JPMorgan Chase
via IBM + IonQ
Portfolio optimization and option-pricing research on superconducting and trapped-ion hardware; multi-year multi-vendor commitment.
Since 2021·USA · NY
Vol. III·Sector Coverage·Deployments
Where money actually changed hands
Boulder · Colorado
curated · live registry
curated · live registry
The real deployments
A curated registry of paying-customer quantum workloads. We track who bought, what they're running, who they bought from, and how mature the program actually is.
A logo on a slide is a marketing milestone. A renewed purchase order is a deployment.
— the inclusion test for this registry
Most "quantum customer" lists are press-release composites — every Quantum Network member, every workshop attendee, every academic co-author. This one is narrower. Each entry below describes a specific workload, a specific vendor, and a contract the customer has elected to renew at least once. The status chip distinguishes Research (academic-track partnerships and grant-funded proofs), Pilot (production-adjacent, scoped budget, sponsor named) and Production (recurring spend integrated into the customer's planning stack).
We update the registry as deals expand, contract or move between statuses — and we remove names when a program is wound down. The point of the page is not to sell the sector. It is to give the reader a working answer to the question "is anyone actually using this stuff?" — and to make the answer specific.
Finance · 1 deployment
The banks
Production
Pharma & Life Sciences · 2 deployments
Drug discovery pilots
Roche
via Quantinuum (InQuanto)
Molecular-dynamics simulations on hybrid quantum-classical stack; renewed for a third year in 2025.
Since 2023·CHE · Basel
Cleveland Clinic
via IBM
On-premise IBM Quantum System One — first dedicated healthcare quantum installation.
Since 2023·USA · OH
Automotive · 1 deployment
On the assembly line
Volkswagen Group
via D-Wave
Traffic-flow optimization deployed in pilot cities; oldest continuous annealing program in the cohort.
Since 2017·DEU · Wolfsburg
Aerospace & Defense · 1 deployment
Aerospace & defense
Lockheed Martin
via D-Wave
Software-verification workloads on annealers — the earliest commercial quantum customer of record.
Since 2011·USA · MD
Energy · 1 deployment
Catalyst & subsurface
ExxonMobil
via IBM
Catalyst-discovery simulations on superconducting hardware; oldest continuously-renewed IBM Quantum Network partnership in the energy sector.
Since 2019·USA · TX
Government & Research · 3 deployments
Sovereign buyers
NASA Ames
via D-Wave
Mission-trajectory optimization on annealers; one of the longest-running US government quantum installations.
Since 2017·USA · CA
DARPA
via QBI cohort (11)
Quantum Benchmarking Initiative — sovereign technical audit of utility-scale roadmaps across 11 Stage B performers, ceiling $15M each.
Since 2023·USA · VA
UK NQCC
via Quantum Motion · Oxford Quantum Circuits
On-premise full-stack silicon-CMOS quantum computer (Sep 2025) — industry-first sovereign install.
Since 2025·UK · Harwell
We do not list every academic co-author or workshop attendee. The registry only catalogs contracts a buying side has elected to renew.
— deployment-registry methodology