What Open Mind does

Open Mind AS is a Norwegian private limited company headquartered at Oslo Science Park that develops StoryGo, an AI-powered SaaS platform for editorial newsrooms. Founded in 2023 and operating with a team of 1-10 employees, the company targets professional journalists and editors at traditional media organizations, explicitly excluding non-editorial users such as bloggers, PR firms, marketing agencies, and content farms. Its flagship product, StoryGo, provides a discovery-to-publication workflow covering event discovery, research assistance, writing and drafting support, and source verification through a proprietary 'source auditor' function, and is reported to make journalists 3x faster on non-reporting tasks.

The platform is built as a human-centered AI system that integrates with multiple commercial and open-source LLM providers, offering full transparency of model interactions through complete audit logs and a commitment not to train on customer data. Open Mind's technical and editorial architecture emphasizes human sovereignty by enforcing human bylines on all AI-assisted content, and operates under a publicly signed Open Mind Charter that codifies principles of editorial exclusivity, accuracy, and political neutrality. The product launched commercially in September 2024 and is sold on a quote-based subscription model through a direct sales-led motion targeting enterprise and mid-market editorial organizations internationally.

Open Mind is privately held with disclosed early participation from Founders Fund and Startuplab, alongside grants from Innovasjon Norge. Cumulative disclosed funding totals approximately $527K across four rounds between April 2024 and April 2025. Customer references include named major UK, Norwegian, and broader European news outlets, and the platform reports having powered tens of thousands of editorial articles across Norway, Germany, and other markets since launch.

Name

Open Mind

Legal name

Open Mind AS

Website

https://opnm.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Open Mind AS develops StoryGo, an AI-powered SaaS platform that helps editorial newsrooms streamline discovery, research, drafting, and source verification. The Oslo-based company sells direct quote-based subscriptions to enterprise and mid-market newsrooms internationally under a human-centered AI charter.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Journalism Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Periodical Publishers (513120), Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (519290)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2711)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise Search, Indexing & Content Discovery (HDAEAGAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Newsletters & Email-Based News Publishers (B2B/B2C) (MPAJADAJ)

Keywords

• AI journalism platform
• Editorial workflow software
• Newsroom automation
• Generative AI writing
• Fact-checking AI tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Oslo

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. StoryGo SaaS Subscription: StoryGo is a SaaS application sold to newsrooms on a subscription basis. The platform is commercially available to newsrooms internationally. Pricing appears to be quote-based rather than publicly listed, with sales-led motion targeting enterprise and mid-market editorial organizations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Open Mind sells StoryGo, a single AI-powered discovery-to-publication SaaS application purpose-built for editorial newsrooms. The platform consolidates event discovery, research assistance, writing and drafting support, and a "source auditor" fact-checking function into one workflow, while supporting multiple commercial and open-weight LLMs with full audit logging and a no-training-on-customer-data policy. It is sold on a subscription basis directly to newsrooms under a sales-led motion, with all editorial decisions kept under mandatory human control.

Product overview

Open Mind offers a single unified SaaS product called StoryGo, an AI-assisted platform specifically designed for editorial newsrooms and journalists. The product provides an end-to-end workflow solution consolidating event discovery, research, writing assistance, and source verification into one tool. StoryGo is positioned as a human-centered toolbox that enhances journalist productivity while preserving editorial integrity, with all AI assistance operating under human editorial control.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• StoryGo: A discovery-to-publication SaaS application that empowers journalists to streamline their entire workflow, leveraging AI for efficient event discovery, thorough research, writing assistance, and source verification.

Products and services

• StoryGo StoryGo is an AI-powered discovery-to-publication SaaS application designed for editorial newsrooms and journalists. It consolidates efficient event discovery, thorough research, writing and drafting assistance, and source verification (via a "source auditor" function) into a single workflow, supports multiple commercial and open-weight LLMs with full transparency and audit logging, and keeps all editorial decisions under human control. Customers include major European newsrooms in the UK, Norway, and Germany.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3X faster on non-reporting tasks
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature8 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Grammarly: Grammarly is an enterprise writing-assistance platform with AI features embedded across productivity tools. It overlaps with StoryGo's writing-assistance and editorial-control use cases, especially inside newsrooms already using Grammarly Business.
• Jasper: Jasper is a broad AI content-generation platform serving marketing and editorial teams. It is not editor-only but competes for the same AI-content budget that newsrooms allocate to tools like StoryGo.
• Google (Workspace + Gemini for journalists): Google embeds generative-AI capabilities (Gemini) across Workspace and offers publisher-focused AI initiatives. It is a bundled incumbent competitor to StoryGo for AI-assisted editorial workflows inside newsrooms.
• Microsoft (Copilot for newsrooms): Microsoft bundles Copilot AI features into the productivity and publishing software already licensed by most newsrooms. It represents the largest bundled incumbent threat to a standalone AI newsroom SaaS like StoryGo.

Emerging players

• Writer: Writer is an enterprise AI writing platform with governance, brand-voice controls and audit features. It competes with StoryGo in the AI-assisted-content category and increasingly targets regulated, brand-sensitive buyers similar to newsrooms.

Direct peers

• United Robots: United Robots generates automated editorial content (sports, real estate, weather) for news publishers using NLP. It is a direct competitor to StoryGo's AI-writing and source-verification capabilities within the editorial-newsroom segment.
• Sourcefabric: Sourcefabric builds open-source newsroom software (Superdesk) used by editorial organizations. It competes for the same enterprise newsroom IT budget and represents an open-source alternative to StoryGo's SaaS model.
• Automated Insights (Wordsmith): Automated Insights pioneered NLG for editorial and enterprise content (Wordsmith). It is a direct peer to StoryGo in AI-generated editorial content and shares the same enterprise-publisher buyer profile.
• AX Semantics: AX Semantics is an AI content-generation platform that automates text production for publishers, retailers and newsrooms. It overlaps directly with StoryGo's generative-AI and editorial-workflow positioning.
• Echobox: Echobox provides AI-driven publishing and audience-optimization tools for news publishers. It competes directly with StoryGo for the same enterprise editorial-newsroom buyer and addresses overlapping use cases around AI-assisted content production and distribution.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/0penMnd

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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