# Thoughtful Oasis

> An AI research lab building infrastructure for trustworthy applications in mission-critical industries.

Thoughtful Oasis builds a vector ontology layer — embeddings whose axes are named, interpretable
domain features — between data and applications. The substrate is the same for every product;
the encoders and reasoning engines on either side are swappable. EU-deployable. On-premise
available for regulated environments. API-first.

Founded by Kaspar Rothenfusser (CSO), Bekk Blando (CTO) and Rens Dommerholt (CEO).
Based in Enschede, the Netherlands.

## Research
- [Vector ontologies: a shared framework for humans and machines](https://thoughtful-oasis.com/research/vector-ontologies): Theory paper introducing vector ontologies — vector spaces with named, interpretable axes — as the shared ontological framework between humans and machines. arXiv 2505.14940.
- [LLM worldview extraction via vector ontologies](https://thoughtful-oasis.com/research/worldview): First empirical demonstration that an LLM's internal world model can be projected into an interpretable space and verified against ground truth. arXiv 2506.13252.
- [Domain-property alignment in single-vector retrieval](https://thoughtful-oasis.com/research/limit): 2026 counter-example to the LIMIT sphere-packing bound. With named-axis embeddings, retrieval is determined by alignment, not by dimension.

## Applications
- [MissionOS](https://thoughtful-oasis.com/mission-os): Real-time scenario analysis for incident commanders. Live with VNOG.
- [VraagMijnOverheid (VMO)](https://thoughtful-oasis.com/vmo): Plain-language Woo request intake for the Dutch government.
- [All applications](https://thoughtful-oasis.com/applications): Eight problem patterns where vector ontologies fit.

## Platform
- [Platform](https://thoughtful-oasis.com/platform): How the platform is built — encoders, vector ontology, reasoning engines, deployment.

## Company
- [About](https://thoughtful-oasis.com/about): Mission, founders, partners.
- [News](https://thoughtful-oasis.com/news): Announcements, press, milestones.
- [Trust](https://thoughtful-oasis.com/trust): How we handle data. EU-default hosting, on-premise available, certifications, sub-processors, incident response.
- [Brand](https://thoughtful-oasis.com/brand): Logos, founder photos, press kit.

## Legal
- [Privacy Policy](https://thoughtful-oasis.com/privacy-policy)
- [Terms of Service](https://thoughtful-oasis.com/tos)

## Contact
- General and business: rens@thoughtful-oasis.com
- Privacy and trust: privacy@thoughtful-oasis.com
- Press: hello@thoughtful-oasis.com