Heavy computation, without the heavy infrastructure.
Some work means running the same model thousands of times over. Normally that means a big cloud bill - or your own servers humming away in a room somewhere.
We think there's a better way: using computing power that already exists, and would otherwise just sit idle.
When more computing means a bigger bill
A lot of valuable work has the same shape: run one calculation again and again, each time with slightly different inputs, then look at the results together. Forecasting under hundreds of scenarios. Sweeping through parameter combinations. Stress-testing a plan against every condition you can think of.
The more of it you run, the better your answer - but the more it costs. Rent cloud servers and the bill scales brutally with volume. Buy your own hardware and you carry the capital, the maintenance, and the idle time. And increasingly there's a third cost on top: the energy, water, and footprint of the data centres doing the work.
A data centre that's already out there
Instead of renting or building one, LiteSolve runs this kind of workload on computing power that already exists and would otherwise sit idle - pooling many small contributions into something that gets real work done. Two wins at once:
Meaningfully cheaper
The same volume of computation, for a fraction of the cost - because you're not paying to build and run the infrastructure underneath it.
Dramatically lighter
No new data centre means no new energy, water, or hardware footprint to go with it. For teams whose customers care about that, it matters.
It's not for everything - and we'd rather say so
The honest version: LiteSolve is brilliant for some work and the wrong tool for the rest. Here's the line.
A strong fit for
- Lots of small, independent jobs - batch forecasting, scenario sweeps, “what-if” and optimisation modelling.
- Work with no hard deadline - it's fine if it finishes overnight.
- Workloads that don't need sensitive data to leave your control.
Not the right tool for
- Real-time work that has to answer in the moment.
- Anything that depends on sensitive data leaving the customer's control.
- One big job that can't be broken into independent pieces.
Own a website?
The capacity LiteSolve runs on has to come from somewhere. Sites can contribute a slice of spare capacity to turn it into useful computation - quietly, with no impact on visitors. It's a smaller part of the story today, but it's what makes the whole thing possible.
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LiteSolve is still being built. If any of this sounds like a problem you have — or you're just curious — tell me a little about your work and I'll be in touch. No pitch, no signup.