Fairfax, VA – August 5, 2025 – Craxel, the software company redefining AI-powered decision-making, today announced the release of Black Forest™ 4.0, the latest version of its patented knowledge infrastructure for AI.
Most data infrastructure in use today was built to deliver business intelligence (BI) reporting and dashboards, not real-time access to information. To maximize the value that AI and real-time analytics can bring, algorithms need to be able to quickly connect the dots across an enterprise’s data assets. Traditional relational, NoSQL, columnar, graph, or index-free approaches often fall short in delivering the speed, scale, cost-efficiency, security, and semantic meaning required for AI.
Legacy data management technologies are too slow, ineffective and inefficient to meet the demands of AI. Relying on outdated approaches where users wait for extended periods for incomplete information trapped in silos, limits the value AI can deliver. Black Forest 4.0 addresses this foundational gap directly. Built on Craxel’s patented O(1) algorithms, it delivers semantic context with the speed, security, and ability to unlock information stuck in stovepipes and data swamps necessary to realize the power of AI.
Unlike platforms built on legacy relational and brute force architectures, Black Forest was engineered using Craxel’s patented O(1) indexing algorithm. This enables knowledge graphs to be built at line speed, seamlessly fuse structured and unstructured data, and organize information into AI-ready semantic context that can be rapidly queried in real time—all while significantly reducing costs and enhancing zero trust security through high performance searchable encryption.
“Black Forest 4.0 is the enterprise semantic layer AI has been waiting for,” said David Enga, Founder and CEO of Craxel. “We’ve invented something fundamentally new, and it delivers the speed, performance, and security that large-scale AI demands. It does so without relying on brute force compute or endless cloud spend. This is the breakthrough knowledge infrastructure that makes efficient AI-powered decision-making possible at enterprise scale. We built Black Forest for this moment—and our customers are already realizing the advantage.”
Black Forest 4.0 meets the most demanding requirements for AI by combining:
• Immediately Scalable Knowledge Graphs: Built at line speed, connecting relationships, timelines, and vectors to deliver the semantic context that is needed to realize the promise of AI in the enterprise.
• Cost-Efficient Performance: Maintain “hot” data in commodity storage (e.g., S3), and run complex queries across massive data sets (Petabyte+) using up to 90% less compute—because the algorithm knows where the data is immediately versus having to scan for it
• Full Customer Control: Built to give you full control of your data, IT infrastructure, and business processes, without data or ontology rights issues present with other offerings
• Universal Ingest & Compatibility: Ingest, index, and query any data—structured or unstructured, historical or real-time
• Flexible Deployment: Runs in customer-controlled cloud, hybrid, on-prem, or edge environments, with containerized automation for rapid adoption
• AI Observability: Through cryptographic chain of custody, organizations can control access to sensitive or restricted data and log AI model inputs and outputs
For government and commercial leaders alike, Black Forest 4.0 offers a path forward: a single solution that makes data fast, highly secure, and AI-ready—without trade-offs between performance and cost.
“You can’t build next-generation AI systems using today’s slow and inefficient approaches,” said Matt Kelley, Craxel’s Senior Vice President and GM for the U.S. Public Sector. “Black Forest 4.0 changes the equation. Our customers—across defense, intelligence, and the private sector—are dealing with enormous complexity, semantic context, cost, and security challenges. This is the first platform that enables them to achieve the promise of AI through a foundation that addresses all these needs.”
Black Forest 4.0 is now available for qualified government and enterprise customers.
