Iris.ai
Enterprise R&D document-intelligence platform, now sold as three products (Axion data prep, Neuralith enterprise knowledge engine, RSpace R&D intelligence) under an 'AI harness' that controls what models read and traces each answer step.
Active · Verified 2026-10-22 · fresh as of 2026-10-22 · 26 cited facts, 4 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Researcher Workspace + persistent extraction vendor fix
- Tier
- T2
- Created
- 2015 (co-founded 2015 by Anita Schjøll Abildgaard; Oslo Norway) third-party fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- not public — request a demo vendor fix
- Funding
- Series A $8.3M (Silverline Capital) May 2024; total $21.6M third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-22 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
Memory taxonomy
- storage
- vector
- retrieval
- similarity
- persistence
- cross-session
- update
- extraction
- unit
- document
- governance
- inspectable
- conflict
- append
When to use
Optimised for: research-workflow integration + provenance + claim grounding
Anti-fit: not for non-research / non-academic use cases
Pros & cons
Pros
Long-running scientific knowledge discovery; explicit problem-statement-to-papers semantic mapping.
Cons
Smaller user base than Elicit; product positioning has evolved multiple times.
Claims & capabilities
Enterprise R&D positioning. Norway-based.
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- searched not found
- Deployment
- Managed-only
- Embedding model
- searched not found
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- no MCP support advertised — vertical product, no MCP server / client integration documented
- A2A
- no A2A protocol support advertised — vertical product, no A2A integration documented
- OpenTelemetry
- no OpenTelemetry integration advertised — vendor logs/observability not publicly documented
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Sources (25 cited facts, 4 third-party)
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- What it is Researcher Workspace + persistent extraction vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Enterprise R&D document-intelligence platform, now sold as three products (Axion data pr… vendor
- Claims / benefits Enterprise R&D positioning. Norway-based. vendor
- Modalities text vendor
- Created 2015 (co-founded 2015 by Anita Schjøll Abildgaard; Oslo Norway) third-party
- Funding Series A $8.3M (Silverline Capital) May 2024; total $21.6M third-party
- Pricing not public — request a demo vendor
- Deployment Managed-only vendor
- HQ Norway (Oslo) third-party
- Founders / pedigree Anita Schjøll Abildgaard (CEO / co-founder) third-party
- Memory volume / scale no scale claim vendor
- Schema evolution schema with migration vendor
- Namespace primitives per-tenant vendor
- Contradiction handling always append (no resolution) vendor
- Validated verticals research only (academia + R&D in pharma / biotech / scientific publishing) vendor
- Time to running <10min (hosted SaaS) to <1day (enterprise integration) vendor
- Anti-fit not for non-research / non-academic use cases vendor
- Optimised for research-workflow integration + provenance + claim grounding vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure self-contained SaaS; some integrate with reference managers vendor
- Pros Long-running scientific knowledge discovery; explicit problem-statement-to-papers semant… vendor
- Cons Smaller user base than Elicit; product positioning has evolved multiple times. vendor
- Project & sources iris.ai vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product both vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
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