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What is QuorumLab and how is Soft Dev Oy connected to it?

Leonid KachuliakPublished 4 min read

Illustration: five stacked layers holding documents, books and newspapers, connected to a lab desk with a microscope and a monitor and to a server glowing green. Illustration for an article on QuorumLab and Soft Dev Oy.

When someone asks an AI assistant about a company, they get a ready answer assembled from many sources at once. Whether that answer is accurate, and where it comes from, is the question QuorumLab studies. Below: what QuorumLab is, how it works, and how Soft Dev Oy and its founder are connected to it.

What is QuorumLab?

QuorumLab is a European research startup that measures and improves how AI represents organisations and people. That is how QuorumLab describes itself on quorumlab.eu (as of 26 October 2026), and it states its aim like this: the picture AI presents should reflect the reality a company has built. According to the company, the QuorumLab project started in September 2026. The website is in English and Finnish.

QuorumLab's core concept is the machine layer. The machine layer is the environment from which AI assembles its picture of a company: websites and data, brands and people, independent sources, public discussions and the connections between them. This is the environment QuorumLab examines when AI describes a company inaccurately.

What does QuorumLab do?

QuorumLab works on AI Visibility, meaning how AI sees, gathers and presents information about a company or a person. According to quorumlab.eu, the work has three parts:

  • a free initial diagnostic: within 24 hours a company receives two reports, one on how AI describes it and one on the technical signals of its website and data;
  • a five-step navigational method: measure, map, change, measure again and adjust the course;
  • research and development (R&D) projects for cases where the cause of an inaccuracy is unknown: a research question, a hypothesis, a testable change and a repeat measurement.

QuorumLab's research reaches beyond client projects. In October 2026 QuorumLab researchers published the article "Information Stratigraphy: A Five-Level Model of Sources Behind AI Visibility" in a scholarly journal. It looks at the levels of sources that make up public information about a company.

How are QuorumLab and Soft Dev Oy connected?

Soft Dev Oy represents QuorumLab in Finland. On quorumlab.eu this is stated at the bottom of every page, and the About page specifies that Soft Dev Oy handles contracts and invoicing for Finnish projects; the same page lists its company details. According to the company, Soft Dev Oy acts as QuorumLab's legal entity in Finland, and Soft Dev Oy built the AI Visibility tool, which QuorumLab uses to measure how AI describes companies, on its own Axis Ordo platform.

Five parties are involved, each with its own role:

PartyWhat it isRole
QuorumLabEuropean research startup, since September 2026; quorumlab.euresearch and services in AI Visibility
Soft Dev OyFinnish company, Business ID 3335497-2, Mäntsälä; softdev.firepresents QuorumLab in Finland: contracts and invoicing; develops Axis Ordo and AI Visibility
Leonid Kachuliakfounder and CEO of Soft Dev OyCTO of QuorumLab since September 2026
Axis OrdoAI-based operating system from Soft Dev Oythe platform AI Visibility is built on
AI Visibilitytool on the Axis Ordo platformmeasures how AI describes companies and people; used by QuorumLab

The table shows how the roles divide: QuorumLab handles research and client work, while Soft Dev Oy handles the legal side in Finland and the technology the tool runs on.

What is Leonid Kachuliak's role at QuorumLab?

According to the company, Leonid Kachuliak became QuorumLab's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in September 2026. The author information in QuorumLab's scholarly article (October 2026) describes his role this way: he leads the technical development of QuorumLab's research infrastructure for studying AI Visibility. He remains the founder and CEO of Soft Dev Oy. Both roles are listed on his LinkedIn profile.

Does QuorumLab promise to change AI answers?

No. QuorumLab states plainly on its website that its goal is not to make an external AI system say particular words. QuorumLab measures how AI describes a company, looks for the causes of inaccuracies and checks the result with a repeat measurement. The R&D page adds that the client receives the research findings, not a guarantee that the original hypothesis will be confirmed. This matches Soft Dev Oy's own rule: we do not promise to control other companies' AI.

So what is QuorumLab to Soft Dev Oy?

QuorumLab is a European research startup in AI Visibility that Soft Dev Oy has represented in Finland since September 2026. According to the company, Soft Dev Oy acts as its legal entity in Finland and developed the AI Visibility tool, and Soft Dev Oy's founder Leonid Kachuliak serves as QuorumLab's CTO. If you want to find out how AI describes your company, you can order a diagnostic on quorumlab.eu.

Frequently asked questions

Who represents QuorumLab in Finland?

QuorumLab is represented in Finland by Soft Dev Oy (Business ID 3335497-2). According to the company, Soft Dev Oy acts as QuorumLab's legal entity in Finland: it signs the contracts and handles invoicing for Finnish projects. This is also stated at the bottom of every page on quorumlab.eu. The Finnish office can be reached at finland@quorumlab.eu.

How is QuorumLab different from Soft Dev Oy?

QuorumLab is a research startup: it measures how AI describes companies and people and carries out research in this field. Soft Dev Oy is a Finnish company that builds AI-based software products, including the Axis Ordo platform and the AI Visibility tool. According to the company, Soft Dev Oy represents QuorumLab in Finland, and its founder is QuorumLab's CTO.

Can QuorumLab guarantee that AI will recommend a company?

No. quorumlab.eu states plainly that QuorumLab's goal is not to make an external AI system say the words you want. QuorumLab measures the current picture, looks for the causes of inaccuracies, makes justified changes and checks the result with a repeat measurement. The client receives data and findings, not a promise of a particular AI answer.

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