Cognite

Cognite is an industrial software company founded within Norway's Aker group, focused on "industrial DataOps" — the hard problem of contextualizing the messy, siloed data of heavy industry (sensors, equipment, documents, 3D models) into something usable. Its Atlas AI platform builds an industrial knowledge graph and provides a low-code workbench for building agentic AI applications on top of it, used in oil and gas, manufacturing, and power by customers such as Aker BP, ADNOC, and Hess. In June 2026, Schneider Electric agreed to acquire Cognite in a roughly 3.1-billion-dollar deal that would fold it into Schneider's industrial-software portfolio; the deal still needs regulatory approval. Cognite is a genuine AI vendor whose core value — turning industrial data into AI-ready context — is broadly applicable; the honest framing is that it remains independent until that deal closes, and its data-contextualization work is a prerequisite for, not a replacement for, domain expertise.