AI for thephysicalmaterialseconomy

AI-driven purchasing and production platform for circular industry, built on unique vision AI. Optimises your spend, reduces costs and increases material margin.

iPhone and iPad showing Safi AI analysis of a UBC bale with detection contours and a material composition breakdown
How it works

Serving world’s #1
players

  1. PET processing

  2. Steel industry

  3. + more industries coming

  4. Waste management

  5. Aluminium smelting

  6. PET production

  7. Flooring industry

  8. Recycling industry

  9. Packaging industry

01 / 09

Proven in recycling,
built for the wider materials industry.

90+

recycling sites using Safi AI worldwide

25+

countries represented in Safi's AI model training

2M

tonnes of material analyzed annually

World map showing Safi AI deployment sites across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia

PROBLEM

Industrial firms lack data on their raw materials.

When you don't know what is in the bales, every decision carries a cost.

Procurement

Can’t assess value for money of the purchased material.

No data to assess suppliers, recover funds or optimise allocation. Visual inspection and hand-sampling is inaccurate, expensive and generates no verifiable data.

>99%

of bales unchecked

Production

Can’t control yield, quality or costs.

No data to plan production shifts, control parameters, or run improvement process.

20-40%

BATCHES BELOW SPECIFICATION QUALITY

Operations

Can't prevent errors.

Feedstock incorrectly accepted, stored or blended. Minimal traceability back to loads or suppliers once blended.

~$10k / hr.

EST. LOSS OF FACILITY DOWNTIME

SOLUTION  >  SAFI AI

From a simple photo to smarter decisions.

  1. Capture – Your operator photographs bales in the yard with an iPhone.

    01

    Capture

    Your operator photographs bales in the yard with an iPhone.

  2. Analyse – AI vision identifies objects in the bale against our proprietary database and your specifications. Results are stored.

    02

    Analyse

    AI vision identifies objects in the bale against our proprietary database and your specifications. Results are stored.

  3. Manage – Track the quality of each load/bale across all locations. Real-time infeed control. Use AI to plan production.

    03

    Manage

    Track the quality of each load/bale across all locations. Real-time infeed control. Use AI to plan production.

  4. Optimise – Create picking lists for each line. Blend loads to hit your target yield. 

    04

    Optimise

    Create picking lists for each line. Blend loads to hit your target yield. 

ANALYSE ALL BALES, NOT JUST A SAMPLE.

1%

100%

Manual sampling

Safi AI

Manual sampling inspects a 25-75kg sample of each bale, leading to negligible material quality insights. Problems are only discovered when the flawed material hits the production line. Safi AI analyses 100% of your feedstock on arrival with 97% data accuracy.

TIME TO INSPECT A FULL CONTAINER LOAD OF MATERIALS

1,200 min

1,5 min

Manual inspection

Safi AI

1 bale analysed in 7.5 seconds. Unlike Safi AI, manual inspection inspects only a sample of the bale. Cost per bale analysis: $0.05 with Safi AI vs. $60 for manual sampling. Safi AI doesn’t require bale breaking. Gloves on and offline, if needed.

iPhones PRO (Model 15 or newer) iPhones PRO MAX (Model 15 or newer) iPhone 17 / 17e iPhone 16

Phone camera view used to photograph a bale for Safi AI

Deployed in cca 30 minutes. Your facility operations are not disrupted, no need to change any processes.

From fragmented manual sampling to a continuous material data intelligence layer.

Materials

New material streams can be deployed in days.

  • Compacted bale of PET plastic bottlesLIVEPET • HDPE • PPbottles and rigids
  • Bale of crushed aluminium beverage cansLIVEUBCcans
  • Bale of corrugated cardboardLIVEOCCcardboard
  • Heap of mixed steel scrap with brass and copper fittingsLIVESTEELmixed material
  • Heap of mixed scrap metalNEXTMETALscraps
  • Added on requestYOUR MATERIALtrained on your feedstock

OCC deployed in 48 hours at a top-tier U.S. customer.

See it live

See Safi AI in action. Backed by real-world data.

Operator scanning a bale with the Safi AI iPhone app2:19
97%DATA ACCURACY. Consistent outcomes validated on >40,000 bales in >700 tests with customers from 25 countries across the globe.

AI MODEL ACCURACY ANALYSIS BY CUSTOMER (ANONYMISED).

  • 96,8%

  • 97,2%

  • 96,4%

  • 97,1%

  • 98,0%

  • 96,9%

S1US, EU

S2Italy

S3Mexico

S4UK, EU

S5Canada

S6EU

Note on bale dressing: No method sees through a bale, but Safi AI goes beyond the surface alone, using surface patterns and composition history from thousands of previous bale breaks.

The platform

4 modules, one source of material intelligence. Smarter decisions across your entire operation.

  • Inspect every incoming bale
  • Detect contamination instantly
  • Track material quality in real time
Safi AI quality control screen: a bale under computer-vision inspection with its material types outlined, and an AI Analysis panel comparing target and non-target composition against thresholds of 93.8% and 6.2%, with the shortfall flagged.
  • Track every bale and its location
  • Know your available material quality
  • Find the right material when you need it
Safi AI inventory screen: every bale slot in Bay 1, Bay 2 and Bay 3 mapped in place and colour-coded by quality, with a legend for 99%+, 97–99% and below 97%.
  • Benchmark supplier quality
  • Pay for actual material value
  • Support claims with AI evidence
Safi AI procurement screen: suppliers ranked by value per pound delivered against a benchmark line, one supplier flagged 8.2% below specs with its predicted yield, and delivered tonnage repriced from $450/t to $403/t.
  • Select the right bales for each run
  • Optimise blends with AI
  • Monitor input quality vs. yield target
Safi AI production screen: an AI plan to blend Bay 2 with Bay 3 — 10 bales at 99.2% UBC and 6 bales at 98.4% — with Bay 1 held for prohibitives and target feed quality confirmed at 95.3%.

Business impact

Material intelligence with measurable business impact.

>50%

potential EBITDA impact of full stack Safi AI implementation

<2 months

Customer-reported payback of Safi AI implementation

2.5× ROI

guaranteed to customers — otherwise money refund

  • $6.6M/yearFull stack
    BiffaU.K.

    Safi data drives $6.6M HDPE procurement

  • $112K/monthProcurement
    AloxeEurope

    Saving from data-driven procurement

  • $300K/yearProduction
    BMP RecyclingCanada

    20% of material upgraded to premium

We are manufacturers of raw materials, not just recyclers. Delivering consistent quality to our clients means controlling what comes in, and in our industry, the feedstock is never the same twice. Safi AI turns what used to be a slow, manual process into something industrial, reliable, and fast enough to run on every single load.
Sébastien BrunonCOO, Aloxe Group

Results

Safi AI transforms business operations on a global scale.

BMP Recycling

NORTH AMERICA (CANADA)

  • Award-Winning Recycler in Canada Transforms Their Plant Using Safi AI
Read more

Aloxe

EUROPE (NETHERLANDS)

  • How Aloxe Industrialized Feedstock Quality Control with Safi AI
Read more

Get started

Free start, 2.5× ROI guarantee.  

Start with a free feedstock audit. Discover your savings potential before committing.

  1. Feedstock audit

    Free of charge, 2-week analysis, 30 min to set up

    WHAT YOU GET

    • A load-by-load feedstock audit
    • A supplier valuation ranking
    • An estimate of your savings potential
    • 30 min setup at site by Safi team
    • Integrates into existing process
    • Genuinely free, no commitment
  2. Audit report

    Free of charge, no commitment

    • 6 months - seamless integration into operations, procurement and production - savings or your money back 
    • Granular feedstock analysis, load-by-load supplier comparisons. Material quality received vs price paid. Report yours to keep, at no cost.
  3. Pilot

    Fixed term, 2.5× ROI guarantee, refund protected.

    • We calculate savings in the first year and price based on your real data from the audit.
    • We take 20% of savings/revenue incremental to the guaranteed minimum ROI. Fixed fee always set 2.5x below forecast. We’ll refund you if you don’t hit minimum savings ROI.

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