ketteQ Launches Quintus™, the Only Free-Range AI™ for Supply Chain

ketteQ, the supply chain orchestration company, today announced the general availability of Quintus™, the only Free-Range AI™ for supply chain. Quintus™ reasons over any question, executes any task, learns skills, and runs missions to address any use case, unscripted and unconstrained. Within a fully governed and auditable framework, Quintus™ operates above any ERP or planning platform a company already runs, or as part of ketteQ’s own Planning Solutions and Execution Solutions.

Other supply chain solutions have AI bolted as a sidecar to their legacy architectures, which greatly limits their questions, reasoning, answers and value-delivery capabilities. It can handle only a predefined set of use cases. Quintus™ is built differently. It reasons through any questions and tasks in real-time, using Python code that is generated and executed on the fly, along with PolymatiQ™, its patent-pending agentic solver, to test thousands of scenarios simultaneously rather than reporting on what has already been computed.

"The first morning Quintus™ told us exactly what needed attention before we'd even logged in, it felt like the first time I used ChatGPT. You immediately know you can't go back to working the old way,” - Stephanie Larson (Director of Supply Chain, Alliance Consumer Group)

Free-Range AI™ is not a positioning claim. It is an architectural standard. To qualify, a supply chain AI must have:

• Built for Supply Chain. Quintus™ is trained on the complexity of supply chain data and decisions, not general-purpose AI retrofitted for the category.

• Adaptive, End-to-End. Quintus™ reasons across the full data chain and rewires its logic in real-time as conditions change, rather than working from a static, siloed snapshot.

• Solves in Real Time. PolymatiQ™, ketteQ’s patent-pending agentic solver, 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 was already computed instead of reasoning live.

• Runs on Any Platform. Quintus™ deploys above SAP IBP, Kinaxis, o9, Blue Yonder, or any combination, in four to eight weeks, with no rip and replace. Other vendors’ AI is free-range only within the cage of their own platform: it cannot become a neutral decisioning layer above a rival’s system without cannibalizing its own business model. ketteQ has no stack to protect.

Free-Range AI™ travels with one companion phrase, everywhere, without exception: Fully Governed. Every decision Quintus™ makes is auditable, explainable, and subject to human override, because a scripted AI that cannot answer the question a supply chain leader is asking right now is not a safe AI. It is a failed one. Full audit and full human override are built into the foundation, not added later.

Source: KetteQ Press Release 12 August 2026