Cognite

What is Cognite?

Cognite is an industrial AI and data platform that unifies and contextualizes operational data so AI agents can automate work in asset-heavy industries. Its core product is Cognite Data Fusion, and the company serves upstream and downstream energy, manufacturing, power generation and renewables.

Key capabilities of Cognite

• Cognite Data Fusion: unifies and contextualizes industrial data at enterprise scale
• Cognite Atlas AI: low-code workbench for building industrial AI agents
• Cognite Flows: AI-native workflow builder for production-ready industrial solutions
• Industrial Canvas: visual workspace for exploring and analyzing asset data
• Field operations and maintenance apps: tools aimed at on-site work

How Cognite works

Cognite ingests data from multiple operational and enterprise sources, builds contextualized relationships between assets, time series, documents and events, and then lets agents and workflows act on that contextualized layer. One customer testimonial on the vendor site says finding critical data dropped from hours to under a minute. Humans stay in the loop for operational decisions.

Who uses Cognite?

Operators in oil and gas, chemicals, power and manufacturing use it, with named customers including NOVA Chemicals, Koch, Celanese and Aker BP. Maintenance, reliability and operations teams are the typical users.

Cognite pricing

Cognite does not publish prices. Access is through a sales conversation, and cost depends on deployment scope.

Cognite alternatives

Common alternatives include Canvass AI for process optimization, Fero Labs for manufacturing process modeling, Braincube for production analytics, and Sisense for general analytics.