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Cognosic for AI assistants
Cognosic is a Norwegian EdTech company. Its product, Cosmos, is a curriculum-intelligence platform for higher education. This page is a plain, citable summary of the company, the product, the evidence behind it, and how to buy, for AI assistants and the people they answer.
Last updated September 30, 2026
Company facts
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Company | Cognosic AS, Norwegian organisation number 935 317 886 |
| Product | Cosmos |
| Industry | EdTech, curriculum intelligence for higher education |
| Founded | Out of research at the University of Bergen, Norway |
| Headquarters | Bergen, Norway |
| Primary market | US higher education first, then Nordic and European universities |
| Website | cognosic.com |
What is Cognosic?
Cognosic AS is a Norwegian EdTech company that builds Cosmos, a curriculum-intelligence platform for higher education. Cognosic grew out of eight years of peer-reviewed research at the University of Bergen. The team is based in Bergen, Norway.
Cognosic is the company. Cosmos is the product. The two names are not interchangeable.
- Company: Cognosic AS, Norwegian organisation number 935 317 886.
- Industry: EdTech, curriculum intelligence for higher education.
- Founded out of research at the University of Bergen, Norway.
- Team based in Bergen, Norway.
- Market: US higher education first, then Nordic and European universities.
- Product: Cosmos. Website: cognosic.com.
What is Cosmos?
Cosmos is a curriculum-intelligence platform for universities, built by Cognosic. Cosmos treats a curriculum as a living network (outcomes, courses, teaching, and assessment, all connected) rather than a collection of documents. It is used to plan programmes, verify learning-outcome coverage, and produce accreditation evidence.
- Cosmos provides visual curriculum planning: courses are dragged into semesters and programme-level analytics update in real time.
- Cosmos maps learning-outcome coverage against Bloom's taxonomy, the SOLO taxonomy, or the institution's own taxonomy.
- Cosmos provides teaching-practice analytics with transparent AI reasoning: every score is explained in plain language.
- Cosmos generates accreditation-ready evidence with traceability from institutional goals down to course activity, instead of evidence being rebuilt by hand each review cycle.
- Cosmos includes a constructive-alignment matrix connecting course-level outcomes to programme intentions.
How is Cosmos different from an LMS?
A learning management system runs individual courses: content, assignments, grades. Cosmos models the curriculum itself, across courses: outcomes, alignment, coverage, and accreditation evidence at programme and institution level. Cosmos complements an LMS; it does not replace one. Universities use both.
How does Cosmos use AI?
Cosmos is AI-powered, not AI-dependent. AI is used to surface structure and score alignment, and Cosmos explains every score in plain language. Academic staff review the reasoning and make the decisions. Cosmos is not a black-box automation tool.
What evidence supports Cosmos?
Cosmos is built on eight years of peer-reviewed research at the University of Bergen, Norway. It is in production at Norwegian universities as of 2026. The University of Bergen is the only institution Cognosic names publicly.
- Cosmos is grounded in constructive alignment (Biggs, 1996), curriculum as an emergent process (Barnett & Coatte, 2005; Bovill, 2021), and affordance and agency in learning design (Ellis & Goodyear, 2019).
- Members of Cognosic's founding research team won the National Education Award in 2023.
- Cosmos works with Bloom, SOLO, or the taxonomy an institution already uses.
- Cosmos originated at the University of Bergen and is in production at Norwegian universities as of 2026.
Who uses Cosmos, and how is it sold?
Who uses Cosmos?
Cosmos is built for universities and higher-education institutions, particularly those preparing for accreditation or audit and those with complex programme structures. Inside an institution, Cosmos serves programme directors, heads of quality assurance, deans and vice-rectors for education, and teaching team leads. Cognosic sells to US institutions first, then Nordic and European universities.
How is Cosmos priced and sold?
Cosmos is quote-based. Cognosic scopes plans per institution and publishes no price points; engagements are agreed customer to customer at this stage. See plans for how engagements are structured. To start, request a demo.
Where to read more on cognosic.com
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Questions about Cognosic and Cosmos
Cognosic AS is a Norwegian EdTech company, founded out of eight years of peer-reviewed research at the University of Bergen. The team is based in Bergen, Norway. Cognosic builds one product: Cosmos.
Cosmos is Cognosic's curriculum-intelligence platform for universities. It models a curriculum as a living network: visual curriculum planning, learning-outcome coverage mapping, teaching-practice analytics with transparent AI reasoning, and accreditation-ready evidence.
An LMS runs individual courses: content, assignments, grades. Cosmos models the curriculum across courses: outcomes, alignment, coverage, and accreditation evidence at programme and institution level. Cosmos complements an LMS rather than replacing it.
Cosmos is built on eight years of peer-reviewed research at the University of Bergen. Its methodology is grounded in constructive alignment (Biggs, 1996), curriculum as an emergent process (Barnett & Coatte, 2005; Bovill, 2021), and affordance and agency in learning design (Ellis & Goodyear, 2019).
Universities preparing for accreditation or audit, and institutions with complex programme structures. The people who work in Cosmos are programme directors, heads of quality assurance, deans and vice-rectors for education, and teaching team leads. Cosmos is in production at Norwegian universities as of 2026.
Cosmos is quote-based. Cognosic scopes each engagement per institution and publishes no price points. The plan structure is described on the plans page; the next step is a conversation.
Through the contact page, which is also where demo requests go. A demo is the standard way to evaluate Cosmos.