(About)Our story

A new infrastructure for organizational learning.

Most organizations invest millions in data. Almost none invest in understanding it. SwarmMind was created to change that.

The problem

Signals that disappear

Teams collect signals every day:

  • Project outcomes
  • Customer feedback
  • Mistakes
  • Insights
  • Decisions
  • Lessons learned

But those signals rarely become shared understanding. Instead, they disappear into documents, dashboards and forgotten conversations.

The result? Organizations keep solving the same problems again and again — not because people are incapable of learning, but because the infrastructure for collective learning has never existed. That is the problem SwarmMind was created to solve.

Our idea

Collective sense-making at scale

SwarmMind is a learning infrastructure for the AI era. Signals emerge from everyday work. People bring context and perspective. AI helps surface patterns and connections. Together they enable something new: collective sense-making at scale.

When organizations can reflect together on what they are experiencing, insights stop belonging to individuals. They become shared intelligence.

Where we come from

Roots back to 2008

SwarmMind didn't appear overnight. Our roots go back to 2008, when our parent company Intunex Oy was founded by Janne Ruohisto. For years we worked on making skills visible and learning meaningful through our platform Skillhive.

During that journey we learned something important: learning does not happen in courses. It happens in work, reflection and dialogue. But most learning systems were never designed for that. They were built to manage training — not to enable learning.

The shift

Beyond the LMS

In 2025 we made a decision. We stopped competing in the traditional LMS market — not because we couldn't win there, but because the problem had changed. AI is rapidly transforming how knowledge work happens. Individual productivity tools are everywhere. But organizations still lack something essential: a system for thinking and learning together. SwarmMind is designed to fill that gap.

What we believe

Learn faster, together

The next generation of organizations will not be defined by how much training they deliver. They will be defined by how fast they learn together. The companies that thrive will be those that can:

  • capture signals from real work
  • reflect collectively
  • turn insights into shared understanding
  • and move forward with clarity

“Technology should amplify human thinking — not replace it.”

Our principle: People first. AI assisted.

Team

Built by a small team, in the open

Janne Ruohisto

Founder & CEO

Founded Intunex Oy in 2008 and built Skillhive into an established skills-visibility platform. Started SwarmMind after seeing that AI changes what organizational learning needs to be.

Jaakko Naakka

CTO

Leads engineering for SwarmMind, building the AI agents and infrastructure that turn everyday work signals into shared organizational understanding.

SwarmMind is built by Intunex Oy, Finland · info@intunex.fi