Applied AI & Intelligent Systems
AI that does real work inside your operation: autonomous agents, machine-learning models, computer vision, and intelligent automation, integrated directly into the tools and products you already run.
Applied AI · Custom Software · Physical Systems
We build what off-the-shelf can't.
Notum is an applied-AI and software engineering studio. We design, build, and ship the complex systems generic tools can't handle. And when the problem reaches into the physical world, we build the hardware too.
As featured in national press
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Broadcast & headline features
- HRT Featured on "Globalna Hrvatska", the national public broadcaster
- Nova TV Featured in Dnevnik, the central evening news
- HRT Featured on Dobro Jutro Hrvatska, the national morning show
- VTV / Kultivator Founder interviewed for ICT Business
- Financije.hr Founder Milan Rajčević on the company's mission
- Ministry of Labour Notum presented at EU OSHA Safety Week
- Tehnopark Celje Met the President of Slovenia at Festival Robotike (Slovenia)
- PIXSELL Photo and video agency feature on the Go2 robot
- Jutarnji List Notum Robotics and the Renmar K9 project
The Velika Gorica robot-dog walk, also covered by
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The gap
Off-the-shelf breaks exactly where your business is hardest.
The processes that actually differentiate you (the edge cases, the deep integrations, the real-time decisions) are the ones generic software was never built for.
That's the work we take on: custom AI and systems engineered around your operation, not the other way around. No templates. No black boxes. Senior engineers, accountable for the outcome.
What we build
Depth, not a menu.
Three capabilities, one team. AI and software are the core. Hardware is the edge most firms can't offer.
Complex Software & Cloud
The mission-critical platforms off-the-shelf can't deliver. Custom web applications, high-performance APIs, and secure, scalable cloud architecture, built AWS-native with infrastructure-as-code from day one.
Physical AI & Custom Hardware
When intelligence needs a body. We write the autonomy software that drives robots and connected devices in the real world, and design the electronics, sensors, and enclosures to match. Most software firms stop at the screen. We don't.
The throughline
We make software think. Then give it a body.
Most software stops at the screen. We engineer intelligence that perceives, reasons, and acts, from cloud architecture down to the circuit board.
Why Notum
We've already shipped AI into the physical world.
Writing software that controls an autonomous robot in an unpredictable environment is one of the hardest things in applied AI. We do it. So when your problem is "merely" a complex enterprise system, a custom model, or an integration nobody else will touch, it's well within reach.
Code is the foundation
Any firm can build an app. Very few can design the sensor that feeds it and engineer the system around it.
Complete problem-solvers
The valuable problems aren't solved by code alone. They need a team fluent from cloud architecture to circuit board.
Founder-led, full stack
You work directly with the engineer who builds your system, from database to device. One point of accountability, zero layers in between.
Case studies
Intelligence is becoming cheap; the reliability layer around it is the durable value. Seven projects, one thesis.
- ClusterFlock Every GPU you own, one AI backend. AI infrastructure
- DoggieHarness Weaker models, coding like stronger ones. AI tooling
- nMesh Networks that survive the disaster. LoRa mesh
- Invoicing & HR AI platform Back office that runs itself. SaaS
- In-car driver-assist AI Driver intelligence for the cars people actually drive. Edge AI
- Nowcast storm predictor The ninety minutes big forecasts miss. Ongoing R&D
- Autonomous site monitoring Autonomous inspections on a live construction site. Physical AI
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EU Built
Engineered in Croatia - deployed worldwide
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Open source
ClusterFlock: MIT-licensed AI orchestration, public on GitHub
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National coverage
HRT, Nova TV, and every major Croatian daily
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Founder-led
15+ years in AI & robotics
How we work
A clear path from problem to production.
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Scope
A focused discovery sprint. We map the problem, the constraints, and what success means, and tell you honestly if we're the right team.
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Architect
A clear technical plan and a realistic roadmap before a line of production code. No surprises, no black boxes.
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Build
Senior engineers, short feedback loops, working software early and often, so you steer as we go.
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Operate
We don't disappear at launch. We monitor, harden, and evolve what we ship into the long term.
The team
Deliberately small. Deliberately senior.
Notum is built around 15+ years in neural networks, ML systems, and autonomous robotics, the deep-tech work most studios outsource.
We built Notum around a simple rule: the engineer who scopes your system is the one who ships it. No account managers, no junior bench, no handoffs. When a build needs more hands, we bring in senior specialists we've shipped with before, but accountability stays with us.
Everything is documented, the infrastructure is code, and you own the repositories from day one: if we vanished tomorrow, your system would keep running. We'd rather be the obvious choice for a handful of hard problems than a vendor for everything.
The invitation
Bring us the part nobody else can build.
If off-the-shelf tools and generalist shops can't deliver it, that's exactly where we start.
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Have a problem worth solving?
Tell us what you're trying to build. If it's complex, we're interested, and we'll tell you straight whether we're the right team.
- Phone
- +385 1 7757 399
- info [at] n-r [dot] hr
- Studio
- Podložnica 6, Velika Gorica, HR