Ocean Enterprise in Action: Rocketstar Foundation

At Ocean Enterprise Collective, we believe data spaces are more than technology, they’re catalysts for digital sovereignty and ethical innovation. Our latest use case with Tapir, part of Rocketstar SCE, in collaboration with Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich (LMU) and Worklife.Digital, shows how Ocean Enterprise’s trusted infrastructure powers human-centered AI development in the fields of talent retention and workplace well-being.

Rocketstar operates on an inverted power structure where DAO members take the lead in shaping strategic decisions. ts agile mission teams, structured like spacecraft crews, operate with high efficiency and have the potential to evolve into independent but interconnected ventures, forming a dynamic and collaborative value network.

The first mission to evolve into its own company is Tapir, a platform dedicated to co-creating a people data collaboration ecosystem. Tapir helps organizations boost their talent impact to address labor shortages, uncover hidden workforce insights to guide HR through constant change, and enable privacy-preserving data sharing for researchers and HRTech providers. It’s a clear example of how Rocketstar turns missions into ecosystems that drive lasting impact.

Use case

Tapir is the first People Data Collaboration Platform and Community, designed to co-create data products and AI models with researchers and practitioners who care about fairness, privacy, and agency. It enables organizations to collaborate on sensitive HR and people analytics data while keeping ownership and control intact.

Together with LMU, Tapir develops data products that enhance talent retention by measuring and improving psychological safety within organizations. With Worklife.Digital, Tapir applies well-being research across multiple dimensions to improve business outcomes and empower healthier, more sustainable workplaces.

Ocean Enterprise in Action

Ocean Enterprise (OE) acts as Tapir’s data access layer, enabling cross-organizational model training in a privacy-preserving and compliant environment. Through OE, Tapir represents and manages shared intellectual property for data products while leveraging federated learning extensions from Felt Labs to train models without centralizing data.

“AI is the endgame of digital sovereignty,” says the Tapir team. “OE is one of the only community-led, open-source tech stacks ready to use in an enterprise context today.”

This approach allows participating data providers to co-create and co-own data products instead of giving away their datasets to centralized platforms. They decide which data products are built and how they are applied, turning collaboration into a new strategic capability.

Why Ocean Enterprise

For Tapir, choosing Ocean Enterprise was about more than functionality, it was about alignment. OE’s decentralized architecture, tokenization of data assets, and community-driven governance enable a new paradigm: data products as an asset class. This framework supports Tapir’s vision for a data provider-centric platform, where collaboration drives value and innovation.

“Our clients didn’t know something like OE exists, but the approach is far more aligned with their thinking about how technology should work than how mainstream cloud solutions operate,” adds the Tapir team.

What’s Next

Over the next six months, Tapir plans to move its Retention and Well-being Data Products into general availability, proving that data network effects can evolve into community network effects. With Ocean Enterprise as its backbone, Tapir continues to show how ethical, open innovation can redefine how enterprises understand and empower their people.

About Ocean Enterprise Collective

The Ocean Enterprise Collective (OEC) is a non-profit association focused on developing Ocean Enterprise, a free, open-source, next-generation data and AI ecosystem for enterprise solutions.

Ocean Enterprise enables companies and public institutions to securely manage and monetize proprietary AI & data products and services in a trusted and compliant environment.

OEC members span eight countries and nine industries, including agriculture, healthcare, aerospace, and manufacturing.

Get in touch with the Ocean Enterprise team: info@oceanenterprise.io

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