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HELIOS

Designing the operator console for a fusion reactor.

A 9-month engagement helping a stealth-stage fusion startup design the control interface their plasma engineers trust under load.

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Chapters

The HELIOS case study, in five steps.

01 · Roadmap

01

Calibration

Two weeks in the control room

We sat behind operators during 47 plasma runs - watched what mattered, watched what got missed, mapped every keystroke across four legacy screens.

02

Build

Three views. One console. One clock

Anomaly response, routine ops, deep-dive postmortem - context-driven views the team could move between in a single keystroke, all tied to a shared timeline.

03

Ship

Live across fourteen reactor cells

Operator response time on plasma transients dropped from 14 seconds to under 4. Anomaly classification accuracy is up 34%. Now part of standard onboarding.

02 · Impact

What the team felt the first week it went live.

-71%

Median operator response on plasma transients

+34%

Anomaly classification accuracy, day one

14 cells

Reactor cells running live on the console

Measured across fourteen reactor cells over the first ninety days.