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You know where your industry is broken. We build the AI that fixes it.

For years you have watched the real work in your field get done by hand. The same forms typed in again. The same answer pulled from one person's memory. The same call made on instinct because the numbers were too messy to trust. We start companies that hand that work to AI, and we build them with the people who lived the problem. That could be you.

02 COMPANIES LIVE WORK THAT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE MANUAL
// what we keep seeing

In every field we look at, the hardest work is still done by hand.

Not the obvious tasks. The expert work in the middle. The judgement calls, the cross-checking, the reading of long documents, the answer only the veteran on the team can give. It is slow, it does not scale, and it walks out the door the day someone leaves.

01

The knowledge lives in people

There is always one person everyone asks. When they are on holiday, the work slows down. When they retire, twenty years of judgement leaves with them, and nobody ever wrote it down.

02

The real work is still manual

Read the contract, price the job, check one file against three others. Copy from a PDF, paste into a spreadsheet, hope nobody mistyped a figure. The software you were sold never touched the part that actually eats the day.

03

Good software skipped your field

The big platforms never understood your contracts, your parts, your cases or your rules. So you built workarounds, kept a folder of exceptions, and learned to call it normal. It was never normal.

// how we work

Most industries do not need another app. They need the slow, expert work at the core handed to a machine that is genuinely good at it, run by the person who knows when it is wrong.

You bring the field

You know the problem cold. The edge cases, the politics, the reason it never got fixed. We do not pretend to know your world. You point at what is broken, and we build.

We build the company

The engineers, the AI, the product, and a real business behind it. You do not need to write code or raise a round. We bring the team and the capital and ship it end to end.

You run it and own it

It becomes your company, with your name on it and customers paying for it. We stay close to help, and to carry what we learn into the next one.

// companies

Proof, not promises. Two companies live, in market.

Live · In market
Tripery
For travel teams buried in supplier contracts

A tour operator used to lose days turning a stack of supplier contracts into a price a customer could actually book. Rates in PDFs, terms in email, margins worked out by hand in a spreadsheet only one person understood. Tripery reads the contracts, holds the rates, and turns them into a priced, bookable trip in minutes. The expertise stays. The grind goes.

Visit tripery.ai →
tripery.ai
Live · iOS & Android
Sidestand
When your mechanic is closed and the bike sounds wrong

Something does not sound right, it is 11pm in the garage, and the shop is shut until Tuesday. You used to guess, scroll forums, or pay for a diagnosis you did not need. Sidestand answers from the real service manual for your exact bike, knows what you have already done to it, and walks you through the fix one step at a time. The shop's knowledge, without the wait.

Visit sidestand.app →
sidestand.app
◷  COMPANY No.3 IN BUILD. Another industry, the same way of working.
// build with us

The best companies we build start with someone who lived the problem.

Three kinds of people start Cognitery companies. The expert who knows exactly what is broken. The engineer who can build the fix. The investor who wants in before it is obvious. If that sounds like you, tell us what you would bring.

Domain experts

You know the work, not the code.

You have spent years inside one field and you can list its broken parts in your sleep. The manual steps, the workarounds, the thing everyone complains about and nobody fixed. You want to build the answer. You are just not an engineer, and you should not have to be.

  • Bring the field, the problem, and the first customers
  • We bring the engineers, the AI, and the capital
  • You lead it as founder and owner
Builders & investors

You ship, or you back the people who do.

Engineers who want to build something real from zero instead of maintaining someone else's legacy. Investors who would rather get in early on a company built around AI than read one more deck about it.

  • Engineers: real ownership across every company we start
  • Investors: a studio with live revenue and a repeatable way to build
  • Both: upside that compounds as the portfolio grows

Tell us what you would bring

A few details so we send you to the right person. We read every message ourselves and reply personally, usually within a few days.

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No deck required. Just the shape of the problem, and we take it from there.

Got it. Thank you.

Your note is with the Cognitery team. We read every one and reply personally, usually within a few days. If it is time sensitive, email build@cognitery.ai.

// get in touch

Building something, or backing the ones who do.

Prefer email? Founders, operators and investors who care about this kind of company can reach us directly.

hello@cognitery.ai