What PEPITe does

PEPITe, now operating as Indao, is a Belgian-headquartered industrial advanced-analytics software company founded in 2002 (rebranded 2024). It builds the Indao Platform, which structures complex industrial data, identifies the operational levers that drive performance, detects drifts and deviations before they cause impact, and supports real-time decision-making for industrial operators. The platform is positioned as mission-critical and is currently deployed on industrial sites across Europe with 'major industrial actors' across seven verticals: food & beverage, chemicals, water & waste, energy, machine tools, metals & minerals, and pulp & paper.

Underlying capability is built on three stated AI/analytics functions: anomaly detection on industrial process data, predictive analytics using historical operational data to surface determining factors, and optimization across energy consumption, equipment reliability, and process performance. The platform operates on structured industrial data as its primary modality, with modules aligned to operational excellence themes (data-driven management, process performance, asset/installation reliability, and energy/resource efficiency).

Commercially, Indao runs a direct enterprise sales motion with a 'Request a Demo' and consultative engagement model, supported by a self-service demo environment at demo.indao.ai. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, consistent with a SaaS/subscription platform aimed at large industrial accounts. The company is privately held with no disclosed funding rounds and a headcount in the 11-50 range; leadership comprises CEO Baptiste Fosséprez and Founder/CBDO Philippe Mack.

Name

PEPITe

Legal name

Indao

Website

https://pepite.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Indao (formerly PEPITe) is a Belgian industrial analytics software company founded in 2002 that builds the Indao Platform, an AI-driven analytics product for anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and operational optimization, sold via enterprise sales to major industrial operators across seven verticals in Europe.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Analytics Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (51321), Software Publishers (513210), Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial Automation Software (SCADA, HMI, MES, Historian) (IMAHAHAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Instrumentation, Controls & Automation Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAM), iBPMS (Intelligent BPM Suites) & Process Automation Suites (HDAEAHAG)

Keywords

• Industrial analytics software
• Process performance management
• Predictive maintenance platform
• Manufacturing data analytics
• Operational decision support

Headquarters

HQ city

Liège

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Platform Subscription/SaaS: Indao operates as a platform-based model providing advanced analytics capabilities to industrial clients. The platform approach suggests a recurring subscription or SaaS model where clients access the platform's analytics capabilities for operational decision-making.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

PEPITe (now Indao) sells a software platform for advanced analytics applied to industrial operations. The platform structures complex industrial data, identifies the operational levers that drive performance, detects drifts and deviations before they impact operations, and supports real-time decision-making. It is sold to industrial operators to improve process performance, equipment reliability, energy efficiency, and to reduce losses across sectors such as food & beverages, chemicals, energy, metals, water & waste, machine tools, and pulp & paper.

Product overview

Indao (formerly PEPITe) offers a unified industrial analytics platform that helps manufacturers transition from raw data to actionable decisions. The core Indao Platform is designed for mission-critical industrial environments, providing modules for operational performance improvement, equipment reliability, energy efficiency, and process optimization. The platform serves multiple industry sectors including food & beverages, chemistry, water & waste, energy, machine tools, metals & minerals, and paper & pulp.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Indao Platform

Quantifiable outcome

• Improved process performance
• +3 more outcomes

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• C3.ai: C3.ai offers enterprise AI applications across multiple industries including manufacturing and process sectors, representing a much larger but broader incumbent overlapping with Indao's industrial AI analytics positioning.
• AVEVA (PI System): AVEVA's PI System is the dominant industrial data infrastructure platform for process industries; its expanding analytics and AI capabilities overlap with Indao's industrial decision-support offering from a much larger incumbent position.
• SparkCognition: SparkCognition delivers AI solutions for industrial asset management, predictive maintenance, and operational optimization, providing a broader but thematically overlapping industrial AI platform to Indao's offering.

Emerging players

• Falkonry: Falkonry provides AI-based anomaly detection and predictive analytics for industrial operations, overlapping with Indao's drift detection and deviation-prevention capabilities in process manufacturing.
• Canvass AI: Canvass AI is an industrial AI platform focused on process optimization and predictive analytics for manufacturers — a comparable but earlier-stage player in the same AI-for-industry category as Indao.

Direct peers

• Sight Machine: Sight Machine provides manufacturing analytics and AI for real-time production visibility and process improvement, directly competing in the industrial analytics platform category serving similar customer personas.
• Braincube: Braincube offers an industrial AI and analytics platform for manufacturing data structuring, anomaly detection, and process optimization — closely mirroring Indao's positioning across discrete and process manufacturers globally.
• TrendMiner (Software AG): TrendMiner offers self-service industrial analytics for time-series process data, anomaly investigation, and operational insights — a comparable analytics platform serving process manufacturers in chemicals, energy, and metals.
• Uptake Technologies: Uptake provides industrial AI and asset performance analytics for manufacturing and heavy industry, competing in the same industrial decision-support and reliability optimization category as Indao.
• Seeq Corporation: Seeq delivers a process manufacturing analytics platform for time-series data, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics — a direct functional analog for Indao's decision-support capabilities in process industries.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/pepitesa

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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