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Kausalyze has been selected as a winner of the Climb26 National Innovation Competition, run in partnership with Barclays Innovation Banking. The competition recognises the UK businesses shaping the future of the economy.
Climb26 is the UK's festival of business growth and innovation, held at Leeds Dock on 1 and 2 July 2026. The winners showcase across the two days to founders, investors and operators from across the country. The previous festival drew more than 2,000 delegates.
Kausalyze is a University of Sheffield spinout applying causal AI to root cause analysis in process manufacturing. It bridges the gap between predictive maintenance and operational decisions. Existing tools identify correlations in sensor data and flag that something might fail, but cannot explain why or what to do about it. Kausalyze combines causal discovery with chemical engineering first principles, mass and energy balances, and process topology, to identify the actual cause of a problem and the intervention that prevents it recurring. Grounded in peer-reviewed research and demonstrated in pilots with Fortune 500 manufacturers over the past year, the approach helps plants cut downtime and run more efficiently.
"It is a real honour to see Kausalyze among this year's winners," said Louis Allen, founder and CEO of Kausalyze. "Process manufacturing has run on correlation and alarms for decades. We are bringing causal reasoning to it, so engineers get the actual cause and the right intervention, not just another alert. Industrial decision making should run on cause, not correlation, and I am looking forward to showing what that looks like at Climb26."
The Kausalyze team will be at Leeds Dock on 1 and 2 July 2026. To arrange a conversation at the festival, or a walkthrough of the platform, get in touch through kausalyze.com.
