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Octopus Twin

About

We build twins people can question

Octopus Twin is the digital-twin business line of Octopus. It grew out of an open research lab where we built one twin after another — and learned what separates a convincing 3D model from a system you can trust with a decision.

From experiments to a practice

It started with a universe explorer and a human-body atlas: faithful models built from public scientific data. Then came twins that run: an energy campus with an exact energy balance, a tomato plant whose future can be recomputed from any day, a pipeline that tells a leak from a drifting sensor, an office tower that measures its own savings against a baseline, a 12,000-position warehouse, a restaurant group that knows what a kilogram of rice earned — and, most recently, an additive-manufacturing line, a 277-key hotel and a beach resort.

Each one was built to the same standard: data sources on screen, deterministic simulation, unit tests and headless-browser acceptance checks, and limitations stated plainly. Octopus Twin turns that standard into a service for organisations that operate physical systems.

What we are not

We are not a platform licence looking for a use case. We start from the decision you need to make and build the smallest twin that can support it — then grow it with you.

twins built and running
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industries
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generations, one framework
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bilingual delivery
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Principles

How every twin is built

Provenance first

Every number in a twin traces to a dataset, a published model or an explicitly labelled assumption. Synthetic data is badged on screen, not in fine print.

Measured, not claimed

Savings and improvements are differences between twins running the same inputs — a baseline and an alternative — never a brochure percentage.

Honest about uncertainty

Scores are not probabilities, estimates carry error bounds, and a twin should refuse an answer it cannot support. Limitations are a panel, not a footnote.

Deterministic and tested

Same seed, same future. Every twin ships with unit tests, headless-browser acceptance checks and visual capture sets.

Browser-first

No installs, no plug-ins: twins run on a laptop or a phone and can be shared with a link.

Your cloud, your data

Twins deploy as infrastructure-as-code into the client’s own cloud account; data does not leave it.

Stack

Open web technology, deployed as code

TypeScript simulation engines independent of the UI; React and three.js for 3D; Claude on Amazon Bedrock for copilots; S3, CloudFront and Lambda via CloudFormation — in our account or yours.

TypeScriptReact 19three.js / React Three FiberViteVitestHeadless Chrome acceptanceClaude on Amazon BedrockAWS CloudFormationCloudFront + S3Lambda (streaming)Brick schemaBACnet · Modbus · OPC UA · MQTT

Have a system you want to see, question or rehearse?

Tell us about the site, the process and the decision. We will come back with what a twin could answer, which data it needs, and how fast a prototype can be in front of your team.