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The infrastructure layer for what AI is missing

Better decisions.
Same AI.

Whatever you run — agents, models, LLMs, custom GPTs — it was trained on a world that was only partially documented. The Unknown Unknown finds what your AI is missing and turns it into engagement, quality and decisions your competitors can't match.

Missing data is missed money. Women's economy is just the clearest example — half the global market, left on the table every single day.

Better engagement · quality · decisions Agents · Models · LLMs · Custom GPTs Not bias. Absence. Measure → Map → Fill Infrastructure, not application We think us, not I The layer every AI will need Founded 2026 Better engagement · quality · decisions Agents · Models · LLMs · Custom GPTs Not bias. Absence. Measure → Map → Fill Infrastructure, not application We think us, not I The layer every AI will need Founded 2026

What You Get

The Value
Engagement
Products, content and campaigns that land with the part of the market your AI cannot yet see. We prove it first on the women's economy.
Proof vertical #1 · The women's economy
Quality
Outputs grounded in the full record, not the selective one. Gaps in training data surface as generic answers, blind spots and rework — we close them at the source.
Absence in · Absence out
Decisions
Fewer wrong AI-driven calls on pricing, markets and customers. Measurement shows you where the output can be trusted — and where it is flying blind.
$4.4M avg. hit from one wrong AI-driven outcome (EY, 2025)

How It Works

Measure · Map · Fill
The absence problem

This is not a bias problem.
It is an absence problem.

The outcomes above share a single root cause: what your AI was trained on — and what it never saw.

Bias implies something present but distorted. What we are dealing with is more fundamental: centuries of knowledge, experience, and intelligence that were never entered into the record in the first place. Women who published under male names. Research that was not funded. History that was told but never archived.

The belief that "everything is online" is one of the most dangerous assumptions in technology today. It is not. What is online is a highly selective record — and building AGI on top of that record and calling it general intelligence is, frankly, naive.

The cost is already landing: Gartner expects 60% of AI projects to be abandoned through 2026 for want of AI-ready data.

The woman-man divide is also just the beginning. Gender is one axis of absence. Minority voices, non-Western knowledge systems, languages without digital infrastructure, communities whose histories were never institutionalised — all missing. All consequential.

The Unknown Unknown begins with women — the first known example of how large the missing-data problem is — and is built to expand to every gap that matters. The goal is not separation; it is completion.

"Everyone is fixing the model.
Nobody is asking what's not there."
Observability, data quality, synthetic data, governance — we build the layer underneath.

What We Believe

06 Principles
The Business Case

Mission-driven.
Hard-core business.
Both, at once.

Revenue is not a side effect of the mission — it is what funds it, sustains it, and lets us give back structurally to the contributors and institutions who make it possible. The Unknown Unknown is being built as the measurement and data layer for what AI is missing. Women's economic reality is our first proof vertical — the clearest, biggest known example of the problem's scale — but the focus is every missing gap that makes your business cases less profitable. The use cases are commercially real and immediately addressable.

Enterprise Intelligence — market insights, consumer behaviour, product strategy, AI copilots
Investor Intelligence — startup analysis, sector mapping, investment theses, deal intelligence
Research & Policy Tools — economic analysis, public sector insights, global women economy data
Industry Reports — market intelligence, trend analysis, benchmarking
88%
Of enterprises now use AI — and deploy it faster than they can govern what it decides. (McKinsey, 2025)
60%
Of AI projects will be abandoned through 2026 for want of AI-ready data. (Gartner)
Most
Of global consumer spending is driven by women — the demand AI still under-serves.

The Architecture

3 Layers

The Founding Team

Co-Founders & Advisers
Co-Founder · CEO
Hanna Holm
15+ years leading digital growth and commercial transformation across technology and research organisations. Here to build the business.
↗ LinkedIn ✉ hanna.holm@theunknownunknown.ai
Co-Founder · CSO
Hanna Nyholm
20+ years of international entrepreneurship and ecosystem building across markets and countries, combining business development and investment experience. Here to connect capital and grow the ecosystem.
↗ LinkedIn ✉ hanna.nyholm@theunknownunknown.ai
Co-Founder · CTO
Jonas Pomoell
15+ years leading software product development, technical delivery and AI initiatives across organisations. Here to build the intelligence layer.
↗ LinkedIn ✉ jonas.pomoell@theunknownunknown.ai
Founding Adviser
Kira Sjöberg
AI & Data Literacy and Ethics Advisor. Originator of the missing-data framing and Research Co-Author of The Unknown Unknown founding material.
↗ LinkedIn
Founding Adviser
Tarja Stephens
Founder at Leaders of the Future.
↗ LinkedIn
Founding Adviser
Kate Carter
Research Co-Author of The Unknown Unknown Founding material. Doctoral Candidate in AI & Healthcare. Public Speaker. Advocate for Diversity in Tech.
↗ LinkedIn
Founding Adviser
Irene Viinikala
Bridging strategy, people & operational excellence to drive growth in tech & industrial companies. Partner at Alture Partners.
↗ LinkedIn
Founding Adviser
Reidar Wasenius
AI Researcher at Aalto University.
↗ LinkedIn
Founding Adviser
John Thompson
Professor and consultant focused on Artificial Intelligence — Predictive AI, GenAI, and Causal AI.
↗ LinkedIn
Founding Adviser
Liisa Holma
Founder and CEO, Lähtijät and Nordic Edge. Business Growth with People. Worklife Activist.
↗ LinkedIn

We are not building another AI application.
We are building the infrastructure layer that every AI system will eventually need.

We are looking for

Founded IWD 2026 — Now building
Priority ask
Data Partners
Universities, libraries, national archives, and cultural institutions sitting on digitised collections written by women. We are building a revenue-share model. Your collections become infrastructure — and you share in what they create.
Open
Investors
Every business running on incomplete AI is leaving money on the table — mispriced risk, the wrong customers, demand it never sees. Women's economic data is the clearest example (half the market), but it is one gap of many. That is not a social problem. It is a business problem — and it is enormous.

We are building the data and intelligence infrastructure to fix it. Not a product. Infrastructure. The kind that becomes indispensable, commands recurring revenue, and compounds in value the longer it exists.

We have a 5-year roadmap, a go-to-market path, and a value-creation plan ready for serious investor conversations. We are not here for a small win. We are here to own a category.

If you back things that are commercially significant and not yet owned by anyone — this is that conversation.
Open
Advisers
We are building an international advisory network of people who understand this problem deeply — from AI and data, to investment, policy, research, and enterprise. If you have relevant expertise and believe this needs to exist, we would love to talk.

The history of intelligence
is not finished.
We are starting to build the rest.

The current version was built on incomplete material. Everyone who depends on it — every business, every healthcare system, every education platform — is working with a partial map.

Are you with us? We will need all the help we can get.

Join the founding