Costrum's Mission: Save 1,000,000,000,000
hours of human intelligence with
industrial AI toolset
Saving time & money on repetitive, boring tasks - making more room for creative, high-value work for all the smart people in your team.
Improving speed & quality of decisions. Reducing the risk of human error.
Improving the flow and retention of knowledge \ know-how in the organisation.
EEC Startup Challenge Semi-Finalist
We're thrilled to be semi-finalists in the Modern Economy category, selected from nearly 200 startups. This earns us a spot at the European Economic Congress 2024 in Katowice, Poland, where we'll connect with top investors and global leaders.
Knowledge distribution
Self-growing, intelligent knowledge base of your organisation, integrating what was before scattered across docs, spreadsheets, knowledge bases and applications. Fast, actionable information for your team.
Knowledge retention
Keep key know-how in organization, despite staff rotation. Train juniors up to 3x faster
Easy Integration
Integrates seamlessly with your existing infrastructure and processes with our integration module
Secure Data
Your data is guarded 24/7. Configurable security, enterprise tools for managing access & permissions
Engineering
Save time on finding & processing information. Reduce margin of error
Pre-trained
Pre-trained on industry-specific context, to increase reliability of results and make configuration a breeze [optional]
Costrum Analytics
No-code, internal, on-demand analytics, doing spreadsheets for you
Decision assistant
Thinking partner for decision-makers, trained in-house. [optional]
Sales&Support
Automate knowledge access for customers & your customer-facing teams
AI's Impact on the
European Space Industry
83% of business leaders expect GenAI to have a positive or transformative impact on their businesses in the next five years (up from 74% last year). Six out of ten (61%) respondents plan to appoint a dedicated head of AI (up from 37% last year). However, only 7% reported widespread adoption of AI solutions in their business.[PwC report, 2024]
Our research at Costrum focuses on analysing what practical, real-world problems AI, especially GenAI, can solve in the European space industry. While many reports provide insights into AI adoption, they often lack a specific focus on the European space context.
Europe’s space industry comprises 1800 small and medium-sized companies employing 33,000 people, generating an annual turnover of €3.9 billion (~50% of the total space workforce). Yet, finding data-driven insights into how GenAI can specifically benefit this sector is challenging.
Our goal is to identify where GenAI can give Europe's space industry a competitive edge and where it may not be cost-effective. We aim to provide experience-based insights, practical do’s and don’ts, and explore the most promising use cases of GenAI across various domains in the space sector.
The People behind the product
Michał Mikołajczak
CTO
Serial founder and CTO. His startup developed advanced AI and neural networks for diagnosing cancer and brain pathology, which he successfully exited after selling to a major US medical company. Worked with AI his entire life, speaker at nearly every major AI conference in the country. AWS Advanced Tier Partner. Builded and deployed to market dozens of AI applications, including highly specialized analytical, legal, medical, diagnostic and customer-facing AIs. Consulted more projects than he can count. Mentor for many tech startups and student science projects. We don't clone him only because it's illegal. After hours, a fan of arcane computer games.
Grzegorz Wiktorowicz
Data Scientist / Alpha team
Expert-level Data Scientist, with vast practical experience of 30+ scientific and business AI or data-based projects. Worked with some of the biggest companies on the planet. Data has few secrets to him - Grzegorz has developed full-scale galactic simulation models or analysed satellite data for space agencies. He modelled the space environment for the Eagle Eye - the largest and most advanced Polish space satellite mission to date. PhD in astrophysics, researcher at the astronomical unit of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Karol Płoszaj
Customer & Business Operations / Bravo team
Self made man. Active investor. Natural born people’s partner, always looking for ways to make the customer and the project successful. Active in business since he was 13. By the day he turned 18, he already had a portfolio, skillset and character that would impress an MBA graduate. Won a special award at NASA's 26-hour hackathon for exceptional work ethic and performance under pressure. You can't distract him or make him angry - he's so focused on winning the long game, he makes it inevitable.
Tomasz Koczar
Software & ML engineer, AI operator, enterprise projects / Echo team
Engineer with a rare skill set - great at talking with both machines and humans. Mathematician, developer, machine learning engineer, marathon code writer, extremely fast learner. At Costrum took on an experimental role, designed especially for him, maximizing his talents. Founding member of the Echo team. Before Costrum, he spent years working on enterprise-level software projects in the largest corporations. He left the corporate world to join the space mission of Costrum. Writes code for the Rocket Section of the AGH Space Systems team, multiple champion of Mars rover challenges. Pursuing a 2nd degree in astrophysics in his free time - just because it’s fascinating. Privately, a rock climber and fan of Jacek Dukaj's prose.
Wiktor Kałapus
Full-Stack Developer / Charlie team
One of the most talented software engineers of his generation, coding since he was 13. Founding member of the Charlie team. The most optimistic and friendly engineer you'll ever meet. Wiktor is AI native, effectively commands a team of AI agents, created some himself.
Aleksander Adamus
CEO & FOUNDER
Founder of multiple startups (SaaS software, B2B & B2B hardware manufacturing/services). A few reached market & profitability. Full startup career path: intern to senior to CEO/founder. Experienced in all stages of the startup lifecycle: from "one man + laptop" to #1 software leader, later acquired by a global corporation. Currently the CEO and founder of Costrum, focusing on AI for the space industry and helping humans become an interplanetary species. Ex-scientist, ex-pro traveler. At 13, cycled 1700 km to Rome, Italy. At 17, completed a 1000 km trekking trail in Spain. By age 20, hitchhiked 20,000 km (through 20 countries across 3 continents), interviewing 3 Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
The long game: Mars
& extraterrestrial AI niche
It took only 66 years to go from the aeroplane in 1903 to the moon.
Becoming interplanetary with a city on Mars doesn't break the laws of physics. It's not impossible
- more talented and determined people - this is our part :)
- more money, especially for early-stage projects - we are working on that too
- and, above all, more courage.
Colony plans are being made. Like Mars Colonies, a collection of 22 of the best projects for a permanent Mars settlement for 1000 inhabitants submitted for the Mars Society's The Mars Colony Prize 2018. They cover everything from business models to sociological and political considerations to technical details.
There are many brave people willing to take on the challenge of space. In 2022, the European Space Agency announced a competition for an astronaut, and 22500+ people have applied.
We will do everything we can to see the Mars-1 city of 14,000 to 44,000 inhabitants by 2053. And we plan to be useful by mastering our niche of AI tools for the space industry and the extraterrestrial population.
Crazy? OpenAI started 9 years ago, Google 26 years ago. 2053 is a long way off.
Space-originated technology is already helping Earth: GPS, baby nappies, your smartphone screen.
If we solve Mars, many of Earth's problems will be catwalks.
We need Mars-1 to secure an amazing future, and to make sure we have any future at all.
And a backup planet for long-term survival in case of things like an asteroid >1 km in diameter, all-out nuclear war, or hostile super-intelligent AI.
Dinosaurs were once kings of Earth, amazing single-planet reptiles. Where are they now?
If you're thinking that our website is super poor right now and doesn't match that grandiose vision - you're right. It doesn't.
But 10 000, 30 000, 50 000+ working hours from now, it will look very different.
Big things take time.
And if we can't make a difference (preferably a positive one) on the scale of the space industry, we will have failed in our long-term mission, just build yet another AI-thing.
By the late 2020s or early 2030s, when Costrum's long-term R&D projects will have come out of stealth mode and hopefully be well advanced, it will be amazing to look back in 2024 and recall what a journey it has been.
Let's get in touch
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