Porcelio
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About

Encoding the oldest craft into autonomy

Ceramics are among the oldest and most demanding materials humanity makes. Porcelio exists to turn that craft, the kiln master's eye, the technologist's intuition, into an autonomous, auditable operations layer for every plant.

Mission

Every firing, perfectly made

Turning quarried clay into a tile, a basin, or an insulator is high-temperature materials science disguised as craft, run at enormous scale under intense cost, energy, and quality pressure. Our mission is to close the loop from perception to press-and-kiln control, lifting quality and yield while cutting defects, downgrades, breakage, energy, and manual sorting.

MISSIONPORCELIO
Categoryceramics autonomy
Loopperceive-decide-act
Priced onvalue
Depthvertical to ceramics
Stancegrounded & auditable
Brand pillars

What we stand on

Four pillars that shape every product decision.

Trust

Grounded, auditable, quality-grade, never a black box.

Autonomy

We perform the work, not just assist with it.

Outcomes

Priced and measured on the value delivered.

Vertical depth

Built for ceramics physics, not generic AI.

The moat

A compounding craft memory

The five products share one plant-edge runtime, one firing-and-quality data lake, and one model router. Perception trains the twin, the twin feeds energy and decoration setpoints, and every corrected outcome sharpens a craft memory that point tools can't accumulate. The moat deepens with every burn.

Shared runtimeOne data lakeOne model routerCompounding memory
THE MOATFLYWHEEL
Perceptiontrains twin
Twinfeeds setpoints
Outcomessharpen memory
Point toolscan't accumulate
Resultdeepening moat
Vision

The autonomous layer for the world's ceramics

$22B total addressable market and growing ~13%/yr
5 GPU-essential systems, one platform
Every tile, basin, and piece pressed and fired on Porcelio
Multi-billion long-term outcome as the category converts
Roadmap

Where we're headed

A deliberate path from a single workflow to the plant system of action.

Now

Land on one workflow

Paid pilots on defect and tone vision or kiln firing-curve control, tied to a hard metric.

Next

Expand to the plant

Add body, press, dry, glaze, robotics, and energy, the whole plant on one runtime.

Then

Multi-site standardization

Standardize body, glaze, and firing recipes across plants with one shared craft memory.

Vision

The operations layer

Become the autonomous operations layer for the world's ceramics producers.

Why plants choose us

What sets Porcelio apart

Not another dashboard or point scanner, a vertical operations layer built for ceramics physics.

  • Acts, not just measuresCloses the loop and drives the kiln, robots, and glaze lines.
  • Green and firedGrades pieces before and after the burn, not just at the end.
  • Physics-informed twinSimulates the firing curve instead of guessing from temperature.
  • Compounding memoryEvery corrected outcome sharpens a craft memory point tools can't hold.
  • Grounded and auditableCited, bounded decisions engineers can trust and trace.
  • Priced on valueMeasured on downgrades, energy, and yield delivered.
The ecosystem

One platform, five ways in

Porcelio connects to the equipment and groups the ceramics industry already runs on.

Kiln & press OEMs

Roller kilnsTunnel kilnsHydraulic pressesExtruders

Glaze & decoration

Glaze linesDigital decorationEngobe applicationRobotic cells

Inspection & data

Profile scannersSCADA / PLCMESHistorian

Ceramics groups

Multi-siteR&D labsSustainabilityQuality
The thesis
1,100–1,300°C

of craft, encoded and always on

The kiln master's eye and the technologist's intuition, turned into an autonomous, auditable operations layer that never retires.

“The craft that governs ceramic quality is retiring. We're making sure it doesn't leave the building.”
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PorcelioFounding thesis

Build the future of ceramics with us

Whether you run a plant, an R&D lab, or a multi-site group, we'd like to talk.