Synappse
SynAppSe

Mineral shortages and rising prices are colliding with lagging mining systems

Underutilized resources and delayed production: <5 productive hours per 12-hour shift, $25B+ lost annually

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The Problem

Mining runs on
printed Excel sheets.

Every layer of the organization suffers. Operators, supervisors, schedulers, executives — all burning time on a broken coordination system.

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Equipment Sitting Idle

Plans are built before the shift and never updated. When conditions change — a breakdown, geology surprise, crew delay — equipment waits for instructions that never come.

// Avg. utilization: 60–70%
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Supervisors Reacting Too Late

Supervisors manage emergencies off printed schedules that are hours out of date. By the time they react, the cascade of delays has already hit every team downstream.

// Decision lag: 2–6 hours
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$25–50B Lost Every Year

In gold mining alone, plants run at 80–90% capacity. That 10–20% gap represents $25–50 billion in annual losses — not from lack of ore, but from poor real-time coordination.

// Gold mining inefficiency: $25–50B USD/yr
Synappse
The Solution

Synappse: The Real-Time Brain Your Mine Needs

Synappse reads the live state of a mine — equipment status, crew locations, geology changes — and uses AI to continuously replan operations as conditions shift.

📡 Live State Monitoring

Reads equipment status, crew locations, and geology changes in real time. No more decisions based on data that's hours old.

🧠 Continuous Replanning

AI replans operations the instant conditions change — maximizing production with minimum resources, automatically, across every active task.

📲 Instant Team Coordination

Every team gets updated instructions in real time through integrated systems — no new hardware, no rip-and-replace.

"Every team receives updated instructions in real time, instead of stale shift plans that break on contact with reality."
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Impact

When Mines Run Smarter,
Everyone Wins.

Higher Production Output
Higher Production Output
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Lower Cost Per Unit Mined
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More Reserves & Extended Asset Life
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Smaller Footprint Per Unit Produced
Safer Operations
Safer Operations for People & Assets
"Translating into returns for shareholders, employees, and society."
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Market Opportunity

The Last
Undigitized Frontier.

Mining ranks dead last in digitization — below energy, utilities, manufacturing, and construction. That gap isn't a problem. It's the opportunity.

ConstructionLow
ManufacturingMedium
EnergyMedium-High
MiningLowest
Synappse UpsideMaximum
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$600B
Global Mining Industry
Annual revenue — and growing
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$25–50B
Gold Mining Inefficiencies
Wasted annually from underutilized capacity
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Peak Demand
Critical Minerals
Lithium, rare earth, copper — energy transition driving historic demand
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Vacuum
No Real Competitors
Existing tools are static planners. No real-time operational intelligence exists for underground mining.
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The Team

We've been inside mines. We've seen every angle.

Santi Sierra
Santi Sierra
  • Mechanical Engineer
  • MIT Sloan MBA · AI & Operations
  • BCG Consultant · Mining Practice

10+ operations projects in mining assets across Latin America (Chile, Peru, Argentina, Suriname) working from the largest mining companies in the world (Newmont) to local family players (Hochschild).

Juan Mateus
Juan Mateus
  • Economist
  • Wharton MBA · Product Management
  • BCG Consultant · Technology Practice

15+ IT strategy, roadmap and implementation projects for the biggest holdings in Latin America (e.g. Ecopetrol, Grupo Aval, EPM).

We've been building together for 12 years: from winning a national robotics championship in elementary school, to co-founding 2 ventures, to leading initiatives inside BCG.
Synappse is the most ambitious thing we've built.