Tinteon is plant-edge AI for paint and coatings makers. It runs dispersion, let-down, tinting, QC and filling so each batch reaches its colour, fineness and viscosity without the re-tints, re-mills and solvent chasing in between.
An illustrative day on one tint line, read against each customer standard after the first addition. These are scenario values for design, not plant results: Tinteon is at design stage and recruiting its first design partners.
Colour matching today is a loop that a color-matcher runs by hand until the draw-down reads inside tolerance. Tintra reads the batch's spectral curve against the customer standard and predicts the colorant addition, so the first one is aimed to land inside the box.
No result is claimed here. The baseline comes from your own spectrophotometer, lab and QA records before Tinteon writes anything. Read about Tintra
Five stations, one batch. Each has its own way of drifting off spec, and its own Tinteon product watching for it. Every product is rehearsed first on Coatwin, the as-made batch twin.
One batch from scenario run_scn_01, told in the order the tint line would see it. The readings are illustrative. The rules are the ones Tinteon is built around.
The order arrives with the formula, the customer standard and its tolerance, and the product's VOC limit. Coatwin simulates 24 candidate dispersion, let-down and tint paths and discards every one that would leave the tolerance.
The spectrophotometer reads the batch greener than the standard. Today this is where the loop of tint, draw down and read begins.
Tintra predicts the colorant addition from the spectral curve and doses the first pass. The draw-down reads inside tolerance, with one retint still available under the declared limit.
The lowest-solvent candidate wanted a second addition beyond the retint limit to tighten ΔE further. It was held for the shift color-matcher, who kept the customer tolerance untouched and approved one bounded addition with a tighter draw-down check.
Colorant additions, spectral curves, the approval and the name of the person who gave it are written to the batch genealogy before the batch is released to filling.
Read, never writtenThe customer standard, its tolerance and the VOC limit are inputs. No agent can move them.
Retints are rationedEach colorant has a declared addition and retint limit. Anything beyond it waits for a named approver.
Shadow mode firstOn a new line Tinteon predicts and writes nothing until its accuracy is proven against your lab.
The lab bench tells you what went wrong after it happened. Inline rheology, spectral and camera readings let each station correct before the batch moves on.
Scenario run_scn_01, illustrative. Bench chasing against inline prediction.
| Check | Read from | Product |
|---|---|---|
| Fineness of grind | Mill power and spectral reflectance | Dispex |
| Viscosity, solids | Inline rheometer, temperature and solids sensors | Rheon |
| Colour, ΔE | Spectrophotometer against the customer standard | Tintra |
| Gloss, hiding power | Spectral and camera stations | Specton |
| Seeds, foam | Multi-camera inspection, attributed to source | Specton |
| Fill weight, label | Fill-weight scales and label cameras | Palleon |
Start on the line that costs you most, usually Tintra on a tint line or Dispex on a mill, then add the rest. All six share one plant-edge runtime and one batch twin.
Disperse to exact fineness and colour strength on the first pass.
Read moreLet down and thin to exact viscosity and rheology.
Read moreHit the colour standard within Delta-E, first time.
Read moreSee colour, contamination and fill faults as they happen.
Read moreFilter, fill and handle every drum, pail and tote.
Read moreHit colour, rheology and takt in simulation before the run.
Read morePriced per line or per plant, with a measured baseline before you expand. Outcome components are available on yield, rework, waste, solvent and energy.
Dispersion, tinting or colour control, or inspection, on one line. For coatings makers proving ROI on the first workflow.
The whole plant: dispersion, let-down, tinting, filtering and filling, inspection, quality and rheology, yield and takt, robotic handling and the Coatwin twin.
Coatings groups standardising on Tinteon across sites, with custom formula, colour and tolerance models.
Only at the autonomy stage your plant has set, and only to an explicit allow-list of low-risk loops inside documented limits. Every design partner starts in shadow mode, where Tinteon predicts and writes nothing. Assist mode follows, where a formulator or color-matcher approves each recommendation. Bounded autonomy on dispersion, tinting and inspection loops comes after the quality and ROI gates agreed up front.
They are not optimization variables. The customer standard and its tolerance, the VOC and solvent limits under your permit and the batch release decision stay with your quality procedures and your people. Tinteon reads them, cites them and writes every reading to an immutable audit log attached to the batch genealogy. It is grounded in ISO 9001, VOC and REACH and customer color standards; it is not a certification and does not replace your quality system.
Tinteon sits above your existing automation as a supervisory layer. If it stops, the plant keeps running on its current mill, dispenser and filling-line control and the interlocks it already has. A Tinteon outage degrades the plant to the way it runs today, not to a stop.
The first phase is shadow mode on one line: Tinteon reads your spectrophotometer, mill and dispenser history, inline rheology, lab results and MES while you run the plant as usual, and we measure its predictions against your lab, your draw-downs and PLC outcomes. Recommendations start when accuracy is proven against that baseline, and improve as plant-specific history and color-matcher corrections accumulate.
Formulas, color standards, tolerance models and raw-material data are tenant-scoped and never used to train another customer's models. Retrieval is multi-tenant isolated and permission-aware. Cross-plant learning, where a customer opts in, is federated and IP-isolated. On-prem deployment is available for producers protecting sensitive formulas.
You are, the same as with any control strategy. That is why every write is policy-checked, bounded, logged and reversible, every output carries a citation to the formula, standard or procedure it relied on, and anything above your threshold waits for a named approver. The audit log records the request, the reasoning, the limits applied and the human decision.
As a design partner, on one line, with one hard metric: Delta-E first-time-right rate and retints, re-mills and mill energy, solvent per batch and viscosity variance, or contamination and fill rejects. We instrument the line in shadow mode, measure the baseline, move to assist mode when accuracy is proven, and expand only when the number holds.
Full multi-module autonomy across the whole plant, long-tail integrations beyond the design partners' stacks, and self-serve onboarding. The first release is one wedge workflow, its connectors, the agent loop with human checkpoints, the review console and the assurance-grade quality and VOC audit log.
Start as a design partner with one dispersion, tinting or filling line and one baseline: Delta-E first-time-right, re-mills, solvent per batch or contamination rejects. Shadow mode measures it before anything is written.
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