Ambient workspace
React app: Overview, FP&A Workspace, Data hub, organizations, and profile—sourced from Gold products.
Governed FP&A data products
Pre-user and pre-revenue. Commercial activity is paused. Inspect the open-core contracts and architecture - this site is a technical company record, not an active sales funnel.
- Audit asks where the number came from. BI on undocumented SQL cannot answer.
- Bronze-Silver-Gold without enforceable contracts never reaches trusted Gold.
- Finance rebuilds the same KPIs every close when definitions drift across tools.
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What we deliver
Governed products, not presentation layers
- Governed data products - not dashboards, not asset management.
- Gold outputs only through documented consumption adapters (workspace, Tableau, Power BI, Delta Sharing where allowed).
- Contract-backed definitions your auditors and regulators can trace.
How it works
Medallion path to contract-backed Gold
Ingest lands as traceable Bronze from files, entry, or operator-approved sources. Silver cleanses; Gold computes in the medallion pipeline. YAML contracts define Gold products - metrics, KPIs, quality, lineage. Workspace and BI read Gold only via adapters. Databricks medallion plus Unity Catalog; GCP hosting. Details on Product and the wiki.
Three pillars
- 1
Governed connection
Catalog-industry metrics, bronze-silver-gold processing, uploads, and fulfillment status - not generic ERP sync claims.
- 2
Auditable metrics
Financial and operational KPIs with lineage and quality visibility from pipeline to Gold.
- 3
Consumption where you work
Workspace and BI adapters read contract-backed Gold only - not ad hoc warehouse SQL.
Platform options
Open Source Integrator uses Ambient Core (MIT). Platform Subscriber is hosted Command Centre delivery - not self-serve while commercial activity is paused.
| Capability | Open Source Integratorv0.3.5 · Ambient Core · MIT | Platform Subscriberv1.0 · Ambient Platform · hosted |
|---|---|---|
| Reference catalog: core metrics and 17 industry packs | Yes | Yes |
| Catalog consumption: data options to KPIs (input coverage) | Yes | Yes |
| Governance pipeline and contract validation (CLI and CI) | Yes | Yes |
| Benchmarking lifecycle | Yes | Yes |
| Assurance lifecycle | Yes | Yes |
| Investor disclosure lifecycle | Yes | Yes |
| Planning and variance lifecycle | Yes | Yes |
| Lakehouse governance libraries (provenance, PII, Silver validation) | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-tenant organizations and member roles | — | Yes |
| Hosted Bronze–Silver–Gold pipeline (Databricks) | — | Yes |
| Overview dashboards (financial and operational metrics) | — | Yes |
| FP&A workspace (KPI tracking, goals, early-access forecast) | — | Yes |
| Data hub (CSV upload, manual entry, fulfillment status) | — | Yes |
| Setup requests for managed connectors (not live OAuth in UI) | — | Yes |
| Gold Firestore consumption adapter (contract-backed) | — | Yes |
| Standard reporting and exports (PDF, CSV) | — | Yes |
| Commercial usage gates (credits, pipeline triggers) | — | Yes |
| Operational–financial bridge and optimization Gold products | — | Yes |
| Full lineage audit and enterprise compliance pack | — | Yes |
| Platform agent HTTP workers (production export) | — | — |
Open Source Integrator
MIT ambient-core — inspect contracts and catalog in public
Open Source Integrator
Ambient-Team/ambient-core — catalog and Gold contracts (MIT open core).
Contribute
Contribute - leave your work email. Ivan will get in touch with you on how to contribute to ambient-core.
Platform Subscriber experience
Production workspace on governed Gold products
- Overview — location-filtered financial and operational metrics
- FP&A Workspace — KPI tracking, goals, early-access forecast
- Data — CSV bronze upload, manual entry, medallion fulfillment
- Organizations — members, commercial usage, pipeline status
Managed ERP connectors are requested through the Data hub—not live OAuth self-serve in the app today.
- 1
Governed connection
Catalog-industry metrics, bronze-silver-gold processing, uploads, and fulfillment status - not generic ERP sync claims.
- 2
Auditable metrics
Financial and operational KPIs with lineage and quality visibility from pipeline to Gold.
- 3
Consumption where you work
Workspace and BI adapters read contract-backed Gold only - not ad hoc warehouse SQL.
Demo personas with synthetic Gold data (local Tier A)
Banking (depository)
Overview — demo persona: First Meridian Bank
Downstream consumers
Where governed Gold products are read
BI tools
Tableau and Power BI consumption adapters on contract-backed Gold outputs (not certification claims).
Catalog industries
Integrator reference catalog — 17 industry packs
Tap an industry pack to open details. All seventeen verticals ship in the open-source Ambient Core catalog.
Build vs buy
Open-source contracts before you rebuild the lakehouse
If you build it yourself
Ambient Core (Open Source)
Time to value
Six to eighteen months of platform work before the first finance-ready number lands.
Ambient Core already ships contracts, catalog, and validation - without rebuilding the governance stack from scratch.
Headcount
Two to four or more engineers to design and maintain the lakehouse and governance layers from scratch.
About one to two FTEs to run Ambient Core yourself (pipeline plus contracts and CI) without the commercial Ambient Platform.
Cost
About $450k-$900k+ per year in salaries for a full DIY platform team.
Lower salary load when Ambient Core covers contracts and governance instead of staffing a full DIY platform team.
Governance
Hard to review ad hoc rules; definitions often drift against BCBS 239 and ISO 8000 expectations years after the 2008 crisis.
Open-source contracts and deployment rules invite public oversight - DQ scorecards, lineage, and row-level security included.
Technology
You absorb every breaking link between data governance, pipeline, and consumption.
YAML contracts coupled with a clean SQL/Python Spark pipeline that runs on any deployment model.
Our history
Singapore roots, Hong Kong corporate presence
- Founded in Singapore on July 5, 2021 with pre-seed support from NUS GRIP; roots in NUS master’s research in computer science (2020).
- Early work spanned smart infrastructure, commercial real estate, and vertical farming contexts in Southeast Asia.
- Recognition including Panasonic Deep Tech Innovation Challenge and Google Cloud Hackathon Singapore.
- Evolved toward financial transformation: governed data products for FP&A and operational intelligence.
- Hong Kong subsidiary established November 2023.
- Singapore incorporation (2021) is historical; the Singapore corporation closed in 2026.
- Corporate headquarters consolidated in Hong Kong in 2026 onward.
External mentions
March 7–14, 2024 — Austin, Texas
SXSW 2024 with ACE.SG and Enterprise Singapore
Joined a Singapore-led trade mission to Austin for SXSW 2024 and meetings with business and government representatives.
July 5, 2023 — Singapore
Vertical Farm Daily — 2-year anniversary
Trade press coverage of Ambient Systems’ Singapore launch and early vertical-farming focus, including NUS GRIP roots and indoor-farm productivity work.
August 15, 2022 — Toronto
University of Toronto Engineering feature
Profile on bridging data science with traditional engineering for sustainable building management.
June 2022 — Singapore
Google Cloud Hackathon Singapore — first runner-up
First runner-up among 40 startup teams; prototype built on Google Firebase with ongoing mentorship from Google Cloud.
2022 — Singapore
Futurology — Singapore sustainability startups
Featured among innovative Singapore-based sustainability companies.
February 17, 2022 — Singapore
SMU BIG Incubator cohort
Accepted into Singapore Management University’s Business Innovations Generator incubation programme.
June 10, 2021 — Singapore
NUS GRIP Run 5 Lift-Off Day
Showcased as a deep tech startup from the National University of Singapore GRIP programme.
Incubators and recognition
Directories
External listings — Hong Kong is the current
Current (Hong Kong)
Historical (Singapore)
- PitchBook
Singapore incorporation era — corporate HQ is now Hong Kong
- Wellfound (AngelList)
Singapore incorporation era — corporate HQ is now Hong Kong
- StartupSG
Singapore incorporation era — corporate HQ is now Hong Kong
Company
Hong Kong headquarters · Ambient Systems Limited
Business Registration (BR): 75933810 — Hong Kong subsidiary since 2023. Founded in Singapore (2021) through NUS GRIP; Hong Kong is the corporate headquarters.
Mission, vision, and values
Mission: Empower better financial operations with governed data products—streamlined planning, reliable reporting, and insights leaders can trust.
Vision: Trusted financial and operational intelligence through contract-backed, inspectable data governance.
Innovation
Advance contract-backed data products and open-core inspectability.
Value creation
Deliver measurable outcomes for operators, not dashboard vanity metrics.
Efficiency
Reduce time-to-trust for KPIs with lineage and quality built in.
Expertise
Apply deep engineering experience across North America and Asia-Pacific contexts.
Sustainability
Support efficient resource use in asset-heavy industries.