Continuum Core instruments view: tank gauges, a dial and trend charts on the control console.
/Product

The AI-powered operating system for energy businesses

Continuum has its own physics models and AI-embedded hardware built in, so every team works on its own and stays connected to the others. It is built for energy, new energy, commodities and defence businesses.

/Continuum Core

The operating system your sites run on

It connects to the systems you already run and links every tank, machine, movement, contract and cost. Each team works on its own and sees the moment something it depends on changes. Operations, engineering, commercial and finance teams plan intake, storage, blending and dispatch by road, rail, sea and pipeline, with the orders, contracts, duty and cash behind them.

When a pump slows, a tank goes out for inspection or a price moves, Core shows each team what that change does to its own work and its costs.

Continuum Core · Workflow chains
Continuum Core causality chains: four stages wired into a chain, two complete, one active and one blocked on the quality check ahead of it, with the draft chain expressed as a statement along the foot of the screen.
A chain links the steps of a job. Each step waits on the one before it, and the job moves on as soon as its conditions are met.
/Operating tools

What your teams run on Continuum Core

Site operations

  • Product receipt and intake
  • Gate access and vehicle movement
  • Bay, jetty and loading area
  • Storage and tank assignment
  • Transfer and outturn
  • Movement scheduling
  • Shift handover and end of day
  • Alarms and events

Assets and equipment

  • Tanks, bays, jetties and lines
  • Meters and gauging
  • Vessels, wagons and trailers
  • Pipelines and manifolds
  • Asset state and availability
  • Capacity against nomination
  • Maintenance windows in the plan

Inventory and custody

  • Stock at every site, today
  • Ullage and headroom
  • Interface settlement
  • Loss attribution by movement
  • Stock value by site
  • Custody transfer

Product quality

  • Specification and giveaway
  • Blend to what the contract owes
  • Condition through storage
  • Valuation by condition
  • Laboratory work planned by risk
  • Off-spec exposure

Commercial and contracts

  • Nomination against actual lifting
  • Product transfer agreements
  • Exchange agreements
  • Counterparty performance
  • Claims and disputes
  • Demurrage exposure

Duty, customs and tax

  • Duty as the movement creates it
  • Customs and warehousing status
  • VAT on duty-inclusive value
  • Ownership per parcel and owner
  • Duty-suspended movement and e-AD
  • Loss allowances and assessment
  • Origin and preference

Working capital

  • Borrowing base and eligible stock
  • Working capital held in inventory
  • Cash per parcel
  • Obligation as a funding line
  • FX by leg
  • Draw preparation
  • Position by business unit

The platform

  • Object types and links
  • Actions that change them
  • Physics models from Gamma
  • AI agents within your rules
  • Event log and history
  • Access control and roles
  • Versioned rulesets
/Gamma

Physics and engineering models

Gamma is our family of physics and engineering models. It forecasts how product and plant will change, and it prices every option before you choose. It weighs each choice against the stock, the contract, the duty and the cash, alongside prices, freight and flows.

Teams run scenarios across the whole operation, from intake through blending to sale and settlement. Gamma learns from every result, so each forecast starts from what your operation has actually done.

/AI agents

AI agents that do the routine work

AI agents prepare nominations and duty returns within your rules, and a person releases every change. They take on the routine work across operations, commercial and finance, so your teams spend their time on the decisions that need them.

Coming in 2027, Continuum Reach lets customers and partners work from the same live operation. Each party sees only what you choose to share.

Continuum Core · Live state
Continuum Core live state: dashboard tiles wired to their sources, each drawing the plus or minus one sigma spread, one tile left blank because its source carries no sigma, above a data grid of contract rows.
Each team sees the live state of its sites on its own screen, and every tile changes the moment the operation does.
/Sense

Our AI-embedded hardware

Sense is our AI-embedded hardware, built on infrared spectroscopy and graphene. It reads the product in tanks, pipelines, plant intake and process lines, and every reading goes straight into Core. Your teams see the condition of what they hold today and plan around it.

Reads

It reads the product and its condition as it changes.

Works on

It works on liquids, solids and gases.

Where it fits

It fits at intake, in storage, at transfer and at the blend.

Fitting

Terrafa engineers fit it with no shutdown.

Result

Biodiesel content in diesel read on site in seconds, within 0.16% v/v of the ASTM D7371 laboratory method.

Patents

Patents are pending in the UK, Europe and North America.

Service

Terrafa looks after the hardware for its whole working life.

Certification

ATEX certified, with UKEX and IECEx under way.

Supply

It can be added to any site, at any time.

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How Continuum uses AI

Continuum uses machine learning, physics models and language models, each where it does the job best. AI agents handle routine decisions within your rules, and a person releases every critical change.

Machine learning

  • Degradation and condition through storage
  • Loss patterns by counterparty and shift
  • Yield and blend optimisation
  • Demand and lifting behaviour

Physics-based models

  • Gamma physics and engineering models
  • Rules for process management
  • Scenario chaining across the operation
  • Boundary prices and merit order

Generative AI

  • Plain-language questions across Core
  • Automated preparation and reporting
  • Drafted nominations and duty returns
  • A person releases every change

AI agents

  • Routine decisions within your rules
  • Learning from every result
  • Safe connections to your own AI tools
  • Stopping for a person at limits you set
Continuum Core · Transfer network · TK-04
Level · 11,960 m³ ATG ±5 mm Temperature · 16.2 °C ±1.0 °C · statutory fallback Density · 836 kg/m³ ±0.60 kg/m³ · laboratory 30% of the band 70% of the band <1% of the band Transfer · vcf API MPMS 11.1 · jet group fig.tk04_v15 11,948 ± 11 m³ 0.092% of the 0.300% cap
This view shows how a volume corrected to 15 °C is built from the readings on one transfer line. Add a Sense reading and the figure updates along the line, along with everything that depends on it.

Why AI needs the physical operation

AI can help run an operation when it works from what is happening on site today. Continuum gives it the plant, the product, the movements and the money from your existing systems, from Gamma and from Sense.

What AI agents work from

Agents work from the same live operation your teams see in Core. Gamma forecasts what each action will change and what it will cost before an agent prepares it.

Who stays in charge

Your teams set the rules each agent works within. Agents prepare the work, and a person releases every change that moves product or money.

/Connect

Continuum connects to the systems you already run

Plant and site

  • PI and other historians
  • Terminal automation systems
  • Tank gauging and metering
  • OPC UA, Modbus TCP, MQTT

Business systems

  • ERP and SAP
  • LIMS
  • ETRM and the trading book
  • Access control and gate systems

Documents and filings

  • e-AD and ARC
  • Certificates and bunker notes
  • File, mailbox and SFTP
  • No-code flows already in place

Answers out

  • Excel add-in
  • REST API and webhooks
  • Scheduled warehouse drop
  • Agent interface
/Continuum Start

How to get started

Talk to an engineer about your sites. We run Continuum on one site with success agreed in writing, and a first operation goes live inside a quarter. You then grow with Continuum Flex.

/Continuum Flex

One yearly agreement

Your sites, teams and needs change through the year. Continuum Flex lets you add sites, users and hardware without starting a new purchase.

Flex is one yearly agreement. You draw on it for whatever you need, whether that is Continuum Core, adding Sense at a site, a second site on the system or time with our engineers. You raise no new purchase order and need no new approval. Whatever you have not used carries into the following year.

Talk to an engineer

Tell us about your sites and an engineer will come back to you.