The events of 2020 and the ongoing COVID pandemic debacle taught us that we weren’t prepared and caught the world off guard. Now, we have to re-think a lot of our processes – how we interact, how we communicate and how we live. It has in no small measure changed the footprint of our step in our progress as a civilization. It has defined new knowns and created more unknowns. It has made the case for good and thorough planning ever so pertinent.

Today, we stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before. The response to it must be integrated and comprehensive, involving all stakeholders of the global polity, from the public and private sectors to academia and civil society.

This Fourth Industrial Revolution is being driven by a staggering range of new technologies that are blurring the boundaries between people, the internet, and the physical world. It’s a convergence of the digital, the physical, and the biological spheres. Hard Tech, Med Tech, Deep Tech are the new incarnations of hardware and software that will drive this new push to build smart and connected products catering to different domains and even interlinking them.

The diagram above depicts the different stages in our progression as an urbanized civilization. Numorpho Cybernetic System (NUMO)’s premise is to solve the hard problem of automation using a blend of people, process and technology that conjoin together to provide the basis for innovation, optimization, and harmonization in Industry. We do this by looking at all aspects – Product Development, Smart Manufacturing, Information Technology, Operational Processes, and sustained Customer Enablement using engineering, multi-physics, data-driven and AI-enabled inference engines. This will help unravel the complexity – the knowns, and the unknowns, provide the right basis for the use cases and blueprinting, and for the evolution of the solution and its sustainability.Imagining the future requires intense planning. We have moved beyond artifacts and inventions. In today’s world we need to link and intertwine heterogeneous systems, make them interoperable, aggregate data, and provide pertinent information at the right time and the right place with flexibility and ease of use. We also look at Additive Manufacturing to be the precursor of building sustainable and resilient infrastructures of the future as showcased in our Smart Cities initiative to re-emphasize on our theme of Everything Connected.

According to Markets and Markets and other sources, the Total Addressable Market (TAM) for Industry 4.0/5.0 PaaS ecosystem is expected to grow at a rate of 20.6 CAGR.  The illustration above showcases the TAM, SAM, and our intended SOM.

We plan to grow aggressively in the first 5 years of our progression, achieving a manageable $50M in revenue in our first year and growing at @100% YOY for the first 3 years. Based on this trajectory and the partnerships that we will build and avail of, we plan to have a hockey-stick growth in our 4^th and 5^th year @ 150% YOY to achieve our target SOM of $800 million.

We also plan to validate our ecosystem by creating smart and connected products and solutions that will help not only to prove and improve the platform but also provide for a linear, circular, and sustainable value creation for a themed and meaningful progression. The domain for connected mobility products for personal transportation (e-bikes and recreational vehicles) is expected to grow from USD 68 billion to USD 106 billion from 2021 thru 2026, a CAGR of 6.5% that would exactly relate to our series of MVP solutions and its progression. This will enable to prove and improve both the ecosystem and the products. They will also contribute to increased resource efficiency and help to achieve circular economy models resulting in speed, cost savings and collaborative solutions.

We are a customer and business-focused company, providing a continuum of integrated solutions for innovation, manufacturing, and customer enablement in the new. We believe our culture is the catalyst for our success. It drives who we are and how we do business. Here is a summary of our theme broken into three aspects:

1. The relationship between Inside-Outside services namely digitization and digitalization, IIoT and IoT, the OT-IT convergence, and upstream-midstream-downstream need to be correctly articulated to manage enterprise processes. Brownfield, Greenfield and Bluesky initiatives need to have the correct basis to enable synthesis and reduce technical debt to be able to enable re-engineering, innovation, and/or disruption. Inside-Outside will also correspond to our use of cartography and GIS: maps and geo-locations to enable the representation of terrains for navigation and correspondence both external as well as within built up areas. Such digitized mappings will facilitate inter-connectivity, rapid communication, procurement of raw materials, and tools and equipment. It will also tie into transportation and other just-in-time logistic operations. This will be the modern, reimagined assembly line managed by both human as well as robotic assemblers.
2. Linked Solutioning will define our collaborations and partnerships with platform and solution providers, tool vendors, engineering services, investor relationships and customer interactions. For each one of them a go-forward strategy has been/will be created to manage, collaborate with and plan on using their tools and platforms, conjoin with their roadmaps and future joint developments. This will enable our products and solutions to have the correct basis for the progression of our MVP based cadence.
3. Make, Manage, Move, Market and Maintain will be the basis for enabling hyper-automation for our connected systems and technologies. It will utilize our four tenets of design philosophy for innovation, the blueprint for smart manufacturing and capacity for IoT, a robust integration protocol, and actionable intelligence. It will also facilitate the seamless composition for commercialization – for marketing, selling, maintaining, supporting, and servicing our solutions. It will use our reference architecture called Digital Twine^TM to coordinate adaptive engineering using digital threads and digital twins.

Our name, Numorpho Cybernetics is a portmanteau of Neuromorphic Engineering and Actionable Intelligence, and our goal is to build future-forward ecosystems mapping the progression of the Industrial Revolution, Web3 and the Metaverse. Neuromorphic engineering stands at the crossroads between technological and biological evolution. Neuromorphic designs aim to mimic the functioning of our brain’s neurons and synapses (developed over millions of years of evolution) in order to unlock orders of magnitude improvements in both computing capability and power efficiency. Morphology is learning from living things, with attention to ergonomics and neurocognitive needs of the consumers, foundations of which are:

• composition – materials and their properties that are the constituents of the products we build,
• proportions – the aggregation of the parts and how it relates to the whole, and
• balance – the perfect alignment to goals, and
• the management of data, its intelligent representation, and rendering and depiction.

Our goal is to build PaaS Ecosystems, and smart-and-connected products and services starting in the micro-mobility industry. To achieve this goal, we will be assembling a compelling team, accepting strategic investment, building vendor and industry partnerships to create a portfolio of products and services that is not solely driven by standard measurable KPIs but also by empathy, usability, sensibility, passion, purpose, and most importantly the practical, pragmatic, and deeper psychological as well as physical needs of our valued customers. Our ambition is to leave a lasting impact on people by creating ROIs that are immeasurable yet invaluable considerations to justify our existence and progression as a company.

To achieve our goals, we will be assembling a compelling team, accepting strategic investment, building vendor and industry partnerships to create a portfolio of products and services that is not solely driven by standard measurable KPIs but also by empathy, usability, sensibility, passion, and purpose. Our ambition is to leave a lasting impact on people by creating ROIs that are immeasurable yet invaluable considerations to justify our existence and progression as a company.

We have published several key articles on our Four Key Tenets – Innovate, Orchestrate, Integrate and Enact:

1. MANTHAN^TM for Innovation – A Design Philosophy for Innovation that combines Strategic Intent, Story Telling, Design Thinking and Systems Engineering into an agile sprint-based approach for build the next generation products and solutions. It uses a a curriculum-based approach for ideation, design, and product development (Imagine-Design-Create). It will set the stage for hardtech development and the utilization and new definition of Additive Manufacturing concepts,
2. Digital Twine World Model (DTWM)^TM for Process Orchestration – Our reference architecture to aggregate people, process, and technology for enabling Industry and Services 5.0. This combination of Digital Threads and Digital Twins spanning across all different enterprise systems, will be utilized to Compose and Blueprint use cases ranging from brownfield, greenfield to bluesky initiatives to enable make, manage, move, market, and maintain activities,
3. Tendril Connector^TM consists of protocols for data communication using API gateways and service meshes to Connect and Coordinate the flow of information between systems, and
4. The TAU Codex Transformer^TM for Actionable Intelligence to Orchestrate and Empower, enabling multi-modal artificial intelligence and making them rational, pragmatic, contextual, and actionable. Herewith we introduce a new concept called Existential Intelligence based on the 5^th order of Cybernetics.

utilizing emergent technologies and harmonized processes defining the 4 tenets of our existence. These four tenets will be encompassed in the Mantra M5^TM cybernetic platform to enable Make, Manage, Move, Market, and Maintain activities. Mantra M5 will be a themed rendering of knowledge management artifacts that are dynamically rendered using Digital Twins and Augmented reality, Human-Machine Interfaces, and our forays into digital’s new incarnation – Web3 and the Metaverse.

Founded in Chicago, IL in 2021, NUMO is a company whose vision is to utilize intelligent techniques to build smart, connected, and sustainable products by pushing the edges of knowledge-based engineering, technology, data management, AI, and cybernetics. We will be creating new Ideation techniques, enabling Industry 4.0 (for smart connectivity and robotic automation), and adding to it the Industry and Services 5.0 (human-centric and sustainable products) framework for development, production, and commercialization.

Partnerships and Collaborations are key to enable future technologies. Building a book for business in Industry 4.0 and 5.0 entails developing partnerships with cloud providers, engineering companies, tools providers and system integrators. For each one of them a go-forward strategy has been/will be created to manage, collaborate with and plan on using their tools and platforms, and future joint developments. We have already started strong relationships with Microsoft, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, OpenAI, PTC, Markforged, Infor, Nvidia and Siemens that are leaders in their respective domain and will be utilizing their provisionings, systems and tools, and jointly partnering with them to accomplish the possible and the impossibles.

To achieve our goals, we will be assembling a compelling team, accepting strategic investment, building vendor and industry partnerships to create a portfolio of products and services that is not solely driven by standard measurable KPIs but also by empathy, usability, sensibility, passion, and purpose. Our ambition is to leave a lasting impact on people by creating ROIs that are immeasurable yet invaluable considerations to justify our existence and progression as a company. The team that we are building will be made of amazing individuals and together we will take on the most rigorous of challenges. Once decided, no project will be too difficult to undertake – and for that we will utilize the tenets that we are incorporating in the Everything Connected series of articles summarizing our intention and go-forward plan.

Our ambition is to leave a lasting impact on people by creating ROIs that are immeasurable yet invaluable considerations to justify our existence and progression as a company. These are demanding times that needs engagement and responsiveness in all the systems that connect us. The question – no, the challenge won’t be doing it, it will be not doing, not seeing. It will be the burden of this responsibility that will define what we choose to be. As Sadghuru, the Indian yogi and author, posits: “Not doing what you can’t do is not a problem. Not doing what you can do is a tragedy.” We have our own philosophy regarding this: Those who can, do. Those who can’t, complain. We are the dreamers and the doers. 

Starting in December of 2021, we pivoted the theme of our company from “Design, Build, Evolve, and Harmonize” to a more ubiquitous “Everything Connected!“. What this allowed us to do was to put everything in perspective to articulate the basis, definition, strategy, and go-forward plan for our company. This enables us to be prominent in the future of automation – be it industrial, infrastructure, transportation and/or mobility. Our smart products and connected services will serve to prove and improve the ecosystem we are building. As such, all of our solutions will conform to the same DNA so that all aspects of make, manage, move, market. and maintain are coordinated.

In a series of articles detailing our Book of Business (BoB), we expand on our theme of Everything Connected and provide the purpose for our existence as a company by summarizing our intentions, basis, and motivation. The articles showcase and show cause to what we are doing to cater to the different constituencies. It will include our plans by providing the basis for designing, engineering, building, and maintaining our compositions.

Everything Connected for us is a journey of discovery that we are just embarking on. It is based on years of fortitude and understanding of the different facets of being and working in the world we live in. Our adventures will be in the pathways we forge and the waypoints we intersect and sojourn. Our excitement will be in the building of our team and firming our relationships – with customers, organizations, providers, and partners. There is no destination – just the road ahead.

NITIN UCHIL Founder, CEO & Technical Evangelist

nitin.uchil@numorpho.com

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• The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need to re-think our processes and the Fourth Industrial Revolution is driving a technological revolution that will change the way we live and work.
• Numorpho Cybernetic System (NUMO) aims to solve the hard problem of automation and provide innovation, optimization, and harmonization in Industry by looking at all aspects of product development, smart manufacturing, information technology, operational processes, and customer enablement.
• The company plans to aggressively grow in the first five years, achieving $50M in revenue in the first year and growing at 100% YOY for the first three years, with a target SOM of $800M in the fourth and fifth years.
• NUMO plans to validate its ecosystem by creating smart and connected products and solutions, starting with micro-mobility products for personal transportation.
• The company values empathy, usability, sensibility, passion, and purpose and aims to leave a lasting impact on people by creating immeasurable yet invaluable ROIs.
• NUMO is a Chicago-based company whose vision is to utilize intelligent techniques to build smart, connected, and sustainable products by pushing the edges of knowledge-based engineering, technology, data management, AI, and cybernetics.