1. Technology overview
Sionic AI was founded in May 2023 in Gangnam, Seoul, and has an office in Toranomon Hills, Tokyo. It builds AI-native solutions for finance, media, manufacturing and the public sector, helping organisations turn unstructured documents into AI agents grounded in their own data. The company lists about 50 employees.
The STORM Platform manages the full agent lifecycle: document ingestion, LLM configuration, testing and operations with a real-time dashboard. Teams start from task-specific templates or design flows in a drag-and-drop workflow builder with conditional branches and post-processing. STORM Parse structures PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HWP and image files including tables and graphs, and STORM Retrieval provides a self-improving retrieval pipeline with source highlighting. It supports multiple LLMs and sLLMs and runs on-premises, in private cloud or as SaaS.
2. Highlighted features & specifications
- Agent Builder: lifecycle management from document ingestion to testing and operations.
- Templates: pre-built task-specific agents with defined prompts and workflows.
- Workflow Builder: no-code drag-and-drop design with conditional branches and node settings.
- STORM Parse: structures PDF, Office, HWP and image files including tables and graphs.
- STORM Retrieval: self-improving retrieval with source highlighting and feedback learning.
- Deployment and governance: on-premises, private cloud or SaaS with sensitive data detection and access control.
3. Potential application
A Vietnamese bank can build an agent that reviews loan application documents against credit policy, deployed on-premises. A newspaper or media group can automate draft headlines and leads from source material, as Maeil Business Newspaper does. An environmental services firm can run a legal Q&A agent on waste regulations.
4. Benefits
Business teams can build agents without coding using templates and a visual workflow builder. The vendor states a 1,000-page document can be ingested in under a minute, with automatic structuring of tables and graphs. Answers highlight the exact source section, and sensitive data detection with version and access control supports regulated users. A 99.9% SLA is stated for the platform.
5. Market trends & opportunities
Banks and large corporations in Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia want document-grounded agents but need on-premises deployment and data governance. Investors are backing regional agent platforms to expand across Asia, and Vietnamese enterprises with heavy document workloads in banking, insurance and media are a natural fit for no-code, on-premises agent builders.
6. Other information
Sionic AI is headquartered in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, with an office in Minato-ku, Tokyo, led by CEO Sukhyun Ko. In December 2025 it closed a 17 million USD Series A led by Naver Cloud and Industrial Bank of Korea, bringing total funding above 20.5 million USD, and plans expansion into Japan and Southeast Asia. Named users include Maeil Business Newspaper, Daeheung Eco and Montravel.
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