Trust before autonomy
Grounding, audit, human-in-the-loop and graduated control. The level is a dial the plant turns.
About
Wire and cable are the circulatory system of the electrified world. The line should not run on memory.
Draweon exists to give every wire and cable plant a system that runs the line itself, holding spec, cutting scrap and preserving the drawer and extrusion craft that is walking out the door. The vision is to become the autonomous operations layer for the world's wire and cable manufacturing.
Mission
Give every wire and cable plant a system that runs the line itself
Holding spec, cutting scrap, and preserving the drawer and extrusion craft that is leaving the industry.
VisionBecome the autonomous operations layer for the world's wire and cable manufacturing.
Why
Why we are building this
The fact on the plant floor that started it.
Wire and cable are drawn, stranded and insulated at enormous line speeds on continuous processes, yet making them is still one of the most craft-bound, scrap-heavy and defect-sensitive processes in electrical manufacturing. A drawing-tension drift, an annealing error, a stranding-lay fault or an insulation eccentricity, spark or pinhole drives scrap, downgrade, re-runs and safety-critical field escapes.
Most plants run this on fixed die and line-speed setpoints, spot inspection and the craft of a retiring wire-drawer and extrusion-operator workforce. Gauges measure. PLCs hold a recipe. Inspection heads alarm after the defect is made. Nobody closes the loop.
Why now
- Grid and energy-transition build-out, data-centre and EV-wiring ramp, reshoring
- Copper and aluminium cost pressure and expensive scrap
- A severe, retiring wire-drawer and extrusion-operator workforce
- Laser gauging, eddy-current and spark testing, machine vision, edge AI, robotic reel handling and process simulation have matured for high-speed cable lines
Principles
How we build
The principles we work by.
Compounding data
Every supervised correction trains the system. The closed-loop control corpus is the asset.
Land narrow, expand
One line, one metric, one baseline agreed in writing. Then the plant. Then the group.
Cite everything
Every answer from the reasoning layer carries its source. Every action carries its evidence.
Isolate tenants
Recipes, models and memory never cross a customer boundary. On-prem for those who need it.
Say what is planned
Figures are design targets until they are measured. Scenarios are labelled scenarios.
Focus
What kind of company this is
For anyone checking eligibility or category.
- An independent startup building original Physical AI software for wire and cable manufacturing
- A product company, not a consultancy, systems integrator, reseller or outsourced development shop
- Not a cloud provider and not associated with cryptocurrency
- Pre-launch and pre-revenue. Incorporation, headquarters, founders and headcount are not published yet and nothing on this site should be read as claiming them
Run timeline · scenario
What we are actually building
Every Draweon run is an ordered, inspectable sequence. This is run_3d7a1e on EX-3 · 2.5 mm² class 2 PVC building wire. Scenario completes in 10 steps with one approval gate. Wall settles at 0.80 mm nominal, minimum 0.66 mm, concentricity 0.93, no spark faults, reel R-30417 released with full genealogy.
run_3d7a1e
EX-3 · 2.5 mm² class 2 PVC building wire
illustrative scenario
SUCCEEDED
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01
ingest.order
SUCCEEDED
0.6 s
Plant Orchestrator · Pulled the construction spec for 2.5 mm² class 2 PVC building wire from MES: 7 × 0.67 mm conductor, 0.80 mm nominal wall, 0.62 mm minimum spot wall, 6 kV spark test, 48 km order. Locked the target envelope.
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02
twin.simulate
SUCCEEDED
41 s
Line Twin · Simulated 36 candidate recipes on the as-run line twin for draw schedule, lay length and extrusion setpoints, ranked on wall variance, concentricity, predicted spark risk and polymer give-away.
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03
draw.tension
SUCCEEDED
1 m 48 s
Draw-and-Anneal · Capstan tension on RB1 stepped down 6% as the die-wear estimate crossed its threshold. Diameter held at 0.670 mm ± 0.004 mm and the break-risk score fell from 0.31 to 0.09.
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04
anneal.current
SUCCEEDED
54 s
Draw-and-Anneal · Annealer current trimmed against the live conductivity reading to hold the softness target without over-anneal through the speed change.
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05
strand.lay
SUCCEEDED
1 m 12 s
Strand-and-Cable · Lay length set to 28 mm on bunching line ST2 with payoff tension balanced across 7 spools. Roundness index held above 0.97 into the extrusion payoff.
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06
extrude.wall
SUCCEEDED
2 m 36 s
Insulate-and-Jacket · Screw speed and zone 3 temperature re-cut against melt pressure and material-lot moisture. Wall settled at 0.80 mm nominal, minimum 0.66 mm, concentricity 0.93.
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07
inspect.fuse
SUCCEEDED
continuous
Defect-and-Inspect · 6 cameras, the laser gauge, the eddy-current head and the spark tester fused at the edge. One neckdown precursor at 12,480 m flagged and cleared by a screw-speed trim before it reached the reel.
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08
approve.human
APPROVAL
38 s
Plant Orchestrator · Line-speed ramp 1,100 to 1,250 m/min exceeded the site autonomy threshold. Held for the shift process engineer and approved at 06:41:52.
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09
reel.change
SUCCEEDED
2 m 05 s
Robot-and-Handling · Reel change on take-up TU3 planned and executed by the handling robot. Payoff aligned and tension re-established inside the changeover window.
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10
reel.release
SUCCEEDED
1 m 10 s
Quality-and-Conformance · Reel R-30417 released: genealogy written (conductor lot, draw and anneal record, lay, wall and concentricity trace, defect map, approvals) and checked against the construction spec.
Market
The market
Figures are the company's own estimates.
$17BTotal addressable spend: wire and cable automation, control, inspection, MES and factory software
$4.2BServiceable with Draweon's product and go-to-market
$250MRealistically obtainable within three years, an estimate
~12%Estimated annual growth of the addressable spend
Team
Who is building it
Draweon is led by its co-founders, Logan Sullivan (CEO) and Tyler Morgan (CTO). Backgrounds are published here once they can be checked.
Co-Founder & CEO
Logan Sullivan
Logan owns the design-partner relationships, the pilot structure and the commercial model, starting with the drawing, stranding and extrusion lines where breaks and scrap cost the most.
Co-Founder & CTO
Tyler Morgan
Tyler owns the line-edge runtime, the perception and control models, the as-run digital twin and the audit architecture behind every Draweon agent.
Hiring
The founding roles we expect to open are on the careers page: edge perception, controls and OT integration, simulation, and a wire and cable process engineer.
Writing
Recent from the blog
Why the cable line still runs on feel
Gauges measure. PLCs hold a recipe. Inspection heads alarm after the defect is made. Nobody closes the loop.
Autonomy is a dial, not a switch
A plant does not go from manual to unattended in one step. The level has to be explicit, auditable and reversible.
Hit spec before the first metre
Cable makers commit copper, polymer and a whole line to a run before they know it will hold spec. The twin changes the order.
Accelerated computing
Physical AI, at the die train
Conductor moves at over a thousand metres a minute. Perception has to be local, deterministic and fast, so Draweon runs GPU inference at the plant edge and keeps training, simulation and optimisation in the cloud or on-prem.
Edge perception
4 to 12 cameras per line plus laser, eddy-current and spark streams fused at the line. Sub-50 ms alerting and sub-250 ms bounded control are the design targets. Jetson Thor is planned for higher sensor density.
Model serving
Vision, time-series, anomaly and quality models behind one orchestrator at the plant edge, with canary rollout by line and fallback to the previous validated version.
Training
Defect classifiers, sensor-fusion models, time-series prognostics and cable-process reasoning models trained on reel telemetry and engineer corrections. Dedicated training capacity is planned.
Line twin
As-run drawing, stranding, extrusion, thermal and tension simulation. Physics-informed surrogates are planned so recipes can be optimised at production cadence.
Synthetic data
Rare spark, pinhole, eccentricity, neckdown and break variants generated and validated against real gauge, spark and vision distributions before promotion. Planned.
Optimisation
Line sequencing, reel changeovers, energy allocation, takt and constrained setpoint proposals.
Robot handling
Spool, reel and payoff and take-up motion planned and validated in simulation before it runs next to moving conductor.
Guardrails
An agent that can move a screw speed needs a leash
Draweon writes to production equipment. Every capability is scoped, every write is policy-checked, and every action is written to an append-only audit log the plant owns.
- Bounded action space. Each agent writes only to an explicit tag allow-list, inside per-tag rate and magnitude limits.
- Policy engine before every write. Autonomy level, shift, construction, interlock state and operator presence are evaluated before a setpoint moves.
- Human-in-the-loop gates. Anything above the site threshold, such as line-speed ramps, die changes and reel release, waits for a named approver.
- Immutable audit log. Append-only and exportable. Every action records source signals, retrieved procedures, predicted impact, allowed range, rollback condition, approver and reel scope.
- Hard fallback. Loss of the edge node, the network or a model returns control to the line controller's last known-good state.
- Tenant and IP isolation. Construction recipes, defect libraries and process memory never cross a customer boundary. On-prem deployment is available for sensitive producers.
Compliance posture
| Item | Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 Type I | Cloud control plane | QUEUED Planned, first 6 months |
| SOC 2 Type II | Cloud control plane | QUEUED Planned, 6 to 12 months |
| SSO and RBAC | Console and approvals | QUEUED Planned, 6 to 12 months |
| Standards-cited reasoning | UL, IEC, IPC, USCAR documents | RUNNING In the design, every answer cites its source |
| Per-tenant isolation | Recipes, models, memory | RUNNING In the design from day one |
| On-prem and plant-edge deployment | Sensitive producers | RUNNING Design option |
FAQ
Straight answers
The questions plant directors and process engineers ask in the first meeting.
Yes, but only within an explicit tag allow-list with per-tag rate and magnitude limits, and only at the autonomy level your plant has set. Level 1 is advisory: Draweon recommends and a human enters everything. Design partners start there, in shadow mode, before supervised writes.
Control returns to the line controller's last known-good state. Draweon is a supervisory layer on top of the PLCs and gauges you already run, never a replacement for them, so an outage degrades the line to its current way of running, not to a stop.
Advisory recommendations start from the physics-based twin and the construction spec in the first weeks. Defect prediction and break prediction improve as line history and labelled events accumulate per construction. The first training sets are sized at 5 to 20 million labelled frames and events, a design target.
Only if you choose cloud training. Recipes, process models and defect libraries are isolated per tenant and never used to train another customer's models. A fully on-prem deployment at the plant edge is available for sensitive producers.
You are, the same as with any control strategy, which is why every write is policy-checked, bounded, logged and reversible, and why anything above your risk threshold waits for a named approver. The audit log records the request, the reasoning, the limits applied and the human decision.
A paid pilot on one line, scoped to a single workflow with a baseline agreed in writing. Weeks 1 to 3 are connection and shadow-mode observation, weeks 4 to 8 are assist mode with engineer approval, and bounded autonomy follows if the plant is satisfied with the recommendations.