Line
$11,000/ still or line / mo
Fermentation / distillation-cut-control or spirit-quality-sensing AI for a single still or line.
- Cut & Quality Autopilot
- Edge deployment on one still/line
- Bounded control + decision log
Physical AI · Distillery & spirits autonomy
Run the distillery autonomously.
Five agents run the plant end to end: fermentation, the distillation cut, quality sensing, cask maturation, and robotic bottling. A digital twin rehearses each run first, so the still fires on spec instead of on a hunch. The distiller's craft, encoded.
Every cut, perfectly made.
- Off-spec & feints
- reduced
- Spirit yield
- lifted
- Every decision
- logged & auditable
CUT & QUALITY AUTOPILOT
ENGAGED
ABV AT SPOUT72.4%
CUT CONFIDENCE99.2%
METHANOL RISK0.3ppm
CONGENER SPECON TARGET
Closing the loop from perception to still-and-line control
- Ferment & wash
- Distill & cut
- Spirit quality
- Cask & maturation
- Blend & proof
- Robotic bottling
- Energy & yield
Built for grain-to-glass and industrial distilleries of every scale
Whisky
Vodka
Gin
Rum
Tequila / Agave
Brandy
RTDs
The stack
Five agents, one grain-to-glass loop
Each product owns a stage of production and hands the next one a head start. Run one, or run the whole plant on Caskent.
Upstream · Fermentation
Fermion
Reads each ferment as a live trajectory and steers it to the profile the still needs.
Explore Fermion →
Anchor · The cut
Cutrix
Estimates the heads, hearts, and tails boundary live and holds the cut on spec.
Explore Cutrix →
Shared · Sensing
Nosera
A palate on the line, reading congeners, off-notes, and defects for every agent.
Explore Nosera →
Downstream · Maturation
Caskora
Predicts extraction, angel's share, and readiness for every cask, years ahead.
Explore Caskora →
Finishing · Bottling
Bottlex
Fills to weight and inspects every unit inline, reconfiguring across formats.
Explore Bottlex → Everything togetherThe full stack
See how the five agents share one runtime, one twin, and one data lake.
See the platform →
The core problem
The cut is a black art.
A distillery ferments a wash, then distills it and makes the critical cut: separating volatile heads that carry methanol and harsh notes, and late tails, from the desirable hearts. A few minutes or a degree too early or late yields harsh, off-spec, low-yield, or unsafe spirit. And it drifts constantly with wash, still condition, throughput, and ambient conditions.
Then premium spirit matures for years in casks whose extraction, oxidation, and evaporation (the angel's share) are hard to predict, locking up enormous capital. Plant managers run blind on real-time cut quality, congener profile, fermentation health, maturation, energy, and yield.
These are exactly the jobs autonomy is built for: craft-bound, biochemistry-critical, safety-sensitive, and heavy on input cost. Yet most distilleries still run on hand-made cuts, manual nosing, and lab results that arrive too late to act on.
Seven agents. One grain-to-glass sequence.
Each agent perceives, decides, and acts within bounded, auditable control across the production line. Not an assistant. The operations layer.
- 01Explore →
Ferment & Wash
Controls temperature, gravity/Brix, pH, and yeast health to drive the wash toward the target congener and ester profile.
- 02Explore →
Distill & Cut
Controls reflux, column and plate temperatures, ABV, and copper contact, making the heads/hearts/tails cut in real time.
- 03Explore →
Spirit Quality
Senses and predicts congener profile, off-notes, methanol and safety limits, clarity, and defects before they reach the cask.
- 04Explore →
Cask & Maturation
Manages cask selection, angel's-share and evaporation loss, extraction, and maturation prediction across the warehouse.
- 05Explore →
Blend & Proof
Optimizes blending to spec, proofing and dilution, and chill-filtration to marry casks to the target flavor profile.
- 06Explore →
Robotic Bottling
Drives robotic filling, corking, labeling, and packaging, filled exactly to weight with inline defect inspection.
- 07Explore →
Energy & Yield
Optimizes distillation steam and heat recovery, spirit yield, feints, and loss across one of drink's most energy-intensive steps.
Digital twin
Hit spec before the run.
The distillation-and-maturation digital twin simulates the cut, congener profile, and cask aging, so the target spec is proven in software before a drop of wash enters the still.
- Predict cut state, congener profile, and methanol risk per run.
- Forecast maturation and angel's-share years ahead.
- Preserve each site's recipes and craft: encoded, not replaced.
Priced and proven on outcomes.
Every pilot lands with a hard metric on off-spec, feints, energy, or yield. Illustrative targets from the design-partner program.
42%less off-spec spirit & feints
6.5%higher spirit yield per run
23%distillation energy recovered
100%of control actions logged
Grounded. Auditable. Assurance-grade.
Bounded control
Agents recommend and act within hard limits, with methanol-safety and spirit-quality assurance readiness by design.
Every decision logged
Grounded, auditable outputs. Each cut, blend, and control action is recorded for human review.
Deep integration
Still telemetry, ABV and spectral signals, lab/GC labels, sensory feedback, and energy data, unified into one edge platform.
Human in command
Distillers set the spec and the guardrails. Caskent performs the work and hands back control on request.
Land on one still. Expand across the site.
A staged rollout that proves value before it scales, still-by-still and site-by-site.
- Step 12–4 WEEKS
Connect
Deploy the Caskent edge to one still or line. Integrate still telemetry, ABV/spectral signals, lab and GC labels, sensory feedback, and energy data.
- Step 2TWIN CALIBRATION
Simulate
The digital twin learns the still and recipe, then simulates thousands of runs to find the cut and congener profile that hits spec.
- Step 3GOVERNED AUTONOMY
Engage
Turn on bounded autonomy. The autopilot holds the cut in real time while every action is logged for review, and expands to more stills.
The cut used to live in one person's palate. Caskent held the hearts window through a full week of production and gave us the audit trail our quality team always wanted.
Master distillerDesign-partner distillery (illustrative)
Start on a line. Scale to the fleet.
Recurring SaaS on a still/line + distillery + outcome hybrid.
Distillery
$70,000/ mo
All seven agents plus the digital twin across ferment, distill, maturation, blending, bottling, and energy.
- Full autonomy stack
- Distillation & maturation twin
- Site-wide assurance & audit
Enterprise
Customland $500k–$6M ACV
Multi-site autonomy with custom recipe, cut, and maturation models across a distillery fleet.
- Multi-site edge fleet
- Custom models & integrations
- Enterprise SLAs
Questions distillers ask first.
Does Caskent replace our master distiller?
No. Distillers set the spec, the recipes, and the guardrails. Caskent encodes that craft and performs the work within bounded limits, handing control back on request. The palate stays in command; the labor moves to AI.
How does it connect to our still and instruments?
The Caskent edge integrates still telemetry, inline ABV and spectral sensing, lab and GC labels, sensory feedback, and energy meters. We start with one still or line and expand from there.
Is autonomous cut control safe?
Every action is bounded by hard methanol-safety and quality limits and logged for human review. The autopilot recommends and acts only inside the envelope your team approves.
What spirits do you support?
Whisky, vodka, gin, rum, tequila and agave spirits, brandy, and RTDs, across grain-to-glass and industrial distilleries.
How fast can we see a result?
Pilots land with a hard metric on off-spec, feints, energy, or yield, typically within the first production cycles after twin calibration.
Become a design partner.
We're building the cohort of distilleries ready to route a still or line through Caskent and prove a hard metric on off-spec, feints, energy, or yield.