We replace opinions with evidence.
Every blown deal and failed audit began as a confident answer that no one could check.
Disasters look clean.
Until they do not.
Inside any organization, information climbs a hierarchy of human filters. Everyone optimizes for the report, not for reality. By the time it reaches the people who decide, it has been smoothed, and the one contradiction that mattered is gone.
Then AI made it worse, answering with confidence from whichever version it happened to read. KNTRA began as a refusal: that in the work where being wrong costs the most, the truth should never be something you take on faith.
Tom Nokhbehsaim
Founder, KNTRA
I am not building a tool. I am building the proof every answer has to pass.
A solo founder in Aachen, with research roots at RWTH Aachen. The whole machine built by one person since late 2025.
KNTRA's scientific advisor is Marco Pegoraro, a researcher at RWTH Aachen's Process and Data Science chair and an ICT Young Researcher Award laureate in process mining on uncertain event data. KNTRA is backed by Google for Startups.
Questions about the company
Who is behind KNTRA?
KNTRA is built in Aachen, Germany by Tom Nokhbehsaim, with research roots at RWTH Aachen. Its scientific advisor is Marco Pegoraro, a researcher at RWTH Aachen's Process and Data Science chair and an ICT Young Researcher Award laureate in process mining. It is backed by Google for Startups.
Why does KNTRA refuse to answer sometimes?
Because in regulated work an answer nobody can check costs more than no answer. Where one side of a finding can be evidenced and the other cannot, KNTRA labels it Needs review and sends it to a person; where neither can, it discards the finding and prints the number.
Is KNTRA a consultancy?
No. KNTRA is software, delivered as a running instance of your own, and what you keep is that instance and its findings rather than a report about your documents.