Our story
Intelligence built
in service of life.
The world's most important infrastructure - human networks and relationships - need new tools and mechanisms to activate them with trust and intention.
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One of us grew up moving - across countries, cultures, and languages, learning what connects human beings when everything else falls away. Living as an immigrant teaches you something no business school does: that the walls between people are rarely natural. They are structural. Built into the systems we inherited. And that beneath them, what people actually want is simple - to connect, to create, to contribute, to belong.
One of us has spent over 40 years building AI. Not for efficiency. Not for automation. For unity. For the belief - held since the beginning - that intelligence, built with care, could help human beings find each other across the distances that divide them.
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One of us has spent a career weaving ecosystems. Connecting founders with investors, ideas with resources, people with communities they didn't know they needed. Learning, through that work, that the most valuable thing in any system is never the nodes. It's the relationships between them.
Three different journeys. The same diagnosis.
The systems we've inherited - the organizations, the tools, the platforms - were built on a different logic. Collect data. Lock it down. Monetize access. Extract attention. In that model, your network is a product. Your relationships are inventory. Your trust is a surface to be exploited.
We don't accept that.
We believe resources, networks, and knowledge need visibility - and better ways to help us navigate the world together. We believe that power, for too long, has been hoarded without wisdom. That technology has been accelerating that gap rather than closing it. And that the antidote isn't another tool. It's a different set of values built into the infrastructure itself.
Sovereignty over your own data.
Intentionality over noise.
Stewardship over extraction.
Trust as the foundation, not the feature.
When human beings are in genuine connection - when they are building together, creating together, coordinating across trust - something emerges that none of them could reach alone. Mutually beneficial relationships that compound over time.
That is symbiosis.
We believe every opportunity is already one connection away.
"Our responsibility is to build the bridges."
Human networks carry more latent value than any tool has ever been built to unlock. Every high-network professional we have spoken to knows this. They work through relationships, not contacts. Accumulated trust, shared history, a sense of who is who and why it matters. Bridging worlds. Connecting people. Driving innovation. Coordinating resources, networks, and knowledge - this is how the world actually moves.
And yet the tools they rely on - CRMs, LinkedIn, email, calendars - were never built to remember that. They store rows. They track transactions. They forget context the moment the window closes. What struck us was not the volume of that frustration. It was how unanimous it was. VCs losing warm paths. BD directors walking into first calls without context. Ecosystem builders whose networks are their most valuable asset — with no system to match.
CRM was built for a contact model of professional life. Record the interaction, log the field, set the reminder. That made sense when relationship context lived entirely in people's heads and there was no better alternative. That model is over. Professionals don't need better handoffs. They need memory, context, and execution — a system that holds the full picture across every tool, every conversation, every signal, and acts with them from that foundation. Not a smarter CRM. The first system where a professional's network actually thinks, remembers, and acts with them.
That requires something most systems are unwilling to build: real trust infrastructure. The ability to share networks and knowledge with permission and consent. To integrate intelligence across the systems people actually use — email, calendar, CRM, documents — without surrendering control. To know that what enters the system remains yours, remains explainable, and can be taken back.
Principles we don't negotiate on.
Human agency comes first
O may suggest. Humans decide. Important actions require confirmation. We build intelligence that amplifies discernment, not intelligence that erodes it.
Intelligence must be explainable
If O surfaces a person, a path, or a signal, you should understand why. Inference without interpretability creates hidden power. Trust requires visibility.
You own your data. Always.
Choose what you sync. Revoke what you don't want. Delete at any time. O provides intelligence over your data. It does not claim ownership over the human reality behind it.
Memory includes the right to forget
Wisdom requires remembering well and forgetting appropriately. Permanent retention without boundaries creates risk. Memory should serve clarity, not surveillance.
Context requires permission
The existence of context does not automatically justify its use. Permissions govern access. Inference cannot exceed underlying permissions. Trust determines what is shared.
Intelligence strengthens relationships
Our goal is not to mechanize human connection. It is to help people navigate complexity without losing depth. Technology should make you more present, not less human.
Memory without trust is surveillance. Integration without permission is extraction. We are in a new phase of human history — intelligence is becoming distributed across people, systems, and networks. That changes what technology can be. We took a different position from the start: build with privacy as architecture, not policy. Trusted sharing as a feature, not an afterthought. Execution that is intentional, not ambient. O is what we built from that position. A networking agent that remembers every relationship, surfaces the signals that matter, and acts with you across your trusted network. Built to compound value over time. Built to remain yours.
A Team built on a shared belief.
We believe the greatest power AI has is to bring unity into this world — to help people coordinate, connect, and act together across trusted networks. That belief is the foundation everything else is built on.
Jonas Petter Barve
Co-Founder - CCO
30+ yrs in org transformation, sustainability & leadership coaching
MSc Leadership for Sustainability (Malmö)
Engaged with Lightsphere AI, Airbus America, Yellowstone Club, Oatly AB, Business Sweden
Advisory leadership and boardmember: ISESR - International Society for Energy and Sustainability Research, SEE Learning
lan Nathan
Founding GTM & Partnerships Partner
16 years bridging vision and execution across software development, executive consulting, and partner success. Former Facebook Partner Engineer
scaling nonprofit fundraising from $2M to $100M
annually.
Stefan Wendin
Board Advisor
Head of Intelligent Systems at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. Spent 5 years at Neo4j scaling the company through enterprise growth, ecosystem development, and global commercialization. Led Al Sweden's largest MLOps program across 20+ enterprises. Brings the enterprise relationships and ecosystem playbook to help Sumbios grow.
