PROXIM IT LTD

Name

PROXIM IT LTD

Legal name

PROXIM IT LTD

Website

https://proximit.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

PROXIM IT LTD is a UK-based IT services and software firm that has built MetOptima, an AI-powered facility optimization SaaS platform providing real-time parameter recommendations and explainable AI for industrial operators. It serves industrial facility operators, with Draslovka evidenced as a reference customer.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Facility Optimization Software

NAICS

Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables (334513), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (33451)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial Automation Software (SCADA, HMI, MES, Historian) (IMAHAHAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

iBPMS (Intelligent BPM Suites) & Process Automation Suites (HDAEAHAG), Business Rules & Decision Management Platforms (BRMS/DMN) (HDAEAKAG)

Keywords

• Facility optimization software
• Industrial AI platform
• Operational parameter tuning
• Process optimization software
• Facility management analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Lichfield

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Core offering

PROXIM IT LTD sells MetOptima, an AI-powered SaaS platform that delivers real-time optimization recommendations for industrial facility parameters such as Mill Inlet Water, circuit configurations, crew shift scheduling, and broader facility management. The platform combines a recommendation engine with explainable AI features that allow operators to query calculation methodology, explore downstream effects, and accept, reject, or flag suggestions, while tracking adoption and optimization cycles over time.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MetOptima: Facility optimization platform providing recommendations, optimization cycles, crew shifts management, and data analytics for facility information management

Products and services

• MetOptima MetOptima is an AI-powered optimization platform for industrial facilities that provides data-driven recommendations for operational parameters. It includes integrated modules for managing AI-generated Recommendations, an Activity Log for tracking changes, Adoption monitoring for implementation success, a Data Explorer for analyzing facility data, Facility Information management, Optimization Cycles, and Crew Shifts scheduling. It is targeted at industrial operators seeking to optimize equipment settings and operational efficiency.

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature1 record

Broad incumbents

• Siemens Xcelerator / MindSphere: Siemens' industrial software and IoT platform offers plant digitalization, closed-loop optimization, and AI-driven analytics. Comparable target customer (process manufacturers) and overlap on operational optimization, though embedded in a much broader automation suite.
• AVEVA: AVEVA provides industrial software including PI System (historian) and process optimization suites for chemicals, power, and manufacturing. Overlaps with MetOptima on industrial process data and optimization, but as a much larger incumbent portfolio player.
• C3.ai: C3.ai offers enterprise AI applications for industrial use cases including process optimization, predictive maintenance, and energy management. Comparable to MetOptima as both apply AI-driven recommendations to industrial operations, though C3.ai is a much larger, broader platform.
• Aspen Technology: Aspen Tech (now part of Emerson) delivers asset optimization, production planning, and process simulation software to chemicals and process industries. Comparable industrial customer base and optimization focus, though at significantly greater scale.
• Honeywell Forge: Honeywell Forge provides industrial AI and analytics for process plants, including connected plant performance and asset reliability solutions. Directly comparable industrial AI optimization use case; competes for similar plant operations budgets.

Direct peers

• Uptake: Uptake builds industrial AI software for asset performance, reliability, and operations optimization across sectors such as mining, rail, and manufacturing. Highly comparable to MetOptima's industrial-facility optimization use cases and domain-specialized AI approach.
• Braincube: Braincube delivers industrial AI and analytics on top of plant historians for production optimization, energy reduction, and quality improvement. Closely comparable to MetOptima in serving process manufacturers with AI optimization recommendations.

Emerging players

• Canvass AI: Canvass AI applies industrial AI to optimize process manufacturing yields, quality, and energy consumption for chemicals, metals, and consumer goods. A close functional peer to MetOptima in applying AI recommendations to plant parameters, at a similarly early scale.
• Tignis: Tignis provides AI-based process optimization for semiconductor, mining, and industrial manufacturers using operational data and physics models. Comparable AI-driven parameter optimization for industrial processes and similar scale.
• Seeq Corporation: Seeq provides analytics and AI applications on industrial process data for manufacturing and energy customers, often layered on historian data. Partial overlap with MetOptima's recommendation and data exploration functionality.

Market position

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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