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What is MakinaRocks?

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MakinaRocks is a South Korean industrial-AI company that builds specialized AI for manufacturing and heavy industry. Founded in 2017 and spun off from SK Telecom's ICT R&D Center in 2018, it has offices in Seoul, Silicon Valley, and Tokyo and has deployed more than 5,000 industrial AI models across automotive, semiconductor, battery, chemical, defense, and public-sector environments.

Its platform is Runway, an Enterprise AI OS for managing the full AI lifecycle in mission-critical industrial settings (not to be confused with the unrelated video-generation tool of the same name). Now in version 2.0, Runway brings cloud-native deployment to harsh operational environments and spans data integration, multi-model development, CI/CD/CT workflows, and Ops functions including LLMOps and MLSecOps. Its App Studio lets users connect data and models to build and test AI apps through a visual interface.

MakinaRocks builds vertical AI agents as modular components with defined roles: an API agent that triggers external system actions, a DB agent that queries databases in natural language, and a retrieval agent that consults manuals and technical documents to recommend next steps. These power use cases such as equipment anomaly detection, predictive maintenance for industrial robots, PLC code interpretation and verification, and smart engineering-drawing analysis.

The company serves and is strategically backed by global manufacturing leaders including Applied Materials, Samsung, LG, Hyundai, SK, GS, and Hanwha, and has raised more than 25 million dollars from investors such as Applied Ventures and Hyundai Motor Group. It was the only manufacturing-category company on CB Insights' 2023 AI 100, is a World Economic Forum Global Innovator and Technology Pioneer, and is led by co-founder and CEO Andre S. Yoon.

Question 2

What are the best alternatives to MakinaRocks?

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Based on documented capability coverage across the Agentic Index 14 point taxonomy, the closest alternatives to MakinaRocks among enterprise operations agents are Nexus Industrial, HackerEarth, Leah AI, Nominal. Each is graded on the same public evidence, and no vendor pays for placement.

Question 3

Can MakinaRocks be self hosted or run in a private VPC?

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Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. MakinaRocks publishes public evidence of self hosted or private VPC deployment, along with data residency options for controlling where agent data is processed and stored. Evidence basis: MakinaRocks Runway deploys in air gapped and high security environments with zero external reliance alongside cloud and on premises options and edge execution on industrial computers, genuine self host and data sovereignty, so full. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Question 4

Does MakinaRocks give you tracing and observability into agent runs?

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Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. MakinaRocks publishes public evidence of tracing, observability and audit logging into agent runs, so a team can see what an agent did and why. Evidence basis: MakinaRocks Runway automatically captures every operation in centralized audit logs for full compliance and audit ready reliability, comprehensive operational and agent action auditability, so full. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Question 5

Does MakinaRocks have SOC 2, SSO and role based access control?

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Partial under the Agentic Index verification standard. MakinaRocks publishes some public evidence of security and identity controls, but narrower than the full set of SOC 2, single sign on (SSO) and role based access control (RBAC). Evidence basis: MakinaRocks Runway mandates security across all layers with Keycloak based single sign on and role based access control plus centralized audit logs, strong identity and access controls though named certifications are not documented, so part. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Integrations & Tool CallingMakinaRocks Runway integrates artificial intelligence across design, production, quality, and operations and connects to industrial systems and real time programmable logic controller data, broad within the industrial domain, so partial.	Partial
Workflow OrchestrationMakinaRocks Runway is an enterprise artificial intelligence operating system that orchestrates specialized agents for anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and process control across the full lifecycle, a genuine autonomous multi agent platform.	Full
Knowledge Grounding & RAGMakinaRocks turns fragmented engineering drawings and manufacturing data into standardized enterprise assets that agents reason over, strong data grounding without citation tracked retrieval, so partial.	Partial
Human Oversight & GuardrailsMakinaRocks Runway maintains absolute governance while agents suggest setpoint adjustments for human or system approval, bounded autonomy under governance rather than a runtime enforcement engine, so partial.	Partial
Security, Identity & GovernanceMakinaRocks Runway mandates security across all layers with Keycloak based single sign on and role based access control plus centralized audit logs, strong identity and access controls though named certifications are not documented, so partial.	Partial
Observability & AuditabilityMakinaRocks Runway automatically captures every operation in centralized audit logs for full compliance and audit ready reliability, comprehensive operational and agent action auditability, so full.	Full
Memory & State PersistenceMakinaRocks applies continual learning to its models but documents no dedicated persistent cross session agent memory product, so not documented as first class.	Unable to verify
Deployment & Data ResidencyMakinaRocks Runway deploys in air gapped and high security environments with zero external reliance alongside cloud and on premises options and edge execution on industrial computers, genuine self host and data sovereignty, so full.	Full
Prebuilt Agents, Templates & PacksMakinaRocks provides a curated set of verified tools and specialized industrial agents for maintenance, quality, and control rather than a browsable marketplace of cloneable agents, so partial.	Partial
Triggers & Channel CoverageMakinaRocks agents monitor production conditions continuously from real time programmable logic controller data and act as conditions change, strong feed driven triggers within a single channel, so partial.	Partial
Model Flexibility & RoutingMakinaRocks Runway manages industrial machine learning models but documents no user facing model routing or selection for its agents, so not documented as first class.	Unable to verify
APIs, SDKs & MCP ExtensibilityMakinaRocks connects to enterprise systems through the platform but documents no public developer application programming interface, software development kit, or Model Context Protocol server, so not documented as first class.	Unable to verify
Testing, Debugging & OptimizationMakinaRocks Runway manages the full model lifecycle from planning and risk modeling through operations with continual learning, an optimization and evaluation loop, so partial.	Partial
Browser & Computer UseMakinaRocks acts on industrial systems and machine data with no general browser or computer use capability, so not documented as first class.	Unable to verify

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