeholder trust.
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![CORE Insight dashboard displaying cost efficiency and mobility analytics for industrial and environmental intelligence.]()
Data Intelligence (CORE Insight)
Transforms raw telemetry into real-time operational intelligence, enabling teams to monitor performance, identify trends, and optimize efficiency across complex systems.
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![CORE Foresight predictive analytics dashboard showing infrastructure load and system forecasts.]()
Predictive Intelligence (CORE Foresight)
Analyzes patterns across infrastructure and operations to forecast risks and demand, enabling earlier intervention and preventing failures before they escalate.
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![CORE Autonomy interface orchestrating real-time event responses, including CO₂ emissions detection and outage management.]()
Agentic Enablement (CORE Autonomy)
CORE Autonomy coordinates actions across systems and teams, helping operators reduce delays, streamline response, and improve operational consistency.
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![CORE Relay dashboard interface showing AI-assisted workforce coordination and task assignment for sustainable infrastructure projects.]()
Conversational Command (CORE Relay)
Enables operators to interact with systems using natural language, improving coordination, accelerating decisions, and aligning teams across workflows.
Results
INTELLIGENT CORE delivers measurable operational and environmental outcomes across live industrial deployments, driven by unified data, prediction, and action.
Environmental Intelligence
Reduced emissions and waste through predictive monitoring and compliance-ready reporting.
Industrial Resilience
Improved uptime with real-time visibility and faster incident response.
Operational Efficiency
Streamlined workflows through automation, reducing downtime and operating costs.
Unified Oversight
Consolidated siloed data into a single adaptive platform for full operational visibility.
Future-Ready Growth
Established a scalable foundation for continuous innovation across industrial systems.
Impact
90-day pilot (CORE Flow), midstream operator
+20% compressor efficiency via real-time coordination
−40% flow imbalance events via automated anomaly detection
−60% leak response time with real-time alerts
−30% methane and emission events via predictive monitoring
−35% unplanned downtime via flow optimization
Deployed and Validated in the Field
CORE Flow is one of several domain solutions built on INTELLIGENT CORE, deployed with operators like Purestream to validate performance in real-world conditions.
Tested across real assets, workflows, and field conditions
Delivered measurable gains in efficiency, response, and compliance
Establishes a repeatable model for scaled industrial deployment
Validation
Live deployments demonstrate technical viability and growing commercial traction. INTELLIGENT CORE has secured £2.7M across pre-seed and seed funding, with the seed round in progress.
Designed for oil and gas, and built as a modular system to scale across infrastructure, energy, and environmental sectors.
INTELLIGENT CORE reflects Formist Studio’s venture model, building and scaling products at the intersection of design, engineering, and AI.
Industrial and environmental intelligence, unified and operating at scale in the real world.
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