KetteQ said it is launching AI Quintus, a “free-range” AI for supply chains that can reason over questions, execute tasks, learn, and run missions without any constraints.

Operating within a fully governed and auditable framework, Quintus can be layered above a company’s existing enterprise resource planning software or planning platform, or as part of KetteQ’s own Planning Solutions and Execution Solutions.

The supply chain planning software company said Quintus differs from other AI solutions that are often “bolted on as a sidecar to their legacy architectures.” Instead, it uses Python code that is generated and executed on the fly, along with a patent-pending agentic solver called PolymatiQ, which can test thousands of scenarios simultaneously rather than reporting on what has already been computed.

PolymatiQ runs thousands of constrained planning scenarios simultaneously and returns the optimal answer in seconds. Other planning engines run scenarios sequentially, in cycles measured in hours, which is why their AI can only report on what has already been computed rather than reasoning live, KetteQ said.

KetteQ said it began designing its architecture as an open platform in 2019, which has enabled it to become AI-native as the technology matured, well before the market called any of this agentic. Most supply chain planning vendors built their platforms in the 1990s and 2000s and are layering AI on top of them today, which means that going back to fix them would require replacing the product entirely.

Quintus is already running in production across a growing list of companies in different industries, including Alliance Consumer Group, JCI, Mativ, NCR and Zeus. Additional deployments are planing in the coming months, KetteQ said.

The company emphasized that Quintus was designed to work with the complexity of supply chain data and decision-making. It can reasons across the full data chain and adapts its logic in real time as conditions change, rather than working from a static, siloed snapshot. Moreover, every decision the AI makes can be audited, explained and subjected to human override, the companys said, noting that full audit and human override are built into its foundation.

“Every function that has given people direct access to reasoning AI has been transformed by it. Supply chain can have that same advantage,” said Mike Landry, KetteQ founder and CEO.