A Line subscription is justified from verified savings or avoided risk on one line: fat and protein give-away, energy per kilogram of powder, downgrades or escapes. We would rather you started with one line and one number than with a plant-wide program nobody can baseline.
Illustrative scenario: Plant run · skim-milk-powder line + set-yogurt line · shared intake. Not a measured run.
Land on one workflow with a measured baseline. Expand by line, module, site and autonomy stage. Outcome components available on yield, loss, energy and water.
Separation, pasteurization or drying control, or inspection AI, for one line. For processors validating ROI on the wedge.
The whole plant: intake and separation, pasteurization and homogenization, fermentation, evaporation and drying, inspection, quality and shelf life, yield and takt, hygiene and CIP, and the Lactwin twin.
Dairy groups standardizing on Milkeon across sites, with custom product, composition and tolerance models.
A 15 to 20% discount for annual prepayment.
Enterprise agreements with usage ramps.
A share of measured yield, loss, energy or water improvement on the highest-value workflows.
Per-batch, per-line or per-action metering above plan limits.
Modules are licensed per line on the Line tier and bundled on Plant and Enterprise.
| Capability | Line | Plant | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lines covered | 1 | All on site | All in group |
| Agent modules | 1 of 9 | All 9 | All 9 + custom models |
| Lactwin twin | Not included | Included | Custom twin domains |
| Plant-edge node | Included | Per line | Fleet managed |
| Guarded PLC writes | Scoped tags | All scoped tags | Group policy |
| Batch genealogy | Included | Included | Included + export |
| Autonomy stages | Shadow, assist, bounded | Shadow, assist, bounded | Shadow, assist, bounded |
| Deployment | Plant edge + cloud | Plant edge + cloud | On-prem or private cloud |
| Outcome pricing | On request | Available | Standard |
| Indicative price | $14,000 / mo | $90,000 / mo | $650k – $8.5M ACV |
Every Milkeon run is an ordered, inspectable sequence. This is run_scn_01, an illustrative scenario: Plant run · skim-milk-powder line + set-yogurt line · shared intake. Scenario complete · both streams inside spec · one human approval at the dryer.
Plant Orchestrator · Pulled both product specs, the HACCP plan with its pasteurization critical control point, the antibiotic screen for the tanker lot and the standing CIP window from MES and the lab system; locked the target envelope for the run.
Plant Orchestrator · Simulated 24 candidate recipes across separation, pasteurization, evaporation and spray-drying on the Lactwin as-processed twin; ranked them on composition margin, pasteurization margin, energy per kilogram of powder and takt, and discarded every candidate that thinned the pasteurization margin.
Intake-and-Separate · Fused inline NIR and mid-IR with the latest lab calibration, then trimmed the cream-skim split and the standardization blend valve so skim solids and the yogurt-stream fat sat at target with the minimum safe margin rather than the usual over-standardization.
Pasteurize-and-Homogenize · Held HTST at or above 72 °C for 15 s through the holding tube with the flow-diversion valve armed; every critical control point reading was written to the audit log against the HACCP plan.
Ferment-and-Culture · Predicted the acidification curve for the culture lot from inline pH and the upstream composition, held the vat temperature profile and timed the hold so pH landed on the set-yogurt target curve; no abnormal acidification was flagged.
Evaporate-and-Dry · Ran the dryer against the twin's moisture and stickiness prediction; stepped inlet temperature and feed solids toward the minimum-energy setpoint while predicted outlet moisture stayed inside spec and fouling risk stayed low.
Defect-and-Inspect · 16 camera streams across the two packing lines at the plant edge: fill, seal, cap and label checks on every unit, foreign-body and contamination models on the powder stream; two rejects were attributed back to a seal-jaw temperature drift and the packing line was notified.
Hygiene-and-CIP · Placed the pasteurizer and dryer CIP into the cheapest energy window, sequenced wash phases against tank availability and set the release checks that must pass before the next product.
Plant Orchestrator · The twin's lowest-energy candidate wanted a dryer inlet temperature above the site's bounded envelope. Held for the shift dairy technologist, who approved the step with a tighter outlet-moisture alarm.
Quality-and-Conformance · Both batches released: composition, CCP records, culture lot and pH curve, drying setpoints, inspection rejects and every human decision written to the batch genealogy and checked against spec.
Low-friction entry on a single processing or drying line with a hard yield, loss or energy metric, or a paid pilot tied to it.
Adjacent agents in the same plant, then the Plant tier, then multi-site enterprise agreements with plant-edge fleet management and custom models.
Per-batch, per-line or per-action metering above plan limits, and a share of measured yield, loss, energy or water improvement on the highest-value workflows.
Floor pricing is protected; discounts are traded for term length and case studies. Expansion is the primary growth engine.
The pilot KPI is chosen so the plant can baseline it from its own lab, meters and QA records before anything is connected.
| Wedge | Product | Number baselined | Source of the number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standardization | Sepion | Fat and protein give-away; composition variance | Lab results, inline analyzers, MES |
| Spray-drying | Aridyn | Energy and water per kilogram; moisture variance; wash-outs | Energy and water meters, lab |
| Fermentation | Culvex | pH variance; first-pass quality; downgrades | Inline pH, QA records |
| Inspection | Vizra | Escape rate; scrap; rejects by cause | QA and complaint records |
Milkeon is recruiting three to five design partners for the first cohort. These are the processor types the products were designed around and where each would start.
Separation and standardization at the highest volume in the industry. Starting wedge: Sepion, with Vizra on filling and capping.
Standardization feeding living fermentation. Starting wedge: Culvex on the vats, Sepion on the make-milk.
Cream-skim split and fat targets set the margin. Starting wedge: Sepion, with Vizra on packaging.
pH and texture on a curve, batch after batch. Starting wedge: Culvex, with the pasteurization agent on the make-up.
The most energy- and water-intensive lines in the plant. Starting wedge: Aridyn on one dryer.
Tight moisture and solubility windows, high value per batch. Starting wedge: Aridyn and Vizra together.
Milkeon writes to production equipment in a food plant. Every capability is scoped, every write is policy-checked, every output is cited, and every action is written to an append-only audit log the plant owns.
| Item | Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 Type I | Cloud control plane | QUEUED Roadmap, first 6 months |
| SOC 2 Type II | Cloud control plane | QUEUED Roadmap, 6 to 12 months |
| HACCP · FSMA · ISO 22000 · FSSC · Codex | Grounding and record-keeping | RUNNING Design basis for retrieval and the audit log |
| Per-tenant isolation | Data, memory, models | RUNNING Design rule |
| On-prem deployment | Recipe-sensitive producers | RUNNING Design option |
Milkeon supports your food-safety records. It is not a certification and it does not replace your HACCP plan.
The three people in a dairy plant whose week changes when the process runs itself, and what each of them needs from Milkeon.
Owns production rate, quality, loss and yield, energy and water, and food safety. Wants a plant that holds spec at higher rate with fewer interventions, and a number that justifies the spend.
Owns separation and standardization, pasteurization, culture and drying recipes, process windows and yield. Approves and corrects the agents in assist mode; those corrections train the models.
Owns HACCP, FSMA, ISO 22000 and FSSC conformance, composition and contamination conformance, and batch genealogy. Needs every action grounded, cited and written to an immutable record.
IT/OT and sustainability leads approve the deployment. There are no customer quotes on this site yet; design partners will speak for themselves when they choose to.
One policy model, one audit trail and one set of yield, loss, energy and water benchmarks across every plant in the group, with each site's recipes and tolerance models kept private to that site.
The questions plant directors, technologists and quality managers ask in the first meeting.
Only at the autonomy stage your plant has set, and only to an explicit allow-list of low-risk loops inside explicit limits. Every design partner starts in shadow mode, where Milkeon predicts and writes nothing. Assist mode follows, where a technologist approves each recommendation. Bounded autonomy on separation, drying and inspection loops comes after the food-safety and ROI gates agreed up front.
Critical control points are not optimization variables. The pasteurization CCP, the flow-diversion interlock and release decisions stay with your HACCP plan and your people. Milkeon verifies readings, writes them to an immutable audit log and attaches them to the batch genealogy. It supports HACCP, FSMA, ISO 22000 and FSSC records; it is not a certification and does not replace your plan.
Milkeon sits above your existing automation as a supervisory layer. If it stops, the plant keeps running on its current PLC and SCADA control and the interlocks it already has. A Milkeon outage degrades the plant to the way it runs today, not to a stop.
The first phase is shadow mode on one line: Milkeon reads your analyzers, PLC history, lab results and MES while you run the plant as usual, and we measure its predictions against your lab. Recommendations start when accuracy is proven against that baseline, and improve as plant-specific history and technologist corrections accumulate.
Recipes, product specs, tolerance models and supplier data are tenant-scoped and never used to train another customer's models. Retrieval is multi-tenant isolated and permission-aware. On-prem deployment is available for processors protecting sensitive recipes.
You are, the same as with any control strategy. That is why every write is policy-checked, bounded, logged and reversible, every output carries a citation to the recipe or procedure it relied on, and anything above your threshold waits for a named approver. The audit log records the request, the reasoning, the limits applied and the human decision.
As a design partner, on one line, with one hard metric: fat or protein give-away, energy per kilogram of powder, moisture or composition variance, or contamination escapes. We instrument the line in shadow mode, measure the baseline, move to assist mode when accuracy is proven, and expand only when the number holds.
Full multi-module autonomy across the whole plant, long-tail integrations beyond the design partners' stacks, and self-serve onboarding. The first release is one wedge workflow, its connectors, the agent loop with human checkpoints, the review console and the food-safety audit log.
Tell us the line and the number. We will tell you whether a pilot can baseline it.
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