Our Mission
Where systems become computable.
Metapad is the collaborative, AI-powered platform for modelling systems — such as enterprsies and the ecosystem they operate in.
It is where you design, query, simulate, and share the computational model of your system: to understand the current state, explore possible futures, and navigate complex transformations.
Three convictions shape the platform
Modelling is a team sport
Metapad is real-time, multi-user, and runs in your browser. No more emailing files around. Stakeholders, modellers, and AI work on the same model at the same time.
Models are living and computable, not just drawn
Every Metapad model is a living knowledge graph — structured, addressable through an API, connectable to your data. Because the graph computes, your team can play through scenarios and learn from the model, rather than just read it.
Models are conversational
Each model exposes its own AI interface. You can talk to your model. Your model can talk to your tools.
This is what it looks like when human experts and AI build enterprise models together.
What you can do with Metapad
- Model — Capture the structure of your system as a knowledge graph: goals, strategies, capabilities, processes, applications, data, people, decisions, and the relationships between them.
- Simulate — Run the model. Business gaming is a basic platform capability — turn any model into a multi-player simulation. The Beer Distribution Game is the public demonstration of this capability.
- Query — Ask questions about your enterprise in natural language. Get answers grounded in the actual model.
- Share — Living models, real-time collaboration, exportable views. Stakeholders see the same picture.
Methodology-agnostic by design
Metapad is built for anyone whose work runs on explicit, shared models — whatever methodology you bring.
If your practice runs on enterprise architecture frameworks, systems thinking, capability mapping, scenario planning, or simulation modelling — Metapad is for you. The platform doesn't prescribe a method; it gives you computable models to think with.
About transentis labs
Metapad is built by transentis labs, the product arm of transentis — based in Berlin and active since 1997.
The transentis group operates two pillars:
- transentis consulting — model-driven transformation engagements with enterprise clients.
- transentis labs — the product company behind Metapad and its sister products: BPTK (the open-source simulation engine that powers Metapad's simulation layer and runs standalone for headless use), the Beer Distribution Game (the public demonstration of business gaming on Metapad), and the transentis Academy (video courses and live events).
transentis consulting is Metapad's first customer by design — but Metapad is built for the broader world of practitioners who need to model the systems they work on.
Join us
Whether you're a systems thinker or modeller, a business engineer, a solution architect, or someone who simply needs to make a complex system understandable — we'd love to have you along.
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." — Peter Drucker