Artic
3 known investors
Artic is a manufacturing management system for construction prefabrication and offsite manufacturers, covering capacity planning, live factory floor control, and quality inspection with photo-based checks and compliance handover packs. It serves producers of modular, panelised, timber frame, precast, and bathroom pod building systems.
Also known as Artic
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Artic supplies manufacturing management software to construction prefabrication and offsite manufacturers. The product spans three areas: planning, in which users model how project complexity, labour and dates affect real factory capacity before committing to work; factory control, which provides a live factory map by line, station and zone to surface wait times, blocked work, out-of-sequence teams and bottlenecks; and quality, where operators must complete station checks before work advances, managers view live inspection photos, and an automated vision component reviews each photo for risk and flags issues to a named person.
The system produces traceable compliance packs for handover in a single step and is presented as integrating with customers' existing tools. Described use cases include dispatching takt times, creating schedules and controlling build quality from the production line through to move-in, giving manufacturers, clients and project stakeholders visibility of programmes. Customer applications cited include understanding the actual cost of each module layout, planning project loads and labour for complex external wall packages, tracking precast facade systems to site, and gating quality at the station to prevent rework reaching site.
Traction
The site cites an 18% throughput gain at a 62-station modular residential factory from reducing sub-assembly wait times, an average 57% cut in rework across panelised, modular and bathroom pod producers, and £12,500 per month in labour savings for a 70-person workforce. Executives quoted report an approximate 16% cut in labour demand (ESS & Volumec), roughly 20% added to factory run rate (Urban Splash), and production rate improvements achieved in six months (Sekisui House). Deployments are referenced across multiple factories at ESS Modular and a pilot at Ademeure in France.
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Market position
Artic positions itself as an adaptive control system for offsite manufacturing and assembly, contrasted with rigid incumbent technology, and states it is developed with input from Sekisui House, which it describes as the world's largest prefabrication manufacturer, as a design partner.
Artic emphasises unit-specific rather than generic quality checks, enforcement that work cannot progress until checks are completed, automated review of every inspection photo, one-click traceable compliance handover packs, and automatic identification of module and panel types to speed deployment.
Technology
Artic combines capacity and scenario planning with live shop-floor tracking by line, station and zone, and digital in-process quality checks. Its technology automatically identifies module and panel types, which the company states shortens deployment time. A vision-based quality feature reviews inspection photographs, describes identified defects and flags risk to the responsible person, and the system generates traced quality and compliance packs per panel or module.
Go-to-market
The company markets directly through its website with brochure requests and demo bookings, and operates a limited pilot programme, stating four remaining pilot slots for 2026. Customer testimonials from operations, quality and production leaders are used as primary sales evidence.
Producers of modular, volumetric, panelised, structural timber frame, precast and facade, curtain wall and bathroom pod building systems, along with developers and general contractors operating their own offsite factories. Named users and pilots on the company site include Sekisui House, Greystar, Eastern Exterior Wall Systems, Vision Built, Ibstock, Lowfield, Innovaré, ESS Modular, Dvele and Ademeure.
Geography
Customers, pilots and prospects referenced span the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, France, Japan and Saudi Arabia.
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Key figures
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primary sources listed
- Articartic.works · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Artic do?
- Artic is software for offsite construction factories covering capacity planning, live floor control and quality inspection.
- Who are Artic's investors?
- Artic's investors include Fuel Ventures, Pi Labs, Suffolk Technologies.