co-brain

What co-brain does

Co-Brain GmbH is an Oldenburg, Germany-based artificial intelligence company that builds a sovereign AI platform for tender (RFP), contract, and document analysis. The platform is organized around four specialized agents — RFP Agent, Legal Agent, Questionnaire Agent, and Knowledge Agent — that read, analyze, and answer questions grounded in an organization's own proprietary document corpus, with every response returning citations to the underlying source documents. Underlying technology uses large language models in a model-agnostic retrieval setup combined with domain-specific templates for tenders, legal documents, and compliance questionnaires, hosted exclusively in the EU.

The product is sold via enterprise direct sales with one-to-one demo onboarding, and is co-developed with German technology law firm Oppenhoff, which also serves as a reference customer. Named reference customers include Oppenhoff, Medenvoy, Equans, and Bäumer, spanning legal, healthcare-adjacent, and industrial services verticals. Co-Brain integrates with the standard enterprise software stack — including Microsoft, SAP, Salesforce, LexOffice, DATEV, sevDesk, and Microsoft Dynamics — to plug into existing procurement, legal, and finance workflows. The company positions on regulatory alignment (GDPR, EU AI Act readiness, EU-only hosting) as its primary defensibility against US-based AI vendors handling sensitive European enterprise documents.

The business is structured as a private German GmbH founded by Alain Dimbenzi (CEO) and Roman Engelmann (CTO), affiliated with the OLDB incubator in Oldenburg. The company is at an early commercial stage: there are no announced funding rounds, no disclosed revenue or ARR, and no disclosed headcount, with GTM conducted founder-led via Calendly-scheduled enterprise demos.

Name

co-brain

Legal name

Co-Brain GmbH

Website

https://co-brain.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Co-Brain is a German AI company that builds sovereign, EU-hosted agents for tender, contract, and document analysis, sold to European enterprises and law firms via direct enterprise sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise AI Knowledge Work Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHDAEAKAF

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) & Hyperautomation Platforms

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Enterprise Platforms & Databases/Enterprise Application Development Platforms (Low-Code/No-Code & PaaS)

SECONDARYHDAAAGAJ

B2B SaaS & Enterprise Personalization (CRM, Sales, Support)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning/Recommender Systems & Personalization

Keywords

• AI RFP automation
• Contract review software
• Tender response software
• Security questionnaire automation
• Enterprise knowledge management

Headquarters

HQ city

Oldenburg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription: Co-Brain operates as a SaaS platform with subscription-based pricing. The platform offers different deployment options (Standard Cloud, Dedicated Private Cloud, On-Premise) suggesting tiered enterprise pricing. The company offers personalized onboarding from day 1 through full rollout with a single point of contact, suggesting a consultative enterprise sales motion. Service maintenance contracts have a minimum term of 12 months with annual renewal.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Co-Brain sells a SaaS platform of four specialized AI agents — RFP Agent, Legal Agent, Questionnaire Agent, and Knowledge Agent — that automate enterprise knowledge work by reading from each customer's own connected document systems. The agents draft tender/RFP responses, review contracts and generate playbook-conformant redlines, complete security questionnaires (TISAX, ISO 27001, DORA), and answer internal knowledge questions, returning every answer with source citations to specific documents and pages.

Product overview

Co-Brain is a platform of specialized AI agents for enterprise knowledge work. The platform consists of four core agents: RFP Agent for automating tender and RFP responses, Legal Agent for contract review and legal request management, Questionnaire Agent for security questionnaire processing (TISAX, ISO 27001, DORA), and Knowledge Agent for internal knowledge question answering. All agents work with the same connected systems, playbooks, and company standards, providing consistent answers across the entire organization. The platform offers deployment flexibility (SaaS, Private Cloud, On-Premise) with EU hosting and GDPR compliance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• RFP Agent: AI agent for automating bid and RFP (Request for Proposal) processes, including answering questions from company knowledge with source citations.
• Legal Agent
• Questionnaire Agent
• Knowledge Agent

Products and services

• RFP Agent AI agent that automates RFP and tender responses by analyzing tenders, providing Bid/No-Bid recommendations, answering recurring questions from company knowledge with source citations, coordinating team tasks and timelines, and storing approved responses back into the knowledge base for reuse.
• Legal Agent AI agent that reviews contract clauses, marks risks against company playbooks with source citations, generates playbook-conformant redlines with track changes, and includes a Table View for structured data extraction across large contract sets for due diligence and compliance audits.
• Questionnaire Agent AI agent that automates completion of vendor assessments, TISAX, ISO 27001, and DORA questionnaires from company policies, certificates, and past responses, processing Excel, PDF, Word, and vendor portal formats with consistent answers across questionnaires and team-based review and approval workflows.
• Knowledge Agent AI agent that searches all connected enterprise systems simultaneously (DMS, ERP, SharePoint, Confluence, network drives), analyzes documents, and summarizes answers in seconds with source citations; supports cross-language search and recurring task automation such as weekly reports and project summaries.

Quantifiable outcome

• 80% of RFP questions answered automatically from company knowledge, in company style, with source citations
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration26 records

AI capability8 records

Feature15 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• OppenhoffflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerOppenhoff (a German law firm) and Co-Brain co-developed a customized AI solution specifically tailored for the law firm's requirements. The solution was built to meet the high standards of attorney-client privilege and data protection required in legal practice. This is presented as a flagship case study demonstrating Co-Brain's ability to deliver sovereign AI for highly sensitive professional environments.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• iManage: iManage is an established document and knowledge management platform for legal and professional services, overlapping with Co-Brain's Knowledge Agent and document integration layer but at much broader scope.

Direct peers

• Cognitiv+: Cognitiv+ offers AI-driven tender and RFP response automation for bid teams, comparable to Co-Brain's RFP Agent capabilities around automated answering and task coordination.
• Glean: Glean is an enterprise AI search and knowledge platform that connects to workplace systems and delivers cited answers — directly comparable to Co-Brain's Knowledge Agent positioning.
• Harvey: Harvey is an enterprise AI platform built for legal and professional services firms, offering domain-specialized agents for contract review, due diligence, and knowledge work. It is the most direct legal-AI competitor to Co-Brain's Legal Agent.
• Luminance: Luminance provides AI-powered contract review and legal document analysis for enterprise and law firm customers, with a comparable legal AI agent focus to Co-Brain's Legal Agent.
• Evisort: Evisort is an AI contract lifecycle management platform that automates contract review, extraction, and compliance — directly comparable to Co-Brain's Legal Agent table-view and redline workflows.
• Kira Systems: Kira (now part of Litera) provides AI-driven contract review and clause extraction for law firms and corporate legal teams, comparable to Co-Brain's clause analysis and risk flagging capabilities.
• Ironclad: Ironclad is a contract lifecycle management platform with AI-powered review and workflow tools used by enterprise legal teams — a direct competitor in the Legal Agent category.
• Responsive (formerly RFPIO): Responsive is a leading RFP and proposal automation platform used by enterprise sales and bid teams, directly comparable to Co-Brain's RFP Agent.
• Loopio: Loopio provides RFP automation and a content library for answering security questionnaires and DDQs — directly comparable to Co-Brain's RFP and Questionnaire Agents.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/co-brain

Compliance2 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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