FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Keystone Launches Keystone.AI to Redefine Supply Chain Planning and Decision-Making with Foundation Models

Bellevue, WA — January 15, 2026 — Keystone today announced the launch of Keystone.AI, a new independent company building foundation models for manufacturing supply chains. Spun out after more than two years of incubation and backed by over $25 million in investment, Keystone.AI is a B2B AI SaaS provider focused on transforming how the world’s most complex supply chains make operational decisions — using advanced AI to deliver both precision and scale, starting with one of the most expensive problems in manufacturing: how to deliver exceptional service levels without carrying excessive inventory.

Manufacturers routinely tie up billions in inventory just to meet on-time, in-full targets. Finished goods can account for more than 50% of inventory, with another 40% locked in raw materials — all managed by planning systems that still rely on exponential smoothing methods developed in the 1960s. These legacy models fail to account for the real-world complexity of today’s supply chains: volatile demand signals, fragmented systems, and high service level requirements. As a result, companies are forced to overproduce and overstock to stay safe.

Keystone.AI flips that model. Its platform ingests highly granular ERP data — orders, shipments, customer replenishment patterns, and material flows — and learns the true drivers of demand variation. These models automate millions of planning decisions end-to-end, generating coordinated forecasts and production plans across supply chain functions — without spreadsheets, handoffs, or guesswork. Designed to coexist with existing ERP and planning platforms, Keystone.AI integrates directly into complex enterprise environments, enhancing and coordinating the outputs of incumbent supply chain systems with intelligent, AI-driven decisions.

These forecasts directly power optimization models that automate and coordinate decisions across the supply chain — including how much to produce and when, where to position inventory, and how to manage working capital. In early integrations with manufacturers, Keystone.AI’s proprietary models already show the potential to reduce inventory by 10–30% while maintaining or improving service levels — driven by AI-powered planning cycles that replace static heuristics.  Planners are taken out of the manual decision loop and instead become management scientists who audit outcomes, test scenarios, and improve the algorithms that run the system.

Keystone.AI is led by a world-class team of scientists, economists, and engineers with over a thousand combined person-years designing and operating large-scale AI systems. The leadership team includes veterans from Amazon, Nobel Prize–winning economists, and pioneers in time-series modeling, real-time decision platforms, and applied optimization.

Now operating as an independent software company, Keystone.AI is already partnering with global manufacturers across food, industrial, automotive, and pharmaceutical sectors to deploy this new class of intelligent systems.

About Keystone.AI

Keystone.AI is a B2B SaaS company building foundation models for manufacturing supply chains. Our Deep Enterprise AI Platform is a scientific decision engine that integrates with — not replaces — existing ERP, planning, and execution systems to drive faster, economically optimal decisions across the enterprise. Incubated within Keystone.com and now operating independently, Keystone.AI helps global manufacturers reduce inventory, improve service levels, shorten planning cycles, and increase free cash flow — all by replacing manual decision loops and static heuristics with intelligent, system-driven optimization.

Keystone.AI's corporate headquarters are in Bellevue, Washington with additional offices in New York, San Francisco, Boston and London.

For more information: www.keystone.ai

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