AI agents that interview every employee to map how work gets done.
We’re Max, Leon and David co-founders of Ontora.
TL;DR
Ontora is an AI agent that interviews every employee in your company to map how work actually gets done. Most operational knowledge never gets documented, it lives in people's heads. That’s crucial context inaccessible to decision-makers and AI agents.
Ask: Imagine you could talk to every employee in your company within 24 hours - What would you ask? Send us your questions. We'll get you the answers: https://cal.com/ontora/30min
Our Launch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPk4_Nx31nU\
Problem
Poor knowledge sharing costs Fortune 500 companies $31.5 billion every year.
- The knowledge lives in people's heads: 80% of operational knowledge is tacit and never documented
- 42% of what an employee produced cannot be covered by other colleagues
- Employees lose 5.3 hours per week searching for information and filling gaps
- A 1,000-employee company loses $2.4M per year in productivity due to these gaps
- AI can't read minds (yet): 95% of enterprise GenAI pilots deliver zero measurable business impact. Agents fail because they have no context for how operations actually run.
Solution
You pick a question your last business review meeting couldn't answer. Ontora interviews every employee and gets you the insights within 24 hours.
It’s not a survey! A real conversation that digs deeper and surfaces what nobody thought to ask about.
Build your company's operational memory to finally operate with complete clarity:
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Synthesized findings: Themed insights with impact ratings, an executive summary, and actionable recommendations
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Process mapping: Visual process maps of how work actually flows across teams
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Automation roadmap: Concrete opportunities with ROI estimates, ready to act on
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Proprietary context for your AI tools: Ontora turns what your people know into a proprietary data source your AI stack can finally work with.
How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)
Max led process optimization at Porsche. David built data pipelines in finance. Leon built AI automations at consultancies. They all noticed critical knowledge is trapped inside people's heads and never reaches the people who need it.
The team then felt inspired to work on the problem after a tour to Stockholms fastest scaling startups organized by Max, where all three decided to quit their jobs and start a company.
What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?
Every company already has the answers to most of the questions leadership is asking.
The problem: those answers are scattered across hundreds of people, and there's never been a practical way to ask every single employee.
So leaders make crucial decisions with partial information or spend months and millions on external consultants to retrieve what the org already knows.
What we're building
Ontora is an AI agent that has a real conversation with every employee in your company within hours.
It learns, follows up, and surfaces what people actually do and where they get stuck.
We deliver two things: a synthesized answer to the specific question leadership couldn't crack in their last business review (themed insights, process maps, automation roadmap with ROI), and a continuously refreshed operational context that humans and AI agents can both reason over.
What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?
Answers in hours instead of months. We imagine truly intelligence native companies that unlock the last proprietary data source left in the enterprise: operational knowledge living in your employees heads.
Enabling cost reduction, post-merger integration, and AI transformation… within hours and at a fraction of the cost of traditional consulting.
