RLCore

RL Core Technologies (rlcore.ai) is an Edmonton, Alberta-based software company founded in 2023 by reinforcement learning researchers Martha White, Adam White, and Alden Christianson, specializing in adaptive intelligent control for industrial process optimization. The company closed a $5 million seed funding round in December 2024 led by TQ Ventures. Its flagship product, RLTune, is a reinforcement learning agent that continuously adapts low-level control setpoints in real time by learning directly from process interaction rather than relying on static models. RLTune integrates with existing SCADA and HMI systems through secure OPC-based interfaces, and operators retain full override capability with defined safety guardrails constraining the agent to known safe operating regions. Documented deployments include EPCOR Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant in Edmonton, where RLTune achieved 90.2% median H2S scrubber efficiency (versus ~81% under standard operating procedures) and approximately 25% reduction in chemical costs equating to roughly $75,000 annual savings per scrubber unit. Additional deployments at Drayton Valley Water Treatment for ultrafiltration optimization have demonstrated 20% improvement in backwash cycles and 50% improvement in PID flow rate control over default settings. The company is actively expanding from water and wastewater into broader process industries.