ECOSYSTEM
From Research to Industry
sgdl positions itself as a new infrastructure layer for AI operating in the physical world — from generative AI and synthetic cities to robotic teleoperation, digital twins, and low-altitude economy. Precise, frugal, and economical.
BUSINESS MODEL
Multiple Paths to Market
R&D Projects
Proving the technology works. sgdl participates in research programs funded by third parties (CERN, European agencies, industrial consortiums).
Industrial Partnerships
Demonstrating real economic value. sgdl brings technology and mathematical expertise; partners bring use cases, data, and industrial environments. Led by Michel Bernard, this track focuses on industrial junction and acceptability — proving that sgdl integrates within existing CAD, BIM, and OpenUSD workflows.
Technology Licenses
Exploiting and integrating sgdl proprietary technology (patents, algorithms, exolanguage) into products.
Platform (PaaS)
Making the Exolanguage Ariadne — a non-anthropomorphic language for spatial reasoning — a standard for complex structural problems. Becoming the mathematical infrastructure for Physical AI across 3D simulations, digital twins, and AI-driven workflows.
PARTNERSHIPS
World-Class Collaborations
Developed the ISS Canadarm robotic arm simulator, which was used successfully for 6 years by the Canadian Space Agency with an official ASC publication validating the technology.
4 active projects with the world's leading particle physics laboratory:
- Spatial intelligence for volumetric brain imaging
- Structural anomaly detection for predictive maintenance
- European consortium with Mistral for AI in scientific infrastructures
- Reference validation
Real-time alignment between 3D preoperative and 2D intraoperative imaging. Precise, non-irradiating, with no calibration drift and no metallic artifacts.
Since January 2026, sgdl is a member of the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD), officially announced alongside Qualcomm, Booz Allen Hamilton, and other industry leaders following the landmark ratification of Core Specification 1.0. sgdl contributes expertise in non-anthropomorphic exolanguages for spatial reasoning, multidimensional data indexing, and geolocation.
"We view OpenUSD as the ideal framework to enhance interoperability in 3D simulations and AI-driven workflows. Our objective is to promote and advance open standards for complex geospatial and robotic simulation, fostering innovation across industries."
— Jérémie Farret, CTO of SGDL Innovation SA
Through strategic working groups, sgdl promotes open standards for complex geospatial and robotic simulation, with direct access to leading technology companies:
FLAGSHIP PROJECT
Thinking Crystal
Inventing new materials through mathematics and AI
The Concept
Where materials discovery is traditionally slow and empirical, Thinking Crystal uses a deterministic "Function to Form" approach. Instead of trial and error, sgdl computes the exact geometry needed to meet any functional constraint.
Polyhedral Generator
sgdl can deterministically calculate the exact geometry to meet any functional constraint — generating precise polyhedral structures that satisfy target properties by construction, not by chance.
Accelerated Innovation
Innovation cycles of 18-36 months can be replaced with computational testing of thousands of structural variants in hours. This is a paradigm shift in materials science.
Connection to Nobel Chemistry 2025
Omar Yaghi's Metal-Organic Polyhedra (MOPs) demonstrate that materials can be programmable. sgdl inverts the traditional reasoning — from structure-to-properties to function-to-form — providing the mathematical engine to design materials by specification.
ROADMAP
What's Next
Technology Validation
R&D projects with CERN, benchmarking, patent maturation.
Industrial Validation
Partnership deployments, Thinking Crystal launch.
Industrialization
Technology licenses, Ariadne platform.
Scale
PaaS platform, spatial reasoning infrastructure for Physical AI.