University of Manchester Spinout

Always-on prediction using your entire data estate

Precica encodes your structured data using AI — making it instantly queryable across every source you own. No SQL. No pipelines. No waiting. Built for organisations managing terabytes to petabytes.

Near-hardware query speed
TB → PB scale ready
Zero SQL required
The challenge

Your data isn't the problem.
Getting answers is.

Modern enterprises sit on vast data estates — but fragmented sources, slow pipelines, and escalating infrastructure costs mean insight consistently arrives too late.

Fragmented sources

Data lives in silos — across warehouses, data lakes, and legacy systems. Unifying it means building pipelines, and pipelines break.

Queries that don't scale

As data volumes grow, query times balloon. By the time insight arrives, the decision has already been made.

Infrastructure that costs too much

Moving, copying, and unpacking data at petabyte scale is expensive. And the cost compounds as you grow.

The Precica approach

A zip file you can query without opening

Precica's AI encoding engine learns the underlying patterns in your structured data and encodes it into a format that is simultaneously compressed, encrypted, and instantly queryable.

No decompression needed

Query data directly in its encoded state at near-hardware speed. Nothing gets unpacked.

Cross-source analytics

Connect multiple encoded sources across your organisation and query them all simultaneously, in real time.

Encryption by design

Security is built into the encoding, not bolted on. You hold the keys — your data remains accessible and recoverable only by you.

Always current

Precica adapts as new data arrives — no retraining and no downtime. So your predictions stay fresh.

Source A 2.4 TB → encoded
Source B 890 GB → encoded
Source C 5.1 TB → encoded
Unified query layer query_all_sources(realtime=True)

Three sources. One query. Instant results.

How it works

Up and running in three steps

No infrastructure overhaul. No data migration. Point Precica at your sources and start querying.

1

Connect

Point Precica at your data sources — wherever they live. Nothing moves. Nothing is copied.

2

Encode

Sit back. Precica encodes your data automatically — no configuration, no choices to make on your end.

3

Query

Query across all your encoded sources in real time, at near-hardware speed. Get answers in seconds, not minutes.

Use cases

Built for industries where data drives decisions

From energy forecasting to financial analytics, Precica delivers instant insight where it matters most.

Energy

Energy forecasting at commercial scale

Energy providers must balance supply and demand across unpredictable renewable sources — solar and wind in particular. Missing a forecast carries a direct financial penalty. Precica enables tighter, faster forecasting — reducing commercial risk and unlocking access to higher-volume customers. Real-time supply and demand analytics also sharpen buy/sell decisions at the margins where it counts.

Finance

Financial analytics without the overhead

High-volume structured data in financial services demands fast, secure, and cost-efficient analytics. Precica delivers all three — with encryption built in by design and query performance that scales with your data. No additional security tooling. No pipeline overhead. Just answers.

Backed by

Built on world-class foundations

Spun out of the University of Manchester with support from leading institutions in deep tech and enterprise innovation.

Parent university

Institutional support

Lead investor

Strategic partner

Ready to rethink how your organisation queries data?

Whether you're managing terabytes in energy, finance, or another data-intensive industry — we'd like to show you what's possible.

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