Oakie.ai - Growing the roots
For the past year and a half, we have been working closely with businesses to solve real-world problems—getting hands-on with messy data, fragmented systems, and broken processes. The name Oakie draws inspiration from the oak tree, representing strength and interconnected growth. Just as oak trees thrive through their complex root networks, organizations flourish when they effectively connect and integrate different forms of knowledge.
At Oakie, our mission is to help organizations cultivate their own knowledge tree—a system that connects and integrates the different types of knowledge needed to power complex agentic workflows.
Throughout our journey, we’ve reflected deeply on the nature of knowledge. Knowledge manifests in multiple forms across every organization: It's preserved in business documents and reports, captured by large language models (LLMs), and importantly, exists in the expertise of your people. Yet the most valuable knowledge lies in the daily decisions people make—the insights that drive business forward but often go undocumented. Oakie weaves these threads together, creating a robust foundation where people and AI agents work in harmony.
In this post, we want to share our own roots—the guiding principles that have shaped our decisions and the development of our product. These principles are the foundation of everything we do:
- AI That Works—for People, for Real: We build practical solutions that solve genuine problems, rigorously tested in real-world conditions.
- AI you can trust: We ensure your data remains yours, with security embedded in our architecture from the ground up.
- Growing Together: A Partner-First Philosophy: We maintain an unwavering focus on understanding and addressing our partners' challenges.
These principles, like the oak's deep roots, form the foundation of our growth as we help organizations harness the power of connected knowledge.
AI That Works—for People and your Org
With the rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs), immense resources are being poured into pushing the boundaries of their capabilities. Every day, we see new examples of what these models can do, fueling discussions about artificial general intelligence (AGI) being just around the corner. This raises two fundamental questions:
- How do we build solutions today that remain relevant as LLM technology evolves?
- How do we help people effectively adopt and transition to using these new tools?
Even the most advanced LLMs still need to interact with people. And people don’t think like machines. We often start with a broad vision and refine it through exploration, experimentation, and iteration. It's rarely about crafting perfect specifications upfront—it's about learning through doing. No matter how intelligent AI becomes, it requires continuous interaction with people to truly understand their needs and decisions.
At Oakie, we recognize that every person and business has their own unique style, perspective, and needs. People don't just learn differently—they want different things. Some prefer detailed analytics, others visual representations. Some value speed, others precision. That's why we've built Oakie to adapt to your specific way of working, ensuring that AI enhances rather than replaces your unique approach.
Oakie is built with this reality in mind. Our platform is designed to work with people, supporting the diverse types of knowledge they rely on. Here’s how we make it happen:
- Steps: Capture high-level workflows to provide structure and clarity.
- Document Processing: Ground decisions in relevant and actionable data.
- Learning Over Time: Enable iterative improvement through direct feedback, helping encode the everyday decisions people make into actionable knowledge.
While Oakie is designed to be a self-serve platform, we recognize that transitioning from traditional methods to AI-enhanced workflows can be daunting. That’s why we’ve structured Oakie with two distinct modes:
- Builder Mode: Allows users to design and customize new workflows tailored to their unique needs.
- Execution Mode: Offers a streamlined interface where users can easily run workflows. Add relevant documents and information, click "Run," review the outputs, and get the final results. Feedback is seamlessly integrated, ensuring the quality of outputs improves with every review.
To make this transition even smoother, we’ve introduced our AI Enablement Team, known as the Green Team. This dedicated group of experts helps organizations build and refine their AI workflows. Our vision is to empower every organization to create their own Green Teams, ensuring a seamless shift to an AI-enhanced way of working.
With Oakie, everyone—from technical teams to business leaders—can confidently design, run, and optimize agentic workflows. We’re here to help organizations thrive in this new era of AI-driven collaboration
AI That Works—for Real
While large language models (LLMs) represent a paradigm shift in what AI can achieve, they are still an emerging technology and far from perfect. The immense potential of LLMs has fueled a hype cycle, where expectations are often shaped by future possibilities. However, when experimenting with the technology as it stands today, people frequently encounter limitations, leading to frustration and unmet expectations.
At Oakie, we believe in being realistic about what’s possible now and delivering solutions that make a tangible impact for businesses today—not six or twelve months down the line.
To achieve this, we’ve invested significant effort in understanding how to validate and test the outputs of LLMs. This is no small feat, as there are often no definitive examples of what a "correct" answer should look like. To address this challenge, we’ve developed several robust methods:
- Side-by-Side Verification: Users can directly verify and correct results with an intuitive interface that makes comparisons simple and actionable.
- Unsupervised Fact-Checking: Our system identifies potential inaccuracies and flags them for review, helping users catch mistakes before they propagate.
- Adaptive Learning Features: Over time, our platform learns from feedback, improving its ability to generate accurate results and even self-correct issues proactively.
By combining these approaches, we ensure Oakie delivers practical, reliable results that businesses can count on today. Our commitment to bridging the gap between potential and reality means that organizations can confidently adopt AI solutions without waiting for the future to catch up.
AI you can Trust
At Oakie.ai, data protection and security are not just priorities—they are Job 0. This foundational principle underpins everything we do. In a world where businesses increasingly rely on AI to drive critical operations, trust is paramount. And trust begins with safeguarding data and implementing robust security protocols. By making security Job 0, we ensure that every decision, design, and deployment starts with one question: How do we protect our partners' data and maintain their trust?
The term “Job 0” signifies that data protection and security aren’t just tasks to be handled—they are the baseline for every decision, design, and deployment we undertake. Before a single line of code is written or an AI agent is deployed, we ensure that rigorous measures are in place to secure our partners' data and maintain their trust.
Our approach to data and security
- Privacy-First Architecture: Our systems are designed to prioritize privacy. We ensure that data is processed responsibly and transparently, adhering to strict privacy regulations and industry standards.
- End-to-End Encryption: All data interactions, whether in transit or at rest, are safeguarded using state-of-the-art encryption techniques. This ensures that sensitive information is protected at every stage.
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): We implement strict access controls to ensure that only authorized personnel and systems can access data, minimizing exposure to potential risks.
- Zero-Trust Philosophy: We adopt a zero-trust approach, continuously verifying and monitoring access to our systems, ensuring the highest level of security for our partners.
- Continuous Monitoring and Updates: Security is not static. Our systems are continuously monitored, and we proactively address potential vulnerabilities with timely updates and patches.
Data belongs to our partners
We firmly believe that data ownership always resides with our partners. Oakie.ai does not retain, reuse, or monetize our partners’ data. Instead, we enable them to unlock the value of their data within their own ecosystem, ensuring full control and transparency over its use.
Building trust through action
In an era of increasing cybersecurity threats and evolving data privacy regulations, our commitment to data and security is more critical than ever. By making it "Job 0," we ensure that our partners can trust Oakie.ai to handle their most sensitive information with the care and respect it deserves.
At Oakie.ai, protecting your data and ensuring your security isn’t just a responsibility—it’s our mission. Because trust is the foundation of every partnership we build.
Growing Together: A Partner-First Philosophy
Inspired by the vision of Alex Karp from Palantir, we see our customers not just as clients but as true partners in innovation. This philosophy is the cornerstone of everything we do at Oakie.ai—it shapes how we engage, collaborate, and build. For us, every customer relationship is a partnership founded on trust, mutual growth, and shared success.
When we collaborate with our partners to design their AI agents, we take an immersive, personalized approach. Every AI agent we deliver carries their company logo alongside the tagline: “Grown with Oakie.” This isn’t just a branding decision—it’s a testament to our deep commitment to helping them achieve their business goals. By aligning our efforts with their identity and objectives, we create solutions that are not only effective but also meaningful.
Why this is matter?
- Driving Business Outcomes: By thinking of our customers as partners, we go beyond just delivering a product. We dive deep into understanding their unique challenges, opportunities, and aspirations. This enables us to co-create solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Personalized AI Experiences: Customizing each agent with the partner’s logo and purpose reinforces a sense of ownership and alignment. It transforms the agent into an integral part of their team, fostering greater adoption and impact.
- A Growth Mindset: For us, success is about helping our partners grow. This tagline—“Grow with Oakie”—is more than a motto; it’s a promise to go the extra mile to ensure our partners achieve their goals while pushing our own boundaries in the process.
Going deep, Together
Our partner-first philosophy demands that we go deep into the businesses we serve. It’s not just about implementing technology—it’s about immersing ourselves in their world to deliver solutions that truly make a difference. This dedication to depth creates a virtuous cycle: the more we understand our partners, the better we can build for them, and the stronger our relationship becomes.
At Oakie.ai, partner obsession is at the heart of who we are. Every AI agent we design and every collaboration we undertake is driven by a shared mission: to grow, innovate, and succeed—together.
Conclusion: Cultivating Success, Together
At Oakie.ai, our journey is rooted in a commitment to growth—both for our partners and ourselves. Inspired by the strength and interconnectedness of the oak tree, we’ve built a platform designed to connect knowledge, empower organizations, and foster meaningful collaboration between people and AI.
Our principles—delivering AI that works for people, earning trust through robust security, and fostering growth through partnership—are more than values; they’re the foundation of everything we do. By immersing ourselves in our partners’ challenges, designing solutions tailored to their needs, and prioritizing trust at every step, we strive to create real, lasting impact.
Together with our partners, we are not just building workflows or deploying AI agents—we are cultivating a future where technology and people thrive side by side. At Oakie.ai, every step forward is a step taken together. Let’s grow.
Oakie AI Green Team - Roy Ben Alta, Israel Zalmanov, Igor Tavares, Chauncy McCaughty, Yossi Borenstein
