What Superlinear does

Superlinear is a Brussels-headquartered AI company founded in 2018 that builds Holon, a proprietary AI Operating System for enterprise orchestration. Holon coordinates data, decisions, people, processes, and machines in real time across large organisations, replacing static business rules with continuous system-wide optimisation and targeting 10–30% enterprise-level productivity gains. The company's primary customers are large enterprises operating in the physical economy — ports, logistics networks, manufacturers, and increasingly military operators — with named deployments at Port of Antwerp-Bruges, CNH Industrial, GSK, Atlas Copco, Brussels Airport Company, NMBS/SNCB, and Colruyt Group. Its go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales supported by forward deployed engineers embedded with clients through a structured AI Discovery process.

The product portfolio spans the core Holon platform, a set of four open-source developer tools (RAGLite for Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Conformal Tights for uncertainty quantification, Composor for optimisation, and Substrate for Python project scaffolding), and a suite of domain-specific services covering forecasting, planning and scheduling, computer vision, tabular data, and generative AI. The company operates from offices in Brussels and Ghent, employs approximately 61 people, and as of the September 2024 rebrand was active in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Norway, and the US.

Superlinear generates revenue through enterprise subscription licensing of the Holon platform and project-based AI consulting services billed via Order Forms under multi-year contracts with custom, non-public pricing. A €6M Series A round led by BDO in January 2026 is intended to fund scaling of Holon into mission-critical industrial environments, with BDO additionally acting as a strategic distribution partner into Europe's largest enterprises. The company's publicly stated economic mission is to contribute to a 1% increase in EU GDP by structurally improving enterprise profitability across the 500 largest European organisations.

Name

Superlinear

Legal name

Superlinear.ai BVBA

Website

https://superlinear.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Superlinear builds Holon, a proprietary AI Operating System that orchestrates data, decisions, people, processes, and machines in real time for large enterprises in the physical economy — ports, logistics, manufacturing, and military — targeting 10–30% productivity gains through direct enterprise field sales and embedded forward deployed engineers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise AI Orchestration Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

ITSM Platform Implementation & Administration (ServiceNow/JSM/BMC/etc.) (BPAEAJAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

IT Procurement, Lifecycle & Asset Management Services (BPAEABAL), IT Asset Discovery, Inventory & CMDB Services (BPAEAOAE)

Keywords

• Enterprise AI orchestration
• AI operating system
• Machine learning consulting
• Industrial AI solutions
• MLOps services

Headquarters

HQ city

Brussels

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. AI Operating System (Holon) Platform: Superlinear generates revenue primarily through licensing and deployment of its proprietary Holon AI Operating System to large enterprise clients. The platform is sold as a mission-critical software infrastructure solution targeting 10-30% enterprise productivity gains, with pricing tied to enterprise value delivery.
2. AI Consulting & Professional Services: Superlinear provides end-to-end AI consulting services including AI Discovery workshops, solution design, and implementation support. Services include MLOps Maturity Scans, Applied AI Discovery engagements, and custom AI solution development. Revenue is generated through project-based consulting fees and daily/hourly rates as outlined in the Terms of Service.
3. Open Source Tools (RAGLite, Substrate, Conformal Tights): Superlinear publishes open-source tools (RAGLite, Substrate, Conformal Tights) that are freely available. These tools serve as accelerators and differenciators that attract enterprise clients while building community credibility and ecosystem lock-in.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Superlinear builds and licenses Holon, a proprietary AI Operating System for Enterprise Orchestration that coordinates data, decisions, people, processes, and machines in real time across large organizations, replacing static business rules with continuous, system-wide optimization. The company complements the Holon platform with professional AI services (AI Discovery, MLOps Maturity Scans, Forecasting, Planning & Scheduling, Computer Vision, Tabular Data, and Generative AI solutions) and a portfolio of open-source toolkits (RAGLite, Conformal Tights, Composor, Substrate). Delivery is executed via Forward Deployed Engineers embedded with enterprise clients, targeting 10-30% productivity gains in physical-economy sectors such as ports, logistics, manufacturing, and military operations.

Product overview

Superlinear offers a unified AI Operating System called Holon for Enterprise Orchestration, complemented by specialized open-source toolkits (RAGLite for RAG workflows, Conformal Tights for uncertainty quantification, Composor for optimization, and Substrate for Python project scaffolding). The platform coordinates people, processes, and machines across complex organizations, targeting 10-30% productivity gains. Superlinear also provides domain-specific AI services including Forecasting, Planning & Scheduling, Computer Vision, Tabular Data, and Generative AI solutions. The portfolio includes both core platform capabilities (automation, orchestration, optimization) and modular tools that can be deployed independently or as part of the integrated Holon ecosystem.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Holon: AI Operating System for Enterprise Orchestration designed to coordinate people, processes, and machines, targeting 10-30% productivity gains for large enterprises.
• RAGLite
• Substrate
• Conformal Tights

Products and services

• Holon AI Operating System Proprietary AI Operating System for Enterprise Orchestration that coordinates people, processes, and machines across large organizations in real time. Holon replaces static business rules with dynamic, system-wide optimization, continuously computing across all enterprise data to maximize enterprise output and target 10-30% productivity gains.
• RAGLite Lightweight, high-performance open-source Python toolkit that unifies ingestion, chunking, hybrid search, reranking, generation, and UI for Retrieval-Augmented Generation workflows. Engineered with semantic chunking, contextual headings, multi-vector embeddings, late chunking, and reranking for state-of-the-art retrieval quality.
• Substrate Modern Copier template for scaffolding Python packages and applications that minimises setup time, enables one-click development environments with Dev Containers and GitHub Codespaces, and enforces code quality through Ruff, Mypy, Pre-commit, and CI/CD via GitHub Actions.
• Conformal Tights Open-source Python package providing statistically valid and interpretable prediction intervals via conformal prediction. Supports coherent quantile estimation, plug-and-play integration with scikit-learn or Darts forecasters, and efficient data-light calibration.
• Composor Open-source optimisation framework for value chain optimisation modelling. Enables easy comparison between different solver backbones and custom, adaptable optimisation models for complex industrial environments, integrating forecasting with optimisation for real-time, uncertainty-aware planning.
• APICA Chat AI-powered chat interface enabling natural language interaction with SQL data warehouses and documents. Demonstrates orchestration of individual LLM agents and was deployed at Port of Antwerp-Bruges to deliver data queries in 20 minutes versus a full workday previously.
• MLOps Maturity Scan Two-week assessment service evaluating team dynamics, tools, and processes for AI/ML deployment. Includes face-to-face workshop, a proprietary MLOps Capability Maturity Model (CMM) framework, and 3-5 actionable recommendations delivered as a written report.
• AI Discovery Structured discovery offering comprising an AI Awareness Session (2-hour overview), an Applied AI Discovery engagement (2-3 week alignment with enterprise value drivers), and Solution Design (project approach definition), helping organisations identify where AI can deliver measurable impact.
• AI Forecasting Solutions Service offering for demand forecasting, load forecasting, financial forecasting, and customer behaviour forecasting using advanced time series analysis, machine learning, and foundation models, with uncertainty quantification delivered through Conformal Tights.
• AI Planning & Scheduling Solutions Service offering for operational planning, routing and logistics optimisation, inventory optimisation, and what-if scenario analysis using the Composor framework and state-of-the-art solvers, targeted at manufacturing, retail, logistics, and port operations.
• Computer Vision Solutions Service offering for defect detection and quality control, object detection and tracking, semantic and instance segmentation, OCR, change detection, hyperspectral and thermal image analysis, anomaly detection, and multimodal fusion across manufacturing, logistics, and agriculture applications.
• Tabular Data Solutions Service offering for predictive analytics including churn predictions, demand forecasting, inventory optimisation, equipment failure probability, customer lifetime value, fraud detection, dynamic pricing, and credit risk, using custom models tailored to the business context.
• Generative AI Solutions Service offering covering chat with databases and documents, chatbots and virtual assistants, autonomous agents, content creation, and accelerated automation, powered by the RAGLite toolkit for enterprise knowledge management and customer-facing AI applications.

Quantifiable outcome

• 10-30% enterprise-level productivity gains consistently achieved in earliest pilots at leading European enterprises
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability15 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Celonis: German-headquartered process mining and execution management platform that orchestrates enterprise workflows end-to-end. Closest direct comparable: similar 'system-wide optimisation replacing local KPIs' narrative, European enterprise focus, and physical-economy customer base.
• Palantir Technologies: Enterprise data and decision orchestration platform (Foundry/AIP) that pioneered the Forward Deployed Engineer model. Comparable in mission-critical industrial deployments, ontology-driven orchestration, and physical-economy/government verticals.
• C3.ai: Enterprise AI applications platform delivering pre-built and configurable AI solutions to large industrial customers. Comparable in mission-critical enterprise AI deployments across manufacturing, energy, and defence, with subscription-based platform licensing.
• UiPath: Enterprise automation and agentic orchestration platform combining RPA with AI-driven process orchestration. Comparable in targeting large enterprises for end-to-end process orchestration and its pivot from task automation to system-level coordination.
• o9 Solutions: Enterprise AI platform for integrated business planning, supply chain orchestration, and demand sensing. Directly comparable on supply chain and operations orchestration for large industrial enterprises, with overlapping physical-economy customer base.
• DataRobot: Enterprise AI/ML platform for building, deploying, and governing predictive and generative AI applications. Comparable as an enterprise AI orchestration platform with consulting-led deployment model and physical-economy customers.
• Kinaxis: Supply chain orchestration platform (Maestro) used by large manufacturers and industrial companies. Directly comparable on planning, scheduling, and orchestration for physical-economy enterprises with mission-critical deployments.

Broad incumbents

• ABB: Global industrial automation leader with ABB Ability industrial AI platform. Comparable in deploying AI orchestration across ports, manufacturing, and logistics, but as a broad industrial incumbent with much deeper vertical hardware and software portfolio.
• AVEVA: Industrial software platform (now part of Schneider Electric) for process industries, manufacturing, and infrastructure. Comparable on industrial AI orchestration for physical-economy customers, but with a much broader portfolio and incumbency in plant operations.
• SAP: Enterprise applications incumbent increasingly embedding AI orchestration via Joule and SAP Business Technology Platform. Comparable as a platform-licensing model for mission-critical enterprise workloads, but with vastly broader portfolio and incumbency across large European industrials.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 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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