Infrastructure for KnowledgeStability & Continuity
Sapienstream is not just software — it is infrastructure. A platform built of extraction agents, a community product database, configuration canvases, compatibility analysis, an AI orchestration brain named Nelo, a comprehensive knowledge graph, and an ontology engine. Everything engineers need to stop being human compilers and start building resilient knowledge systems.
Our Story
Why We Built ThisManufacturing is facing a silent crisis. It does not arrive as a single catastrophic event. It accumulates, day after day, in the form of engineers who spend 40% of their time hunting for data instead of solving problems. In wasted hours verifying whether a datasheet value is still current. In decisions made from memory because no one documented the rationale three years ago.
Then there's the retirement cliff. When Klaus retires, he takes forty years of expertise with him: which voltage configuration works in humid environments, why that particular sensor was chosen over the spec-sheet favorite, what the real failure mode is on Line 4 at 3 AM. This knowledge is irreplaceable — unless it is captured before it disappears.
The core thesis: SapienStream is a Knowledge Refinery. It takes the messy reality of brownfield industrial knowledge — greasy manuals, voice notes, handwritten schematics, tribal knowledge — and transforms it into structured, typed, agent-consumable intelligence. Every interaction with the platform is simultaneously a productivity tool for the engineer and a distillation step that converts human noise into machine signal.
Deep Perception™ deploys 6 specialized agents to extract everything from any document. The Knowledge Graph maps your facility's real-world component relationships with immutable decision traces. Nelo — our AI orchestration brain — coordinates 16 agents across 6 specialist modes and 27 tools, with infinite memory in a three-layer architecture. Sixteen autonomous agents work around the clock: harvesting insights, compiling wiki articles, detecting knowledge concentration risks, and flagging when critical knowledge exists in only one person's head.
Made in Germany. Hosted in the EU. Built by engineers, for engineers.
Our Mission
To eliminate the human compiler problem. Engineers have become translators between incompatible data formats, vendor terminologies, and scattered documentation systems. This is not what they were trained for. SapienStream's extraction agents, ontology engine, and Nelo do the crunching so engineers can focus on engineering.
Our Vision
A world where facility knowledge grows with every repair instead of decaying with every retirement. Where the global industrial component market speaks a common language through our ontology engine. Where every decision is traceable, every configuration is captured, and compliance reporting is automatic. A living, explorable knowledge base that is resilient by design.
By the Numbers
Purpose-built infrastructure, not a thin wrapper around a chatbot
280+
API Endpoints
16
AI Agents
6
Extraction Agents
27
Nelo Tools
6
Modalities
3-Layer
Memory Architecture
Our Values
The principles that guide everything we build
Knowledge Continuity
Every decision, every configuration, every interaction — recorded in an immutable ledger. We build systems that create an auditable, tamper-proof record of institutional knowledge.
Engineer-Centric
Built by engineers, for engineers. We understand the frustration of being a human compiler — crunching PDFs, calling vendors, deciphering legacy systems — because we've lived it.
Configuration First
Configuration is the center of knowledge capturing. The process of configuring a machine, a component, a system is where knowledge transfer happens. We don't just find parts — we capture the why behind every setting.
The Team
Small team. Deep domain expertise. Shipping fast.
Alex Hofmann
Founder & CEO
Controls engineer turned product builder. Spent years watching tribal knowledge disappear from brownfield facilities and decided to fix the root cause.
Engineering Team
Full-Stack & AI
A lean team of full-stack engineers, ML practitioners, and industrial automation specialists shipping at startup speed with enterprise robustness.
Open Roles
Join Us
We're growing. If you're passionate about industrial AI, document intelligence, or knowledge graphs — we want to hear from you.
Key Milestones
From concept to cognitive workspace
Concept validated with practising controls engineers
Deep Perception™ 6-stage extraction pipeline shipped
Nelo AI assistant with 6 specialist modes launched
Knowledge Graph, Visual Canvas, and compatibility checking live
Plant Memory, decision tracing, and enterprise security hardened
Built With
Enterprise-grade open-source foundations
Trusted by engineers at
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