150 users in 20 countries and no physicist on staff: a Limassol startup sells the answer to "is quantum worth it?"

A Limassol-based startup, Superpositions Studio, is building the unglamorous layer that the quantum industry has mostly skipped: the part that tells a business whether quantum computing is worth its time at all.

The pitch is narrow and practical. A customer describes a problem in ordinary language. The platform translates it into a mathematical and then a quantum formulation, picks candidate quantum and classical algorithms, runs the experiments and compares the results. The output is a verdict — whether quantum has an advantage for that problem, where it would appear and when — delivered in under an hour, with reproducible reports and Python code behind it. No quantum specialist on the payroll required.

The company says the platform has been tested across more than 20 industry scenarios with 10 quantum algorithms, including payment fraud detection, transaction screening for anti-money laundering, risk assessment and wind energy generation forecasting. It counts more than 150 users across 20 countries.

It is deliberately hardware-agnostic, running against IBM, IonQ, IQM and Rigetti systems, with European quantum processors on the integration roadmap. The work has had support from the Research and Innovation Foundation, alongside academic partnerships with European universities, and the company is a technology partner in the European Business Institute of Luxembourg's Q-Ready initiative for student education.

For the Cyprus ecosystem the interesting detail is the position being claimed. Not a quantum computer, and not a quantum algorithm — the evaluation layer in between, which is where most corporate quantum budgets actually get spent or abandoned.

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