Quintus™: Free-Range AI™ for Supply Chain

Quintus™ is the only Free-Range AI™ for supply chain, the AI intelligence at the top of the ketteQ Stack. It is purpose-built for supply chain planning and execution, not a generic, horizontal AI tool applied to a new domain. Powered by PolymatiQ™, Quintus™ senses market conditions, plans across constraints, orchestrates decisions across every supply chain function, and executes in a closed loop. It deploys above whatever systems the customer already runs - SAP IBP, Kinaxis, o9, Blue Yonder, or as ketteQ's own Planning and Execution Solutions, in four to eight weeks, without replacing any of them.

No. Quintus™ is an autonomous AI that acts, not just a chat window. Quintus™ runs missions overnight, the Procurement Agent processes purchase orders, and the Supply Agent reaches out to suppliers without being asked. Typing a question to it from Teams, Slack, or wherever you work feels like using Claude or ChatGPT - but Quintus™ is reasoning over live supply chain data with PolymatiQ™ solving in real time, not retrieving a plausible-sounding guess.

No. Quintus™ incorporates LLMs but is not one. It is the decisioning layer that runs on top of the model layer, bringing the full power of PolymatiQ™ to every conversation and every autonomous action.

Quintus™ works through a network of specialized agents - the Demand Agent, Supply Agent, and Inventory Agent among Planning Agents, and the Fulfillment Agent, Logistics Agent, and Service Agent among Execution Agents - operating across four stages:

1. Sense: Quintus™ learns skills that become missions, running automatically to monitor demand signals, supply conditions, and operational constraints.

2. Plan: PolymatiQ™ runs thousands of constrained scenarios and returns the best answer in seconds.

3. Orchestrate: Quintus™ coordinates strategies and actions across Planning Agents and Execution Agents, above any stack, from supplier to customer.

4. Execute: agents act - decisions become actions, autonomously and continuously.

PolymatiQ™ is ketteQ's patent-pending agentic solver. It runs thousands of constrained planning scenarios simultaneously and returns the optimal answer in seconds. Without a solver this fast, real-time Free-Range AI™ is impossible. It is the solver underneath Quintus™ and the reason no other planning vendor can replicate what Quintus™ does at conversation speed.

Free-Range AI™ is not a new category. It is the differentiator that makes Quintus™ the only supply chain AI of its kind within Supply Chain Orchestration. It means supply chain AI that reasons over any question, executes any action, and addresses any use case, unscripted, unconstrained, and unconfigured, within a fully governed, auditable decision framework. It requires four things simultaneously:

● Built for Supply Chain: trained on the complexity of supply chain data and decisions, not general-purpose AI.

● Adaptive, End-to-End: reasons across the full data chain, not siloed by module, rewiring its logic in real time as conditions change.

● Solves in Real Time: PolymatiQ™, ketteQ's patent-pending agentic solver, running thousands of constrained scenarios simultaneously and returning the optimal answer in seconds.

● Runs on Any Platform: universal deployment above any existing stack.

No other planning vendor has all four.

Agentic AI is a broad label that many supply chain planning vendors are using. Free-Range AI™ is a specific architectural condition: the same four requirements above. Most vendors claiming agentic AI have none of them. Their AI is scripted by the underlying architecture.

Free-Range AI™ is Fully Governed. Every decision Quintus™ makes is auditable, explainable, and subject to human override. Free-Range does not mean ungoverned. It means unconstrained within a complete governance framework. Scripted AI is not safe AI. It is useless AI, especially during a disruption when you need answers to questions nobody anticipated. Free to roam. Built with fences.

Because every supply chain leader understands the difference between a scripted AI locked inside pre-coded workflows and an AI that can reason over any question without a script. Free-Range vs. scripted is a contrast people feel before they think about it. No glossary required.

The name is not a marketing invention. At the recent Gartner Supply Chain Symposium, an attendee who had visited many planning vendor booths said that every other AI demo they had seen that day was obviously scripted, and that ketteQ's was the only one that felt free-range. Third-party naming is a stronger credibility device than a self-assigned label.

5. Built for Supply Chain: trained on the complexity of supply chain data and decisions, not general-purpose AI.

6. Adaptive, End-to-End: reasons across the full data chain, not siloed by module, rewiring its logic in real time as conditions change.

7. PolymatiQ™: the only agentic solver running thousands of constrained scenarios simultaneously and returning the optimal answer in seconds.

8. Universally Deployable: sits above any ERP or planning platform the customer already runs.You cannot be Free-Range without all four. No other planning vendor has all four.

Four to eight weeks. Quintus™ deploys above whatever systems the customer already runs. No rip and replace. No lengthy implementation program. The first use case goes live in weeks, not months.

No. Quintus™ sits above them. SAP IBP, Kinaxis, o9, Blue Yonder, Logility, Salesforce. Quintus™ deploys on top of all of them without replacing any of them. Customers keep the systems they already paid for.

Any ERP, any planning platform, any stack. Quintus™ has been deployed on top of Kinaxis, SAP IBP, Salesforce, and others in production today. The architecture is designed to be neutral. ketteQ has no stack to protect.

Customers report significant results within the first deployment. PPF went from a four to six hour supply plan to 25 seconds, with 13% capacity utilization improvement and $8M projected annual cost savings. MobilityWorks achieved 83% field adoption with 7,500-plus autonomous appraisals and a 40% increase in WAV trade-ins. ACG improved inventory turns from 2.75 to 4.0 with real-time ATP answers in Salesforce in under 15 seconds. The speed of value is part of the architecture.

Ask them to run an unscripted demo - try "What happens to Q3 delivery commitments if this supplier's plant goes down for two weeks?" or "Which customers miss their ship date if we lose this shipment?" Most agentic AI answers only what it was configured to answer. The demo is rehearsed because the architecture requires it. Quintus™ answers anything because the decisioning surface is fully exposed. That is the difference.

Every one of those platforms built their planning architecture in the 1990s or 2000s. AI was added on top of legacy solvers that take hours to run a single scenario. Their agents are free-range only within the cage of their platforms. Quintus™ has AI in the foundation, PolymatiQ™ at the core, and deploys above any stack including theirs – our AI built-in rather than bolted-on.

Some platforms wrap agents around existing planning systems as an interface layer. The reasoning is in the wrapper, the execution is in the legacy solver underneath. Quintus™ is not a wrapper. The decisioning surface is fully exposed end-to-end. When Quintus™ acts, Python code runs natively. No services team required to unlock the logic.

Governance is built into the architecture, not bolted on afterward. Every decision Quintus™ makes is auditable, explainable, and subject to human override at any point. Full decision audit. Complete transparency. Free-Range AI™. Fully Governed.

Yes. Human override is a core architectural feature, not an afterthought. Every autonomous action Quintus™ takes can be reviewed, modified, or stopped. The supply chain leader stays in control.

Quintus™ explains every decision in plain language. Not a black box. Not a confidence score. A reasoned explanation of what it decided, why, and what it considered. Explainability is part of the Free-Range AI™ standard.

ketteQ is the Free-Range AI™ company for supply chain. Founded in 2018, ketteQ has been building the architecture that makes Quintus™ possible since before anyone called it agentic - built-in rather than bolt-on. Quintus™ works together with ketteQ's own Planning and Execution Solutions, and is equally capable of deploying above whatever systems a company already runs.Headquartered in Atlanta, ketteQ runs Quintus™ in production with customers across multiple industries today.

Since 2019. The architecture was built AI-first from the first line of code. Every design decision made then was made in anticipation of a world that required real-time, unconstrained AI reasoning. What the rest of the industry is putting on roadmaps today, ketteQ has been running in production for seven years.

Quintus™ is in production with PPF (Partner in Pet Food), MobilityWorks, Alliance Consumer Group, and others. PPF went from hours to 25 seconds for supply plan generation. MobilityWorks achieved 83% field adoption with 7,500-plus autonomous actions. Results are real, not projected.