What PIES Studio does

PIES Studio is an Australian enterprise software company headquartered in Sydney that operates an AI-native application development platform built around its proprietary B.I.O. Framework (Business Intent, Innovation Acceleration, Outcomes at Scale). The platform combines no-code visual development with AI-powered code generation, enabling organizations to build, deploy, and manage applications that output production-grade source code in multiple stacks (React, Angular, Go, Python, Java) with Docker containerization and full code ownership. The company's AI stack centers on a proprietary family of private LLM models — PIES Lite (3B), PIES Dev (8B), PIES Pro (70B), PIES Expert (17B/109B MoE), and PIES Ultra (17B/400B MoE) — built on Meta's LLaMA architecture with LoRA fine-tuning capability, complemented by an intelligent model router that optionally invokes Anthropic Claude and OpenAI/Azure OpenAI for frontier reasoning and high-volume generation tasks. Five specialized AI agents (User Agent, BA Agent, Arc Agent, Copilot Agent, Ops Agent) collaborate across the software lifecycle from requirements gathering through autonomous operations, and every deployed application auto-generates an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that exposes data models as queryable resources and workflows as callable tools for AI agents.

The company monetizes through enterprise subscription licensing, on-premise Private LLM hardware deployment (NVIDIA A10G+ GPU infrastructure), a three-tier Partner Program (OEM with white-label rights, regional Distributors, and tiered Reseller/VAR), and professional services. PIES targets large enterprises — particularly CIOs, CTOs, and technology leaders — addressing pain points around IT backlogs, developer scarcity, vendor lock-in, and AI governance. Its three publicly disclosed customer case studies are concentrated in the telecommunications sector (Network Provisioning with 80% development effort reduction and margin improvement from 35% to 80%; Osprey Emergency Mobile Locator; HLR Finder). Distribution combines direct enterprise consultative sales with a formal channel program, and deployment flexibility spans cloud, on-premise, and fully air-gapped environments. Compliance templates cover GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and FedRAMP-equivalent deployments. PIES was founded in 2016 by Wayne Spencer and Simon Elaro and remains privately held with no disclosed institutional funding rounds.

Name

PIES Studio

Legal name

PIES STUDIO

Website

https://pies.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

PIES Studio is an Australian AI-native application development platform that enables enterprises to build, deploy, and manage custom applications with full code ownership, serving CIOs, CTOs, and technology leaders through subscriptions, on-premise LLM hardware sales, and a three-tier partner program.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise Application Development Platform

NAICS

Software Publishers (51321), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Data App Builders (Forms, Portals & Internal Tools) (HDAEAKAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ), Model Serving, Inference & Deployment Platforms (APIs, Edge/On-Prem) (HDAEANAC)

Keywords

• Enterprise application development
• AI code generation
• No-code platform
• Private LLM deployment
• Low-code development

Headquarters

HQ city

Sydney

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Platform Subscription: Enterprise licensing with subscription-based access to PIES Studio platform. Includes platform features, AI capabilities, and deployment options.
2. Private LLM Deployment: On-premise GPU server deployment options with no per-token billing. Infrastructure-based pricing for enterprise customers requiring air-gapped or private cloud deployment.
3. Partner Program Revenue: OEM, Distributor, and Reseller/VAR partner tiers generating revenue through licensing, sub-distribution, and resale of platform capabilities.
4. Professional Services: Implementation, training, and ongoing support services including deal registration and co-sell engineering support for partners.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

PIES Studio is an AI-native enterprise application development platform that combines no-code visual building with AI-powered code generation across multiple stacks (React, Angular, Go, Python, Java). It enables organizations to compress development cycles from months to days using the B.I.O. Framework, with full code ownership, no vendor lock-in, and deployment flexibility across cloud, on-premise, and air-gapped environments. The platform includes a multi-agent architecture (BA, Arc, Copilot, Ops, User Agents), private LLM deployment options, and a Zetaris-powered data integration layer spanning enterprise databases.

Product overview

PIES Studio is an Innovation Capacity Platform (built on the B.I.O. Framework: Business Intent, Innovation Acceleration, Outcomes at Scale) that combines no-code speed with low-code power and pro-code export capability. The core platform (PIES Studio) integrates with PIES AI (the AI-powered intelligence engine), PIES No-Code (visual development environment), and PIES AI Create (prompt-to-product feature) to enable enterprise application development from months to days. The platform features five specialized AI agents (BA Agent, Arc Agent, Copilot Agent, Ops Agent, User Agent) that handle autonomous software lifecycle from requirements through operations. PIES Private LLM offers five model tiers (PIES Lite 3B through PIES Ultra 400B) for enterprises building proprietary AI with LoRA fine-tuning. Data integration is powered by Zetaris semantic layer. Every deployed app auto-generates an MCP server for agentic interoperability. Full code export in React, Angular, Go, Python, or Java with zero vendor lock-in.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• PIES AI: AI-powered platform for application development and code generation
• PIES No-Code
• PIES Private LLM

Products and services

• PIES Studio Platform Core enterprise application development platform built on the B.I.O. Framework that compresses software development from months to days using AI-native visual development, automated code generation, multi-agent architecture, and full code ownership with zero vendor lock-in. Supports cloud, on-premise, and air-gapped deployment with multi-stack output (React, Angular, Go, Python, Java) and Docker containerization.
• PIES AI AI-powered intelligence engine integrated across the entire development lifecycle that powers natural language prompt-to-product workflows, context-aware application generation, automated error detection, and continuous learning from team usage. Includes intelligent model routing across Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, and private on-premises Llama-based LLMs.
• PIES No-Code Visual development environment enabling business analysts, product owners, and domain experts to build applications without coding. Features a drag-and-drop canvas with 20+ professional widget types, real-time WYSIWYG editing, multi-screen support, responsive design, and automated business logic wiring.
• PIES Private LLM Private, on-premise LLM family offering five model tiers (PIES Lite 3B, PIES Dev 8B, PIES Pro 70B, PIES Expert 17B/109B MoE, PIES Ultra 17B/400B) with LoRA fine-tuning capability. Enables enterprises to build proprietary AI assets trained on their own data with full code ownership and no per-token billing.

Quantifiable outcome

• 80% increase in productivity
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability9 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• ZetariscoreTechnology or IntegrationZetaris provides the semantic data layer powering PIES Studio's data integration capabilities. Enables unified access across enterprise databases (SQL Server, Snowflake, Teradata, legacy JDBC) through AI-consumable interface without infrastructure replacement. Zetaris handles automatic metadata surveillance, role/policy/attribute-based governance, and data masking/encryption (AES256).
• Anthropic (Claude)coreTechnology or IntegrationClaude integration provides frontier AI reasoning capabilities (up to 1M context window) as one of three AI engine options. Used for hardest tasks where advanced reasoning is required. Subject to AI governance policy engine routing.
• OpenAI / Azure OpenAI (GPT)coreTechnology or IntegrationGPT-4o and Azure OpenAI integration for cost and speed-optimized high-volume generation workloads. One of three AI engine options in the PIES intelligent router.
• NVIDIAcoreTechnology or IntegrationOn-premise GPU server deployment options reference NVIDIA A10G+ and higher GPU configurations for running PIES Private LLMs. Infrastructure foundation for private AI deployment.
• Meta (LLaMA)coreTechnology or IntegrationLLaMA-based foundation models power PIES Private LLM family. PIES Lite through Ultra variants are built on LLaMA architecture with LoRA fine-tuning capability.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Bubble: Visual no-code platform for building web applications. Comparable to PIES No-Code for citizen development and prototyping; significantly weaker on enterprise governance, private deployment, and AI-native code generation.
• Retool: Low-code internal tools builder popular with developers and ops teams. Comparable to PIES No-Code for internal apps, portals, and dashboards; narrower scope (no native private LLM or full-stack enterprise governance) but strong developer mindshare.

Direct peers

• Appian: Low-code platform with process automation, AI skills, and data fabric — closely aligned with PIES's agentic and automation positioning. Targets regulated enterprise customers with strong governance and audit features, overlapping with PIES's AI Governance Policy Engine.
• Mendix (Siemens): Enterprise low-code platform owned by Siemens with strong visual development, AI-assisted coding, and multi-stack output. Competes head-to-head with PIES in enterprise application development, particularly in regulated industries where Siemens' footprint provides channel advantages.
• OutSystems: Enterprise low-code/application development platform with AI-assisted development. Directly comparable to PIES Studio's core use case of building enterprise applications with AI-augmented visual development, though PIES differentiates via private LLM and multi-agent architecture.

Broad incumbents

• ServiceNow App Engine / Now Assist: Enterprise low-code platform with AI agents and workflow automation. Comparable through agentic AI positioning (Now Assist) and enterprise workflow focus; targets the same regulated CIO/CTO buyer persona as PIES.
• C3.ai: Enterprise AI application platform with model-driven architecture for regulated industries. Comparable through enterprise AI platform positioning and regulated-vertical (energy, defense, financial services) focus; offers a different abstraction layer than PIES's prompt-to-product approach.
• Salesforce Platform / Einstein: Enterprise platform with low-code App Builder, AI agents (Agentforce), and Einstein AI. Comparable through its combination of low-code tooling, embedded AI agents, and enterprise data integration — though Salesforce's primary CRM anchor differs from PIES's horizontal approach.
• Microsoft Power Platform: Incumbent enterprise low-code suite (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Copilot Studio) bundled into Microsoft 365 and Azure. The dominant enterprise low-code competitor; AI features via Copilot pose the most significant competitive threat to PIES's positioning.

Others

• Amazon Bedrock: Cloud AI infrastructure service offering access to multiple foundation models. Not a direct application development competitor, but a substitute route for enterprises building private/sovereign AI capabilities — competitive with PIES Private LLM on the model deployment layer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/PIESCOMMUNITY
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@PIESStudio
• Facebookfacebook.com/piesstudio.io
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pi-es
• Instagraminstagram.com/pies.studio.io?igsh=MTVscnU2amozNnUxNA%3D%3D

Compliance4 records

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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