What Serana AI does

Serana AI is a Vancouver, British Columbia-based company building an agentic AI planning platform for the satellite communications industry. The company targets two distinct enterprise buyer sets: commercial satellite operators managing GEO, MEO, and LEO constellations, and mission-critical communications organizations (including government, defence, and emergency-services users) that require PACE continuity planning across multiple bearer types. The platform is sold exclusively through enterprise direct sales, initiated via 30-minute live product demos on realistic satellite networks, with no self-serve or product-led growth motion in place.

The company's core technology is a multi-constraint reasoning engine that evaluates link budgets, transponder loading, interference, and feeder capacity simultaneously rather than sequentially, producing feasibility, capacity, and continuity plans that name the binding constraint and expose the underlying link budget computation. It is delivered through two integrated products built on the same engine: OpsAgent, which addresses commercial satellite operator planning, and CommsAgent, which addresses PACE planning across GEO, MEO, LEO, and UHF bearers. The platform reads from existing operational artefacts including payload models, carrier plans, telemetry feeds, forecasts, and service agreements, and does not require operator control-plane access. A patent-pending explanation system supports full session replay for audit, and the system supports cloud, on-premises, air-gapped, and sovereign enclave deployments to meet regulated-environment requirements.

The business model is B2B SaaS subscription to the AI planning software, with revenue governed by separate written enterprise agreements rather than public pricing. Customer acquisition runs through demo-driven enterprise sales targeting a narrow addressable market of satellite operators and mission-critical communications organizations. The 5-employee founding team is composed primarily of PhDs, including alumni of Calian (satellite ground software) and Amazon Alexa (production AI), with the company incorporated in British Columbia and supported by Canadian innovation programs including NEXT AI (2026 cohort), AWS Activate, Satcoms Innovation Group, CADSI, New Ventures BC, Innovate BC, and UBC. No funding rounds, customer counts, or revenue figures are publicly disclosed.

Name

Serana AI

Legal name

Serana AI Inc.

Website

https://serana.ai

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Serana AI is a Vancouver-based company building an agentic AI planning platform for satellite operators and mission-critical communications organizations, delivering multi-constraint feasibility and PACE plans across GEO, MEO, LEO, and UHF bearers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Satellite Communications Planning Software

NAICS

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

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Satellite Network Operations & Capacity Services (NOC, Capacity Leasing, Managed Payload Services) (HDAIAJAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management) (HDAEANAA)

Keywords

• Satellite communications planning
• Agentic AI planning
• Link budget analysis
• Satellite network optimization
• Mission critical PACE planning

Headquarters

HQ city

Vancouver

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. AI Planning Software Subscription: B2B SaaS subscription model for satellite operator planning software. Enterprise contracts with separate written agreements governing application use. Demo requests initiate the sales process. No pricing publicly disclosed.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Serana AI builds an agentic AI planning platform for the satellite communications industry, sold as two products: OpsAgent for satellite operators (fleet feasibility, capacity, and continuity planning) and CommsAgent for mission-critical communications (PACE and bearer continuity across GEO, MEO, LEO, and UHF). The platform reads from payload models, transponder loading, telemetry, and service commitments, reasons across link budgets, interference, and feeder capacity simultaneously, and returns engineering-grade answers with the binding constraint identified and the link-budget computation exposed for audit.

Product overview

Serana AI is an AI-native planning platform for satellite operators consisting of two integrated products: OpsAgent and CommsAgent. OpsAgent serves satellite operators with feasibility, capacity, and continuity planning across GEO, MEO, and LEO orbits. CommsAgent serves mission-critical communications operators with PACE (Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency) planning across multiple bearer types. Both products are backed by the same core reasoning engine that evaluates link budgets, payload constraints, interference, and service commitments simultaneously, providing binding constraint identification and patent-pending explanations for every decision.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• OpsAgent: AI planning engine for satellite operators providing feasibility, capacity, and continuity plans backed by link budget analysis.
• CommsAgent

Products and services

• OpsAgent AI planning engine for satellite operators that produces feasibility, capacity, and continuity plans in minutes, each backed by link budget analysis, identification of the binding constraint, and a patent-pending explanation of why the chosen option won and why alternatives lost. Reads from existing operator systems (NMS state, carrier plans, telemetry feeds, forecasts) without requiring control-plane access, and is designed to help operators win additional capacity and protect continuity.
• CommsAgent AI planning engine for mission-critical communications that produces feasibility, PACE (Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency), and continuity plans across available GEO, MEO, LEO, and UHF bearers in minutes, with link budget backing and patent-pending explanations of decision rationale. Operates from service agreements, coverage, terminal catalogs, and current conditions without requiring operator ground-system access, and supports posture-based planning (on the move, quick halt, at halt) with continuous re-planning under degradation.

Quantifiable outcome

• Planning time reduced from hours to minutes for feasibility, capacity, and continuity plans
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Satcoms Innovation Group (SIG)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSIG (Satcoms Innovation Group / satig.space) is a satellite communications industry organization. Partnership provides industry validation and domain expertise connection for Serana's satellite operator customers.
• CADSIminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCanadian Association of Defence and Security (CADSI) membership connects Serana with defense and security sector opportunities in Canada.
• University of British Columbia (UBC)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUBC partnership connects Serana with academic research expertise and talent pipeline. Team founders have UBC affiliations through the academic and research community.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• C3.ai: Enterprise AI application platform serving aerospace, defense, and industrial customers. Comparable as a broad incumbent enterprise AI vendor targeting the same defense and industrial buyer base, with an AI-application go-to-market that overlaps Serana's enterprise SaaS motion.
• Ansys: Engineering simulation software widely used for RF, link-budget, and signal-integrity analysis in satellite and aerospace design. Comparable as a long-standing incumbent whose tools (HFSS, STK, EMIT) underpin the manual link-budget and interference analysis that Serana is attempting to automate with AI.
• Palantir Technologies: Enterprise AI platform for complex operational planning and decision support across defense, intelligence, and commercial industries. Comparable as a broad incumbent AI platform that competes for the same mission-critical and satellite/defense planning budgets, even though it is not vertically specialized in satellite link-budget planning.

Emerging players

• RBC Signals: Ground station-as-a-service provider with software-defined operations and AI-assisted scheduling. Comparable as a software-forward ground network operator tackling similar satellite operator planning problems from the ground-segment side rather than the planning-engine side.
• HawkEye 360: Space-based RF analytics and AI for situational awareness, serving defense, intelligence, and commercial customers. Comparable as a vertically-specialized AI/data vendor with sovereign and defense deployment requirements selling into a closely adjacent buyer base.
• ATLAS Space Operations: AI-driven ground station network for satellite operators, providing automated scheduling and mission management. Comparable as an AI-enabled vendor serving the same satellite operator planning and operations buyer base, focused on ground-segment automation.
• ExoAnalytic Solutions: AI-enabled space domain awareness and tracking for satellite operators and defense customers. Comparable as an AI vendor selling real-time, explainable analytics into the same mission-critical communications and satellite operator buyer base, with similar sovereign and defense go-to-market motion.
• LeoLabs: AI and data platform for low-Earth orbit, providing tracking, analytics, and decision support for satellite operators. Comparable as a vertically-specialized AI/data vendor selling planning-grade intelligence into the same satellite operator buyer base, though focused on orbital traffic rather than payload and link planning.

Direct peers

• Cognitive Space: AI-driven mission planning and scheduling for satellite operators. Closest direct peer: both companies build AI/ML planning products targeting the same satellite operator buyer with the same core problem (replacing manual, expertise-bottlenecked planning workflows with automated, explainable decision support).

Regional players

• KSAT (Kongsberg Satellite Services): Global provider of ground station services and satellite operations support. Comparable as an established operator in the satellite network operations value chain that could in-source or partner around planning AI similar to Serana's product.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/serana-ai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 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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