Swan-Black

Name

Swan-Black

Legal name

GS Systems, Inc.

Website

https://swan-black.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Analytics Services

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Industry/Domain Analytics Solutions & Accelerators (BPAEAHAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI/ML Solution Integration & MLOps Enablement (BPAEAAAJ), iBPMS (Intelligent BPM Suites) & Process Automation Suites (HDAEAHAG)

Keywords

• Process manufacturing analytics
• Industrial data analytics
• Food beverage manufacturing
• Time-series analytics
• Manufacturing consulting services

Headquarters

HQ city

Brookfield

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Customer Success Membership: Exclusive membership program reserved for customers dedicated to driving organizational change through advanced analytics. The program delivers high-engagement support and services including dedicated Customer Success Manager, value assurance, analytics support, technical support, and training. Revenue appears to be recurring subscription-based through membership fees.
2. Seeq Software Resale and Implementation: As the Master Industry VAR for Seeq in Food & Beverage, Swan-Black resells Seeq Advanced Analytics software and provides implementation services including use case development, ROI workshops, and add-on development.
3. Training & Certification Services: Swan-Black is a Seeq Industry Training Partner (ITP) providing training courses that satisfy Seeq certification requirements for F&B and Food Science industry verticals. This creates an additional revenue stream through course delivery and certification programs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Swan-Black operates as the Master Industry VAR (MIV) for Seeq Advanced Analytics Software in the Food & Beverage and Food Science verticals, reselling and implementing the Seeq platform (Workbench, Organizer, Data Lab) for time-series operational analytics. The company complements the software resale with an exclusive Customer Success program providing dedicated success managers, value assurance, training, and ongoing support, plus Seeq Industry Training Partner (ITP) certification courses and Timeseer.AI data quality and reliability services.

Product overview

Swan-Black operates as a Master Industry VAR (MIV) for Seeq Advanced Analytics Software in the Food & Beverage industry, reselling and implementing Seeq's three-module platform (Seeq Workbench, Seeq Organizer, and Seeq Data Lab) complemented by Swan-Black's own Customer Success program and Industry Training Partner services. The Seeq platform provides time-series data analysis capabilities, while Swan-Black adds domain expertise, implementation support, training, and ongoing customer success services tailored for food and beverage process manufacturers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Seeq Workbench
• Seeq Organizer
• Seeq Data Lab
• Customer Success Program
• Advanced Analytics for Food & Beverage

Quantifiable outcome

• ROI >10x from reduced time to market, improved quality, increased OEE, increased yield, and improved sustainability
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Timeseer.AIcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2026As of January 2026, Swan-Black was named a Timeseer.AI Certified Global Solutions Partner. This partnership closes the loop on advanced analytics enablement for food and beverage customers by ensuring data quality and reliability prior to analysis. Timeseer.AI provides data reliability scoring, profiling, monitoring, observability, quality optimization, and data connectivity capabilities that complement Swan-Black's Seeq implementation services.
• SeeqcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2024Swan-Black is the globally recognized Master Industry VAR (MIV) for Food & Beverage/Food Science industry verticals for Seeq Advanced Analytics Software. This partnership involves reselling Seeq software, providing implementation services, training, and customer success support. Swan-Black has been recognized as a top Seeq partner four years in a row and named the 2024 Global Customer Success Champion. The relationship includes co-development of industry-specific use cases (Golden Batch, CIP optimization, mass balance, waste reduction) and joint marketing through events like Seeq Conneqt.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Tignis: Tignis provides AI-driven process control and analytics for industrial operators, focusing on root-cause, anomaly detection, and optimization — the same pain points Swan-Black addresses for F&B manufacturers using Seeq and Timeseer.AI.
• Uptake Technologies: Uptake provides industrial AI and analytics for asset-intensive and process industries. Its focus on operational insights from time-series and machine data overlaps with Swan-Black's analytics implementations for F&B process manufacturers.
• SparkCognition: SparkCognition applies AI to industrial operations, including process manufacturing use cases such as anomaly detection and predictive optimization — adjacent competitive offerings to Swan-Black's analytics solutions for F&B.

Broad incumbents

• Aspen Technology (AspenTech): AspenTech is a large incumbent in process manufacturing optimization and asset performance, with analytics suites that overlap with the operational-improvement outcomes Swan-Black delivers to F&B customers.
• Seeq Corporation: Seeq is Swan-Black's primary technology partner and the vendor whose platform Swan-Black resells and implements. Seeq itself serves many verticals directly and via other VARs, making it the broader incumbent against which Swan-Black competes for delivery and customer success scope.
• AVEVA: AVEVA (including the PI System historian) provides industrial data infrastructure and analytics for process manufacturers. It is a broad incumbent competing for the same operational-intelligence budget that Swan-Black targets with Seeq-based deployments.

Direct peers

• Braincube: Braincube delivers an industrial AI/analytics platform for process manufacturers with deep use-case libraries for yield, quality, and energy — overlapping with Swan-Black's F&B analytics offerings and competing for the same customer-improvement budgets.
• TrendMiner (Software AG): TrendMiner provides self-service time-series analytics for process manufacturers, directly overlapping with the Seeq Workbench-style capabilities Swan-Black resells and implements. Both target the same F&B, chemicals, and process-industry buyers with similar use cases (root cause, batch analysis, optimization).
• Sightline Systems: Sightline Systems offers real-time industrial analytics and visualization for process and discrete manufacturers. Its time-series intelligence focus on operational performance is comparable to the Seeq-based analytics stack Swan-Black implements.

Others

• DataRobot: DataRobot provides an enterprise AI/ML platform used by manufacturers to build and deploy predictive models. It is thematically comparable to the analytics/ML layer Swan-Black exposes through Seeq Data Lab, though DataRobot competes as a platform rather than a vertical VAR.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/swan-black

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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