Our mission is to create, bring to market, and put into use the leading knowledge management solution for the AI age — powered, also, by AI.
This year the knowledge management discipline turns forty, if we count from the year Karl Martin Wiig first coined the term. By now the field is like a very knowledgeable, experienced adult — but one who never had the luck of a truly comprehensive, flexible tool to actually practise it. Managing knowledge is an almost unhumanly complex process: tacit and distributed, full of subtle nuance, ambiguity, and meaning hidden between the lines.
The people who built knowledge management software over those decades did good work — they were simply limited by the IT of their time. With the arrival of machine learning and AI, of large language models and the tooling around them, it is finally possible to build knowledge management software that is genuinely powerful, comprehensive, and flexible.
At the same time, something urgent is happening for users. AI is dramatically accelerating how fast knowledge is acquired — so competitors can catch up overnight, and previously hard-won knowledge loses its edge just as quickly. The forming, acquiring and using of new knowledge (and tracking its impact on the bottom line) has to accelerate to match. A powerful, flexible tool that also protects and secures a company's IP and secrets isn't a nice-to-have — it is needed yesterday to keep the company alive tomorrow. Knowledge management has quietly become a life-or-death decision, and now is the time to act.
Into this moment, Orunmila enters — not from nowhere, but with real history behind it.
Orunmila doesn't originate entirely from Africa — no member of the current team is African. But we're inspired by the continent and its people: the growth, the many challenges to overcome on the way to a destination in life, its nature, and its place as both the birthplace and the future of humanity. That is why we chose to be symbolically connected to African culture — while looking forward to welcoming team-members and contributors from Africa, and everyone else who wants to help preserve, advance and use human knowledge.
Thank you, Africa and its people, for being the birthplace of humanity. Go, Orunmila and its stakeholders — contribute to human knowledge and prosperity on every continent on Earth by fulfilling the mission: to create, market and put into use a leading knowledge management solution, made for the AI age and powered, also, by AI. With all respect to the individuals and community who have advanced knowledge management over the last forty years — and with whom we count on collaborating over the next forty. The mission can't be completed without your support and involvement.
“Needed yesterday — to keep the company alive tomorrow.”
We're building Orunmila in the open. Read where we're headed — and reach us any time through our contact page.