High-tech consulting · Est. MMXXVI

A million layouts.
One answer.

Athenite is a high-tech consulting firm. Our flagship instrument, Daedalus, designs factory and warehouse layouts — what to buy, where it goes, how it connects — then validates its own answer in simulation.

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The category problem

Most tools grade your layout. Ours writes it.

Simulation software can tell you whether the layout you drew will work. It cannot tell you what to build. The space of possible plants — every equipment choice, position, and routing — is astronomically larger than any team can explore by hand. Daedalus explores it by the million.

Our flagship

Daedalus

Takes in

Your plant, on paper

The floor plan of your actual building, an equipment catalog, transport options, demand targets, and a capital budget.

Decides

The whole design

Which machines to buy, where each one goes, and how everything connects — plus buffer sizes, fleets, and crews.

Proves

Its own answer

A full stochastic simulation of the finished design: throughput with confidence intervals, and an honest verdict.

How Daedalus works

1,000,000candidate layouts explored in a typical design run
18 µsto evaluate one candidate with the fast internal model
95%+confidence the selected design is the best candidate evaluated
Secondsper design iteration, up to ~100 machines, on a laptop

Engagements

Three ways in.

Greenfield

Design a new plant

From floor plan and product targets to an equipment list, a floor arrangement, and simulated evidence that it holds.

Brownfield

Re-lay an existing floor

We design around the equipment you already own — every relocation priced against the gain it buys.

Automation

Chart the frontier

We sweep your capital budget and report labor saved and payback as a range — not a single hopeful point.

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Our standard

We'd rather say “too close to call” than be wrong.

Daedalus's numbers come from a model, and it says so. Every throughput figure carries a confidence interval; every optimization reports a certified bound on what's achievable; when two designs can't be told apart, it tells you that too. The engineering decision stays with you — our work is to make it a far better-informed one.

Begin

Tell us about your floor.

An email is enough to start. A floor plan and a demand target are even better.