About us

Like many others, we got excited by the potential of AI in 2023 and 2024 with the rapid development of LLMs and agentic systems. The hype of magical AI shortly being able to do any task was peaking.

But our personal experiences were painting a different story. Henri was discovering that extracting insights from qualitative data was prone to hallucinations, and even the most sophisticated RAG systems were more akin to search than actual analysis and synthesis of data, and thus useless for many real world applications. Olli was working with agents and AI in large businesses, and saw how few use cases actually worked outside of demos and pilots to provide real impact. Kalle's experience with using AI to speed up customer insight gathering and design was equally disappointing when trying to do anything more complicated.

When helping companies embrace AI and build tools, we discovered the ones that work are based on rigorous expert-designed workflows (not simple LLM wrappers or RAG databases, not broad agents lacking guardrails) combined with keeping the human expert in the driver's seat (not creating AI slop requiring slow manual review and reducing accountability).

Skimle was born in 2025 when the Finnish government wanted a way to reliably assess hundreds of pages of statements to policy proposals. They needed a tool that would be transparent, reliable, rigorous and safe. After developing the first version of Skimle, we realised researchers and academics have equally high standards for a tool to help them in qualitative research. Once Skimle was able to satisfy these two demanding sets of users, we knew it had wider potential.

Read more on how Skimle is built different - combining academic rigour with business applicability. Our unique AI-driven workflow provides more robust answers than simple "AI tools" that are nothing but chat on top of the documents.

With early adopters giving Skimle encouraging feedback, Henri and Olli left their full-time jobs in academia and management consulting, and started working on Skimle full-time in November 2025. Skimle is a start-up based in Helsinki, Finland and funded with private capital as well as Finnish government grants.

For all general inquiries, press contacts and recruitment please reach out to henri@skimle.com. If you are interested in testing Skimle or adopting it to your organisation, reach out to olli@skimle.com