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The Agentic AI Harness for Deep-Tech Engineering

Engineer faster. Prove everything. Lose nothing.

Cognis is our flagship engineering workspace—a unified platform where engineers ideate, analyze, simulate, document, and collaborate, with every decision fully traceable to your data, your standards, and your expertise.

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Cognis › Projects › CANDU Fuel Analysis

Agent harness · Active

Cognis project workspace showing CANDU Fuel Analysis with next-best-action guidance and lifecycle status

Solver agent completed thermal run TR-r08 · 2m ago

Continuity agent flagged undocumented decision for capture · 18m ago

Verify agent checked 45 clauses against ASME BPVC · 34m ago

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Nuclear Aerospace Defense Energy National Labs Industrial R&D

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One harness. The entire engineering lifecycle.

Deep-tech work is scattered across solvers, PLM vaults, standards binders, test archives — and the heads of a few senior engineers. Point tools automate fragments; the judgment connecting them stays trapped.

Cognis is the harness underneath: AI agents that operate across every stage — brainstorm, analyze, simulate, verify, hand off — on one knowledge graph of your artifacts and decisions. Not five tools. One system that carries the why from first sketch to signed-off handoff.

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The platform

Five stages. One agentic thread.

Every stage runs on the same harness and the same knowledge graph — so nothing is re-entered, re-derived, or re-learned along the way.

Step 01 — Brainstorm

Ideate with an agent that knows your archive.

Explore design directions in a grounded canvas. The agent surfaces prior art, rejected alternatives, and known constraints from your own programs — so ideas start from institutional memory, not a blank page.

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Cognis › Brainstorm › Design-space Atlas

Brainstorm design-space atlas mapping 42 simulation runs with converged, failed, and diverged regions

Step 02 — Analyze

Ask in plain language. Get cited answers.

Query specs, test reports, simulations, and standards across every connected system. Every answer carries citation chips back to the exact artifact — the revision, the page, the run — so engineers verify instead of trusting.

See how retrieval works

Cognis › Analyze › Cited answer view

Cognis Deep cited answer on fatigue derating factors for welded pressure-vessel nozzles with source-linked quantitative values

Step 03 — Simulate

Agents that run solvers, not just describe them.

Configure and launch simulation runs from the workspace. The agent sets up parameter sweeps, tracks run history, and links every result to the design revision and requirement it validates — a live record, not a folder of outputs.

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Cognis › Simulate › Structural FEA

Structural FEA simulation results showing Von Mises stress, displacement plots, and mesh quality summary

Step 04 — Verify & Report

Compliance checked clause by clause.

Designs are checked against the standards you actually work to — clause by clause, with margins and flagged items. Reports compile themselves from work already done in the harness, every figure traceable to its source.

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Cognis › Verify › AI Sessions

AI Sessions grounded in project knowledge with cited decision records and session insight graph

Step 05 — Continuity

Capture the why before it walks out the door.

The harness watches for consequential, undocumented decisions and prompts the expert with one sharp question — then binds the answer to the exact artifacts. Departing engineers leave a navigable handoff, not a two-week overlap.

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Cognis › Continuity › Project documentary

Continuity project documentary for CANDU Fuel Channel Update Program with chapter timeline and knowledge continuity report

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Under the hood

One knowledge graph under every stage.

Agents are only as trustworthy as the ground they stand on. Cognis builds a linked graph of your artifacts — CAD revisions, simulation runs, test campaigns, standards, captured decisions — and every agent in the harness reads and writes to it. That is why answers agree, and why they can be audited.

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One source of truth

Every stage of the lifecycle reads and writes the same linked knowledge graph.

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Source-linked answers

Every claim an agent makes carries a citation to the artifact behind it. No orphan output.

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Connects in place

PLM, simulation, test, and document systems stay where they are. Cognis reads them through connectors.

Connects to TeamcenterWindchillANSYSCOMSOL AbaqusMATLABSharePointGitCustom via API

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Where it runs

Built for work where being wrong is expensive.

Cognis is designed for teams whose simulation context, institutional memory, and validation history must survive across programs — and across careers.

Nuclear

Safety-case continuity

Shielding analyses, thermal-hydraulic runs, and licensing rationale stay linked and defensible across decade-long programs and staff transitions.

Aerospace

Design-loop acceleration

Trade studies grounded in prior programs, solver runs tracked to requirements, and certification evidence compiled as the work happens.

Defense

Program knowledge transfer

Cleared-environment deployment with full audit trails. When a program hands over, the reasoning transfers with the artifacts.

Energy

Asset-life engineering

Forty-year assets outlive their designers. Cognis keeps the original tradeoffs and validation history answerable in plain language.

National Labs

Research-to-engineering handoff

Experimental context, simulation campaigns, and analysis decisions carry across rotating postdocs and multi-institution projects.

Industrial R&D

Expert-knowledge retention

The retiring specialist's judgment — why this alloy, why that tolerance — is captured against real artifacts before the exit interview.

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Security & deployment

Runs where your data is allowed to live.

Deep-tech data doesn't leave the building — so Cognis goes to it.

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Air-gapped & on-premise

Deploys fully inside your perimeter, including disconnected environments. No data leaves your network; models run where the artifacts are.

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Access control at the retrieval layer

Permissions are enforced when knowledge is retrieved, not filtered after generation. An agent can only reason over what its user is cleared to see.

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Full audit trail

Every agent action, retrieval, and generated claim is logged and traceable — the same discipline your compliance reviews already demand.

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FAQ

Common questions.

01What systems does Cognis connect to?+

Cognis reads PLM/PDM systems, simulation tools, test archives, and document stores through connectors — Teamcenter, Windchill, ANSYS, COMSOL, SharePoint, and custom systems via API. Data is mapped in place; nothing is migrated.

02Does it replace our existing tools?+

No. Cognis is the harness on top: your teams keep their solvers, PLM, and document systems. Cognis connects them, runs agents across them, and keeps the reasoning layer that none of them capture.

03How do we know agent answers are right?+

Every claim carries a citation back to the source artifact — the test report, simulation run, or captured decision behind it. Answers are grounded in retrieval over your own data, and anything without a source is flagged as such. Engineers verify with one click instead of taking output on faith.

04Can it run in classified or air-gapped environments?+

Yes — that's the design center. Cognis deploys on-premise and in fully disconnected environments, with access control enforced at the retrieval layer and complete audit logging.

05How is Cognis priced?+

Pricing is based on deployment scope — connected systems, users, and environment requirements. We're currently working with early design partners; request a demo and we'll scope it together.