Data Acquisition & Context

The Functional layer before the Digital Twin.

Every Digital Twin, AI model and automation programme rests on data someone has to acquire, normalize and give meaning to. That layer is usually missing. DacTAPE is building it — non-intrusively, across whichever systems an organization already runs, with low-friction, enriched data, and usable insights — even during your day to day activities, or to support a secure Digitalization journey.

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A system of systems domain-agnostic
VALUE
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Enable Ready for advanced AI and Digital Twins — if you get there
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Augment Take work off people’s hands, at any level of maturity
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Enrich Normalize, correlate and label it into something usable
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Acquire Every system, non-intrusively — before any twin exists
Why this exists

A note from the founders.

Industrial firewalls · early IDS before the big players · active asset management R&D · software and binary supply chain analysis Chi, the DacTAPE site-safety mascot: a chihuahua in a hard hat and high-vis vest

We grew up around fishing, logging, and oil and gas towns, where a handshake was the contract and service meant showing up. Our careers coincided with the first recognizable industrial firewall, early intrusion detection (IDS) before the emergence of the “big players”, active asset management R&D, and scaling software and binary supply chain analysis.

Out in the field we learned one thing: there is enormous room to do better. The people who own and operate these systems deserve technology that meets them where they are — and helps their teams do far more with what they already have.

DacTAPE is our answer. Acquire the data cheaply, cleanly and securely, support multiple functions and roles simultaneously, drive invaluable day-to-day actions and augment the resources doing the job, and let the cyber-tools, the countless siloed investments, the Digital Twins and the AI upstream finally earn their keep.

Founders, DacTAPE

AI becomes relevant when it knows where it is.

A general model applied to an environment it cannot see produces plausible answers about nothing in particular. Context — which assets, which dependencies, which normal — is what turns capability into a decision someone will act on.

Without the layer "Anomalous traffic was detected on the network."
With DacTAPE "An unmanaged engineering laptop is polling a controller that has served one process line for six years, outside its maintenance window."
Operating in stealth

We are working with a small number of design partners.

If you are an asset owner, responsible for operations, security or digitalization programs, and the data and management foundations are the part that keeps slipping, we would like to hear how. Briefings are given under NDA; nothing about your environment leaves it.

  • A 30-minute technical briefing, no deck required.
  • A read of your environment, whatever state its data is in.
  • Honest scope — including where we are not ready yet.
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