For the past while I've been building Albertic — a space intelligence platform designed to turn satellite and Earth observation data into decisions people can actually act on.
What Albertic Is
Albertic is a space AI platform focused on four verticals: agriculture, climate, energy, and nature. Instead of building four separate products, it's architected around one core engine — ingestion, change detection, and anomaly scoring — with thin, purpose-built application layers sitting on top for each vertical. That means the hard part (turning raw satellite imagery into reliable signal) gets built once, and every vertical benefits from improvements to the core.
Who It's For
Albertic is built for three kinds of customers:
- B2G — government dashboards and alerting. This is the credibility anchor: if a government trusts the signal enough to act on it, that's the strongest validation the platform can get.
- B2B — enterprise SaaS and APIs. This is the revenue engine, serving organizations that need environmental or geospatial intelligence baked into their own workflows.
- Innovators — a developer API for distribution, so builders outside Albertic can create on top of the same core engine. ## Two Editions
Albertic ships in two flavors:
- Sovereign — India-hosted, built on ISRO data accessed via IN-SPACe, with models fine-tuned specifically on Indian terrain.
- Global — built on commercial satellite sources, aimed at international reach. This split matters because space and Earth-observation data isn't one-size-fits-all — sovereignty, terrain, and data-access rules differ by region, and Albertic is designed to respect that rather than paper over it.
The Business Model
Albertic follows an open-core model: the pipelines are open-sourced, while the trained models stay proprietary. Plans are structured simply — a Free tier for public projects, and a Pro tier for private ones. The idea is to build trust and adoption in the open, while the actual differentiated intelligence — the trained models — is what customers pay for.
Where the Name Comes From
Albertic is named after Albert, one of the earliest test animals in spaceflight history. The in-app AI copilot carries the name forward too — it's called Albert.
The Road Ahead
The build sequence is deliberate: core engine first, then a free MVP, then a first B2G pilot (via KSPACE), followed by the Pro tier, the Sovereign edition, an open-core release, and finally the Global launch. Software comes first, research next, and hardware after that — in that order.
Albertic is a Kerala-based startup, but it's being built for a global market from day one.
This is the first of what I hope will be many updates as Albertic moves from idea to platform. More soon.
