Use cases

What it was worth, and how we know.

Two kinds of evidence, kept apart: our own work, and results delivered through our platform network. Clients are anonymised by industry.

Our work

Seven stories, each with its baseline.

Our own measurements and computations: the problem, what we did, an impact box with conditions, and a status line.

Still from the Merlin Quantum film: a processor package under test4 of 4 ranked correctly

Semiconductors · materials

Pick the winning EUV photoresist before the fab

Resist candidates ranked before any were made, so only the lead goes to synthesis and wafer testing.

Measured on quantum hardwareClassical computationRead the story
Illustration for the case: Find where a protein can be drugged before the assayWithin 1.4% of exact

Pharma · life sciences

Find where a protein can be drugged before the assay

Candidate allosteric sites read from a structure file alone, with the site model validated against exact references. A method result: no drug-ranking gain is claimed.

Measured on quantum hardwareClassical computationRead the story
Still from the Merlin Quantum film: a data-hall aisle95.6% vs 39.5% safe episodes

Mobility · autonomy

Sign off an autonomy controller as safe against real disturbances

A disturbance model measured on a 128-qubit processor was the only one that certified a controller safe at its operating point.

Measured on quantum hardwareClassical computationRead the story
Still from the Merlin Quantum film: transmission towers at duskBest of 1,048,576 plans

Energy · networks

Commit to a grid-expansion plan you can show is the best

A network-expansion plan shown optimal over every one of more than a million alternatives, plus a direct read of the network’s real-time response.

Classical computationMeasured on quantum hardwareRead the story
Still from the Merlin Quantum film: rack hardware close up72% pairwise error found

Finance · financial crime

Screen for the coordinated fraud rings pairwise models miss

A method for reading collective behaviour in payment networks. We measured where pairwise models go wrong; no detection gain is claimed.

Measured on quantum hardwareClassical computationRead the story
Still from the Merlin Quantum film: an operations room~93 logical qubits (projected)

Mobility · aerospace

A dated roadmap for aerodynamic flow simulation

A flow-transport solver mapped to the logical-qubit scale at which we will test it against the classical solver, running today across seven hardware platforms. No advantage on present hardware is claimed.

ProjectionRead the story
Still from the Merlin Quantum film: a data-hall aisleA date per cipher

Security · post-quantum

Know which cipher to replace first, and by when

A dated risk window for each cipher in your estate, so the post-quantum migration is planned and budgeted rather than rushed.

Our assessmentRead the story

Through our platform network

Published results, quoted with their conditions.

Seven cases delivered through our platform network. Partners and clients are not named. Each metric is quoted as published, with its baseline, its compute type and its status. They are not presented as our own measurements.

Chemicals / manufacturing

Chemical-plant production planning

Planning time 2–6 h → 1–10 min, including verification

Condition
Baseline: the prior manual or spreadsheet planning. Multi-grade (100+ grades) scheduling. Self-reported in a customer interview.
Compute
Classical solvers · no quantum hardware
Status
Field, in production use

Through our platform network · partner and client not named

Automotive / materials

Automotive materials discovery (transparent conductors)

Score 123.5 vs 100.5 (NSGA-II) and 76.2 (TPE) in a 60-second run; reached NSGA-II's 60-second score in about 10 s

Condition
One public dataset; computational only. Any percentage is derived from the paper's table, not stated by its authors.
Compute
Quantum-inspired, on classical hardware
Status
Preprint

Does not show that quantum beats classical.

Through our platform network · partner and client not named

Mobility / smart city

Urban traffic-signal timing

−20% vehicle waiting time vs the conventional method

Condition
Simulation in a virtual environment, June 2020. Not a field trial.
Compute
Quantum-inspired optimisation
Status
Simulation, 2020

Does not show that quantum beats classical.

Through our platform network · partner and client not named

Telecom

5G carrier-aggregation tuning

Average downlink throughput about +10%

Condition
Field pilot on a live network in a limited trial area, with no added hardware. Secondary-cell data volume up to +50% is an upper bound.
Compute
Quantum-inspired (Ising machine)
Status
Pilot

Does not show that quantum beats classical.

Through our platform network · partner and client not named

Energy

Power-system unit commitment at industrial scale

25,755 variables and 48,939 constraints; quantum solutions were feasible

Condition
A commercial MILP solver was better at short runtimes; the hybrid was competitive at longer runtimes. Next-generation figures are projections. The publisher states that it does not establish commercial quantum benefit.
Compute
Photonic quantum device + classical
Status
Pilot / national-lab testbed

Does not show that quantum beats classical.

Through our platform network · partner and client not named

Energy / utilities

Distribution-grid reconfiguration

More than 7× the probability of finding the optimum vs the unoptimised quantum workflow

Condition
69-bus network. The baseline is a quantum workflow, not a classical one. About 230 buses is a projected threshold, not yet demonstrated.
Compute
Superconducting quantum device
Status
Hardware demo + projection

Does not show that quantum beats classical.

Through our platform network · partner and client not named

Cross-industry optimisation

Higher-order binary optimisation runtime benchmark

Up to about 80× faster than a commercial solver and more than 3× faster than simulated annealing, in time to an approximate solution

Condition
Best case over five author-selected hard instances per size (N = 80–156), chosen from 250 screened; self-reported. “Up to” is a best case.
Compute
Superconducting quantum device (156 qubits)
Status
Preprint

Does not show that quantum beats classical.

Through our platform network · partner and client not named

Decide before you build.

Bring us the decision you have to make next.

We tell you which option wins, and whether quantum is the reason.

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