The Merlin algorithm builds each computation from the physics of your problem. Circuits stay shallow as problems grow, and answers are read in a way that cancels the machine's own errors. Every result is checked against an exact or industry reference.
Live: six qubits as three coupled pairs — the unit we run natively on the chip.
What it has already been worth
Every figure has a source, and the technical detail sits on the case page.
Award winner · GIC 2026 · 2nd worldwide
Judged among the best in the world on industrial materials chemistry: the 2026 Global Industry Challenge advanced-materials track, set by Mitsubishi Chemical Group and AIST.
Judged result
4 of 4 in the right order
Material candidates ranked before any were made, and the ranking held on quantum hardware, so only the lead goes to the lab.
Quantum hardware
173 GPU-hours → minutes
A days-long compute bill for the challenge chemistry method, cut to minutes on one GPU.
Classical computation
Best of 1M+ plans
A grid-expansion plan proven the best of more than a million alternatives, so it can be defended line by line.
Classical computation, proven optimal
Three decisions we make cheaper
Optimize
Plans you can defend
Network, schedule and portfolio plans checked against every alternative, so you commit to the best one and can show why.
Simulate
Know what to make before you make it
Rank candidate materials and molecules before the lab, so you synthesise and test only the lead, with fewer dead-end runs and less wafer time.
Secure
Know what to replace first, and by when
A dated risk window for each cipher you rely on, so the post-quantum migration is planned and budgeted rather than rushed.
One engine across six hardware platforms and three modalities — vendor-neutral, with UAE data residency.
Use cases
Decisions where knowing the answer first changes what you spend. Each one is the problem, what we did, and what it was worth.
Advanced materialsMerlin’s own
Pick the winning formulation before the lab
4 of 4 ranked
Choosing which photoresist formulation to take to the fab means synthesising and testing each candidate — weeks of lab and wafer time, and cost, per option.
Four formulations from one screen (the bare core and three counter-anion variants) ranked in the right order, within 0.3%, before any were made — so only the lead candidate goes to synthesis and testing. Award winner, 2nd place worldwide, GIC 2026 Advanced Materials track (Mitsubishi Chemical Group × AIST).
Merlin Quantum, on IBM Heron
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Post-quantum securityMerlin’s own
The Quantum Threat Clock
a date per cipher
Which encryption do you have to replace first, and by when — before “harvest now, decrypt later” catches up with you?
A dated risk timeline for each cipher your estate relies on — when each one becomes exposed — that supports migration planning and budgeting. It informs the migration; it does not perform it.
Merlin Quantum, own assessment
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Platform network results
Delivered through Merlin’s platform network. Results delivered through Merlin’s platform network, with the client anonymised to its sector and the figure quoted with its published conditions. These are not Merlin hardware runs.
Operations & manufacturingPlatform network
Production scheduling in minutes, not hours
2–6 h → 1–10 min
A Japanese chemicals manufacturer rebuilt its production schedule in two to six hours — too slow to react to a change within the same shift.
Production scheduling cut from 2–6 hours to 1–10 minutes, using classical optimisation.
Delivered through Merlin’s platform network · classical optimisation
MobilityPlatform network
City traffic signals, coordinated
~20% less waiting
Signal timings set junction by junction leave traffic backing up across the whole city.
Coordinating signal timings across the network gave about 20% less waiting, in simulation (2020).
Delivered through Merlin’s platform network · simulation, 2020
TelecomPlatform network
More capacity from the spectrum you already own
~10% higher downlink
A mobile operator needed more throughput from the spectrum it already holds.
About 10% higher average downlink speed.
Delivered through Merlin’s platform network
Results marked Merlin’s own, we ran ourselves. Platform network results were delivered through Merlin’s platform network and are quoted with their published conditions — not presented as our own hardware work. Where your current tools already win, we say so.
How it works
1
Send us the decision you are trying to make — your candidates, your network, or the files your current tools already produce. No change to your pipeline.
2
We run it on the quantum hardware best suited to the problem, alongside the classical tools you already use.
3
You get a clear recommendation you can act on — and a straight answer on whether quantum beats your current method on this problem, or not.
Bring us your hardest decision
Tell us the decision you have to make next. We will tell you which option wins, and whether quantum is the reason. If your current tool is the better choice, you will hear that too.