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Sustainability

CSRD just shrank by 80%. The pressure from your customers didn’t.

Omnibus pulled roughly 80% of companies out of CSRD scope. The questions from your customers, your banks and your auditors haven’t gone anywhere — they’ve just changed sender.

ST
15 May 2026 · 7 min
Integrations

The Edge gateway: why one day per building is the whole installation.

On average, one day per building. Auto-discovery, mapping, read/write across whichever protocols you already run. We don’t replace your nervous system. We give it a brain.

ET
8 May 2026 · 6 min
IoT

You don’t need a new BMS. You need yours to start talking.

Every vendor who walks into your plant room calls your system legacy. The technical truth is less profitable: the data is already there. Your BMS isn’t old. It’s just quiet.

ET
1 May 2026 · 6 min
AI

Sofia cites her sources — because that’s engineering, not a feature.

"Cites her sources" fits on a product bullet. It’s also the hardest part of the whole system to build — and the line between an operations assistant and a plausible-sounding answer generator.

AT
24 April 2026 · 7 min
AI

The AI that gets ahead of things.

The first wave of AI learnt to answer. The second learnt to act. The third learns to anticipate — to see the problem before it lands, with a person always making the final call.

AT
17 April 2026 · 7 min
AI

An AI that makes up your Scope 3 is worse than no AI at all.

Ask an AI for your Scope 3 and it hands you a confident, plausible, wrong number. The right question was never what the model can do. It’s what it does when it doesn’t know.

AT
10 April 2026 · 8 min
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