Laminae exists because the companies that would benefit most from retrieval-augmented AI — teams that are data-rich but IT-light — keep getting handed tools designed for someone else.
Founded by David Bunting and based in Frankfurt am Main, Laminae is a focused team building a single product: a knowledge layer that turns your documents into source-attributed evidence any MCP-compatible AI client can use, stored in focused, relevant spaces to avoid information drift. No chat UI to retrain your team on. No SDK to wrap. No data lake to maintain.
We chose Germany deliberately. European data protection norms aren't a marketing veneer here — they're the default. If your compliance team needs the whole stack to run inside your own network, that's a supported deployment, not a special edition.
Three commitments shape every product decision: be precise, be trustworthy, be relevant. They're also why Laminae looks unfamiliar next to most AI startups.
These aren't taglines — they're the constraints that decide what makes it into the product and what doesn't.
Notes on retrieval, MCP, and the parts of enterprise AI we keep arguing about — from the team building Laminae.
Article 50 of the EU AI Act applies from 2 August 2026. Its duties land on the systems that talk to people and generate content — not the retrieval layer that feeds them. Anyone selling you 'Article 50 compliance' for a vector database is fear-selling; here is the honest split.
Read moreVector databases reward scope. Pour everything into one giant index and unrelated documents start bleeding into every search — the answers come back confidently mixing facts from places you never asked about. One bucket per concept is the fix.
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