Block model and constraints in, schedule out
Cognomine takes a block model and the constraints that shape the plan, and returns a scheduled long-term plan in minutes. Here is what happens between upload and export.
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Upload
Bring a block model in a standard format, up to 500,000 blocks. Add the constraints that shape the plan: sequencing rules, capacity limits, grade and blending targets, capital and operating assumptions, and the commodity price decks you want to test against.
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Solve
Cognomine encodes the model and constraints and solves in the cloud. A run returns in minutes rather than the hours or days a long-horizon schedule usually takes, and it runs on our infrastructure, so there is no compute for you to buy or manage and no extra cost per run.
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Review and compare
Read the schedule and its supporting outputs. A run costs nothing beyond the credit on your account, so you can change an assumption, solve again, and compare scenarios side by side instead of committing to the first plan that solves.
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Export
Take the schedule and its outputs into your existing workflow. Cognomine produces the plan; your tools and your judgement decide what to do with it.
The constraints a long-horizon solver usually cannot hold
A long-horizon model is normally trimmed back to stay solvable in reasonable time. That trimming is a compute constraint, not a planning one. Cognomine is built to hold more of it in a single solve, including:
- •Bench and phase sequencing
- •Dig precedence
- •Haulage and processing capacity
- •Blending and grade targets
- •Stockpile strategy
- •Capacity limits across the operation
- •Capital and operating cost assumptions
- •Commodity price decks that vary over the mine life
Holding more of these in one solve is what produces a schedule that arrives closer to publishable, so your review time goes into judgement rather than reconciliation.
Quantum-ready, running today
Cognomine is built on a quantum-ready compute engine. It encodes a planning problem the way a quantum system would, then solves it on today's GPUs. The speed is available now, on standard hardware, with a path to quantum processors as they mature and no change to how the problem is encoded. You do not need to know any of this to use Cognomine. It matters only because it is why the solve is fast.
What we have measured so far
We have benchmarked Cognomine on realistic strategic scenarios. Across those runs it returned practical schedules in 10 to 20 minutes. On the same problems, open-source solvers had not converged when we stopped them at 12 and 24 hours.
Two things worth saying plainly. We benchmark against open-source solvers, so these figures show the gap against freely available tools, not against every commercial package. And the value is not only speed: because the model holds more of the real constraints, the schedule is closer to something operations can act on with less rework.
Cloud, kept in Australia, yours alone
Cognomine runs in the cloud, so there is nothing to install and nothing to maintain. Your data is handled on three commitments:
- Logically isolated. Your models and results are separated from every other customer within the platform.
- Your data stays in Australia. It is not moved or processed offshore.
- Deleted when your entitlement ends. Your data is deleted within 30 minutes of expiry, and residual backups are purged within 7 days. We cannot restore data after expiry, so export what you need first.
Note: some enterprises may need to run planning tools entirely inside their own environment, offline. If that is you, talk to us about what an on-site deployment would require.