Composabl, a leader in industrial AI multi-agent systems, announces the availability of its software and software integration on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Enterprises can now leverage their existing Azure commit credits to purchase the Composabl platform, in return enhancing AI-driven automation and operational efficiency.

Walnut Creek, California, 16th April 2025, ZEX PR WIRE, Composabl, Inc., provides an end-to-end SaaS solution for designing, orchestrating, training, benchmarking and deploying multi-agent AI systems in industrial settings. This one-of-a-kind multi-agent AI production and orchestration platform is driving industrial automation into a new era and is now available for purchase on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The Azure integration enables industrial enterprises to utilize their pre-purchased Azure commit credits to acquire Composabl’s AI-powered platform and allocate these credits toward training and deploying intelligent AI agents into real-world industrial settings using Azure’s cloud computing infrastructure.

Recognizable industrial use cases cast vision for the art of the possible:

Equipment Calibration: With a virtual AI expert operator, the company took a 6-month chemical machinery calibration process down to a 72-hour changeover.

Glass Bottle Manufacturing: Fully automate a process previously not automated before in this glass manufacturer’s facility, by building a multi-agent system capable of being an expert operator connected to factory floor equipment, including capabilities of making human operator recommendations through the human-to-machine interface (HMI).

Complex Logistics Scheduling: Capture and codify expert operator knowledge and eliminate downtime when expert absences impact the ability to maintain throughput. Company reported that it takes approximately 5 years to onboard and train individuals to achieve expert-level expertise making absenteeism a critical risk in the business.

Composabl Agent Orchestration Studio

Composabl provides an AI multi-agent orchestration studio for industrial applications. The platform enables manufacturers, energy providers, and logistics companies to optimize operations through advanced AI technologies, such as deep learning reinforcement (DRL) and machine learning (ML), as well as AI-powered decision-making, automation, and real-time adaptability in complex environments. By announcing its availability on the Azure Marketplace, Composabl ensures integration with enterprise cloud ecosystems. This allows organizations to scale AI agent deployment with ease.

“I am energized by the fact that we now have AI that can help industrials. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive set of tools that can be applied in the vast amount of use cases in industry, along with sharing knowledge that helps engineers create a more autonomous future on their terms. What sets Composabl apart is that we know engineers have been automating manufacturing for decades. We’re not replacing that expertise—we’re amplifying it. Our methodology-based platform and no-code UI lets engineers themselves orchestrate teams of agents to embed decision intelligence directly into their operations,” said Kence Anderson, CEO at Composabl.

Benefits of Composabl on Azure Marketplace:

• Azure Commit Credit Utilization: Enterprises can efficiently allocate pre-purchased Azure commit credits to support AI agent training and deployment without additional budget approvals.
• Scalability & Performance: By utilizing Azure’s cloud computing infrastructure, Composabl users can execute high-performance AI agent training and runtime capabilities across distributed industrial operations.
• Benchmarking & Optimization: Composabl introduces industry-first guidance (goals, constraints, and success criteria) and benchmarking capabilities that allows engineers to build multi-agents with specialized skills then compare the performance of AI agents.
• Physical-World Runtime Features: Composabl provides real-time AI runtime features designed for deployment in physical industrial environments, which provides smooth interaction with factory systems and equipment.

The Composabl platform offers a no-code AI agent orchestration studio, making AI adoption more accessible for engineers and industrial teams without deep programming expertise. To further platform accessibility and the empowerment of industrial engineers Composabl has low-barrier, low-cost, quick-start buying options on the Azure marketplace, including single seat options.

For more information or to purchase Composabl’s AI multi-agent orchestration platform, visit the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

About Composabl

Composabl is a leading innovator in industrial AI and automation. Built by engineers for engineers, Composabl enables enterprises to enhance operational efficiency, reduce downtime, and increase productivity through AI-powered automation. The platform is designed to deliver real-time intelligence to industrial operations through its runtime features, enabling AI deployment in complex, real-world environments.

For more information, visit www.composabl.com.

New York, US, 16th April 2025, ZEX PR WIRE, Acclaimed landscape architect Dennis Pappas has published a new blog article titled The Rise of Biophilic Design, examining the growing global movement to reconnect people with nature through built environments. Drawing on his 20+ years of experience in sustainable urban design, Pappas highlights the principles, benefits, and practical applications of biophilic design in today’s cities—especially in high-density environments like New York.

In the post, Pappas outlines how biophilic design goes beyond adding plants to buildings. It’s about creating emotional, sensory, and ecological connections between people and the natural world. “We’re hardwired for nature,” Pappas writes. “When we bring natural elements into our spaces—sunlight, greenery, water—we’re not just improving aesthetics. We’re improving health, focus, and well-being.”

The blog explores how biophilic principles are being applied across architecture, landscape design, and interior planning—from green roofs and living walls to natural materials, daylighting, and multisensory experiences. Pappas also addresses how cities can implement these ideas equitably and affordably in public spaces, schools, and housing.

“Biophilic design isn’t just a trend—it’s a response to how disconnected we’ve become from the natural systems that support us,” says Pappas. “If we want healthier cities, we have to design like nature matters—because it does.”

The article encourages urban planners, architects, and everyday residents to consider the role of nature in shaping environments that support human resilience, especially as cities face rising climate and mental health challenges.

The full post is now available at www.dennispappas.com.

About Dennis Pappas

Dennis Pappas is a Brooklyn-based landscape architect with over two decades of experience designing sustainable, community-centered spaces. His work includes the Brooklyn Green Corridor and New York City’s first carbon-neutral rooftop garden. He is a Certified Green Roof Professional and LEED Accredited Professional, dedicated to advancing urban sustainability through nature-integrated design.

Michigan, US, 16th April 2025, ZEX PR WIRE, As public trust in institutions erodes and political discourse becomes increasingly transactional, political philosopher Marjorie Jeffrey Habighorst is sounding the alarm. She notes that the West is witnessing a quiet but dangerous shift from statesmanship to technocracy, which could fundamentally undermine the moral foundation of democratic life.

In recent lectures and essays, Habighorst has sharply criticized the technocratic impulse that dominates contemporary governance. “We are mistaking competence for wisdom and management for leadership,” she argues. “Policy is no longer grounded in philosophical principle or civic responsibility, but in efficiency metrics, algorithms, and short-term optimization.”

This shift, Habighorst explains, is not merely semantic. It reflects a profound philosophical transformation: once political leadership was understood as a moral art rooted in prudence, judgment, and civic virtue, today’s political actors are expected to be data-driven administrators, crisis managers, or celebrity communicators. The result is a hollowing-out of political meaning and a dangerous divorce between technical expertise and moral responsibility.

“The statesman once aspired to cultivate the common good through deliberation and persuasion,” Habighorst says. “Today’s leaders are expected to ‘deliver results’ in quarterly increments, speak in the language of economics, and defer ethical questions to legal departments or regulatory agencies. That is not leadership; it is abdication.”

Her critique is not anti-technology nor anti-expertise. Instead, Habighorst insists that technocratic governance, without grounding in philosophical reflection and historical understanding, leads to a subtle but corrosive form of authoritarianism. “The technocrat asks, ‘What works?’ The statesman must ask, ‘What is right?’ If we abandon the latter question, we are left with efficient but soulless governance.”

She traces this drift back to what she calls “the institutionalization of moral neutrality,” a development she believes began in earnest in the post-war period and has accelerated in the digital age. “In our zeal to avoid ideological conflict, we’ve trained leaders to avoid the deeper questions of justice, liberty, and human flourishing,” she explains. “But politics cannot be morally neutral. It must be morally serious.”

Habighorst sees evidence of this trend across the Western world, from bureaucratized pandemic responses that sideline political deliberation to the increasing reliance on unelected experts to make sweeping decisions. The consequences are visible in her view: rising civic disengagement, a sense of alienation among citizens, and the erosion of public trust.

“What we are witnessing is not just political fatigue. It’s a philosophical crisis,” she warns. “People do not want to be managed, they want to be led. They want to be part of something meaningful.”

To counter this trend, Habighorst advocates a return to the classical understanding of statesmanship, one rooted in virtue, courage, and the pursuit of justice. Drawing on figures like Lincoln, Churchill, and Cicero, she calls for a renewed emphasis on political education that forms skilled administrators and morally serious leaders.

“Leadership is not about having all the answers,” she says. “It’s about having the judgment to ask the right questions and the character to act on principle, even when it’s unpopular.”

Habighorst also urges universities to rethink their political science and public policy education approach. “We’ve trained a generation to navigate systems but not to understand why those systems exist in the first place,” she says. “We need to reintroduce moral philosophy, classical texts, and historical case studies, not as academic exercises, but as vital tools for shaping the political imagination.”

Her message has found an audience among students and civic leaders alike, particularly those disillusioned by the technocratic status quo. In public forums, she has championed the idea of “moral imagination” as an antidote to bureaucratic drift: the capacity to envision a just society and take responsibility for its realization.

Asked whether she sees hope, Habighorst is cautiously optimistic. “There’s a hunger for real leadership, for moral clarity,” she says. “The good news is that statesmanship is not dead. It’s just been sleeping. And we need to wake it up.”