# Optimal design, in silico first

> For teams whose designs are built and tested: a material, a component, a process, a recipe.

Status: Hosted TauOpt: closed beta today; Talaria hosted: alpha December 5, invite only; Enterprise: coming soon.

An optimal design problem is a geometry, a material, a process setting, or a recipe that must meet objectives within constraints, when every evaluation by simulation or physical test is costly. Talaria Scientific makes the design loop, from candidate to test and back, fast, trustworthy, and cheap, so you can try orders of magnitude more candidates in silico before you build one.

Talaria builds surrogate models from your own ideas, data, and simulations: validated stand-ins for a simulation or a physical test that answer fast enough to search over, and that are yours. TauOpt searches over them, and over any other evaluator you have, and returns the short list to test. The results flow back, the models update, and the number of physical tests to reach a target falls.

Today you can start with hosted TauOpt over your own evaluators, by request. The Talaria hosted alpha on December 5 adds the models. The enterprise deployment brings the whole loop into your cloud.

[Contact us](https://talariasci.com/contact) / [Request TauOpt access](https://tauopt.com/#request-access)

![Figure 1. The same loop, for a design problem: your ideas and process data go in; the Talaria Harness turns them into digital twins; the TauOpt Optimizer searches over the twins, your other evaluators, and the results that feed back; the best result improves run by run; the candidates, runs, and results land in the record.](https://talariasci.com/images/site/fig-two-products.png)

## Two stages and a return path

The loop has an in-silico stage, a physical stage, and a return path that feeds each cycle's results into the models.

1. **In silico.** TauOpt explores the design space over the surrogate models and returns a short list of candidates with the highest expected value.
2. **Physical.** You build or test the candidates.
3. **Back.** The results return: the surrogates update with them, and TauOpt proposes the next batch.



## How to get it

- Enterprise, coming soon: the platform deployed in your cloud, with single sign-on, audit logs, and the data retention you set, and forward-deployed engineers to run the loop inside your walls.
- Hosted: TauOpt today by request; the Talaria hosted alpha from December 5, invite only.
- Open core, December 5: the harness and the engine under Apache 2.0, free, on your own compute.

Read: [The scientific flywheel that can lead to abundance (where the search is going)](https://talariasci.com/blog/the-right-model-for-the-job), [Surfing the Frontier Wave that rests between The Bitter Lesson and No Free Lunch](https://talariasci.com/blog/no-free-lunch-bitter-lesson)

## Get access, or get in touch

Talaria is in private beta with a small group of researchers, and TauOpt is in closed beta. For product access, use the request forms. For enterprise, partnerships, or press, use the contact page. [Contact us](https://talariasci.com/contact) / [Request Talaria access](https://talariasci.com/signup) / [Request TauOpt access](https://tauopt.com/#request-access)

Read: [Talaria: the architecture](https://talariasci.com/blog/the-talaria-architecture), [Talaria: the blog](https://talariasci.com/blog), [TauOpt: documentation](https://tauopt.com/docs/)

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