Factory heat and cooling should be as easy to buy as electricity.
Fourfold is building electric systems that use AI to anticipate your factory’s heating and cooling needs and find the cheapest way to meet them. Our plan is to own and run the equipment. You pay for the heating and cooling you use.
Ten years from now, we think a factory will be able to work out the cheapest way to run its next shift before the shift begins. Its energy system will know what production has planned, how the equipment is performing and how much heat is already available in the plant.
That changes how we’d design the system from day one. Our engineers would use the model to test different designs against the factory’s actual production schedule before buying a machine. Once installed, the same model would guide daily operation. It would compare ways to meet demand, choose when to reuse or store heat, and put the lowest-cost plan into effect within limits set by the plant’s engineers. When production changes, it would work out a new plan.
For the owner, the point is simple. The plant gets the temperatures it needs, when it needs them, with less wasted energy and less money spent on fuel. Fourfold takes responsibility for the equipment and for what it costs to run.
If you run a factory, we’d love to visit. If you know these systems well, we’d value your advice. And if you’d like to build the machines or the intelligence that runs them, we’d like to meet you.