AIR-GAPPED · OWNED · AI-NATIVE

One nervous system for the whole plant.

Tentacle reaches into any PLC over your network, pulls every tag into one unified layer, and lets AI agents analyze it — then shows you the plant any way you ask, on dashboards that build themselves — all on air-gapped hardware you own.

The problem

Plant data is trapped, vendor-locked, and unused.

Every line speaks a different protocol. Every integration is point-to-point and bespoke. The data that could run the plant smarter sits siloed inside controllers no one can easily reach — and most of it is never seen.

The old way

Vendor-locked tools, one integration at a time. Data stuck in PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA silos. To answer a new question you call an integrator, scope a project, and wait weeks. Most tags are never collected — and what is collected rarely gets looked at.

The Tentacle way

One vendor-agnostic data layer across every controller. Agents auto-discover devices and pull every tag into a unified namespace. Ask a question in plain language and see the answer instantly — no project, no waiting. Ingest wide; the system keeps what earns its place.

The architecture

Built like an octopus. Runs like infrastructure.

Five layers, one principle: one driver interface, many implementations. Add a line, deploy a tentacle — the brain never changes.

TentaclesData acquisition
Modbus TCP/RTU Siemens S7 EtherNet/IP · CIP OPC-UA BACnet + pluggable
SpineUnified Namespace
MQTT + Sparkplug B self-describing tags live state
MemoryHistorian
time-series store every tag retained queryable history
BrainAI & agents
local LLM + RAG auto-discover analyze prune unused
EyesDashboards
natural-language saved views built on the fly
Security & ownership

Your hardware. Your plant. Your security.

Tentacle runs on air-gapped hardware you own outright — not rented, not in someone else's cloud. Your operational data never has to leave the building, and the infrastructure protecting it is your asset, not a subscription someone can switch off.

You own the iron

The hardware sits in your plant and belongs to your company — a capital asset, not a lease on your own security. No vendor with a kill switch. You hold the keys, literally.

Air-gapped by design

Dual-NIC isolation seals the OT/control network off from the internet, with an on-prem firewall enforcing the IT/OT boundary. Plant data stays on the plant floor — nothing leaks out, nothing reaches in.

Data sovereignty

Your tags, your history, your operational secrets live in your historian on your machine. No third party ever holds the data that runs your plant.

Built for what's coming

OT and ICS security is becoming the defining plant issue of the next three years. Tentacle is secure-by-architecture from day one — ownership and isolation built in, not bolted on after a breach.

What it does

Agents that work the plant like you would.

Auto-discovery

Scan the network, fingerprint every controller, identify the protocol, and establish communications automatically — no hand-wiring each device.

Pull every tag

Ingest all of it. It's just information — and you can't analyze what you never kept. The historian stores everything by default.

Analyze & correlate

Agents watch the live stream, surface anomalies and correlations, and explain what each tag actually represents.

Prune the dead weight

Track which tags actually get used and kick back the rest. Ingest wide, then streamline — the system gets leaner and smarter over time.

Ask in plain language

"Show line 3 throughput vs. tank temp for the last 8 hours." The brain queries the history and builds the view — instantly.

Dashboards that build themselves

Save the views that matter; generate new ones on demand. The plant becomes something you talk to, not something you query.

The eyes

Talk to the plant. It draws you the answer.

A glimpse of the Tentacle dashboard — generated from a plain-language question, pulled live from the unified namespace.

Who it's for

One platform. Two rooms.

FOR PLANTS & OPERATORS
FOR INVESTORS & PARTNERS
  • See everything, finally. Every controller, every tag, in one place — no more data trapped in silos you can't reach.
  • Answers without projects. Ask a question and get a dashboard in seconds, instead of scoping a multi-week integration.
  • Catch problems early. Agents flag anomalies and correlations across lines before they become downtime.
  • Vendor-agnostic. Works across mixed-vendor floors — old and new controllers on one layer.
  • You own your security. Air-gapped, on-prem hardware that belongs to your company — your data never leaves the plant, and there's no subscription on your own protection.
  • Safe by design. Read-only data extraction first; OT network isolation and least-privilege throughout.
  • A real category. Industrial data + Unified Namespace + AI is where the smart-factory market is heading — Tentacle is an AI-native take on it.
  • Repeatable deployment. One node template clones to every plant; agents do the integration work that used to be billable labor.
  • A widening moat. The more plants it runs, the better the tag maps, pruning, and models get.
  • Land and expand. Start as data visibility, grow into analytics, optimization, and an AI operations layer.
  • Security is the wave. OT/ICS security is the defining plant concern of the next three years. Owned, air-gapped infrastructure is a structural edge cloud-only competitors can't match.
  • Built by an operator. Designed on real OT infrastructure by a systems integrator who lives on the plant floor.
Any
PLC vendor, one layer
100%
of tags, ingested by default
0→1
integration, automated by agents
Ask
→ see, in seconds

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