Our Mission
At transentis, we believe that understanding precedes transformation. You cannot effectively change what you do not clearly see — and the most powerful way to achieve that understanding is through prototyping.
The Challenge
Modern enterprises are complex adaptive systems - webs of people, processes, technologies, and relationships that evolve constantly. Yet most organizations make significant strategic and financial decisions the hard way: based on gut instinct, a few slides, or static documents that were already outdated before they were finished.
The result? Critical knowledge lives in people's heads. Relationships between systems remain invisible. Impact analysis is guesswork. Transformation initiatives fail because no one truly understood the starting point — let alone tested the destination before committing to it.
Our Vision
We're building tools that help organisations explore, redesign and transform using a prototyping approach.
Enterprise Digital Twins as Business Prototypes
Imagine having a complete, queryable model of your organization - not just an org chart, but a true representation of how things connect and interact:
- Business capabilities linked to the applications that enable them
- Processes connected to the data they create and consume
- People mapped to their expertise, responsibilities, and relationships
- Infrastructure tied to the services it supports
This isn't just documentation. It's a business prototype — a safe, queryable environment where you can explore the present, redesign the future, and test decisions before the real world does. When you're modeling where you want to go, your digital twin becomes a prototype of what might be.
AI at Every Layer
We believe AI should enhance human understanding, not replace human judgment.
AI-Assisted Design: Describe your domain in natural language. Let AI help structure your models.
AI-Powered Queries: Ask questions about your enterprise in plain English. Get answers grounded in actual data.
AI-Enhanced Insights: Surface patterns, identify risks, and discover opportunities that would be invisible in traditional tools.
Collaborative Understanding
Complex systems require multiple perspectives to understand. Our tools enable teams to:
- Build shared mental models together
- See each other's contributions in real-time
- Develop collective understanding of how things connect
Our Approach
We combine three disciplines, united by a single philosophy: business prototyping.
Business Prototyping
Engineers don't build bridges without blueprints. Organizations shouldn't transform without a model. Business prototyping means building a representation of your enterprise — its structures, processes, and policies — and using it to test strategies and surface risks in a safe environment, before decisions become expensive. The goal isn't the model itself; it's the understanding and feedback you get from it.
Design Thinking
Start with humans. Understand needs. Prototype solutions. Iterate based on feedback.
Systems Thinking
See wholes, not just parts. Understand feedback loops. Recognize that everything connects.
Computational Thinking
Model precisely. Validate automatically. Query systematically. Scale intelligently.
The Journey
Transformation happens in three prototyping stages:
Explore
Build a prototype of what is. Discover the unexpected connections in your enterprise. Map what exists. Surface what's hidden. Make the invisible visible.
Design
Build a prototype of what could be. Model your target state. Test changes before committing. Run scenarios safely. Get feedback from stakeholders before reality forces your hand.
Transform
Let the prototype guide you. Implement with confidence because the path has already been tested. Monitor progress. Adapt as you learn.
Why Metapad?
Metapad is our professional IDE for Business Prototyping. It embodies our belief that:
- Visual models communicate better than documents
- Semantic structure enables queries that natural language alone can't
- Prototyping means your model is a testbed for decisions, not just a record of them
- Collaboration builds shared understanding across teams and perspectives
- AI assistance accelerates without replacing human judgment
- Living models stay current, unlike static diagrams
About transentis
transentis is built on two pillars, based in Berlin, Germany.
transentis consulting
Our consulting arm has spent years helping enterprises understand and transform themselves through business prototyping. Through hands-on engagements, workshops, and training, we've developed deep expertise in systems thinking, enterprise architecture, and digital transformation.
transentis labs
transentis labs productizes our consulting experience into SaaS tools. Every product we build is born from real problems we've seen in the field:
- Metapad — The Business Prototyping IDE
- BPTK — Our open-source Business Prototyping Toolkit for building simulation models
- Beer Distribution Game — A multiplayer simulation game for learning about supply chain complexity and systems thinking
- transentis Academy — Our portal for learning through video courses and live events
Metapad brings together structural modeling and simulation in a single visual business prototyping IDE. BPTK remains the high-performance simulation engine underneath — powering Metapad's simulation layer, and available standalone for simulations that run without a visual frontend or require custom code extensions.
Metapad is the latest and most ambitious product in this portfolio — the culmination of everything we've learned about helping organizations see, understand, and prototype themselves.
Join Us
Whether you're an enterprise architect, a strategy consultant, a systems thinker, or simply someone who believes in the power of understanding - we'd love to have you along for the journey.
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." — Peter Drucker