STRAI explores the next frontier of artificial intelligence: systems that think in terms of experience, not tokens. By maintaining a persistent internal model of the world, STRAI enables machines to reason, adapt, and decide over long time horizons. This approach moves beyond today’s models toward intelligence grounded in continuity and context.
Trust in autonomous systems requires coherence, continuity, and understandable behavior. STRAI enforces architectural consistency across perception, memory, and decision making, resulting in actions that reflect prior experience rather than momentary signals. This supports human acceptance in domains such as autonomous vehicles, robotics, and safety-critical systems.
STRAI emerged from research into the gap between state-of-the-art AI systems and findings from cognitive and systems science. While token- and transformer-based models are highly effective, they rely on representations that fragment context and limit long-horizon coherence. STRAI introduces a system-wide, structured representational format that preserves relational consistency across perception, memory, and decision making, enabling bottom-up, task-independent intelligence.
STRAI is built by an interdisciplinary team combining system architecture, machine learning, and deep experience in complex digital systems. The team focuses on creating a foundational AI technology with long-term relevance for autonomous vehicles, humanoid robotics, and adaptive cyber-physical systems.
Stefan Scheer, CEO
Stefan is the founder of STRAI and an experienced entrepreneur and system designer. He has founded and led multiple companies, including Frank & Scheer, and held long-term responsibility for complex digital systems, teams, and budgets. His work bridges conceptual architecture, technology strategy, and implementation, with a focus on foundational innovation beyond incremental AI approaches.
Robert Schumacher, CTO
Robert is co-developer of STRAI and an experienced systems and implementation lead. He bridges conceptual AI architecture and executable software, ensuring that foundational ideas translate into working systems. With deep practical knowledge of current AI paradigms and strong software engineering expertise, he focuses on building and validating alternative, non-token-based AI architectures at system level.
Heike Frank, CFO
Heike is STRAI’s key strategist. She is founder and managing partner of Frank & Scheer, has taught at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences and is involved in numerous committees for the interests of female entrepreneurs.
Dr. Frank Thiele, Advisory Board
As a liaison officer Frank helps STRAI make friends in business. He is an accomplished international Chief Executive and Chair of Advisory Boards with demonstrated history of quality performance, leadership and initiative within diverse business environments.
