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The schema layer for enterprise data

What Talonic is

Talonic is the data registry for unstructured enterprise data. It sits between unstructured documents — contracts, invoices, scans, emails, claims, manifests — and the systems of record that run the business, capturing, extracting, matching, and delivering schema-validated data with per-cell provenance and a full audit trail.

Unlike parsing vendors that stop at text extraction, Talonic treats schema validation, case resolution, and entity matching as first-class primitives. The output isn't parsed text. It's workflow-ready data that drops directly into SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Ivalua, Salesforce, TMW, or any other system of record.

Holger Nordsiek and Nikolas Adamopoulos, co-founders of Talonic

How we got here

The company was founded in Berlin in 2023 by Nikolas Adamopoulos and Holger Nordsiek. The thesis: enterprise AI pilots don't fail because the model is wrong. They fail because the data isn't ready.

In 2025, Talonic co-authored DIN SPEC 91491 alongside Fraunhofer IIS, Humboldt-Innovation, and GIIC — Europe's first standard for AI-ready data at the schema layer. The standard codifies the schema layer as a distinct infrastructure category. Talonic is its reference implementation.

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DIN SPEC 91491

We co-authored Europe's first standard for AI-ready data at the schema layer.

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The founders

Nikolas Adamopoulos

Co-founder & CEO

Built and scaled a data intensive apparel business with Holger before Talonic. Warwick MBA, Best in Class. Co-authored DIN SPEC 91491 alongside Fraunhofer IIS, Humboldt-Innovation, and GIIC.

Holger Nordsiek

Co-founder & CTO

Built an entire ERP system from scratch in his last venture with Nikolas. Twenty years of systems engineering across data infrastructure and platform design.

The team who builds the unstructured data registry

Backed by Humboldt Innovation, the European Union, the German government, the states of Berlin and Brandenburg, BMWK and EFRE. Supported by Microsoft, AWS, Google, NVIDIA Inception Program, AI NATION, Science & Startups Berlin.