Sentient Safety

What Sentient Safety does

Sentient Safety is a privately held safety-analytics company that sells predictive modeling and AI software to large industrial and infrastructure operators. It is owned and operated by First Analytics, a boutique analytical consulting firm established in 2009 that began safety-analytics work in 2011. Sentient Safety formalizes that practice as a dedicated product brand headquartered in Chicago, IL with an additional office in Cary, NC.

The company's offering is a six-module platform built on Sentient Core, a safety-specific data repository that ingests data from dozens of source systems in varied formats without replacing the customer's existing Safety Management System. On top of Core, Sentient Predict applies statistical, ML, and AI models with proprietary variable transformations to score operational risk down to the employee-shift level, with explainable AI contextualized by industry. Sentient Assist provides NLP-driven chatbots for plain-language risk reporting and training. Sentient Strategist simulates the impact of policy and training changes on leading indicators. Sentient View delivers BI dashboards (Power BI, Tableau, or open source), and Sentient Advisory layers consulting and change-management services. Named enterprise customers span railroads (Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern), energy (SoCalGas, Southern California Edison, Harbour Energy, Neptune), manufacturing (International Paper, Ternium), animal health (Elanco), and humanitarian demining (Halo Trust).

Sentient Safety generates revenue through a mix of recurring software subscriptions and professional/consulting services. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales initiated through a no-obligation consultation, with content marketing (published book, podcast) supporting top-of-funnel demand. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, and no venture funding or revenue figures are available. The company reports customer outcomes including a 28% reduction in reportable injuries, four consecutive years of best-in-industry safety rate (2015–2018), and performance 26% better than the closest industry peer at a flagship account.

Name

Sentient Safety

Legal name

Sentient Safety

Website

https://sentientsafety.ai

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Sentient Safety provides predictive analytics and AI software that quantify workplace safety risk for large industrial operators, including railroads, energy, and manufacturing firms. It operates as a dedicated brand under parent company First Analytics.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Workplace Safety Analytics Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Reliability, Safety & Risk Engineering (RAMS/PSM) Consulting (BPAHAIAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Emergency Response, Spill Prevention & Crisis Preparedness (BPAHAJAM)

Keywords

• Workplace safety analytics
• Predictive risk modeling
• Safety data platform
• AI safety software
• Industrial safety solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Cary

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Software Solutions Subscription: Predictive safety analytics software delivered as proprietary models, dashboards, and AI-powered tools. Solutions include Sentient Predict, Assist, Core, Strategist, View, and Advisory modules.
2. Consulting Services: Advisory services including current state assessment, roadmaps, hypothesis testing, causal analysis, IT architecture consulting, change management, and communications support.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Sentient Safety sells a predictive safety analytics software platform — anchored by a safety-specific data repository (Sentient Core) and proprietary ML/AI risk models (Sentient Predict) — that integrates with existing Safety Management Systems to score operational risk down to the employee-shift level. The offering is rounded out by AI chatbots/agents (Sentient Assist), strategic planning simulators (Sentient Strategist), BI dashboards (Sentient View), and implementation/consulting services (Sentient Advisory), sold to large industrial enterprises.

Product overview

Sentient Safety offers a platform-plus-modules architecture built on Sentient Core, its safety data repository. The platform integrates predictive intelligence with existing Safety Management Systems (SMS) through six core products: Sentient Predict provides predictive risk modeling using ML/AI models down to the employee-shift level; Sentient Assist offers AI chatbots and agents for plain language risk reports and training tutors; Sentient Strategist enables strategic planning through leading indicator modeling and policy impact simulation; Sentient View delivers BI dashboards and integration pipelines; and Sentient Advisory provides consulting services. The platform transforms historical and real-time data into forward-looking insights to help organizations identify risks and protect people and operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Sentient Predict: Predictive Risk Models using statistical, machine learning, and AI models for quantifying risk with proprietary variable transformations for safety modeling.
• Sentient Assist
• Sentient Core
• Sentient Strategist
• Sentient View
• Sentient Advisory

Products and services

• Sentient Predict Predictive risk modeling software that uses statistical, machine learning, and AI models with proprietary variable transformations to quantify operational risk down to the employee-shift level, contextualized by industry with explainable AI. Sold to enterprise safety organizations.
• Sentient Assist AI chatbot and agent software that delivers plain-language risk reports tailored to employees or work orders, conversational interfaces to incident databases (including textual narrative queries), and AI training tutors for safety procedures and policies.
• Sentient Core A safety-specific data repository featuring data lake and database schemas tailored for safety analytics. Integrates with — and does not replace — existing Safety Management Systems, drawing from dozens of data sources in varied formats and aggregation levels.
• Sentient Strategist Strategic safety planning software that models and quantifies leading indicators and causal factors, and simulates the impact of policies, process changes, and training on metrics such as OSHA reportables, DART, lost-time incidents, and process safety events.
• Sentient View BI dashboard and integration software that reports on consolidated data and risk models, available via Power BI, Tableau, or open-source solutions, with pipelines for ingestion into downstream applications and incident-management workflows.
• Sentient Advisory Consulting services covering safety analytics maturity assessment, roadmaps, hypothesis testing and causal analysis, IT architecture consulting, communications toolkits, and change-management advisory for enterprise safety organizations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 28% reduction in reportable injuries
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability5 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• First AnalyticscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParent company. Sentient Safety is owned and operated by First Analytics, a boutique analytical consulting firm established in 2009 with safety analytics expertise since 2011. First Analytics founded the Sentient Safety product line.
• National Safety CouncilminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership and affiliation relationship with the National Safety Council, a major safety industry organization.
• ASSPminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), a professional organization for safety practitioners.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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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