Arrakis Technologies

Arrakis Technologies provides a human-governed AI automation platform, Arrakis OS, designed for industrial enterprises. The company was founded by Marc-Antoine de Lantsheere and Shanay Patalia, and the team includes talent with experience from building enterprise AI systems at firms like Palantir and DeliveryHero, investing at Accel, and designing mission-critical infrastructure for G7 governments. The firm targets complex industrial sectors including energy and commodity trading, manufacturing, construction, and defense. Arrakis focuses on augmenting business operations in areas such as sales, procurement, supply chain, logistics, and finance. The business model appears to be value-based, ensuring clients pay for the results the AI agents deliver.The core offering, Arrakis OS, functions as a human-AI teaming platform that integrates with a company's existing software stack. It deploys AI agents as an extension of the client's workforce to handle repetitive or data-intensive tasks, allowing human operators to focus on mission-critical decisions. The system provides executives with a live view of key performance indicators and operational bottlenecks. As it operates, Arrakis OS learns from human actions, which helps to codify unwritten institutional knowledge and identify opportunities for further automation. This approach is designed to deliver immediate financial value without requiring a disruptive "rip-and-replace" of legacy systems. Keywords: AI agents, industrial automation, human-governed AI, enterprise AI, Arrakis OS, industrial operations, value-based pricing, model-agnostic AI, applied AI research, workforce capacity, workflow automation, process optimization, human-AI teaming, commodity trading AI, manufacturing AI, construction technology, defense technology, supply chain AI, procurement automation, enterprise software