Investors

The Cursor for data science.

Connect your data, describe your goal, get a deployed model. An autonomous AI data scientist that profiles data, writes its own training code, validates results, and ships production endpoints — end-to-end, in hours not months.

Stockholm → San Francisco Delaware C-Corp Founder-led Pre-seed
Live product
Shipping today at octoopus.dev — try it on your own CSV in two clicks.
Paying customers
Self-serve revenue from individuals and small teams. Inbound only.
Enterprise pilots
Active discovery and paid pilots across manufacturing, logistics, deeptech, and life sciences.
Active users
Analysts, researchers, consultants, and enterprise operators using OctOpus weekly.
Revenue, customer counts, growth rate, and pilot details are shared privately under NDA. Request the live deck.
The problem

Organisations need dependable models fast — the current workflow doesn't deliver.

Decisions that depend on data — churn, forecasting, demand, defects, revenue — shouldn't take months. Today they do, because shipping a real model still requires notebooks, MLOps, infrastructure, and a scarce expert team that can frame the problem, iterate, and debug.

01 · Obsolete AutoML

Benchmarks, not decisions

Legacy AutoML (DataRobot, H2O) spits out model leaderboards. It still needs an expert to frame the task, engineer features, debug failures, and operationalise the winner. That's where months go.

02 · Too much rigging

Notebooks, code, MLOps, glue

Even a simple model needs Jupyter, packages, CI, a registry, monitoring, a deployment surface, and a human stitching them together. Most teams can't carry that stack just to answer one business question.

03 · Two audiences, one tool

Scientists and operators are stuck

Data scientists want to ship more models, faster. Business users want to ask a question in plain English and get a defensible answer. Nothing in the market serves both without compromise.

The product

An AI agent that does the loop — think, plan, try, test, fix.

OctOpus runs the same loop a senior data scientist runs, but in hours. It writes its own per-experiment training code, debugs failed runs, compares approaches, and delivers a production endpoint plus the report a stakeholder can act on.

01

Upload & ask

Drop a spreadsheet, database, or file. State the business question — churn, revenue, demand, defects — in plain English.

02

Plan

OctOpus profiles the data, frames the task, picks features, chooses a model family, and prepares a deployment path.

03

Try · debug · improve

Runs experiments, repairs failures, compares approaches across model families until results are production-ready.

04

Deliver

Ships a deployed model, a defensible report, and actionable outputs for whoever needs to make the call.

Traction

Live revenue. Inbound enterprise pipeline.

All revenue inbound. No outbound sales. Paid pilots converting to longer-term contracts. Numbers and named accounts shared privately under NDA in the live deck.

What's true today

  • Self-serve revenue growing month over month — paying users from individuals to small teams.
  • Paid enterprise pilots in motion — multiple already converting to longer-term engagements.
  • Pure inbound — zero outbound sales, no marketing spend.
  • Founder-led — every deal closed solo while shipping the product.
Detailed metrics shared under NDA. Get the live deck →

Enterprise pipeline by sector

Active discovery and paid pilots across the sectors below. Named accounts shared privately on a call.

Manufacturing
Logistics
Life sciences
Telecom / deeptech
Industrial QA
Enterprise SaaS

All Fortune-500-class buyers. All inbound — they reached out to us.

Real customer · industrial quality control

OctOpus automated the bulk of a manufacturing partner's QA reporting pipeline — eliminating manual analyst work while maintaining accuracy. Hours of model work, not months. A single operator now ships what a team used to scope. Full case study and metrics available under NDA.

The moat

Specialised reasoning over generic code completion.

Coding agents write functions. OctOpus owns an entire data-science loop — framing, iteration, repair, validation, deployment — backed by domain priors. That's the difference between "wrote some Python" and "shipped a decision."

Approach
Strength
Why it falls short
Legacy AutoML
DataRobot, H2O — large model leaderboards.
Benchmarks models without business context. Doesn't reason, doesn't repair, doesn't deploy.
Coding agents
Claude, Codex, Cursor — write code anywhere.
Generalists. No forecasting priors, no validation rigor, no MLOps surface.
Hire a data scientist
Deep judgement, ownership.
Expensive, slow, doesn't scale. Becomes the bottleneck the second the org grows.
OctOpus
Specialised reasoning + auto-repair + rapid deployment.
Reasoning for real decisions — hours not months. Both scientists and operators served.
Why now: AI can finally understand a failed experiment, reason about why, and try something better. That capability didn't exist 18 months ago. The category leader will be picked in the next 24 months — and OctOpus already has live revenue and inbound from six F500-class buyers.
Business model

Self-serve to enterprise, on a path to pay-per-result.

Clean SaaS ladder today. Long-term, as reliability compounds, pricing shifts from seats to outcomes — payment for a delivered forecast or a deployed model.

Individuals
Self-serve
Analyst-grade workflows on any spreadsheet. Working model delivered, reports downloadable.
Teams
Subscription
Multi-user, system integration, custom reporting, support. Lands a department.
Enterprise
Custom
On-prem / private deployment, dedicated support, white-glove setup, outcome-based pricing.
See live product pricing for the current self-serve tiers. Unit economics shared with investors under NDA.
The founder

Built for this specific category. Track record to back it.

A decade in applied AI, optimisation, and automation — operating where research-grade ML meets production decisions at global scale. OctOpus isn't a side project; it's the productisation of work that's already saved a Fortune-500 carrier real money every day.

Doudou BA

Founder & CEO · Operations Research Scientist · ML Researcher · Gothenburg, Sweden

10+ years across applied AI, optimisation, and automation. PhD-level ML rigor paired with production deployments at one of the world's largest logistics carriers. Currently founding two companies in parallel — OctOpus and OneNine — while leading operations-research work at Maersk.

  • $50K+/day in operational savings at Maersk — built the Data Scrubbing Tool that automates dispatcher workflows across the network. Still running, still saving.
  • Production routing engines for ocean, inland, and air logistics — APIs and re-routing applications powering global Maersk operations. End-to-end ownership: model, service, deployment.
  • Cost-optimal network design with Gurobi (mixed-integer programming) — facility-location and network-resilience optimisation for a Fortune-500 carrier. Hybrid ML + OR is the rare combination that makes OctOpus possible.
  • 7B-parameter model deployments — GPU-accelerated inference, containerised ML pipelines, end-to-end MLOps. The kind of plumbing OctOpus's deep / foundation-model tier rests on.
  • Drove digital transformation at scale — data pipelines (Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Spark), BI (Power BI), automation (RPA + ETL + AI/ML) across a global division. Owned product roadmap and execution.
Raising · pre-seed · Delaware C-Corp

Built to take the lead in the next 24 months.

Already live, already monetising, already pulling Fortune-500-class inbound. The pre-seed removes the day-job dependency, brings in the first 1–2 hires, and turns the enterprise pipeline into category leadership before the window closes. Round size and terms shared privately.

01 · Founder
Quit day job. Full-time founder on the product, the pipeline, and the next 30 customers.
02 · Team
First exceptional engineering hire + enterprise sales hire to convert pilots faster.
03 · Scale
Aggressive expansion in US & Europe. Establish the category leader position before the window closes.