Knowledge Lives Here

SynTopic is a startup founded on research from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Tokyo. Our team of approximately 10 members, primarily doctoral students, launched in 2025 after more than two years of research and development. Space development requires enormous investment—not only in satellites and spacecraft but also in knowledge accumulation and human resource development. However, severe understaffing means organizations lack the capacity to preserve critical insights. Knowledge is lost, the same failures repeat, and remaining documentation lacks context, forcing people to track down original team members for answers. These challenges extend far beyond aerospace to every industry. While tackling this problem, we researched MBSE (Model-Based Systems Engineering), an academic field for structuring space systems. However, its high learning and maintenance costs limited practical implementation. So alongside developing CubeSats, we explored multiple disciplines—systems engineering, knowledge management, decision support, and natural language processing—eventually arriving at our unique knowledge unit: the "Topic." Topics are knowledge units that capture not just outcomes but the reasoning behind decisions and lessons from failures. Unlike traditional documents or databases that lose critical background and context, Topics structure this information into reusable assets that flow across time and organizational boundaries. This platform is SynTopic. While born from aerospace, this foundation applies to any project. We envision a society where structured knowledge circulates, creating value across time and boundaries. Accepting understaffing as reality, we reduce risk by leveraging global insights, minimize losses from failures and rework, and enable people to focus on essential value creation. SynTopic is a platform for "living knowledge" that accompanies your projects, supports decision-making, and transforms insights into assets. Starting from space, we're accelerating projects worldwide.