About

A young company built to solve one hard problem well.

Pragmatica is a Società Benefit based in Trieste, founded in 2024. We build decision intelligence for industrial operations: specialised AI agents that prepare the decisions people must take when operations break, and keep the proof of how they were taken.

  • FOUNDED 2024
  • TRIESTE, ITALY
  • SOCIETÀ BENEFIT
  • INNOVATIVE STARTUP
  • EU CO-FUNDED PROJECT
What we believe

People decide, AI prepares.

Our software proposes; the supervisor approves. Responsibility stays with people.

Rules before predictions.

Where the law and the contract are clear, we apply them exactly and cite them.

Value is measured in the plant.

We prove results in paid pilots on real data, not in demos.

Where we are going

One clear path.

  1. TODAY

    qb-Plant MVP validated on real data from a leading Italian steel group.

  2. NEXT

    Paid industrial pilots in steel, chemicals, paper and ports in North-East Italy and Lombardy.

  3. THEN

    Multi-site group deployments and expansion to DACH and Iberia.

Team

Operators and engineers.

Alessandro Pericolo

Alessandro Pericolo

Co-founder & CEO · Product & Strategy

30+ years in operations-intensive businesses; previously founded and exited a company.

Mike De Petris

Mike De Petris

Co-founder & CTO · Platform

Technical owner of qb-Plant and architect of the qb-Agentic core.

Giuseppe D’Angelo

Giuseppe D’Angelo

Head of Sales & Growth

14+ years in B2B sales; built a 30+ person sales organisation.

Marco Cargnelli

Marco Cargnelli

Sales Development Representative

Outbound and pipeline generation for industrial accounts.

A Società Benefit

Alongside profit, Pragmatica pursues common-benefit purposes written into its articles of association. In practice we work on three fronts: ethical, human-controlled technology; better working conditions for the people who use our software; and less waste in our clients’ operations.

Our purposes and 2025 impact report →