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ALDBRN
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We’re ALDBRN.

We’re building tools that help people learn how industrial systems work and explain the decisions around them. Our first product is in pilot at selected sites, starting with guided learning in OT. The broader ambition is to make hard-won understanding easier to retain and share.

ALDBRN AS is a Norwegian company based in Oslo.

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Our story

Built for the reasoning the documents leave out.

Industrial systems come with diagrams, procedures and records. The reasoning behind them is harder to find. A diagram can show a connection without explaining why it exists. A procedure can list the steps without showing what changes when the situation does.

That gap is where people moving between IT and OT spend most of their effort. You may know security and be learning the industrial context. Or you may know the plant and be building your networking and security knowledge.

Industrial operators buy advanced security tools without enough people who could use them. Knowledge of how each plant really works lives with a few senior engineers and disappears when they leave. Regulations now require operators to prove that competence.

We started ALDBRN to close the talent and competency gap among the people who run and secure critical infrastructure. Our platform turns a plant’s own records into AI-guided training teams keep, on hardware they own. One practical question, worked through properly, teaches more than a wiki or catalogue of video lessons that nobody finishes.

The learning process

From a scenario to a memo you keep.

Every user goes through the loop.

Our follower guides you from the outer ring to the star at its centre: Aldebaran, the bull’s eye.

  1. Step 01

    Start with a situation

    The outer ring

    A concrete question, a situation generated from your plant’s own records, and enough context to train on it.

    0.0 to 16.3 light years of the 65.3 from Earth to Aldebaran

  2. Step 02

    Explain your thinking

    The follower

    Work with the evidence. Say what you think is happening and where you are uncertain.

    16.3 to 32.6 light years of the 65.3 from Earth to Aldebaran

  3. Step 03

    Get guidance from the AI assistant

    The inner ring

    The AI assistant asks questions and gives explanations tied to the exercise, on the local model, to examine gaps in your reasoning.

    32.6 to 49.0 light years of the 65.3 from Earth to Aldebaran

  4. Step 04

    Leave with a learning memo

    The star

    Bring together the explanation, the corrections, and the questions worth remembering.

    49.0 to 65.3 light years of the 65.3 from Earth to Aldebaran

“Work through the situation.Keep the understanding.”

The name means “the follower”

ALDBRN comes from Aldebaran, the orange star that marks the eye of Taurus. Its name is Arabic, ad-dabarān, from a root that means to follow or to go behind. The star earned it by rising after the Pleiades and trailing them across the sky all night.

When the name reached Spain it was written several ways: aldebaran, aldabaran, addevaran. ALDBRN is the same name with the vowels taken out.

We like what the name asks for. A follower pays attention to what came first: the evidence, the connection, the reason someone made a change. That is the habit our first product is built to practise.

aldebaran · aldabaran · addevaran

Learn more about Our Brand

Aldebaran following the Pleiades.

Our principles

What we’re holding ourselves to

Because OT solutions owe this to the people who use them.

  • Reasoning over recall

    The exercise asks what the evidence tells you, what it doesn’t, and what you would need to establish next.

  • Made where IT and OT meet

    For security people learning the industrial context, and plant people building networking and security knowledge.

  • Something you keep

    Each exercise ends in one learning memo: the explanation, the corrections, and the questions worth remembering.

  • Uncertainty stays visible

    An incomplete clue is recorded as incomplete, not turned into a confident answer.

Be there for the first release.

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Pilots are open only to selected sites. Signing up asks to be considered. It does not reserve a place.