Imubit

Imubit is an American industrial-AI company headquartered in Houston, Texas, founded in 2016, that pioneered closed-loop AI optimization for refineries and chemical plants. Its platform, the Optimizing Brain, uses deep learning and reinforcement learning to build a model of an entire process unit and then control it in a true closed loop — writing setpoints back to the plant's control system rather than just advising operators. The industry analyst firm ARC Advisory Group coined a category for this approach, Closed Loop AI Optimization. Imubit reports deployment across many of the largest refiners in the United States, with named customers in chemicals and cement, and it represents one of the clearest examples of AI that learns a plant's behavior and then runs it to squeeze out more yield, energy efficiency, and throughput. For chemical and process engineers, Imubit is a leading AI-native name on the process-control side of the discipline.