Zive

Zive, a Hamburg-based company established in November 2023, is positioning itself as a comprehensive enterprise knowledge platform. The firm was co-founded by Jan Marius Marquardt, who serves as CEO, and Piers Wermbter, the CTO. Both founders bring significant experience from their time at Haiilo (formerly COYO), a business software company also founded by Marquardt, where Wermbter was an IT expert. This background in internal corporate communication software provides a direct lineage to Zive's current mission.

The company's core business revolves around an AI-powered platform designed to tackle information silos within organizations. Zive's technology connects to a multitude of business applications—over 100 integrations including Salesforce, SAP, and Microsoft Teams—to map and structure a company's scattered knowledge into a centralized, accessible format. This addresses the significant productivity loss employees face when searching for information, estimated at nearly two hours per day. Zive operates on a B2B SaaS model, with user-based subscription plans that start from €15 per month and are tiered based on data volume and AI usage. The company has demonstrated early market traction, generating over 100,000 euros in annual recurring revenue within three months of its product launch in April 2024.

Zive's platform is comprised of several key modules. Zive Search acts as a unified, enterprise-wide search engine. The Zive AI Assistant provides a secure interface for employees to interact with company data, promising reliable, "hallucination-free" answers by drawing from the company's own knowledge base. Zive Agents allow for the creation of no-code custom AI agents to automate repetitive tasks. A key technical feature is its multi-LLM strategy, which automatically selects the best large language model (from providers like OpenAI, Mistral, and Google) for each specific query, while ensuring data is processed in compliance with GDPR. The company emphasizes security, holding an ISO 27001 certification and guaranteeing that client data is not used for training AI models.

Keywords: knowledge management, enterprise search, AI platform, SaaS, generative AI, corporate knowledge, data integration, workflow automation, business intelligence, information retrieval, internal communications, productivity tools, no-code AI, multi-LLM, knowledge graph, semantic search, data security, Jan Marius Marquardt, Piers Wermbter, Hamburg startup