Raw-material procurement and AI production software for metal foundries
NowPurchase pairs a raw-material supply business for foundries with MetalCloud, a SaaS layer for production data and AI. The stack is unusually edge-vision heavy for a procurement company: YOLOv8, CLIP, LLaVA and Qwen-VL deployed on Jetson Orin via ONNX and TensorRT, with ICP-OES pointing to lab-grade metallurgy. Sales-led hiring plus a project focus on selling AI modules suggests commercialization of MetalCloud is the current push.
NowPurchase is a Kolkata-based company founded in 2017 that serves metal manufacturers, primarily foundries, across India. It supplies raw materials such as scrap, pig iron, ferro alloys, nodularizers and additives, backed by on-ground quality checks and service teams. Its MetalCloud software digitizes foundry operations by combining machine data, manual logs and computer vision to support defect reduction and alloy optimization. The company employs 51–200 people and operates from multiple locations nationwide.
NowPurchase uses Python, PyTorch, YOLOv8, CLIP, LLaVA and Qwen-VL for vision AI, deployed on Jetson Nano/Orin with ONNX and TensorRT, plus AWS SageMaker, CloudWatch, SAP, Zoho, HubSpot and Gainsight.
Current work includes standard MetalCloud feature development, AI modules for the platform, customized factory implementations, and lab evaluations and industrial trials for new products aimed at the Indian market.
NowPurchase is headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, employs 51–200 people, and hires within India across sales, logistics, operations, product and research.
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