MESO-1 · Foundation model · Industrial forecasting

The inference engine beneath every Forge decision.

MESO-1 is Palisade's in-house foundation model for industrial forecasting. It ingests structured signal from Arc, fires continuous probabilistic inference across eight industrial domains, and emits forecasts — directional reads, magnitude bands, confidence floors — that route directly into the operator's day through Forge.

Signal domains

8

Observations / day

~2.4M

Forecast window

9.6 d

Conviction floor

60%

Capabilities · Live inference

What MESO-1 produces, every minute it runs.

Each capability is a probabilistic surface — magnitude, direction, confidence — surfaced before broad market confirmation. The outputs are routable, auditable, and consumed directly by Forge.

μ

+1.4σ

Δp

+2.2%

τ

6.4 d

Inference pipeline

Four stages. Every prediction traceable to the signal that produced it.

Each stage emits structured artifacts — versioned, observable from inside Forge, and reproducible without re-deriving the upstream state.

Ingest · normalize · tier

Stage 01

Arc Signal Transformer

Raw industrial signal ingested, normalized, timestamped, and tiered before any model touches it.

8 domains · 240+ features

Stage 02

Feature Extraction

Domain-specific feature engineering across eight signal classes — supervised, evaluated, and versioned end-to-end.

Live · continuous inference

Stage 03

MESO-1 Inference

Continuous probabilistic prediction. Magnitude, direction, and confidence emit as a live state, not a batch report.

forge / mission control

HRC

+2.4σ

CRC

+1.1σ

Plate

−0.6σ

Routed to operator surfaces

Stage 04

Forge Surfaces

Operator-facing decision routing across Mission Control, Converse, Citadel, and Research.

Painted abstract steel lot at dusk

Substrate · Material truth

The lot before the trade. The metal before the model.

MESO-1 trains against material reality — physical inventory, dispatch cadence, and clearing pressure — not just price tape.

Plate 03 · Steel lot

Signal domains

Eight domains. One inference surface.

Every domain passes through the Arc Signal Transformer before MESO-1 fires. Primary domains carry the load; secondary domains condition the prediction.

01

Sentinel-1 SAR satellite imagery

primary 6 h revisit
02

AIS vessel & freight tracking

primary Real-time
03

Global steel exchange indices

primary Real-time
04

Distributor inventory & quote graph

primary Real-time
05

Municipal bonds & infrastructure permits

secondary Daily
06

Energy grid load data

secondary Hourly
07

Railroad & drilling permits

secondary Daily
08

Weather & port congestion feeds

secondary 3 h

Palisade Research · Technical Report

MESO-1 / v1.4 · Edition 2026.05

MESO-1: A Foundation Model for Industrial Forecasting

8 signal domains ~2.4M obs / day 9.6 d window

Research · Maturity

Built by an industrial research group, not a dashboard team.

MESO-1 is the inference substrate of a research program. Every release ships a versioned technical report — model card, training corpus boundaries, evaluation methodology, and known failure modes. Operators and counterparties read the same primary source the team does.

v1.4 · 2026.05

Current production

Sentinel-1 SAR augmentation

v1.3 · 2026.02

Forecast window extended to 9.6 d

Confidence floor raised to 60%

v1.2 · 2025.11

Counterparty risk surface introduced

Continuous re-scoring

Output surfaces

Where MESO-1 lands in the operator's day.

Predictions never leave the system as a number on a page. They route to the surface where they become a decision.

01

Mission Control

Live position, exposure, and recommended actions tied to current forecasts.

02

Converse

Natural-language interface to MESO-1 inference and reasoning.

03

Research

Long-running agent programs grounded in MESO-1 outputs.

04

Citadel

Per-SKU risk, depreciation, and turnover scoring.

05

Exchange

Listing recommendations and counterparty routing.

Arc observes. MESO-1 infers. Forge executes.