Store less, Do more.
pdata compresses your data 1000× and lets you query it without ever unpacking it. Same answers. None of the unpacking cost. Drop-in — customers change nothing.
Data is becoming the
next sustainability crisis.
Storage scales — but 95% of what's stored is never queried. Dark data spins on disk, consuming power and emitting carbon, while organisations pay to keep data they can't use.
>400 ZB stored by 2030
Global data centre storage is doubling every 2–3 years — and almost none of that growth is data organisations actually query.
460 Mt CO₂e per year
Idle storage and pointless data movement account for hundreds of megatonnes of carbon annually — a cost that compounds as data grows.
95% powered for nothing
Dark data spins on disk and is never queried. Organisations are paying for storage that delivers no intelligence.
Data is the new oil —
only if you can use it.
Only 20% of your data estate is structured and queryable. The other 80% — video, logs, files, sensor streams — sits dark, inaccessible, and expensive to store.
We close that gap without moving, copying, or decompressing the data first. Any source. Any type. Queried in place.
Structured data — today
SCADA, CRM, time-series, transactional data. Live pilots already running in electricity markets.
Unstructured data — next
Video, images, logs, files. Same engine, much larger surface — media, security, surveillance.
One format. Every source. No unpacking.
pdata — 1000× smaller.
Intelligent and evolves.
A new data layer that ingests anything, compresses it to a fraction of its size, and lets you query it without ever unpacking it.
Zero-decoupling
Query data without ever opening the "zip". Same answers, none of the unpacking cost.
In-situ intelligence
Analytics, ML and forecasting run directly on the compressed stream — no decompression, no pipeline overhead.
Drop-in, no rewrites
Sits between existing storage and query engines. Customers change nothing — works out of the box.
Same accuracy. 1000× smaller storage.
Up and running in three steps
No infrastructure overhaul. No data migration. Point Precica at your sources and start querying in compressed form.
Connect
Point Precica at your data sources — wherever they live. Nothing moves. Nothing is copied.
Compress
Precica encodes your data into pdata automatically — 1000× smaller, queryable in place, no configuration required.
Query
Run analytics, ML, and forecasting directly on the compressed stream. Answers in seconds — no decompression, no pipelines.
One engine. Every data type.
pdata starts with structured data today and expands across every data type as the same engine unlocks adjacent markets.
Energy forecasting at commercial scale
Energy providers must balance supply and demand across unpredictable renewable sources. Missing a forecast carries a direct financial penalty. Precica enables tighter, faster forecasting — reducing commercial risk and avoiding costly supply imbalances. Live pilots running in electricity markets today.
Read the white paper →Find one frame in a million hours
The same pdata engine that compresses time-series data can index and search across thousands of hours of video — without ever decompressing the footage. One query. Seconds, not days. POC validated; opening the media and security beachhead next.
Built on world-class foundations
Spun out of the University of Manchester with support from leading institutions in deep tech and enterprise innovation.
Parent university
Institutional support
Lead investor
Strategic partner