May 2026 Archive

Our website runs as a Tor onion service, alongside the ordinary web version. Same site, same content, reached through a network built for privacy and resilience rather than convenience.

Why would an AI and strategy partner bother? Because how a company treats its own digital footprint says a great deal about how it will treat yours. We work with operators who want sovereignty over their data, their tooling and their decisions. Running our own site on Tor is a small, concrete version of that principle.

If you use Tor Browser, open our usual address and a ".onion available" badge appears in the bar. One click and you are on the onion mirror, with no exit nodes and no metadata trail along the way.

Privacy is not something you bolt on at the end. It is a posture you choose from the start.

One AI model trying to do everything is like having one employee handle sales, engineering, legal, and finance simultaneously.

The solution is the same as in any well-run organisation: specialisation and coordination.

Multi-agent systems have an orchestrator, one model that plans, delegates, and synthesises, and specialised worker agents that execute specific tasks. Each worker can be a different model, optimised for speed, cost, or capability.

The result: faster, cheaper, better outputs than any single generalist model could produce alone.

This is the architecture behind the most capable AI workflows being deployed today. It is also the architecture running Stormberry.

Next week: how AI projects fail in 2026, and how to avoid the 1990s ERP mistakes.

Quando o comunicador, advogado e escritor Rafael Hollanda se ofereceu para gravar este vídeo sobre a Stormberry, eu não imaginei que a generosidade dele fosse aparecer tão claramente em câmera.

Veja por si mesmo.

Em poucos minutos, o Rafael resume o que normalmente leva uma reunião inteira para explicar: a IA agêntica já entrou no dia a dia comercial das empresas que sabem usá-la, e quem ainda não a usa está perdendo terreno sem perceber.

A proposta da Stormberry é simples. Ajudamos pequenas e médias empresas brasileiras a usar IA para colocar o pipeline de vendas sob controle, em linha com a estratégia comercial da casa. E, no caminho de volta, ajudamos a destilar essa estratégia a partir da experiência acumulada ao longo do ano: o que funcionou, com quem, por quê, e onde estão os padrões que valem repetir no ciclo seguinte.

Tudo entregue em português, com a transparência de uma empresa estruturada na Noruega, e na forma de um protótipo funcional, não de uma apresentação de slides.

Obrigado, Rafael. Por se importar.

Se você é dono ou líder comercial de uma PME brasileira nos setores industrial, energético, marítimo ou tecnológico, e quer entender como a IA agêntica pode dar controle ao seu pipeline e clareza à sua estratégia, envie uma mensagem direta. A primeira conversa não custa nada e dura uma hora.

Marcos Thomassen Povoa
Fundador, Stormberry AS

Today we're announcing Stormberry's partnership with Onside AI as their distribution partner for Norway.

OnSide AI, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, builds Sentinel: real-time video intelligence that responds to instructions written in plain English, not pre-coded rules. It runs on the CCTV infrastructure you already operate, Milestone-integrated, deployable cloud, on-premise, or hybrid.

What this means for your organisation: site safety, PPE compliance, fatigue and impairment alerts, fire and leak detection, perimeter monitoring, intrusion detection, and process-anomaly flagging, all running through your devices. No rip-and-replace.

The Norwegian regulatory layer adds more on top. Datatilsynet, Petroleumstilsynet, Sjøfartsdirektoratet, Helsetilsynet, DSB, and Arbeidstilsynet each apply their own rules to systems like this. As distributor, Stormberry handles the Norwegian and EU/EEA compliance side. Customers get the product and the regulatory translation in one conversation.

The anchor use case is offshore PPE-helmet detection, the kind of practical safety win that pays for itself in one incident avoided. Hospitals, public buildings, and agriculture see different anchors: fatigue alerts on long shifts, early fire and leak warnings, perimeter intrusion on remote sites. The pattern is the same: turn cameras you already own into a safety-and-compliance layer.

If you run cameras across sites in Norway and any of this lands, get in touch.

Most people still picture AI as a chatbot. In 2026, it's more often an agent.

An AI agent doesn't wait for a prompt. It receives a goal, breaks it into steps, uses tools, makes decisions, and executes, with minimal human input in between.

Why does this matter for your business? Because the shift from "AI that answers" to "AI that acts" changes how you design workflows, delegate work, and build competitive advantage.

This is the first post in a new Friday series: AI concepts explained for people who run businesses, not people who build models. No jargon. No hype. Just the ideas that will shape the next decade.

Thursday Vibes is back. The apps arc continues with AstroQuiz, a privacy-first astronomical trivia game.

Pick a difficulty, get ten randomised questions drawn from 100 across eleven topics: Solar System, Stars, Galaxies, Cosmology, Phenomena, Physics, History, Space Missions, Telescopes, Constellations, Exoplanets. Every answer comes with an explanation. High scores stay on your device, not a server.

Built the same way as the rest of the arc. Vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No frameworks. No external requests after first load. Fully offline-capable.

Functioning prototype to start an idea, shipped in a single session.

Five more privacy-first apps are queued: EcoCompass, NightModeScheduler, SolarFlare, TideTracker, WeatherWhisper. Thursday Vibes is not done yet.

At EURO EXPO IndustriMesse Bergen today.

For us at Stormberry, this is the audience we are built around. Norwegian SMBs and the leadership teams that run them, asking the practical question: how do we deploy AI without buying twelve tools and ending up with eleven we never use.

What we are scouting for:

Companies with a real commercial problem that AI can shorten, not just decorate. Teams thinking about EU AI Act Article 4 compliance and what training their people actually need. Industrial sellers who want to build a partner network in Norway and the Nordics.

If you are walking the floor today and any of that lands, come find us. The honest conversations beat the pitch every time.

AI doesn't just make your team faster. It changes what competitive advantage even means.

If your competitors can now do in hours what used to take weeks, market research, first drafts, data analysis, code, then "we're more thorough" is no longer an advantage.

The new moats are: proprietary data, deep customer relationships, speed of iteration, and the ability to deploy AI across your entire workflow, not just one department.

The companies that will struggle are the ones adding AI as a feature. The ones that will win are treating it as infrastructure.

Everyone talks about digital-first sales. Automation. AI outreach. Sequences.

And yet the biggest deals I've been part of, a million-euro mining contract, a multi-million-euro oil & gas contract, started with a conversation. A site visit. A coffee.

In technical B2B sales, trust is the product. The pump, the system, the solution, those are just the proof.

AI can help you scale outreach. It cannot replace the moment a customer decides they trust you enough to stake their project on you.

Build the relationship first. The deal follows.

On 17 May, Norway does something many countries seem to have forgotten how to do. It puts children at the centre of its national day.

No tanks. No missiles. No flyovers. Just kids walking through every town and village waving small flags, brass bands a bit out of tune, ice cream before lunch, and grown-ups clapping from the pavement.

I came here as an outsider. Today I am the one clapping, watching my kids walk past in their barnetog, in a country that took me in and made me one of its own.

This is also why I built Stormberry. Norway gave me a home, a career, and a family. Stormberry is how I give back: helping Norwegian businesses grow at home and abroad, drawing on the same mix of languages, cultures, and patience that this country invested in me.

Flagg. Bunad. Buekorps. Hipp hipp hurra!

🇳🇴🎉🥁🥂🎂🥂🥁🎉🇳🇴

Whatever else is happening in the world this weekend, find something worth clapping for. Clap loudly!

Thursday Vibes a day late after Ascension Day (Kristi Himmelfartsdag), and the arc isn't done yet. Six more privacy-first apps are queued: AstroQuiz, EcoCompass, NightModeScheduler, SolarFlare, TideTracker, WeatherWhisper.

The night sky, offline and sovereign, runs entirely in your browser. No API calls. No internet dependency once loaded.

StarMap is a client-side interactive star viewer with bundled offline star catalogues. Point it at any direction, any date, any location, and see exactly what is above you. From Polaris to the Magellanic Clouds, it works at any latitude, including polar observers who never lose sight of some stars and never see others.

But the real headline is the workflow.

StarMap went from zero to deployed in a single session as a functioning prototype to start an idea. Six privacy-first, offline-capable tools shipped in six weeks for this first arc, with six more in the queue. All built with the same Sovereign AI methodology, all shipped at a pace that traditional development simply cannot match.

No boilerplate. No copy-pasting. Just pure, agentic execution.

This is the speed and security of Sovereign AI in action, the same methodology we implement for our clients who need to innovate fast without compromising proprietary data.

What is your favourite constellation? Let us know in the comments 🌌🔭

And if you're ready to master these high-speed AI workflows for your own team, let's connect! 🚀

Thursday Vibes continues at Stormberry.

The solar system, live in your browser. PlanetPulse is a privacy-first, client-side tool that computes real-time planetary positions for all eight planets, rendered as a 2D orbital diagram with precise ecliptic coordinates. No ephemeris API calls. No server dependency. All astronomical calculations run directly in your browser, including the edge cases: retrograde motion, conjunctions, and the slow drift of outer planets that shifts over months.

But the real headline is the workflow.

PlanetPulse went from zero to deployed in a single session as a functioning prototype to start an idea. This is a deeply iterative, human-AI collaboration where clear intent and creative judgment guide a sovereign AI agent to ship functional software at an unprecedented pace.

No boilerplate. No copy-pasting. Just pure, agentic execution.

This is the speed and security of Sovereign AI in action, the same methodology we implement for our clients who need to innovate fast without compromising proprietary data.

Where is Mars in the sky tonight? Check and let us know in the comments 🔭✨

And if you're ready to master these high-speed AI workflows for your own team, let's connect! 🚀

Stormberry will be at HavExpo this week, 5 to 7 May, on Sotra near Bergen.

Normally Mondays are our Sales day; this Monday we are simply telling you where to find us.

Our founder, Marcos Thomassen Povoa, will be on the floor all three days. He is there to meet maritime and aquaculture SMEs and talk about the four areas Stormberry helps with: sales process for complex B2B deals, growth and market-entry strategy, cross-cultural communication for international teams, and practical AI integration including EU AI Act Article 4 readiness.

If your team is exhibiting or visiting, reach out and let us know where to find you. The best conversations at expos happen on the floor.