Octave Intelligence plc announced the acquisition of Cerebre, a U.S.-based software company that transforms fragmented engineering schematics, plant data and engineering knowledge into a connected plant model.
Octave carries the engineering system of record for what its customers design and build across large-scale projects. Major global oil & gas companies use Cerebre’s models to combine the plant configuration, conditions and knowledge to represent how the facility is configured and operates as the plant dynamically changes. Combining the plant model and the engineering record will strengthen industrial AI use cases and has high-growth potential in brownfield facilities where plant data remains largely disconnected.
“Our customers run facilities where being wrong is not an option,” said Mattias Stenberg, Chief Executive Officer of Octave. “For years we have been building the record to design, build, operate and protect those facilities from one connected view. Cerebre provides insights into existing facilities, serving as a context engine for a unified plant model. Introducing Cerebre to Octave’s installed base, which covers 60% of Fortune 500 companies, supports our strategy of accelerated ARR growth and new licensing models.”
Most industrial AI starts from data and works backward to provide context. Cerebre’s model starts with the plant itself, enabling engineers to capture and govern plant-specific operational knowledge that is often siloed or lost today, reflecting how each team organizes and operates its plant. Reliability, process, inspection and operations teams review the model and make the final decisions. AI applications, whether Octave’s or a customer’s own, reason over an up-to-date representation of the plant. For Octave customers, this shortens the path from a first connected data source to many. The model remains the customer’s and operates agnostically, working alongside the tools they already use.
“We’ve spent years operating in stealth, pushing our technology to the limits with the world’s largest and most demanding operators,” said Jeff Robbins, Chief Executive Officer of Cerebre. “We built Cerebre so engineers and AI can reason over the same trusted, real-time model of the plant. By joining Octave, we are positioned to underpin industrial AI and expand across our combined customer base and beyond.”
Cerebre’s capabilities will be delivered through the Octave platform and will be available to customers of Octave’s engineering and operations solutions. Further detail will follow in the coming months as part of Octave’s platform launch.
